Been kinda off the blogger map lately...
In my life lately I have been up to lots, but just not on blogger lately...kinda figured I better add something before this thing vaporizes :)
Things that have been going on in my life lately...hmmm...
Well...after 6 illustrious years, I now have resigned for 5 more years of house debt, yes my mortgage papers did arrive...got a great new rate and it is locked in at better than prime for the next 5. So...I still have a place to live for the next while :) Thats good...
Actually my whole financial picture is looking a little brighter lately...
Might be starting a new job soon, spending time with handicapped people at their homes, had the job interview and that went well...
Gonna be different holding down two jobs, but the financial gain is going to tremendous.
Still working out at the gym early mornings, thats been going great. It feels good to be getting back into shape and the energy levels coming into work in the morning makes ya really want to get at it...
Hmm...what else...got to hang with TangoSierra this weekend...did guitar tech for them, had the best seat in the house and got to help out.
Their songs Ballad of Birmingham, Why Baby Why, and Just a Man have been playing on the local radio stations as well as those across Canada. Pretty cool stuff.
Saturday I slept in...Got home late from helping load the gear for the band and Saturday evening went to a Steak supper with some friends and shot some pool...it was nice to relax.
Spring is here so I am getting the bug to get my Harley back together and get riding again. This weekend was the bike show, I missed it, but heard a couple guys were already riding around Toon town...
Memo to self...get building the bike...
Hopefully be getting the Harley back together or started this weekend Lord willing...see what happens...
Was good this weekend to get to visit with friends and people from my church I hadn't visited with for a bit...was really cool...
Anywhoo...thats whats up in my life right now...
God Bless,
Moose
Monday, March 27, 2006
Monday, March 13, 2006
Japanese IQ Test...
This is a test some Japanese applicants have to take when applying for a job in Japan.
Dunno if that is true, but this is a fun puzzle :)
The object of the game is to get everyone across the river.
http://freeweb.siol.net/danej/riverIQGame.swf
Click on link, and then click on the big blue circle. Use the rules below.
"Everybody has to cross the river". The following rules apply:
· Only 2 persons on the raft at a time
· The father can not stay with any of the daughters, without their mother's presence
· The mother can not stay with any of the sons, without their father's presence
· The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member, if the Policeman is not there Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft.
To start click on the big blue circle on the right. To move the people click on them. To move the raft click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.
This can be done in 17 moves. The solution is in the comments if you need the answer :)
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Me an' King Kong...
Hey all my blog reader buddies, friends and countrymen er...and women out there, lend me your ears...er...mabey not, that would be kinda gross...
Fourscore and Thirty years ago...oops wrong speech...
Well haven't seen King Kong yet...who would like to go? Seriously, its at the cheap seats...lemme know...it is 3 hours long I hear :)
Been a busy week...lots happening in my life...and speaking of King Kong, been working out now...hows that for a graceful sagueway LOL...NOT!
Which reminds me of a joke..whats a Henway? About 5 pounds LOL...sorry bout that... :)
Anyways...Been getting up at 5:30 every morning for the last 3 weeks...working out and trying out various gyms in the city...its been good, I've got that wonderful Run over by a Mack Truck feeling and I feel fine :)
My training buddy Wilf is awesome, the guy has probably forgotten more in his last 45 years of training than most trainers in the gyms know. What a blessing to be learning from this guy.
I have trained to the extreme twice in my lifetime and achieved my goals, this time I am making this a way of life and gonna knock my goals outta the park.
The early mornings are killers considering I am a night owl, but lo, unto the Moose, it was good.
The feeling of walking into work all pumped for the day with muscles burning and energy peaking is just unbelievable and I would not trade it for the world.
Just trying to decide where to take out a membership...
The City of Saskatoon leisure pass is the cheapest getting you into the Field House, Harry Bailey and ALL the PADDLING Pools for $35 a month LOL!, but I gotta admit I love all the new stuff at Mawson's Fitness Center.
I worked out at Fitness Focus just down from my work and I enjoyed that as well. They have a little older equipment, stuff a lot newer than the Field house, but LOTS of it and really good stuff, and I can work out then have a shower and just come right down to work.
Wilf my trainer has also taught me many exercises I can do at my house with equipment totalling less than $50...all lightweight stuff with Huge gains...as well as a walking routine for cardio.
Essentially all weightlifting and training involves is the stretching of muscles by resistance, pushing, pulling, stretching, and here is my big word for today, a funky word called abduction (not the alien version :)
This mixed with cardio, the stretching exercises give you mobility and endurance as well as strength.
