tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59508742011-10-27T15:45:41.207-04:00Alot has changed since my first blog post back in the early 2000's. I'm married, firm in a career, and a father now. As always, my hope is to generate thought provoking posts as I share the things that flow through this dangerous mind of mine. Cheers.Greggnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-20928061750887049222011-04-26T18:15:00.001-04:002011-04-26T19:04:10.382-04:00

So. May 2nd is less than a week away. This means that fairly soon, hundreds of thousands of Canadians will be filling their local schools or community centers, and they will be casting their votes on who should run this great Country of Canada. Democracy. I constantly ponder the lottery-like process that is where people are born, and I'm so thankful to live in Canada - a land that is mostly

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"My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others." ~ C.S. Lewis I wonder what this photographer was thinking when he took this picture. In the rain. In the darkness of night. Did he see what I'm seeing? Was his emotional response the same as mine? I think this picture is spectacular. The symmetry. The reflected light in the water-glazed cement. The darkness and dreariness

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"True love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning, never sick, never old, never dead, from itself never turning." ~ Sir Walter Raleigh For over one third of my life on this earth, I have loved Lindsay Lee Atkins... A powerful statement? Sure. But it's not enough. Words are great sometimes, they're the great translators of all that we think. In this case though, that sentence doesn't come

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What do you get when you cross a freshly purchased house, with a group of well-seasoned builders, and a vision for the future? ... Anyone? ... Bueller? ... Community. Yup. You get community. I know, you were hoping for something witty, a punch-line of sorts. Instead I give you a cryptic one word answer. Deal with it. :-) You get community, in all of the true sense of the word: "A unified body of

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"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style." ~ Oscar Wilde It's an odd topic to break-in the new overhaul of my personal online website. I know. But it's currently the topic of my personal considerations, and thus the only piece

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Wow, a whole freakin' year since I last posted here. Craziness. I'm thinking of putting a little TLC back into this page. We'll see if that happens, lol.

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I'm a little peeved this morning. I checked my email to learn that the comment handler I've been using since I started this blog MANY years ago, "Haloscan", is pulling their free handling option and forcing users to choose a new paid option or be "s.o.l.". They cite an aging method with Haloscan, and the inability to continue supporting it, as their reason for making this move. Translation: "

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I'm heading to the F1 races in Montreal this summer, and I've created these snazzy wallpapers for my iPhone to commemorate the event. The only difference is the font colour. Anywho... that's all. Peace.

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Soooooo... long time no blog. The truth is that in today's social networking age, there are simply so many other ways to vent ones inner thoughts. Mediums like facebook and twitter offer a quick outlet that sometimes makes posting a blog seem tedious and long-winded. That being said, I still consider my blog to be the best way to share more in-depth of what's on my mind. Really isn't much though,

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Yesterday started much like any ordinary morning, only this particular morning found us in a hotel room in Geneva... so I guess it wasn't very ordinary at all. :-) With our bags mostly packed, there was only one conceivable thing left to do: go out and buy more Swiss chocolate and tacky souvenirs... what? that's not what you'd have conceived? We had a fistful of Swiss Francs left that were pretty

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The end is nigh... very, very, nigh. Sidenote: I've no idea what nigh means, but I believe it's being used accurately, lol. Tomorrow morning we leave Geneva headed to Paris, right back where this whole thing started 27 days ago. We'll have only the afternoon and evening there, as our flight leaves on Saturday morning just before noon. It's sad, but oddly I think we've prepped ourselves for the

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Venezia has been a mixed bag... it's perhaps one of the most beautifully strange and different cities on the face of the earth, unlike any we've ever seen. It surprisingly has captured our imagination and left us REALLY sad that we have to leave tomorrow morning. The mixed bag part is only that we've come down in reality this last day, realizing in full that our trip is basically all but over.

