I told this to both Daves and forgot about blogging about it.

I did not have dreams in my last house, mostly because I had a bus that would stop in front of our house all night every night and keep my sleeping light, not deeply at all. Now that I have moved to Airdrie it is nice and quiet and I have been dreaming lots.

Most of my dreams involve me being at work naked or at school and not knowing where I am going. The naked dream always is me sitting at work and realizing that I am naked and when I walk around people are a little shocked (as they should be) at my nakedness. I wonder if this dream is because I used to run on airport runways naked after a night of drinking (very bad idea, could lead to prison) or the fact that I did a strip show once at a pizza drink, again after drinking too much.

When I tell my daughter about the naked dream all she says is “Is your penis showing? Can everyone see your penis?” Well yes, I would suspect that is what they are looking at when they are shocked.

The other dream that I have is that I am going to high school but I have missed a bunch of English classes, which could be because I graduated over 20 years ago, and do not know my locker number or even where my class is.

So earlier this week we had a dream that I was Superman-like. I could jump up and start flying, this was a great dream and one I never had. I did not have any special powers like x-ray vision or burning eye rays or anything.

So hopefully in the future I have less of the naked dreams as well as those stupid school dreams and more super hero dreams. My question though is, how can I have more interesting dreams? I know years back the nicotine patches that I used to try to quit smoking worked well, maybe I can get more of those.

Well thanks to Wikipedia and a question from Dave D I now know that Canada is sucking this year at the Olympics. This post is in no way trying to rub the Canadian athletes noses in the fact that Canada has really underperformed this year. But we have. When you look at the table below remember that the Olympics in LA in 1984 was the year that the Russkies boycotted after the US and others boycotted in 1980, tit for tat.

Here is the list for past years even though this year we have no medals so far. Apparently there will be more medals, including some Olympic medals for Canada this week. I for one will be watching.

Usually it seems that Canada does a lot better at the Olympics but this year? Not so good. I am not sure why. Actually the Winter Olympics are much better for us since there are many more months of winter in this country than Summer months.

Anyway someone please let me know without giving into government bashing as to why we have sucked it so hard this year so far.

Again don’t try to blame the athletes! They train for years and years with no income to try to win a medal, they are not to blame as individuals at all.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

I have been watching the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games for about a week now and man it has been great on the HDTV. I recently moved as you can see from two posts down and one of the things that I have been saying for years is that I really wanted to watch sports, especially tennis and the US Open in HD…

Well during the move I made a play on my wife that I wanted to move to Satellite. Once that was in the bag I worked on getting a PVR and sadly our old big screen would not work with a dual tuner PVR unless it would work in HD.

One sale, two store and I had a 42 inch LCD and now the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are on and in two weeks tennis.

Good for me.

I am a Twitter user, actually I use TwitterFox in Firefox to constantly get comments from people across the internet and am starting to know the 120 or so people that I follow very well.

In real life I talk to 3 other people at home, 15 or so people at work on a daily basis and every week I talk to another couple of family members.

So, does this mean that the internet and Twitter are my biggest family and friends. That isn’t just boring but a bit more loserish than it should be

I really think that it is wrong for the kids to learn life lessons from the misfortunes of our own family but that is what happened this weekend.

My wifes mom finds it best to live on the fringe of society and although most people that read this may think that I would find that cool, in fact I don’t

So my Mother in Law calls us yeaterday and the house that she is living with is full of Meth users, hookers, everyone deals and everyone seems to shoplift so they can get their drugs an alcohol. She has had enough.

Well she has kind of had enough, she is not ready to get a job but she really wants out and she wanted to stay here, my wife definitely wants her not to be around our kids and disapporves of her moms crazy, minimalist, welfare based lifestyle. She lets her in anyway.

So she stayed last night, got into a shelter this afternoon and I have been trying to explain this to my 8 year old daughter.

Taylor, Grandma doesn’t have money and even though money is not the most important thing it is very important to have enough so that you can decide where to sleep and what to eat. You need to rely on yourself and have a job becasue relying on the government is very very bad.

They say that there is a cycle of poverty and I am sure that is true. My wife broke the cycle and there is no way that I would want my daughter to sit idly by and hope that some guy is going to take care of her because that is a recipe for failure.

So my daughter goes into a shelter today, learns a life lesson on the evils of poverty and now hopefully she remembers that every time she has a chance to make a bad and lazy decision.

Oh and to all the people that say that we should have just let the mother in law stay her. Screw you! I don’t need that kind of attitude and acceptance of the welfare state in my house.

No i am not home sick, i am sick at home today. A terrible cold has finally dragged me down and not i think that I was better off at work. Just blogging, and surfing today and wondering what the weekend will be like. I hope the snow is gone soon here in Calgary. I have not turned on the TV so this morning I missed watching my favorite show on a sick day KTLA news from LA.

Now I have my daughter at home playing on the computer, my wife out dropping off my son to preschool and I am plugging away on the laptop on the kitchen island waiting for a call to do a change at work. Hopefully that happens soon and I can turn on the TV and see if Family guy is on.

Sometimes when I am on the phone with my wife and after I have said something that offends her a bit I will find her try to get off the phone. Nothing bad, she just has had enough of talking to me.

This morning I turned the tables on her. She asked me how the long bus trip was to work and I said “OK, it took and hour” She mumbled about how I don’t have to take the bus often. When the weather changes I can take my bike yada yada yada.

She starts trying to hangup and I countered with.

“I love you sweety, I wish I was a dog so that I could dry hump your leg”

Click….and I hear a dial tone

There is a new feature of Google maps that allows you to see pictures. I have no idea how it works, why it is there or anything else but this top 15 list is pretty funny to read and see.

Top 15 Google Street View Sightings

Today is a national holiday here in Canada, it is Victoria Day. For some reason we get a day off to celebrate the life of a queen of England , no not the current queen but a queen that died over 100 years ago. I think we should have a holiday for every queen or king ever and I am not even a monarchist.

Where was that going? I have no idea, just a minute yes snow. There is snow coming down like crazy. Everyone in Calgary says that we can get snow in any month of the year and of course we get it during the May long weekend. I first heard this the year that I moved here and the next year I went camping on the May 24 and it snowed. Today again it snows. I am wondering this morning if this snow is just a strange weather occurance or instead a result of the collective unconscious of all for the headspace that Calgarians put themselves in.

Dave told me first thing this morning that Gilmore Girls is being cancelled after this season. I may be a little sad but come on how long can we follow these two main characters? It is definietly the right time to dump the show.

The last couple of Seasons of Gilmore Girls, maybe even three seasons now have not been very good and the trouble really is that hte show tried to build it’s cuteness a lot bigger than it deserved. I am not sure if I could have taken to much more of the nattering and self depricating attitude of Loelei and not Rory is just going to be a boring working stiff. I am not sure if I would enjoy working with her in my workplace, she would get far to offended far to often.

So there you go Dave, I like the show but am glad that Gilmore Girls is going now instead of dragging out for another couple of forgettable seasons