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Canada is currently 56 for 1 after 13.1 overs against Kenya in the cricket world cup. I had to ask the Aussie at my work if that’s good or not. The answer? ‘Not bad’.

• For those of you that know Slanty, some of us not only went to the same high school but the same ‘special’ program. The boys did a little reunion a little while ago — here are pictures from the mini PG Mini reunion.
• Life updates – we’re selling the car. Not to get a “new” car, we’ll be getting the folks’ old car (same vintage basically), but it has four doors which is a good thing as I’m not getting any more limber. If you know anybody looking for a reliable ’93 Honda civic hatchback (5 speed), one owner, low mileage — let us know. $4500 is what we’re asking, which seems to be in the ballpark
• The wife and I finally finished up the wedding album, only three and some years after we got married. Our next project(s) are a scrapbook and updating our photo albums. We haven’t printed out many photos since 2001 (digital camera era) and would like to. If you’ve got any photos that you think we’d like to have (and no, they don’t have to have us in ‘em), please send them to us.
• One more thing: Some posts from DaveJackson.com seem to have filed in below, you might want to check them out.  For the love of god, no way to get a pint on St. Patrick’s day?

I think I posted a long time ago on how to make a game “extreme”.  Super easy.  Just add alcohol.  And thus, extreme croquet, volleyball, chess and solitaire were born.

I may have to revise my statement.

Dance Dance Revolution + Flamethrowers = Dance Dance Immolation

Wonder what other games one could add fire to?

Q: When will you not be able to get a pint in Belfast?

A: When St Patrick’s Day falls on a Saturday.

Discuss.

And not the Reese Witherspoon kind. No no, it’s election day here in Northern Ireland. It’s possible that soon we’ll have a functioning local government for the first time since 2002 (not that I was here then, it’s been nothing but all oppression all the time for me!). Of course as luck, and poor organizational skills, would have it, I didn’t register in time to vote. So it’ll be some more taxation without representation for me.

Off-topic, I was looking around to see what the odds are of the NI Assembly lasting at all; you can bet on anything here, but apparently not that. However, you can bet on what will Britney do in 2007. Apparently she’s more likely to be arrested than release a #1 hit, or present an MTV music award. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Joining a convent is 200/1, which I figure is pretty good odds: now that her head is shaved she’s entering Sinead O’Connor territory…

Obi-Wan Kenobi’s cloak has sold for 54,000 pounds. Is it worth that much? Are we guessing there are a lot of IT dollars funding that purchase?? Who out there would take out another mortgage to own it??

“Why are you carrying cans of tonic in your bag?” “Just in case a bottle of gin tries to jump me.  I’m also planning on carrying lemons….”

What random thoughts you thinking?

Ok I'm a little late in wishing you this (Feb 18 was the first day of the new year) but still, the festivities in Taiwan continue.  Tonight I'm going out with Jo to the Lantern Festival held in and around the Chang Kai Shek Memorial.  The streets in that area have all been adorned with red and yellow colored lanterns since February.  Also firecrackers are still heard regularly.  Ever since the 17th of Feb, there have been loads of fireworks, firecrackers and all kinds of other explosives which have the objective to make NOISE,  as much noise as possible!  It was fun for the first couple of days, as we live on a rooftop apartment. We'd just go to our roof patio and watch tons of fireworks displays around the neighbourhood with a beer in hand. However it's now been almost 2 weeks and I have to say that I'm definitely over it.  We don't even flinch anymore at any kind of noise.

 In other news, Warren has finally started his new job. It's been about 3 weeks and he's enjoying it. It's a much better job than the last one, thank god for that.  His schedule is not much better but at least he's happy.  I'll let him tell you all about it sometime. 

What else is new? Not that much. The weather has been great lately, it feels like summer is here already and our winter was practically non-existent.  The coldest it got was 3 degrees I think. And that lasted about 2 weeks, not even.  Winter was more like fall. Now we've skipped spring and it's summer (at least it feels like it) So I've decided to try gardening.  I've never done it and I can usually barely keep a couple of plants alive in my apartment so... wish me luck.  THe previous tenants here obviously loved gardening because they left us a pretty nice collection of potted plants on the patio.  However due to my lack of skills I only touched it for the first time last week. (Which means 3 months of neglect) Last week I went out there for about an hour and as I moved pots and swept around them I discovered the usual garden bugs: cattepillars, worms, ants and well in Taiwan, the famous cockcroaches everyboday hates.  But my gardening fun was cut short at the discovery of a dead rat between two pots.  I finally got rid of it after days of dreading it.  Anyways, any gardenting  advice would be welcome.  We want to plant some herbs... which ones are easy? etc.

Bye for now. Miss everyone so much! Oh and congrats to all the expecting future moms! I'm very happy for all of you!