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The world is kind of a stupid place sometimes. I'm not talking about war, poverty, and suffering: that stuff is clearly stupid. What I'm speaking of is something that Lindsay and I have noticed on our trip in terms of what the Countries actually refer to their cities as - for example, Italy calls and spells Rome as Roma... meaning that the name of the city isn't Rome... it's Roma. Why on earth

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-84557501050919097122009-05-04T10:17:00.012-04:002009-05-04T14:16:09.585-04:00

You know it's funny, I've been using that saying jokingly throughout alot of our trip, and I had mentioned to Lindsay that it'll be funny to apply it once we're actually in Rome. Note: We've already established that I'm a bit of nerd, so it shouldn't come as a surprise to you to hear that I would find something like that funny... But would you know it, I completely forgot to use that saying over

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Thus far Italy has proven to be a formidable opponent for our travel passions. France was fantastic, but the current pace Italy is setting could definitely tip the scales as to which country we'll love the most. We left Monaco yesterday morning as early as we could, knowing that the drive to Lucca would be about four hours, and wanting to maximize our time spent there. The one thing that's

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Preface: I realize the gap in between the last post and now has been great, our trip is actually over now and we're back to real life, but I really still wanted to capture the last two weeks of the trip here in my blog. I would have done so during the trip, but we ran into some locations without free internet, and add to that the energy it would take to update the blog, it was just tough trying

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Today was one of the best days so far! The weather was upwards of 20 degrees, and the sun shone brightly over Provence. We left Avignon around 9:30am after enjoying some of the breakfast goods we had purchased yesterday, and made it to St. Remy de Provence within a twenty minute drive. It's basically a small town with very ancient looking buildings (the good kind), and a handful of shops and

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Man, these have been some very nice and unique days. We've traveled so far from Paris now, and it's incredible how much everything has changed! The landscape is different, the people are different, they look different and act different, and the general vibe of Northern and Western France has dramatically altered in what is now the South of France. Not different bad, just different. We didn't

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-77152512479624930452009-03-09T17:18:00.003-04:002009-03-11T18:46:37.526-04:00

It feels like forever since I've had the internet, I think I was in a slight withdrawal, lol. The biggest frustration is having SO much to talk about, and not being able to spew it out, lol. I'm about to attempt a detailed brief account of the last four days, and I'm not sure how it will turn out... we'll see :-)We started our third day in Paris by heading out via the subway to the town/city of

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Where to begin... lol! It's been an amazing three days in Paris! The city is so incredibly fascinating, and extremely chic. It's like highschool, where the entire population of the city is the 'cool' people, and you're like a lowly dork, lol. Everybody seems to walk around with an extreme sense of purpose and reason. There's a subtle urgency to every movement the Parisians make, and watching them

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Time has flown since my last post, mainly due to getting a pretty nasty throat infection/flu late last week. Lindsay suffered through it first, and as she's a loving and giving individual, she found a way to pass the gift along :-) Now it's kind of a bittersweet event, getting sick before traveling, as the sweet part is we're both unlikely to come down with any colds during the trip. However,

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Holy cow, it's so close to March 2nd that I can literally taste the Eiffel Tower... it's a little tinny... There really isn't much left to do at this point for the trip except get on the plane and go. It's getting more and more exciting as the days pass by, which makes sense. There were a few things that I had planned to do last month that got pushed aside, so I was scrambling a bit at the start

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I love to read. I'm not sure if many of you knew that about me, but there's just nothing comparable to immersing yourself in a good book. I've always had a vivid imagination, which makes good story-telling a natural addiction for my mind. All of the nuances of intelligent character development, the limitless varieties of plot development and story arching, and the vivid universes that authors are

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I should have just stayed up writing last night, as I simply wasn't tired enough to go to sleep. I stayed up tossing and turning until about 3:30am, and I simply couldn't get out of bed at 8am. It's not so bad though, as I have a bunch of overtime hours worked, so I simply dipped into them and took today off. I slept until freakin' noon! It was so great, I could have slept all day.Anywho, I

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Wow, what a month! The first half of December seems like such a blur now that it's over. Christmas was very nice, especially with Lindsay. We've made a tradition of doing our presents for each other on Christmas Eve, and this year made traditional Swiss cheese fondue for the second year running. I think we might end up doing that for dinner now most Christmas Eve's as another little tradition...

