2 to go!!!

How about that sports fans?? 3-0. What a goalie!! Great games Flames.

Stream of conciousness

So a friend of mine pointed me to this site "More" about how success can change us. Watching it got me thinking about other movies I'd like to see such as this one. Watching that made me do a quick search, and I found this interesting little article and this one. Sounds to me like it's going to be a tough battle.

Anyways, that got me thinking about diets in general and lawsuits, which found this interesting factoid.

Oops, my build is done, so I'd better get back to work...enjoy!

1 Down 3 To Go

I forgot to mention Calgary's great win on Tuesday. 4-1....way to go guys. The first goal was a stroke of luck, but the rest of them were beautiful. As an interesting side note, check this out. Ever since the Sharks disappeared from the playoffs, people around here seem to have forgotten that the NHL exists ;-).

All Alone in the World...

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I'm blue. Is no one else out there compassionate and understanding? Does this mean that I am a wussy romantic weakling?

MyBrain

I'm Gold too, Jen. What does green say about you two guys?

ashamed??

i'm green too. and people think we're brothers...psh! wonder where they'd get that idea?

What color (colour) is your brain?

Sorry Dave, mine is Gold!


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BTW, I know it is a little late, but if you guys ever find yourselves back in the middle east you may be interested in reading this important article:

Although, this story is based in Manhatten, so maybe it can happen anywhere.

Yes Dave, I finally made a posting.... :-)

Lord Stanley's Cup?

Way to go Flames! Hopefully that will cut down on the amount of teal that I have to see in and around the office.

In honour of this day, here's some interesting history about the cup. And here's some more history with a list of winners. Erin, please count how many times you see the Vancouver Canucks listed in the winners column (and no...the Millionaires don't count ;-) ).

BTW thanks to Lesley, here's a couple of pictures from last week.

A Cool Canadian some of us know

Believe it or not I just stumbled across this...

Check it out

Other interesting things I read today (thanks Noelle)
I'm not part of that 15%
Kind of like a word of the day calendar

To all you blind fools out there

OK you guys really are thick aren't you...Were all of you perverts drawn solely to the testicles in that picture so that you didn't see the large letters that said "CYRILS BRAIN"??? Thus stating that those were indeed not my testicles posted on the internet? And most of you who commented call yourselves computer engineers...doesn't that title require an education to achieve? :)

What Colour are you?

I actually think this is pretty accurate ;-)

BTW Flames 3 Sharks 0! Don't you love it how I only do write ups on the games the Flames win?


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PS Brennan...we've already seen pictures of your brain. We don't need to know what colour it is.

I can do this too

I was feeling sorry for Dave, the family's sole author, so I decided to help him out by posting a blog of my own. I just got back from another whirlwind weekend trip... this makes 3 in a row... maybe soon I will spend a weekend in Vancouver, seeing as I just moved here. On Friday afternoon, I drove to Canmore with Todd and Pam. We arrived sometime around 2:00am local time, after having had a nice stop at Moose Mulligan's with Doug and Opal McManus for dinner in Sicamous. We spent the night at the Rocky Mountain Inn, and when we woke up we walked outside and were surrounded by lots of people that we hadn't seen forever... uncle Rob, Tyler, Bill, Sandy and their Hartman kids, Andrea, Stacey and Brad Hartman, Jill, Kim, Erin, and Tracey (and their kids!)... Kristin and Shane's wedding took place on the edge of a lake reflecting the rockies in the background. They both looked fabulous and I think Shane's socks and tevas went well with his suit.
The reception went on until the wee hours and we had a great party before climbing back into the car yesterday morning and driving all the way back to Vancouver.
Next weekend I am back to the lake, then my friend Al the biker (http://www.roundtheworldbybike.com) will be here with his friend Duncan to visit. Yay! Here are a few pics of the last 2 weeks... 2 of me and my bros in San Francisco last week, and a few of the wedding this past weekend.

Great Big Weekend

Had quite a busy weekend. Scott, Lesley and I went for dinner with one Lydia (one of my co-workers) at a great Sushi joint in Japan Town (Kubotos). Jen was supposed to join us, but had her horse almost throw a shoe, and totally forgot about us, while she was busy reshoeing her horse. I don't think she was too upset, as she and Sushi aren't the best of friends. Saturday morning we got up and Scott, and Lesley dragged me into San Jose to do some work on their way to the epitome of Americana: The Baseball game (SF Giants vs. Pittsburgh Pirates). I worked for a bit, biked home (new record...74 minutes. Yes, I shaved off a whole 60 seconds), hooked up with Jen, and immediately turned around and drove back in to San Jose to pick up Lydia on our way up to San Francisco to hook up with Scott and Lesley to go see one of our favorite bands, Great Big Sea, in concert at the Fillmore.

