2003/11/30
Blog Spot of the Barber Ousey Clan
Hey, this Blogging thing is really catching on. Now Lyn has a blog....and her son Adam too! It is really easy to do and a fun way to keep people posted as to what is going on. It is nice to hear all the news, especially when you can't be there.
Well it is approx. zero degs hefnercandles (not ferengis... what the heck is a ferengi anyway...speak engrish pease!) and sunny today.
Yesterday Catherine and I, and two other couples, went to the Manitoba Theatre Centre to see the play "Diary of Ann Frank". It was really quite good but I was disturbed by an abrupt ending....but i guess that they were making a point... that the ending was abrupt for Ann Frank and her family too. It is the first play that I have ever seen where the whole cast stayed on stage, in character, during the intermission. I gave it 3 nods ( I nodded off three times)
After the play we went to Brannigans. I like Brannigans beacause I have very few standards and besides they have lotsssa sheap taaable whine.....and as you know I AM a WINOCEROS ...you know a big crusty, grey, gallumphing, one-horned Cabernet sipping galoot . Anyways, it was good. We shared "pot-stickers" (expensive egg-rolls) as an appy and then I had a steak (not a heart healthy one but good old Alberta marbled beef!) and french fries....because ....well because.
After dinner we came back to our place and played Trivial Pursuit....you know we have been playing that game (and all the other trivial pursuit games) since it came out....25 years ago! We have our own rules...we never use the board and we play partners, switching all the time. We ask each team in turn 1 question from each catagory and you either get a pie or you don't, then we add up the scores at the end of the night to decide the winner...or whiner as the case may be. The winner has bragging rites until the next game. It is all fun.
This week is a busy week. I have 3 Xmas parties to go to. One for my Creative Retirement Computer club, one for Western Canada Aviation Museum volunteers and one for Health Sciences Centre (diabetes research) 'lab-rats'. I was at the museum Saturday morning and found out that we will be getting an exhibition of the Wright Brother's artifacts, photos, etc., in Feb. 2004. I will be working extra time then because the exhibit is worth an est. $1,000,000. WOOHOO. We will need extra security. I am not sure but I think that when I am on security I will be supplied with a Tazer, a gun, a large cannister of pepper spray, .....or maybe a pencil and a pointed stick...not sure, but looking forward to the exhibit.
I see by Gary's blog that they are having a good time in Tish. Here is a conversation that I had with a convenience store clerk in Tish. "Please, can I have a bag of ice?"......"Ya want a SAC O ASS?" 'Scuse me? do I want a sack of ass?....no a bag of ice s'il vous plait"......jes what I sayd, a sac o' ass"
well better go for now
AVOIR DUPOIS
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Hey, this Blogging thing is really catching on. Now Lyn has a blog....and her son Adam too! It is really easy to do and a fun way to keep people posted as to what is going on. It is nice to hear all the news, especially when you can't be there.
Well it is approx. zero degs hefnercandles (not ferengis... what the heck is a ferengi anyway...speak engrish pease!) and sunny today.
Yesterday Catherine and I, and two other couples, went to the Manitoba Theatre Centre to see the play "Diary of Ann Frank". It was really quite good but I was disturbed by an abrupt ending....but i guess that they were making a point... that the ending was abrupt for Ann Frank and her family too. It is the first play that I have ever seen where the whole cast stayed on stage, in character, during the intermission. I gave it 3 nods ( I nodded off three times)
After the play we went to Brannigans. I like Brannigans beacause I have very few standards and besides they have lotsssa sheap taaable whine.....and as you know I AM a WINOCEROS ...you know a big crusty, grey, gallumphing, one-horned Cabernet sipping galoot . Anyways, it was good. We shared "pot-stickers" (expensive egg-rolls) as an appy and then I had a steak (not a heart healthy one but good old Alberta marbled beef!) and french fries....because ....well because.
After dinner we came back to our place and played Trivial Pursuit....you know we have been playing that game (and all the other trivial pursuit games) since it came out....25 years ago! We have our own rules...we never use the board and we play partners, switching all the time. We ask each team in turn 1 question from each catagory and you either get a pie or you don't, then we add up the scores at the end of the night to decide the winner...or whiner as the case may be. The winner has bragging rites until the next game. It is all fun.
This week is a busy week. I have 3 Xmas parties to go to. One for my Creative Retirement Computer club, one for Western Canada Aviation Museum volunteers and one for Health Sciences Centre (diabetes research) 'lab-rats'. I was at the museum Saturday morning and found out that we will be getting an exhibition of the Wright Brother's artifacts, photos, etc., in Feb. 2004. I will be working extra time then because the exhibit is worth an est. $1,000,000. WOOHOO. We will need extra security. I am not sure but I think that when I am on security I will be supplied with a Tazer, a gun, a large cannister of pepper spray, .....or maybe a pencil and a pointed stick...not sure, but looking forward to the exhibit.
I see by Gary's blog that they are having a good time in Tish. Here is a conversation that I had with a convenience store clerk in Tish. "Please, can I have a bag of ice?"......"Ya want a SAC O ASS?" 'Scuse me? do I want a sack of ass?....no a bag of ice s'il vous plait"......jes what I sayd, a sac o' ass"
well better go for now
AVOIR DUPOIS
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