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Man am I tired! I've been having the worst sleeps these past six nights, and I'm really feeling it today. I had to get up this morning at 5:45am to go do sound for an event called the "Oakville Prayer Breakfast". It's a yearly event that our company does sound for, and is basically a crammed room of about 600 well-to-do Christians in Oakville who buy tickets to get together for an early morning

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So Linds and I decided to go check out the new MEC that just opened up in our 'hizzle. Can I just say how awesome it is to have a MEC less than a five minute drive from our house?! It's awesome! It's fairly large as well, which was a little surprising. The Toronto store is quite large, and the Burlington store is honestly almost as big. I couldn't believe it. I have a feeling I might be spending

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Holy cow, time just seems to be flying by at this point. Three months from today, Linds and I will be doing our final prep to fly out March 2nd. It seems surreal to think that our trip will actually be happening. I think about all that we'll see and do, and it just doesn't seem to be phasing me at this point anymore. I'm sure as the months progress, the excitement will build. After all, this trip

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Geez Louise! It's crazy! I can't believe how quickly time is passing by! It's now officially just under four months until Lindsay and I take our month long trip to France and Italy. It's been over a year in the planning, and even longer in terms of dreaming of taking such a trip. We had originally intended to go for last month (October '08) when we started planning the trip a year ago, but due to

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That's right folks, the countdown is now at five more months until Europe '09 commences. Much has transpired since my last post. Work has been nuts... If you recall two post ago, I was commenting on how crappy I felt at work because of the crazy summer. Well it didn't stop there, as the rest of August and beginning of this month continued to be nuts. The stress drove me into a massive funk, I

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Well, it's official! We've booked our flight, made a few slight changes to our itinerary to accomodate the flight schedule (which actually gave us two more days to spend), and are set to leave March 1st, 2009 and come back on March 27th, 2009. I'm so excited I think I may actually explode. You see, I love to travel, and in my short travelling life this trip is like the mecca of all trips I've

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Ugh... that's what I've felt like for the past two months: the living dead. I've had two of the busiest months of my life (hence the sudden lack of posts), and have really been feeling the stress of it all over the past three weeks. Last week was the cherry on top, as I suddenly came down with a horrible cold but couldn't afford to stay home and lose necessary time keeping work progressing on a

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So I've been a little lazy with my cooking lately, but that's life. Last night however, I was quite determined to make the roasted fish that I described in my last cooking post. Here's a picture of the wonderful dish:The dish is Roasted Haddock wrapped in Bacon, with Asparagus and a Lemon Mayonnaise. It was a slightly frustrating event at the beginning, as I couldn't find the Jamie Oliver

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I'm starting to get excited again about Lindsay's and my trip to France and Italy next year! Now that it's almost June, the trip is basically ten months away! There's something so much more exhilarating when a planned event becomes less than a year away. It's like it's more of a pipe dream when it's more than a year, and then somehow gains a certain validity once the year mark passes and begins

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So I mentioned in my last post how I'm becoming passionate about cooking, well last night I made an incredible pasta with mussels. Here's a picture or two to help you drool:I thought the recipe sounded amazing and simple too, so I gave it a try, and man was it amazing! You basically make a basil flavored oil using fresh basil leaves, some anchovy fillets or paste, and some olive oil, lemon juice,

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I think that had things gone differently in my life, I might have ended up being a chef. I've discovered that I have a deep passion for cooking that I'm just now really starting to explore. When I was a kid, I always wanted to have a hand at making stuff but was always shooed off. Even for Cub Scout's, when I was trying to earn my cooking badge, my mom hovered over me and ended up shooing me off

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This post started as a comment on another blog, which snowballed into a long comment that I thought would be great to post on my blog. The father of three of my best friends growing up has his own blog, and he is one of a group of people whose incites on issues I greatly appreciate. His blog posts have been generating a lot of deep thoughts in my head lately, as I enjoy his topics for their "

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I mentioned that I would post my "controversial" thoughts on China and the Olympics, and I just spent the last little while trying to compile those thoughts into something coherent; however, there is simply too much information and depth to the whole circumstances at play to honestly sum it up in a brief post. So I really wasn't able to bring my thoughts together in a way that made any sense to