This is so you don't end up with being a gorilla that has limited mobility and can only swing vines and not climb trees (ok...WEAK analogy., pardon the pun)
So far I have lots 10 pounds in 3 weeks...pretty good results so far, but far from where I want to be...I want to get my V shape back when my lats, arms and chest were huge but my gut wasn't LOL...I was 334 when I started, now am at 324 as of this morning...shooting for 265 of muscled swartzenager man mass...(sorry folks, thats the left over testosterone speaking LOL)
Gotta admit, that burning sensation after a workout is like an old friend I lost contact with.
I used to be addicted to that burning feeling and could not live without it...mabey one day I should post a pic when I was at my prime if I can find it...its ok folks, I am wearing a shirt in the pic :) and its ok...I have absolutely NO Clue where it is LOL
So here I go again...this time no turning back...aint gonna stop until, like well...never hopefully, hopefully I can do this for the rest of my life, no, I Will do this for the rest of my life...I gotta...
I am 38 and this is my last real shot, from what I understand to make it and have the skin and muscle tighten back before it is too late.
I am looking forward to reasonably the same energy levels I enjoyed when I was slim and the feeling of health that accompanied it.
All that changed a few years ago when I had a bad bike wreck. (translation: BIG OWIE)
A guy in a cage (bikerspeak for car) decided that I did not need the particular piece of pavement that I was riding on. Turns out he wanted to drive his car on the SAME piece of pavement. JUST as I had started to cross it, he pulled out right in front of my Harley-Davidson Sportster (copyright, registered trademark), right in front of my tire.
I remember saying to my self...Self :) whatdaheck is a Oldsmobile Delta88 logo with attached fender AND attached CAR doing in front of my bike...
Deep Breath, Surrealistic Awareness, Panicked Freakout!
Whammo...Ya haven't lived until ya seen a FLYING Moose...LOL...Rocky and Bullwinkle got nothin on me LOL! Flying squirrels HA! I laugh at flying squirrels! I became a living LAWN DART... skypavement skypavement skypavement...THUD BANG CRASH!
What a rush!...I wanna do that again!...can I do that again? Please, can I, can I, huh? NOT! MAn THAT sucked! (Can you sense the sarcasm just a lil bit?)
If you have a motorcycle wreck on your list of things to do before Jesus comes, CROSS IT OFF! It ain't as fun as it LOOKS!
So...ater the dust, followed by my motorcycle, and Me had crash landed from Jupiter...I had another knee and a spulittin headache...
I remember saying to my self...after setting my leg (which felt like it weighed a ton!), WHEN the shock wears off, THIS is REALLY gonna HURT!
And yea, lo when the Moose went unto the Saint of Paul's hospital, lo the pain, it did hurt... :)
BOY did it hurt...
Hurt so bad it laid me up from August straight through to January...even had to learn how to walk again...that took some doin...FUN!
And thats where the forward protusion upon my abdominal musculacar, and the accompanying pounds came from...
And lo the Moose was found with a tummy :) LOL...
Oh well...that was then, this is now...
Doing sometin about that...
Because I can. Because I choose to. Because I have to for me.
My Trainer buddy wants me to take some pics of me now (and potentially break a perfectly good camera) so I can compare them when I get sexy LOL...(see Shrek 2 for the reference to that one :)
Hopefully I can have as stunning a turnaround as an old donkey to a white stallion...we will see...
Which reminds me of one of my favorite jokes in that movie:
Shrek, Donkey and Puss are in the bar, bartender (the ugly stepsister) says to Donkey, now a horse, "Hey, why the long face?" LOL...I love it! Some of you will get that one, some will not...email me for the explaination...also: See vaudville / slapstick humor for reference.
And so on that note, gotta go...me and King Kong are hitting the weights, I am spotting for him :)
Bless Yas,
Moose
Fourscore and Thirty years ago...oops wrong speech...
Well haven't seen King Kong yet...who would like to go? Seriously, its at the cheap seats...lemme know...it is 3 hours long I hear :)
Been a busy week...lots happening in my life...and speaking of King Kong, been working out now...hows that for a graceful sagueway LOL...NOT!
Which reminds me of a joke..whats a Henway? About 5 pounds LOL...sorry bout that... :)
Anyways...Been getting up at 5:30 every morning for the last 3 weeks...working out and trying out various gyms in the city...its been good, I've got that wonderful Run over by a Mack Truck feeling and I feel fine :)
My training buddy Wilf is awesome, the guy has probably forgotten more in his last 45 years of training than most trainers in the gyms know. What a blessing to be learning from this guy.
