Relaxing...

It was so nice break to get up to Cawaja beach this past week. Geofford and I left on Saturday morning (not as early as we hoped...darn bike rack) to go up to the "cottage" (aka Geofford's parent's house) for a break. Our drive up was somewhat eventful for a couple reasons: a) I haven't driven a standard transmission in a while and b) we weren't expecting to see a parade in Kinmount.

The rest of the weekend/week was less eventful, although I had a fun time: swimming in the water, lounging on the beach, enjoying great food and great wine, biking to Penataguishine (did I spell that right?), sleeping, lounging on the beach, biking to Elmvale and looking at the big houses on the way home, lounging on the beach, enjoying great food and great wine, and of course just hanging out with Geoff's parents.

We were hoping to stay for a week, but due to school commitments, I had to be back on today. :( Can't wait to go back, hopefully next year we can make it during the summer...

Delinquent

Wow, I have been super delinquent in posting. We could blame it on the beautiful hot weather and that I was outside enjoying it as opposed to updating my blog, but that would only be partially true. I have been spending a lot of time on a computer, just not my own. Since I have accepted the position at Alcatel, I have been working way too hard. Working at the Boys and Girls Club, Alcatel, and still going to Ultimate practices/games, has been quite taxing on my body.

I am tired now. Very tired. I think it all started with the Brian Smith Golf Tournament. I put in a lot of hours helping out with that. After that, the insanity started when Geoff and I were organizing the Mixed Up Ultimate Tournament. As the tournament name indicates, the tournament was all mixed up. I have decided that I will not agree to help out with the tournament next year unless Geoff decides to get more volunteers. We had 4 at the most at one time (+ Geofford and myself) and that is just not enough to run a 32-team tournament. Thanks to Batch, Scase, Derek, Mehmet, CK, Stef, Rachel, Drew, Don Quon, HybridPro/Daredevil discs, seVen, BigFish, and anyone else that I may have forgotten for all of the help that they provided. I think that I would have gotten much less sleep had you all not been around to help.

After the tournament, we still had to deal with Nationals. Although seVen had a 5-4 W-L record, which put us 13th overall, but I wasn't ecstatic with our performance on Thursday going 0-3. I take a lot of the blame for that because it wasn't that the team wasn't playing really well, but some of the decisions by the leadership weren't executed properly, which really frustrated me. Oh well, this is only our second year as seVen and the Mixed Teams in Canada are getting stronger, so we just have to keep working. We are now gearing up for Fall, we are playing in the UPA Fall Series, so that should be a lot of fun.

Damian and I at Nationals (watching the finals)

This is my last official day at the Boys and Girls Club, so it is a little sad, but I have learned so much during my intership and have had a great experience. I have a few last things to tie up, but I am almost ready to start school again for my last semester.

I am very much looking forward to going to visit Geoff's parents at Georgian Bay, and cannot wait to relax on the beach. Hopefully I will get the majority of my work done, so I don't have too much to do while I am there.

We'll see....until next time...hopefully much sooner....

Oh, and finally I am doing a photoblog thing on my msn spaces account: http://spaces.msn.com/members/jsysmile/

Phew...

Wow, so the past couple of days/weeks have been a big blur. Basically I have been waking up, going to the Boys and Girls Club, then going to Alcatel, then off to Ultimate (Mondays - Strange Brew, Tuesdays & Thursdays - seVen, and Wednesdays - O2), then off to bed to get some rest before repeating. Last week was a little different as we had the night off on Thursday, although Derek and I had a few visits to make to get things set for seVen, so I didn't get to play ultimate, but I was still thinking about it.

This weekend was No Borders, which is an Open/Women's tournament, so seVen wasn't playing but a few of the ladies put a team together called BadDates and some of the guys picked up with various teams. I just wanted to go watch, but ended up picking up with Lush on Saturday afternoon to help them out. That was a lot of fun, and I didn't get hurt so that was good. I wasn't able to play on Sunday because I had to do some program evaluation stuff for the Boys and Girls Club. It was kind of nice staying home too and not having to rush off and do stuff. I was also finally able to get home for dinner. Dad bbqed steak and chicken and we had a mini-feast. I also got to talk to Mom who is currently in Hong Kong visiting her mother and her sisters and brothers there. She will be coming back in August after I have left for Nationals, so I won't see her until mid-august.

Monday and Tuesday were a big change from the ordinary as I was helping with the logistics of the Brian Smith Golf Tournament, which is a major fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club. It was a crazy couple of days, but I got to see the Stanley Cup and we raised a lot of money to be able to send kids to Camp Smitty so it was all worth it.

ON Regionals

Yay! We are going to Winnipeg! seVen came in 4th at Regionals so we won a spot at CUSS Nationals, which will be held in Winnipeg August 11-14th. Geofford has written a pretty good summary. Derek also posted a good summary of the weekend's events.

It's been really busy with work at the Boys and Girls Club and at Alcatel so I have been a pretty big slacker with the posts. There is a big event coming up (July 19th) so it's going to be pretty crazy for the next little while.

Fun on a boat...

We decided to do something different for Canada Day this year to avoid the crowds. Mr. Snippe graciously lent Tony his boat for the weekend (Friday and Saturday) and a bunch of us toured the Rideau Canal waterway.

Some pictures can be seen here (Gallery -> 2005 Canada Day)