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Geez, it's freakin' beautiful out today! I've had the fortune of being able to be outside a bit so far, and I gotta say, I feel great right now! It's strange, I feel as though I've been asleep for a long time and suddenly have a crap load of energy and excitement. I've never reacted this way simply from the weather. It's great! However, now I just want to ditch work and go toss a frisbee around

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I've recently made quite a few changes to the HTML coding of my blog page, not that you'd notice though. After I had redesigned my page awhile back (three years ago) from THIS to what you currently see, there were a bunch of annoying things that the site would do visually that kept bugging me. I'm no expert at HTML and web design, but I've had fun toying with my page, learning things along the

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So yeah, I had no intention of posting one of these, but I checked mine out and almost all of the ten are hilarious! It's the google thing where you type your name with "likes to" all in quotation marks, eg. "Gregg likes to"... So here is what it spat out, enjoy.1. Gregg likes to take his clients and sometimes his clients horses shopping...2. Gregg likes to do it at home.3. Gregg likes to snack

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Holy workload Batman! It's been nuts here for the past month and a half for me! I've finally caught back up in terms of quotes that I've been doing, but it's been a stressful ride getting here. See, what happens typically here is that our ad-mailing goes out twice a year, January and September; afterwards quotes and visitations spike to about six venues a week for about a month, afterwards

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So the biggest, ahem, ONLY real news that is currently going on in my life is this big trip to Europe Linds and I are planning for next March of 2009. I've been doing most of the planning in terms of the places we'll visit, budgeting, transportation, and just the logistics of it all. I get Lindsay's input on where she'd like to go and what she'd like to do, and I bounce idea's off of her, from

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So I thought I would check in with my semi-annual update, tee hee. It's funny because I'm doing so at a time when I'm actually really busy at work, while for the past few weeks I've had nothing really on the go. I just find it ironic... anywho.Alot has happened in the last handful of months, Lindsay and I took my parents to the Dominican Republic for their 30th wedding anniversary, which was an

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So I'm sure this post will come as a pleasant surprised to those who faithfully check my blog, waiting... waiting... um... waiting some more for a post of some sort. Here it is! Ex nihilo is latin for "Out of nothing" and I thought that was a suitable title for this post as it comes after months of nothing. :-)Now as some of you may know, my company recently purchased a new commercial unit to

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This is eight minutes of the most INSANE animal kingdom action you'll ever see! My buddy, Mike Burns, told me about it last weekend over dinner. It's insane... pure insanity, though with an amazingly happy ending. Check it out:

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For the past handful of years, basically ever since my dad went out and bought himself a brand new bass guitar, I've been wanting more and more to go out and find myself a new one as well. You see I've been playing bass since grade seven, and the one that I own is just as old. It was an extremely entry level Ibanez, practically the cheapest on the block. It's been good to me though, and I've been

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Worst... cold... EVER! That's right, I've had a ridiculously bad cold for the past week and a half. It started off as a very sore throat, which then moved to my sinus' and was quite painful. It made sleep almost impossible, and by mid-last week I was a zombie. I thought it was starting to pass on Thursday last week, only to have it wind back up as sneezing, runny nose, chest cough, etc... and

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So the installation of these doors in the basement has been about as much fun as hammering a nail into your thumb would be... only I imagine that hammering a nail into your thumb could actually be more fun than installing these doors... this just gives you a frame of reference to better assist you in empathizing with my suffering. I'm not sure if I mentioned it when we first moved in, but the

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Sometimes I love having tonnes of stuff happening, while other times it's so much nicer to slow down and just vegetate. This weekend is one of the former types of weekends that begins tonight. One of me and Lindsay's friends is having a party tonight at a house that she house-sits usually once a year... though the word house doesn't do this place any justice... this place is a freakin' palace!

