What a waste of a Sunday. Power failure. Boo.
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
So I have to declare this year one of the best years in terms of Autumn Colour photographs. Now that doesn’t mean I am satisfied at all, but it does mean it is a huge improvement. Lots of great autumn colour photographs taken in Rouge Park and at various points in the Niagara Region. Unfortunately this year, autumn colours declared themselves independent from the rest of nature quite early in the season thus we lost the opportunity to see a lot of leaves change colour.
That didn’t mean that there was no colour because there still was a spectacular turn out…
And some autumn snacks too…?
So all in all pretty good right? Well the unfortunate thing is that as much as I enjoy myself at Dundurn, I am still on “contract” so the folks are nagging me about applying for a “full time” job. I’d actually much prefer just focusing my efforts on Wandering Enterprises which is inching forward bit by bit currently, but again the nagging force continues relentlessly!
Recently there was a huge surge in invitations to parties … and I swear i’d love to go to all of them … but how on earth can I make it to three parties on the same day?! Must people choose Saturday all the time? How about Friday? Anyways… on wards … I recently applied to a position up in the North West Territories. While 90 percent of people believe I have lost my insanity, I really don’t have a problem with moving up there as long as they provide me with good and interesting work, and I am able to live out my day to day life enjoyably in a comfortable and clean apartment. That is really all I ask for.
The other day, I passed by a homeless man who just mumbled to me, “Have a good day sir.” I was going to pass by as I normally do, but something stopped me and made me go back to talk to the man. He was an interesting fellow who decided to sit by The Keg near Front and Church (near where I work) just to listen to the great music that they were playing all day. Sometimes I wonder, if I could do that … although I would likely die of boredom within the first few hours. Regardless … I wished him the best and off I went back to the office.
Lincoln Alexander’s memoirs is coming out! Quite the event for Dundurn I would say. Particularly since I attended Guelph and while I never did shake Link’s hand … I do respect him greatly as an individual. I look forward to reading his memoirs when I have the opportunity. Look out for it on http://www.myopicsheep.com/
Speaking of Myopic Sheep … I think I might start making some merch with the logo… anyone interested?
And this’ll be the end of the Monday ranting report because it is now dinner time!
No i’m not referring to Catcher in the Rye! I’m referring to Ontario’s autumn coloured leaves! This weekend will be a fun-filled autumn colour hike weekend. Aaaannnnnd i’m of off!
Alright, so a handful of us went up to check out the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest 2006 and had reserved seats at the Scwaben . It was a pretty good celebration with plenty of good food, music, dancing and lively entertainment or general amusement. My only pet peeve, also everyone elses, was the fact that they didn’t serve ANY German beer. What’s up with that? The only pitchers we were able to get were of Canadian and Coors … which really left more to be desired to say the least. I doubt that Molson who was a major sponsor forced out all the German beer makers.
I managed to get in some fall colour photographs which was great. Woke up at 6:30 on Sunday, I will post them up soon. I’ve also begun writing my third book review on an old book by Geoffrey Trease called Cue for Treason. Great historical fiction for youth. It will be up at www.myopicsheep.com soon enough.
I hope to get out to take in the fall colours in the Niagara area and the Rouge Park region of Toronto as well. We shall see how that goes.
So aside from my recent Gobblebird weekend adventures, what else have I been up to? Still working at Dundurn Press, focusing on web marketing and data systems for supply chain purposes. It’s crazy how much work needs to go into one book and the amount of monitoring that needs to take place to make sure good ol’ Chapters and Amazon, as well as all the other retailers online don’t mess up the data shown on their websites.
In other news, Wandering Enterprises is still under construction so to speak. We’re still working on the overall business plan and I have help from a good friend with the logo so we’ll soon have *gasp*… business cards!
Alright…signing off time: Have a good Thanksgiving!
So I am continuing at Dundurn until, well… end of January supposedly. We shall see how that goes!
My main purpose is to post my friend’s first time in fundraising for the United Way of Toronto by walking up the CN Tower! His page is here and I encourage everyone to support him in a small or big way. Click here and force him to get up to step 2579! haha
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