Wednesday, February 13, 2002
I almost forgot - Alexa cooked dinner for Sonya and Claudia on Saturday. I did a woaksie salad. Claudia told us about her going to see ABBA mania and Alexa put on her ABBA gold tape. Well that was the lighting of the torch paper for Claudia. She proceeded to sing and dance to every song. She exhausted us and we were just watching and laughing.
posted by John Woakes 9:09 PM
Paid up for the Life Balance program $39 US so not cheap. Look forward to really getting my teeth into it and my life all sorted out!!! The Motley Fool now charges for use of the boards. I signed up for 2 years. I need access to the boards to get the screen picks. Hopefully the Mechanical Investing board will have a lot less traffic now it cost money to join. More US dollars on the Visa card. Hope it is worth it. Got Avantgo working on my Palm again. Ahhhh. I am having problems with the Fool site. I cannot register via the Palm and 750K is not enough to load their channel even though they claim it will only require 60K or so. Other tech news is my CD burner/player has decided it doesn’t exist any more. Hopefully it is just a matter of settings/drivers but bugger I don’t have time for hassles like this.
posted by John Woakes 8:47 PM
Sunday night, I went to Marion’s as it was Steve and Pat’s last night. The plan was to go out for dinner but Steve was not well so Marion cooked. Marion was in good form even with a hangover. Her and Pat (plus the other girls) ended up at the Yale on Saturday night and danced the night away. I managed to drink 2 bottles of wine (and a can of beer). I was a bit tidily but didn’t feel like I drank that much! I was probably nervous. I promised to burn PJ for her and she will gopher money from Pat and Steve to me. It was a very pleasant evening and we caught up on news of friends and family.
posted by John Woakes 8:45 PM
Tuesday, we went to see Monster Ball. It was disappointing. It was slow and thoughtful but the subject matter required more passion. It had its moments.
posted by John Woakes 8:29 PM
Finished Random Passage which I had taken to Whistler to read. It was a great read even though there is no story as such and the ending did not resolve one of the main characters life. It was also hard to keep track of all the characters as babies were being born nearly every chapter. It had great atmosphere and as we were in Newfoundland only months earlier it all made sense.
posted by John Woakes 8:29 PM
On Sunday I had a lesson at Cypress. We did jumping. I took a hard fall and my neck is sore and stiff. It is amazing, once you lose the jumping ability you crash every thing else. Well at least I have 4 more years till the next Olympics ***JOKE***.
posted by John Woakes 8:23 PM
Alexa was boarding when I got in. She turned up about midnight more tired and beat up than I was. She had taken a hard fall. It was really good to see her.
posted by John Woakes 8:21 PM
Meet Steve and Pat at the bus station. We yacked all the way to Whistler. Well I yacked – they were pretty zonked. Anyway it was a good holiday. We had a great room, nice pool and hot tubs and the snow was pretty good. Pat struggled a bit on the hill. Steve and I just wanted to blast everywhere and Pat was more cautious ie slow. The last day we had 33 cm of new snow. It was amazing. People getting stuck all over the place. Got back late Thursday night – tired but happy.
posted by John Woakes 8:19 PM