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-68677128385274069752007-03-15T10:02:00.000-04:002007-03-15T11:17:45.600-04:00

So I realize it has been ages since my last post. This is due in large part to a new form of internet "keep-in-touch" type site called Facebook. I had nicknamed it "The Biggest Fad of 2007", but now refer to it as "Digital Crack Cocaine". It's been amazing to re-connect with friends and keep them up to date with life in general, but I will attempt to be more regular with Blogger as well though

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So just as last year I was super excited to go to Panama for a two week honeymoon, I am equally as excited right now about our trip to Cuba at the end of February. So much so that it consumes most of my waking thoughts, which actually gets quite distracting... go figure. For example, I'm here at work, and I'm working on a bunch of quotes, and I keep drifting off in my thoughts to Cuba, which

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So this past month will officially be remembered for a lifetime as the biggest spending spree in Lindsay's and my life. The spending thus far (without price tags, as I feel that is best left to the imagination) with the money from our bonus' and Lindsay's Mazda that we sold on the weekend, has consisted of these: our Personal Line of Credit, which we took out to pay for the remainder of our

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-6093624764271313962007-01-10T16:05:00.000-05:002007-01-10T16:32:25.193-05:00

So I've had some downtime this past week as work is slowly picking back up again after the holidays, and I've been mainly using to research some very important things. Namely tropical destinations that Lindsay and I could go to for our One Year Anniversary in March. It's been very exciting looking into the places and imagining a week in a warm tropical place with unlimited food and drink, and

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-54619428958135821152007-01-08T12:13:00.000-05:002007-01-08T12:27:47.485-05:00

So on the weekend I surveyed different wiring routes to get from our study on the top floor to the "Man Cave" in the basement, and found that each one would be a lot of work. Not impossible, but messy and would require holes in walls that would have to be patched later and repainted... stuff that I'm not exactly ready to do. What I did do though was to take the modem itself and bring it

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-37273653718539347752007-01-02T11:36:00.000-05:002007-01-02T12:11:40.674-05:00

My wife is officially the sneakiest woman when it comes to Christmas gifts. We had been giving hints as mentioned in my previous post for the gifts we had got for each other, and through her hints (aka bold-faced lies) she had led me to believe that she got me something simple for Christmas. As a trusting husband I completely believed her, so I'm opening my gifts on Christmas Eve from her and the

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Wow, what a great year. I can't really begin to express how blessed I feel with this past year. Everything from relationships to work, to life in general has simply been amazing. I have a kick-ass marriage, our company has done amazing this year netting a decent profit that is supplying some very generous bonuses this Christmas, Linds and I found a new home church, we have the most super-awesome

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1165958931779845932006-12-12T16:28:00.000-05:002006-12-12T22:32:47.070-05:00

I've recently downloaded Mozilla Firefox, since the new update for Internet Explorer simply made browsing a real pain in the "literary edit". I avoided Firefox at first because when I access my blog with it, it makes my blog look funky - since it was designed with IE. Anyways, I've bit the bullet as it's a lot nicer to surf with, and I've actually found that it's AWESOME! You can download so many

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My blog is worth $3,387.24.How much is your blog worth?

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CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hmmmm, Egg Nog for the most part, but some Hot Choco after coming in from snow sledding.2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa has a well established Slave trade that does all his wrapping... duh...3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?Well, our tree has a combo of blue and white, which looks really styling. Meanwhile,

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Wow, these past few weeks seem like a blur. There have been days where I've been so exhausted that I could barely organize a single thought throughout that day. It's gotten better lately, but the past few nights have been a little rough. Why is this you may ask? Well if you've been reading Our Wedding Blog, then you'll know that Lindsay and I went out almost three weeks ago and purchased for a

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So keep this in mind next time you're drunk, even though you may not THINK animals can harm you when you're in that super happy state of blissful drunkeness, in point of fact they CAN hurt you. However, this article also proves that if you happen to bite the animal back, odds are the drunken brawl will end in good times.CLICK ME TO READ THE ARTICLE

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Not too shabby if ya ask me. What Famous Leader Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com

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Alrighty folks, here's the dilly-o, the low down, the skinny... etc, etc... on the beer! So to date, my co-worker and I made and bottled our first beer, "The Fat Monk", and have made and bottled our second beer, "We fight, we drink, we drink, we fight, we fight, we drink, we drink, Irish Red Ale".After a week of letting the first beer condition in the bottle, I popped one open to taste it. Now I

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1157041767255823132006-08-31T12:02:00.000-04:002006-08-31T12:29:27.320-04:00

