Blogging

I don't really find a whole lot of time to blog these days, I kind of make up for it by using Twitter and Facebook. There's something about the compactness of those formats that I enjoy, and they seem to fit in to my currently more busy schedule, while whenever I blog I feel like I have to say something a bit more substantial.

That said, it is nice to find a bit of time to blog, and though I'm sure there won't be much substance to this post, at least it's longer than 140 characters! I'm up in Canada (Calgary) to help celebrate my buddy Kandrix's birthday, it's a short trip, I'll be back in the States on Tuesday, but for now there's another couple days of Canadain hijinx to be had.

I got here Friday morning after some flight delays. I got on the plane, they told us there was mechanical issues and took us off and back in to the terminal. Instead of a direct flight to Calgary, they booked us (20 people total on the plane) on to the next flight to Vancouver, BC, which then we'd get a connection to Calgary.

After a few minutes, they found that there was a Horizon flight that would go directly to Calgary and would arrive sooner than the Vancover-based trip, so they re-booked us on that. After another twenty minutes or so, they fixed the original plane and loaded us back on. Overall, the delay was only like an hour, but just a bit of a hassle. Oh well, it all worked out so no complaints.

The rest of Friday was pretty mellow, involving a couple meetings, a movie and some barbecue.

Yesterday was quite fun, as we pretty much wandered around downtown Calgary for hours on end, culminating in taking in a Calgary Flames game (they played the Phoenix Coyotes for those interested). Close game, they lost 4-3, but it was a lot of fun and our seats were as nose-bleed as they could be (we were one row from the very top of the stadium). Yet, they were great and the atmosphere was good, except for the one yelling drunk guy who got all quiet and sullen about halfway through, which worked out well. Afterwards it was a late night meal at Joey Tomato's (a place that I manage to visit every time I'm here, even though I actually find their food quite average, it seems to be the one place open late that is convenient (side rant: you can't get your burgers medium in Calgary by state law, everything has to be well done. I cry shenanigans!)).

Today, Kandrix has to pop in to work for a bit so I'm spending the morning just taking care of some Emerald City e-mail and doing stuff for Kirby Krackle (which is having it's CD release party in a couple weeks) (more on KK soon) while we wait for him to return.

Anyway, that's it for now - I'll try to post pictures after I get back!