4 hours that took

Want to know what Greg and I did with our Saturday afternoon?



Yep, 4 hours it took to edit. My lappy nearly went into meltdown on several occasions. In fact so did I. But I think it turned out OK, apart from the fact the quality seems awful on YouTube. For those Canadians who don't know, the opening theme is from a British TV show called Ski Sunday that used to be on years ago on...err...Sundays. Props to Greg for the camera work again.

So the remaining highlights of the week:

- All Canadians can ice skate. It's like they're born with them attached to their ankles or something. My experience of ice rinks is 50% of people clinging to the side for dear life (myself included) while 25% wander gingerly onto the ice with their arms flailing. The other 25% know what they're doing. The percentages here are slightly different. 100% people knew what they were doing until I stepped out onto the ice and brought down the percentage. I even got overtaken by a kid who can't have been older than 5. Having said all that though it was actually quite fun once I'd got a little used to it.

- Some joker let off a can of pepper spray in the mall last week. We wondered what was going on when everyone in the vicinity of the shop across from us came flooding out with their eyes watering and coughing like there's no tomorrow. I was hoping for something interesting like an onion bomb but it turned out to be pepper spray. Pretty rancid stuff as well, I was coughing just walking past on the way from the food court.

- It's bloody cold. Freezing. It started snowing today as well but it hasn't settled. But it's not Christmas yet, I haven't seen the commercial with the Coca-Cola trucks on the TV yet.

Hard to believe this will be my 28th Christmas. The great shame is that Jingle All The Way has only been around for 14 of them.