Man, times have been frustrating around work this last week. We have two clients who don't seem to understand the whole client process. That's the only problem with the business having a niche market in Churches, for the most part they're either not professional at all, or SO professional that they think they know everything and won't listen to recommendations. Right now we're dealing with the

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1156861012648142932006-08-29T09:40:00.000-04:002006-08-29T10:19:59.063-04:00

Imagine a place where the beer is free, the pool tables are free, and coolness rules over the domain... such a place may seem unimaginable... unless you're hanging out at some rich guys place and freeloading off his beer. But I'm speaking of a place that exists outside our imagination... I speak of... THE INSTITUTE!The Institute serves as a training ground for bartenders and Labatts employees

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1155844613498203452006-08-17T15:29:00.000-04:002006-08-17T15:56:53.550-04:00

Man, I'm so tired of coming to my blog and having nothing to really talk about... Life isn't that bland for me these days, but I just can't find topics that are pressing my brain to share on the blog. Funny enough also, the last two blogs were beer oriented, and that's more of what I'm going to talk about today. BEER!I've managed to find a pub in Toronto that WILL BE carrying the specialty ales

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1153506233333744242006-07-21T13:38:00.000-04:002006-07-21T14:23:53.416-04:00

Honestly, where have these beers been all my life! I firmly believe that had I trie one of these beers in my early days, I would likely be sporting a raging addiction to beer. As it is, these beers are sure to increase my beer consumption, adding to an already growing gut.This past week my co-worker and I went to Ottawa to do an install. While there we went looking for a cool place to have dinner

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1147713746555462812006-05-15T12:18:00.000-04:002006-05-15T13:22:26.586-04:00

I'm not even gonna pretend to think that I'll actually post regularly, cuz let's face, the whole track record thing just is NOT in my favor. None the less, here's a fresh post for any of you readers that happen to still check out my blog.Yeah, so quite a bit has happened since my last real post... where to start... let's see, there's marriage, honeymoon, experiencing living together with a wife..

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Man, I wrote a whole friggin' essay on Christmas tonight, but decided not to post it in fears of alienating anyone with a different opinion on how Christmas is being beaten out of our society... so sufficed to say, Merry Christmas everyone, with all the truth, power and sincerity of that wish to all of you.

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1126840849438644772005-09-15T23:18:00.000-04:002005-09-15T23:20:49.443-04:00

I plan to blog about the concert very soon, so stay tuned if you check up on my site. I've had a crazy day, and will likely have a very busy weekend, but I'll try and post asap. It was awesome though! More to come soon!

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So I worked diligently yesterday and have produced this new look for my blog. I learned alot more about manipulating CSS coding that makes these blogs and produced this. I'm not done yet though, I have to add a bunch of links and find out why the body of my posts show up BENEATH the picture of Calvin now. They should just go beside. It's funny though cuz I suddenly completely forgot what my old

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1119539920614396872005-06-23T11:10:00.000-04:002005-06-23T13:34:44.616-04:00

So I know I haven't posted here really in over like 5 months, but I feel the blog bug biting me in my posterior region. To mark this occassion I'm also on the verge of a MAJOR OVERHAUL of my blog page. I do like it the way it is, I'm just getting tired of it, and want to change it. Only I hate ALL of the templates on blogger, so I have to be creative if I'm going to attempt a change... I may

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1115307190201337312005-05-05T11:32:00.000-04:002005-05-05T11:36:40.816-04:00

I totally stole this off of a friends website after she learned how to do it. I had to give it a try. Her website is http://www.livejournal.com/users/liradralyn/ So without further ado, here is the lovely floating sentence!How much wood, would a wood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

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HI DR. NICK! .... (simpson's).... Anyways, I just wanted to post here that for next while I'll mainly be posting at this site http://greggandlins.blogspot.com/ about the wedding and what not, so feel free to check that site out! Thanks and have a great day!