I have trained to the extreme twice in my lifetime and achieved my goals, this time I am making this a way of life and gonna knock my goals outta the park.
The early mornings are killers considering I am a night owl, but lo, unto the Moose, it was good.
The feeling of walking into work all pumped for the day with muscles burning and energy peaking is just unbelievable and I would not trade it for the world.
Just trying to decide where to take out a membership...
The City of Saskatoon leisure pass is the cheapest getting you into the Field House, Harry Bailey and ALL the PADDLING Pools for $35 a month LOL!, but I gotta admit I love all the new stuff at Mawson's Fitness Center.
I worked out at Fitness Focus just down from my work and I enjoyed that as well. They have a little older equipment, stuff a lot newer than the Field house, but LOTS of it and really good stuff, and I can work out then have a shower and just come right down to work.
Wilf my trainer has also taught me many exercises I can do at my house with equipment totalling less than $50...all lightweight stuff with Huge gains...as well as a walking routine for cardio.
Essentially all weightlifting and training involves is the stretching of muscles by resistance, pushing, pulling, stretching, and here is my big word for today, a funky word called abduction (not the alien version :)
This mixed with cardio, the stretching exercises give you mobility and endurance as well as strength.
This is so you don't end up with being a gorilla that has limited mobility and can only swing vines and not climb trees (ok...WEAK analogy., pardon the pun)
So far I have lots 10 pounds in 3 weeks...pretty good results so far, but far from where I want to be...I want to get my V shape back when my lats, arms and chest were huge but my gut wasn't LOL...I was 334 when I started, now am at 324 as of this morning...shooting for 265 of muscled swartzenager man mass...(sorry folks, thats the left over testosterone speaking LOL)
Gotta admit, that burning sensation after a workout is like an old friend I lost contact with.
I used to be addicted to that burning feeling and could not live without it...mabey one day I should post a pic when I was at my prime if I can find it...its ok folks, I am wearing a shirt in the pic :) and its ok...I have absolutely NO Clue where it is LOL
So here I go again...this time no turning back...aint gonna stop until, like well...never hopefully, hopefully I can do this for the rest of my life, no, I Will do this for the rest of my life...I gotta...
I am 38 and this is my last real shot, from what I understand to make it and have the skin and muscle tighten back before it is too late.
I am looking forward to reasonably the same energy levels I enjoyed when I was slim and the feeling of health that accompanied it.
All that changed a few years ago when I had a bad bike wreck. (translation: BIG OWIE)
A guy in a cage (bikerspeak for car) decided that I did not need the particular piece of pavement that I was riding on. Turns out he wanted to drive his car on the SAME piece of pavement. JUST as I had started to cross it, he pulled out right in front of my Harley-Davidson Sportster (copyright, registered trademark), right in front of my tire.
I remember saying to my self...Self :) whatdaheck is a Oldsmobile Delta88 logo with attached fender AND attached CAR doing in front of my bike...
Deep Breath, Surrealistic Awareness, Panicked Freakout!
Whammo...Ya haven't lived until ya seen a FLYING Moose...LOL...Rocky and Bullwinkle got nothin on me LOL! Flying squirrels HA! I laugh at flying squirrels! I became a living LAWN DART... skypavement skypavement skypavement...THUD BANG CRASH!
What a rush!...I wanna do that again!...can I do that again? Please, can I, can I, huh? NOT! MAn THAT sucked! (Can you sense the sarcasm just a lil bit?)
If you have a motorcycle wreck on your list of things to do before Jesus comes, CROSS IT OFF! It ain't as fun as it LOOKS!
So...ater the dust, followed by my motorcycle, and Me had crash landed from Jupiter...I had another knee and a spulittin headache...
I remember saying to my self...after setting my leg (which felt like it weighed a ton!), WHEN the shock wears off, THIS is REALLY gonna HURT!
And yea, lo when the Moose went unto the Saint of Paul's hospital, lo the pain, it did hurt... :)
BOY did it hurt...
Hurt so bad it laid me up from August straight through to January...even had to learn how to walk again...that took some doin...FUN!
And thats where the forward protusion upon my abdominal musculacar, and the accompanying pounds came from...
And lo the Moose was found with a tummy :) LOL...
Oh well...that was then, this is now...
Doing sometin about that...
Because I can. Because I choose to. Because I have to for me.
