It's been a busy weekend.

SHOW ME YOUR PUTTS!I didn't particularly want to do much - or spend much - so I found a few ways to entertain myself with minimal expenditures and maximized results of fun ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took the day off so I could go on a road trip with some friends to Seattle. The reason for the trip was that one of Mike's friends got tickets to see the Seattle Mariners play the visiting Detroit Tigers (which happen to be his favourite team). I was offered an invite, and I decided to go - I'd always wanted to check out a game in ( Read more... )

Pay parking sucks ( Read more... )

Last night I went to my first football game in...14 years? Last time I went I got free tickets due to being voted "paper carrier of the week" back in the day, and I was less than thrilled to go...I wasn't really a sports fan growing up, unless it was playoff hockey. CFL football never really got me ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had a nice and full and active day ( Read more... )

Last night, after work, myself and a number of my BMO co-workers rented two badminton courts in Richmond for two hours to work on our skills. I was decent - I haven't picked up a racket in years - so I was pleased. But damn, there were a lot of good people there, including some of my cohorts. I wasn't even aware this warehouse-sized indoor ( Read more... )

( Should a single province represent Canada in international sporting competitions? )

I'm starting to understand the mentality behind those European soccer (er...football) riots now. I've always understood that people are passionate about their favourite sports - for me and my countrymen it's mostly hockey, for others it's football, soccer, baseball (huh?), basketball (HOW!?!?!) - I may not understand why a sport strikes a chord ( Read more... )