I have been watching a TV show on the US FX network called “Rescue Me”.  It’s the best piece of television ever created for a man to watch, in my opinion.  I can’t get it here in Canada, but I can download it using bitTorrent.  I watch the show when I fly usually as I seem be flying at least twice a month and some times from New York to California and back and forth.

Denis has been around for awhile and has been way down on my long list, but with this show, in it’s 3rd season now, he’s at the top of my short list.

Here’s a Denis Leary Quote I grabbed off another site:

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then — one day — you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then — one day — you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Denis Leary is the man!  I Can’t believe this show is actually aired on television!  One on plane ride, I was watching it on my laptop and the 60+ year old lady in the seat next to me said she knew what was going to happen next.  She went on to describe the upcoming scene in great detail.  I can’t believe SHE watches the show, let alone that it’s aired.  Unbelievable.  I’ve got another one of my buddies hooked on the show now to.  I burned a DVD of the first and second cd for her and she’s hooked. lol Go Oilers (flames suck), lol

Here’s a cool Denis Leary answers site.

Christmas is like 2 days away now, so to create any last minute homemade christmas gift ideas, you’ll need Christmas gift ideas.

and in the words of Denis Leary “Merry Fucking Christmas”

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After a good long year go at it, I was able to get a website for a client ranked Number one for it’s keyphrase Personal Trainer Edmonton.  I looked just the other week and was still number two.  My SEO ranking experiments seemed to have worked.  I was just about to employ another one, but I’m going to let the website ride it out awhile.

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When I first had a look a my girlfriends unsecured wireless router, I found that she had about 6 other people who had jumped onto her bandwidth. 

I quickly secured the network and all was good.

I just found this great little link about how to have fun with the intruders instead of cutting them off

Through these router configurations, you can re-direct them to a specific website, or even more fun, you can turn their browsing experience into hell by making their images turn upside down (not the text), or making their images blur.

Check out Upside-down Ternet

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Found this image that explains where Google gets all it’s hard drive space.  This makes complete sense now.  It might even be a fair jump to say that google is taking it’s adsense and adwords earnings and then digging… which in effect may be contributing to earthquakes around the world.  So, the jump is “Adsense and Adwords are contributing to Global Earthquakes”

The users of gmail may very well never have known about their contributions to this problem either.

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Paintball California

Here is a pic of my buddies Burt, Adam, Scott Myself (in the orange shirt) and Rasta playing paintball on early Saturday morning in Sept while in California this summer. Hadn’t played in about 5 or 6 years and was a little out of paintball ’shape’ as it were. I spent about a month or 6 weeks in California this past summer. Survived through some record heat waves while camping out about 30 miles from Palm Springs. Survived a fire evacuation at the Highland Springs Resort from where we had to “Bug Out” and retreat to a school a few miles away. The grass fire came right down to where we slept. Water bombers and helicopters were called in and bombed them and put them out.

These are my buddies Scott (formerly of the Canadian Armed Forces) and Rasta playing paintball that day while hanging out in California. Below are a couple more.

This is Eric from Ring Homestead Paintball park in New York. He was going over the safety mechanisms, paintball safety procedures, how the guns works and some basic rules of play. On the right above is Adam Jacques of Winnipeg Canada sporting his dual paintball guns.

We played paintball on Saturday, and then on Sunday we had to deal with what you see below. These are actual pictures of the Highland Springs fire while were were evacuating. The fire came withing 50 feet of where we slept.

Adam hanging out for a quick picture of him with the fire behind him. He’s so tough…..

This shows how close the fire got to the Highland Springs Resort. As I said, we watched about 5 or 6 water bombers bomb the hell out of here with water. Rasta was sleeping when the fire department knocked on his door and asked him to leave. “Why?”, he asked. “Um, have a look out your front door!”. Then he started giggling and got dressed. lol.

And to balance out the destruction displayed above.. the paintball, the guns, the camo, the fire and all that macho shit, here’s a nice pic taken one of the nights either before or after the fire.

Now on to the title of this post: My Least Favorite Day Of The Year. I hate winter. I hate it being dark all the time and the short fucken days. Dec 21st is the shortest day of the year here in Edmonton (least amount of sun hours). So This is my least favorite day, while being my 2nd most favorite days of the year. I really hate christmas, so this is a very shitty time of year for that reason too. I mean, I hate christmas.

My Most Favorite day of the year. I love June 21st for the opposite reason. Most Sun, warmest, best outdoor activities, least amount of clothes on the little ladies and when I celebrate my half birthday, or at least pretty darn close to the day.

So here it is, Dec 21st 2006 and we’re spinning back towards the sun… tilting and pointing our northerly continent back towards sunlight. Thank Gawd! The days get better from here on out.

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