My Trainer buddy wants me to take some pics of me now (and potentially break a perfectly good camera) so I can compare them when I get sexy LOL...(see Shrek 2 for the reference to that one :)
Hopefully I can have as stunning a turnaround as an old donkey to a white stallion...we will see...
Which reminds me of one of my favorite jokes in that movie:
Shrek, Donkey and Puss are in the bar, bartender (the ugly stepsister) says to Donkey, now a horse, "Hey, why the long face?" LOL...I love it! Some of you will get that one, some will not...email me for the explaination...also: See vaudville / slapstick humor for reference.
And so on that note, gotta go...me and King Kong are hitting the weights, I am spotting for him :)
Bless Yas,
Moose
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Movie Night Update
Well I have had a coupla requests for reviews on the movie and one on the drink :)
Fun with Dick and Jane is corny. I will admit that. But, if you have a signicant other, bring them to it. It will make you want to pull them close to you through this movie I believe.
I went alone, but that is how I would feel.
This movie makes you realize how precious having someone in your life is and how even though you go through trials, how sticking it out really strengthens a relationship.
It was pretty clean, no sex, few expletives, and a very physical comedy appropo for Jim Carey.
Alec Baldwin plays a really easy to hate bad guy and plays it to the max. Being an Alec Baldwin fan, he reminded me of the part he played in the Cat in the Hat as well.
There is a part of the movie where Alec Baldwin is out hunting. It is Halarious what happens. That is all I am gonna say. You gotta see it, I laughed so hard!
There is another part where Jim Carey is on Money News. If you watch the movie look for it...notice what happens on the right side of the screen...it is really funny!
I was recommended to go see it, and I would recommend it as well.
It did take me a little off guard as it was not exactly what I expected from the outset of the movie.
That I like.
They mixed it up, in the beginning it was pretty believable, but some parts later in the movie are really out there.
All in all I would give the movie a hmmm...7.5 to 8 out of 10 stars.
It is entertaining and has a few great laughs.
Not as good as Bruce Almighty but coming up to it.
Here is all the skinny on the movie from the Internet Movie Database :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369441/
As for the Iced Skor Frappe, it was nummy. (Tough Biker word for tasty :) LOL!
As far as a Skor taste, it was a little on the weak side, but the overall flavor and texture was good. I would give it an 8.5/10 a really must try if you are waiting for the movie to start.
That is my review of the movie and the drink, such as it is :) Hope this helps those who asked :)
Still want to see King Kong...last weekend was the first at the cheap seats...Mabey this weekend...
For those who don't know King Kong was a project Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) has always wanted to do his whole life. I imagine it is going to be good being his life's ambition and work. I am looking forward to seeing it one day...once again mabey this weekend...have to see...
Bless Yas!
Moose
Fun with Dick and Jane is corny. I will admit that. But, if you have a signicant other, bring them to it. It will make you want to pull them close to you through this movie I believe.
I went alone, but that is how I would feel.
This movie makes you realize how precious having someone in your life is and how even though you go through trials, how sticking it out really strengthens a relationship.
It was pretty clean, no sex, few expletives, and a very physical comedy appropo for Jim Carey.
Alec Baldwin plays a really easy to hate bad guy and plays it to the max. Being an Alec Baldwin fan, he reminded me of the part he played in the Cat in the Hat as well.
There is a part of the movie where Alec Baldwin is out hunting. It is Halarious what happens. That is all I am gonna say. You gotta see it, I laughed so hard!
There is another part where Jim Carey is on Money News. If you watch the movie look for it...notice what happens on the right side of the screen...it is really funny!
I was recommended to go see it, and I would recommend it as well.
It did take me a little off guard as it was not exactly what I expected from the outset of the movie.
That I like.
They mixed it up, in the beginning it was pretty believable, but some parts later in the movie are really out there.
All in all I would give the movie a hmmm...7.5 to 8 out of 10 stars.
It is entertaining and has a few great laughs.
Not as good as Bruce Almighty but coming up to it.
Here is all the skinny on the movie from the Internet Movie Database :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369441/
As for the Iced Skor Frappe, it was nummy. (Tough Biker word for tasty :) LOL!
As far as a Skor taste, it was a little on the weak side, but the overall flavor and texture was good. I would give it an 8.5/10 a really must try if you are waiting for the movie to start.
That is my review of the movie and the drink, such as it is :) Hope this helps those who asked :)
Still want to see King Kong...last weekend was the first at the cheap seats...Mabey this weekend...