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So many moons have passed since the accident... okay, well not even one has actually passed, but you get the point... and everything seems to be working out great! I found out on the weekend from a friend of my Dads that Showcase Autobody is supposedly a bunch of butchers. So I started worrying big time about if I could get my car out of there and fixed up right. I figured I take it one step at a

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Top ten things you don't expect to happen to you, number one: someone attempts to pull a U-turn at 40km/h right in front of you while you're going 60km/h... creating a "nothing you could do about it except hit them" situation. Bet you wouldn't expect that... neither did I, but it still didn't stop it from happening to me this evening around 6:45pm. Lindsay and I were on our way to pick up a

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1098322005637442512004-10-20T21:26:00.002-04:002004-10-20T21:26:45.636-04:00

The Car.

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Front.

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Back.

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Rim shot.

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Interior

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Interior.

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Side view. I love the angles and curves of the car.

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So on Monday night when I put in the paperwork for the car I thought everything was gonna go smooth as silk; however, the following days of last week proved to be quite the patience testers. Let's begin, shall we, with the financing. I suppose I just expected everything to go smoothly, so when I learned that my loan needed a co-signer, it just threw me out of my great mood and caused me to panic

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1095773383609818782004-09-21T09:58:00.000-04:002004-09-21T09:31:40.666-04:00

Wow this has been a few of the craziest weeks of my life. Crazy good though, not crazy baaaad. As most of you know from Lindsay blog, I've been entertaining the offer to work in her business as an Installer of Sound equipment (i.e. Speakers, Soundboards, Running Wire, etc...), and I recently accepted the offer after meeting with the Boss last week. This in and of itself is crazy for a few reasons

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This is the inside of the 2004 Saturn ION 2.

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Close-up.

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An overall view of the car.

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This is the exact colour and make of car that I'm getting. It's the 2004 Saturn ION 2.

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So that's the new car. It's the 2004 Saturn ION 2 in case you missed that. It's a good story too. You see I did alot of looking online during the weekend at a bunch of entry-level cars, and I needed something affordable. My first notion was to get a used car, but after searching the lots yesterday, I found that a nice used car in good condition is almost as expensive as a new car. So I decided to

Greggnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950874.post-1092257504428189762004-08-11T15:56:00.000-04:002004-08-12T01:31:15.110-04:00

I've always thought the word Breakfast was funny and then when I came to understand it's root meaning, I thought, "Cool" :-). It means exactly what it says... break fast... as in when you finish dinner you're not actually eating until the next day which is considered fasting, not in a spiritual sense, just plain and simple fasting. So when you eat the next day you're breaking the fast... hence "

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How to make a Gregg Ingredients: 1 part pride 3 parts humour 5 parts leadership Method:Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Add wisdom to taste! Do not overindulge! Username: Personality cocktailFrom Go-Quiz.com

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Man, I have so many favorite artists again that it's crazy! For the longest time now I haven't really cared much about music except to listen to it on the radio or whatnot. Ever since I started downloading and erasing songs though, I've heard sooooo much good music. It's kinda cool cause it's making want to buy some cd's for the first time in YEARS! Most people I know just would burn the songs

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You're GI Joe with the Kung Fu Grip!! You'restrong, tough, and know how to kick some ass.Don't forget though, no matter how manly youthink you are, you're still just a doll. GodBless America. What childhood toy from the 80s are you? brought to you by Quizilla I was so excited to be a GI JOE "action figure"... not doll, that I had to post it. It's late Sunday night and I'm waiting for some of

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Okay, so this is my first time posting since Blogger changed their homepage and posting page layouts, and I've been dying to say my piece... so here it is... YUCK! I hate it! It's so bubbly and ugly. Their homepage is soooooo boring now. They went from stylish and cutting edge to yuck! It bothers me to be posting right now looking at this gross page. On lighter news though I have a new favorite

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So yeah, this last week has been insane! As you can tell from my previous post, I've been battling a cold/flu. I'm not sure where I got it, but it started to manifest itself at the start of last week. I stayed home for Monday and Tuesday and then forced myself to work on Wednesday cuz let's face it, no work, no money. I was okay though and the weather was awesome that day and Thursday. I was even

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ugh. That's the word of the day... ugh. I had a great weekend at the Church Retreat, tonnes of fun! However yesterday I began to come down with a cold. My throat was sore and only continued to get worse as the day went on. I hoped that a good nights sleep would get rid of it but instead the sore throat got rid of the good nights sleep! I kept waking up with a painful throat to deal with and it

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