October 21, 2008

I took this picture while wandering around downtown Raleigh, NC.

I wonder what happens inside of a "Ministry Incubator".

October 20, 2008

While at the Sara Duke Memorial Gardens on the campus of Duke University, I saw a great blue heron with a small catfish he(she?) had caught. The gardens were quiet so I was able to just sit and watch him/her for about half an hour.

I've never been so close to a heron before. They are endangered in Saskatchewan so you don't see them very often. Apparently they are quite common in North Carolina.

I learned two things: 1) herons are beautiful
2) catfish are really ugly.

October 19, 2008

I spent last week in North Carolina attending a workshop for my job (thus explaining the lack of updates last week). I flew out on Wednesday and came back on Sunday. I had Saturday to bum around and see the sights of North Carolina. Pictured is the university cathedral at Duke University in Durham, NC.

Rather than bore you with the minute details of my trip, here's a list that sums up the important stuff:

1. Workshop for work = awesome. My brain at end of workshop = mush.

2. North Carolina has the worst radio stations I have ever heard in my life.

3. North Carolina has some of the friendliest and most polite people I have ever met.

4. The accent amused me greatly. It can only be described as 'southern lite'. I got called dear, darlin', honey, and hun many times.

5. GPS for your car takes some getting used to, but it's really handy when you're travelling alone and can't read a map and drive at the same time.

6. Downtown Raleigh is pretty boring. It reminded me of downtown Regina.

7. Duke University campus is beautiful, but crazy busy when there's a football game on.

Overall, it was a good trip. I'd go back in a second.

October 8, 2008

So I'm driving home from work today and I hear the song "Addicted" by the group Saving Abel. On the radio, they allow the lyrics "I'm so addicted to all the things you do when you're going down on me in between the sheets" but they censor out the word "shit".

Am I the only one who finds this weird?

October 5, 2008

If you're into midget wrestling, there's going to be some in Regina on October 24.

October 1, 2008

One of our cats, Duchess, is very territorial. She gets very upset when she sees other cats on her property. This leads to displays of hissing, snarling, and throwing herself against the window whenever she sees another cat outside. It's usually pretty funny to watch, but she can get herself so worked up that it can be a little scary too.

Here she is telling her arch-nemesis, a neighbourhood cat who lives a couple of doors down, to get the hell off her lawn.