For those who don't know King Kong was a project Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) has always wanted to do his whole life. I imagine it is going to be good being his life's ambition and work. I am looking forward to seeing it one day...once again mabey this weekend...have to see...
Bless Yas!
Moose
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Bored....Hangin out...
Bored...Hangin out...
Well, after driving around for about an hour tonite, trying to decide what to do...
Usually I hang out at my brother Chuck's place and eat burgers and watch movies, but he is out of town for the weekend...
What the heck to do that won't get me in trouble?
Scooted by the church nutin happenin there, by work to check my emails to see when that Bridges on 20th Street thing started...dang...too late...
So I drove around town, after another momental snowfall, sliding around, enjoying the warmth of the car...
Drove over the Sid Buckwold bridge, whoever Sid Buckwold is...cruised down 8th street and checked out the sites and sounds...
Hey, I said to myself...Self...I wonder if King Kong is playing...it is 9:00 at night, usually movies start after 9:00...well...parked the car and came in...Nope
A big No way on King Kong...but friends of mine said that Fun with Dick and Jane was a good movie...so...I bought a ticket...cheap seats at the Rainbow...oh buht yo!
Dang...starts at 9:50...now what to do...
Feel like that guy on the song "Another Saturday night and I ain't got no money, got some money but I just got paid, now I wish I had someone to talk to...I'm in an awful way"
LOL!...pretty bad when your social life reads like a bad song...sheesh...
Oh well...so here I am wondering what the heck am I gonna do for 50 minutes or so...
So I said to myself...Self...lets go to Jimmy Java for a Iced Skor Frapp...whatever the heck that is...sounds tasty...
So here I was sitting and I looked over...hmmm...computer screens...
I then said to myself...yah you guessed it...Self...hey there aint no one else around to talk to...or least that I know...
So I said to myself...computer screens...tasty...I can kill LOTS of time with a computer...so I bought a 1/2 hour to kill some time...
So here I am waiting for the movie to start, killing time and talking to a computer...LOL I am losing it...
Live on Location from Jimmy Javas...LOL
So I hope this movie Fun with Dick and Jane is good...I hear it is...it stars Jim Carey, who I don't normally watch but just got to see Bruce Almighty and even though I was really worried about how sacriligious it would be, I really enjoyed...so here goes...
Should be interesting...
We will see...
Well...got 10 minutes...gotta get some popcorn and munchies...find a seat...
Later,
Bless yas,
Moose
Well, after driving around for about an hour tonite, trying to decide what to do...
Usually I hang out at my brother Chuck's place and eat burgers and watch movies, but he is out of town for the weekend...
What the heck to do that won't get me in trouble?
Scooted by the church nutin happenin there, by work to check my emails to see when that Bridges on 20th Street thing started...dang...too late...
So I drove around town, after another momental snowfall, sliding around, enjoying the warmth of the car...
Drove over the Sid Buckwold bridge, whoever Sid Buckwold is...cruised down 8th street and checked out the sites and sounds...
Hey, I said to myself...Self...I wonder if King Kong is playing...it is 9:00 at night, usually movies start after 9:00...well...parked the car and came in...Nope
A big No way on King Kong...but friends of mine said that Fun with Dick and Jane was a good movie...so...I bought a ticket...cheap seats at the Rainbow...oh buht yo!
Dang...starts at 9:50...now what to do...
Feel like that guy on the song "Another Saturday night and I ain't got no money, got some money but I just got paid, now I wish I had someone to talk to...I'm in an awful way"
LOL!...pretty bad when your social life reads like a bad song...sheesh...
Oh well...so here I am wondering what the heck am I gonna do for 50 minutes or so...
So I said to myself...Self...lets go to Jimmy Java for a Iced Skor Frapp...whatever the heck that is...sounds tasty...
So here I was sitting and I looked over...hmmm...computer screens...
I then said to myself...yah you guessed it...Self...hey there aint no one else around to talk to...or least that I know...
So I said to myself...computer screens...tasty...I can kill LOTS of time with a computer...so I bought a 1/2 hour to kill some time...
So here I am waiting for the movie to start, killing time and talking to a computer...LOL I am losing it...
Live on Location from Jimmy Javas...LOL
So I hope this movie Fun with Dick and Jane is good...I hear it is...it stars Jim Carey, who I don't normally watch but just got to see Bruce Almighty and even though I was really worried about how sacriligious it would be, I really enjoyed...so here goes...
Should be interesting...
We will see...
Well...got 10 minutes...gotta get some popcorn and munchies...find a seat...
Later,
Bless yas,
Moose
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