I didn't go to the concert last night after all. If i had booked a hotel like I thought I might a few days ago, i would have. My friend sent me a text about mid day yesterday on her way home from work, sick with the flu. She said she might yet go but I had my doubts. I contacted a cousin that i knew was going but he had a full vehicle going. I ( Read more... )

Bob Seger's playing Halifax tonight but they want a stupid amount of money for a ticket. It's not like he's U2 or Queen or anything. Our Queen tickets were actually a little less, $145 plus taxes though I think my friend and i got them a bit cheaper through her Adam Lambert fan club advance code so the total ended up being about 150 rather than ( Read more... )

Bob Seger is touring and coming to Halifax at the end of November. I would like to go and have someone to go with but the tickets? $150! I can't get my head around why the concert tickets seem to have skyrocketed so much lately! That price isn't just for floor tickets, it's for lower bowl and lower upper bowl. I asked my friend if she could get ( Read more... )

I've been perusing some of the reviews for the Queen concerts, from Toronto, Montreal and last night's gig in New York. You know most of the serious newspapers are not going to have a lot of good to say and true to form the Globe and Mail and the New York Times reviews were churlish and petty. While they also raise some truths, they're probably not ( Read more... )

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It's Monday morning again and in one week I will be in Montreal to see Queen (+Adam Lambert). Because he's not an official full time member of the band, he gets to have his name added on in all the publicity. My coworker who is a dedicated Adam fan suspects things are in the works for him to join full time at some point but I also hear he is going ( Read more... )

Three days. Three long days.
Some years ago we at work adopted a framework for delivering IT services to the rest of the corporation. It's called ITIL. We didn't implement much of it but are pushing more towards it these days. It's all processes and "best practices" and all the other buzzwords you don't want to know. More buzzwords and acronyms ( Read more... )

My lovely niece is getting married on Aug. 30. I got an invite for her wedding shower the other day for Sunday the 13th of July. Ok yes, i'll go, so I sent the rsvp. Then also got a notice for the AGM for the Downeast Streeters local corrie group and I thought i'd go but yes, it's also the 13th. I might have squeezed it in, leaving the shower a ( Read more... )

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Queen is doing a short North American tour in June-July and they're playing in Montreal and Toronto! Now, ok, Freddie's dead and nobody can really fill his shoes. The last person they took on board, Paul Rogers, did not impress me though the CD they recorded of original work with him was good. I saw some early video footage of him on stage with ( Read more... )