Rough Life In Mexico

Just a sample of what it looks like off of my parent's balcony at sunset....Of course one could ask why they aren't posting these types of things, but my Mom taught me that it wasn't nice to guilt trip people into using incredible website systems that you set up for them. Anyways...enjoy the picture.

It's a tough life eh? This shot just screams Corona and lime :)

Flames 2 - Sharks 0

Forgot to mention this the other night :-)

BTW Biked in from home to work (36 km) in 65 minutes (Avg 32.8 km/h). Not bad considering the last personal best I can remember was 70 minutes or so. There is some room to improve though. Lance Armstrong maintains 40.8 km/h (over the entire Tour De France!!!) which means he could do the same sprint in 53 minutes on a bad day.

I figure if I had the bike he has, I'd easily be under 50 minutes. It's all about the bike. Why are there no sarcasm tags in html? ;-)

View From Casa Leon

In case you already were not quite aware of just how beautiful our little Mexican casa is here are two views from you patio.

I'm old

Last Thursday I turned 30 years old. My incredible wife set up a whole collection of surprises for me, some of which I guessed about in advance, and others which were completely unexpected.

Hockey

What an amazing game!! What a talented team! Go Flames Go.

Muttawa Website

For those of you who might be interested in some incredible Saudi insight, check out this website.

Flames 1 - Sharks 0

One down...three to go. Flames 4-3 in overtime. Must admit I was a little scared in overtime...it really did look like the Sharks had it.

I am sad...

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I'm rather sad. Tickets for the San Jose-Flames playoff game went on sale at 10:00am this morning, and were soldout by 10:03. Needless to say, I didn't get the pair I wanted for game 2 on Tuesday night. I remember the good old days when only geeks knew about getting tickets via www.ticketmaster.com. Now I guess I'll have to go stand in line with all the "common" folk :). HP Pavillion is just across the street from Adobe, so it shouldn't be too tough to get tickets. Here's hoping the Flames win it in 5 so they can have 1 more game in San Jose.

Puerto Vallarta

As I write I am looking out at beautiful Bandaras Bay. We are quite high so we have a fabulous view. Many mornings we see a cruise ship or two come into port. We have watched dolphins swimming. Don and I have been here for two weeks. During this time, we have begun to settle in--mostly taking care of the essential business details that moving involves. We are still waiting for our shipment to arrive from Saudi. It is in Manzanillo at present but getting it through customs there has been a 'cultural experience'. Wish us luck as we return to Manzanillo for the second attempt on Friday. We are working on our Spanish as it will be essential to our survival. We are trying to spend some time each day studying--and then trying to be brave enough to use it. We have a monumental task ahead of us once our shipment does arrive. In way too few days, we will have to try to find spots for most of our stuff--and storage for the rest. On May 14 we return to Canada for the summer. So much is happening that it makes our heads spin, but we are having fun and enjoying our new home. Every day we remember that we are relieved to be out of Saudi.

Home Sweet Home

I made it back to Canada and am very very slowly settling in. Now that I've been here for 2 weeks, I can hardly say that I am still jet-lagged... but these long evenings still really have me confused as to what the time of day is. It doesn't get dark until about 8:45pm.

After I arrived in Vancouver, I immediately started house-hunting and found an apartment 3 blocks from the school that I'll be attending. I couldn't move in until the first of May, so yesterday was The Big Move. Next on the agenda was finding a car-- so the brother of a friend of my sister in law (get that one... took me awhile to make the connection. Didn't know him before.) took me car shopping and we landed an awesome VW Passat-- it's in amazing condition and has a 10-CD stacker and bum-warming seats. I love it.

The new website

Welcome to the new improved maclachlans.net!

I spent most of the day working on the new website. I hope everybody likes it. Now I just have to convince you all to contribute to it :)

I've sent you all an email covering most of the new features. Please be sure to try out the new calendar functions, and take a look around. You may even want to post something if you are really feeling wild and crazy. (Please!!!) Since we're all on broadband now, you can even try posting more pictures. This is a public page, so invite your friends to take a look. I retrofitted a couple of Jen's postings from her weblog, so you can see what you can do.

Happily, I didn't spend all day at the computer. My buddies Eric, Ritz and I went for a quick hike up El-Toro to grab a new geo-cache that's just been put there. Luckily we did it early in the morning, because it got close to 40 degrees here today, and it's a real hike up the side of the mountain. It's finally starting to cool down now at 20:00, so I think I'll go for my run.

If you have any questions, be sure to let me know.