What Have I Been Missing...

I have always had a strange taste in music. Like Lola I enjoy just about everything, except anything that Lola likes.

Anyways, I can not get enough of "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey. Why didn't somebody tell me that Journey was the band of the future...what...not of the future. Really? Ok, well somebody should have told me they had some of the best rock ballads of the early to mid 80's.

"Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere
Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goin' anywhere..."

You can not go wrong when you can rhyme 'anywhere' with 'anywhere'. Now that is what I call song writing.

If you want to know what else is in super high rotation and recommended for your listening:

1) Two Seater - Bowling For Soup
2) The Science of Selling Yourself Short - Less Than Jake
3) Misery Whip - Everclear
4) Jolene - Cake
5) One - Apocalyptica

We Have A Yard

Well after about three weeks and some grit and determination we finally have a yard...kind of. At least at this point we have a junk free yard and the two crappy sheds are gone. It will be an interesting summer to see if I can get some grass to grow. It may be tough because of all the trees that are around cause a lot of shadows and not a lot of sunlight gets through. You know I may have a great moss yard and start a revolution of moss yards. It will be great.
Duncan's Moss Yards - All of the softness of grass with half the sunlight...mushrooms and other fungi not included.

Walkin' Distance to the Beach and Transit

I finally remembered to take my camera out on a hike around the lake. There is some pretty neat stuff around the lake and trail that I thought I would show everyone.

First cool thing that you run into is a floating bridge. It is about 5 minutes hike frim our place and it is at the very south end of the lake. This is pretty neat and usually has a lot of people walking on it. It marks the start of the Buntzen Lake Trail.

The other really neat stuff is at the north end of the lake. First thing is a resevoir tunnel that runs between a couple of the lakes up our area. Buntzen lake has a few hydro electric pump houses around it but this is the tunnel from Coquitlam Lake. I think it would be super fun to ride it like a giant water slide. I think it is like 2km long so I think if something were to go wrong that wouldn't be so cool. It would then be considered a dead body ejection tube.

The next super cool thing is the suspension bridge. It is not very long and it is not very high but it is still pretty cool. It has some good bounce though so it makes your legs feel like jelly when you get off the other side. It makes the next 500m of the hike interesting anyway.

Anyways, I just wanted to show these of so if you didn't think trailer livin' was awesome then this might change your mind.

F is for F%@^%$#ing Hippies

For those of you that have followed my blog you might remember a little posting I did called Dial W For Wussy about the wussification of kids these days.

It appears as though people did not listen and my beloved Little League Baseball has done one worse and took the lessons of winning and losing out of the game. I must say that once you take the result out of a game it really is no longer a sport and also does little in the way of teaching lessons to kids about the real world.

I am about to lose it on these damn hippie parents. Let the kids who can hit a home run trot the bases. It gives something for your damn wussy kid to strive for. It is called growth and goal setting. Quit holding other people back because your damn hippie kid is too weak to swing a bat because all you do is feed him soy milk and tofu. ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!

Read Jay Mohr's article on CNN/SI called Eye-opening experience to see why I am all piss-n-vinegar.

The Master(s of the Universe) Bedroom

Well the Masters of the Universe Bedroom is really coming along. It is definately winning the race to be the first room done.

As you can see the walls are done and the carpet has been removed. All the has to be done is the installing of carpet. One hiccup is that we have no idea what color.

The B Project will be to put in the closet organizer and the sweet weapons cache.

We are hoping to have the carpet in before we go on holidays but we will see what happens.

Super Saturday

Now as a home owner I get to fill my weekends with house work and renovations. Or as i like to call it, "Destructive Contruction".

This weekend my goal was to:

1) Take the wood stove out of the living room

2) Take down the old crappy shed in the back yard

3) Muster the bravery to go into the crawl space

Step one went pretty well as I was able to remove the stove relatively easily. You can see in the picture that it took up some valuble space in the living room. That big silver tube you see in the middle of the room tells me that our house is a boy, and WHAT a boy!!

The crappy shed was a entirely different operation. This thing a a piece of crap and was a little scary to work around as it hangs out over the edge of the hill a little bit. From this first picture you can see both sheds in the back yard flanked by the piling of junk. the crappy shed is the one on the left. The pile of junk consisted of the third shed which is already down and stuff from inside and behind the other two sheds.

With some help from my friend Stu we were able to make a lot of noise and eventually destroy the crappy shed. The pile of junk it now three times as big. I need to have a junk removal company come and clean up this a bit.

Finally I failed to muster the courage to go into the crawl space. From the outside it looks easy enough. I always think I can do it and then I look inside and decide that it is too wet or something. I am starting to believe that anyone that has entered the crawl space and never actually come out alive.

A New Hope

If you did not already know my good buddy D-Mac has entered the Blog World. Check out The Inglewood Jack to see what everyone is talking about.

Also find his Blog in my links section.

I Love It When A Plan Comes Together

Well it looks like the closet is coming together and we should be done painting the entire room by the end of the week. That would be the hope.

Then once we get the floors done we will build our own sweet closet organizer.

That is where the aforementioned weapons cache comes into play.

When it is all done it will look great and add..let me do a quick calculation...carry the 4...divide by pi... cosin of 7...and with a mere $60 in renovations in the master bedroom the value of the entire house goes up $12.8 Million. Wha...I think I forgot to move a decimal point. Oh well, it goes up anyway.

Please keep you hands and feet inside the tour blog at all times and now if you look to the right you will see the hallway of destiny. Those who can survive the passage will only be stronger.

As you can see it is also finished in a beautiful faux-wood panelling circa 1976. This will also get painted and hopefully will have it painted soon as well.

The early goal is to have all the painting done before we leave.

That makes two goals for April 15th: All the Painting Done and Duncan's Weight Less than 240. Man do we ever lead hectic and busy lives.

Well what else are two sexy thousandaires going to do with all of their time.

I'm sorry mama, I never meant to hurt you, I never meant make you cry, But tonight, I'm cleaning out my closet

I could take this closet thing to a whole new level. Lola and I continue the contructive destruction of the Master Bedroom.

When it is all done it will be real and spectacular.

That wall will have a big closet organizer and behind it will be hidden a James Bond-style weapons cache. It will be awesome

Well, I can dream anyway.

Stay tuned as the house continues to morph. This is better than the weight loss watch.

Say Hello To the NEW Ferguson!!

I would like to have a big shout out to Alana Kelsey Jane Turd Ferguson (Alana Kelsey Jane Turner) born on Monday to some great friends of mine in Ontario.

Congrats to Turd and Hooch. Or is it Taxes.

Anyways, I wanted to say on behalf of everyone in BC - Barrie!! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Make sure that ATB and I get over toasted at the baby shower for coming all the way from BC.

Coming Out of the Closet - So to Speak

I spent a little bit of Tuesday afternoon doing some constructive destruction. Our closet is now missing a wall. I will post more photos as the renos move on. It is all pretty exciting yet I am a little worried about my lack of experience. Oh well, here we go....

The Beat Goes On...

Well, after the move and being sick for a week or so I feel I have done pretty well in the weight department. I lost a few more pounds and am starting to feel a lot better about the whole situation. Things are rolling along. I even got out and hiked around our new neighnourhood and found some awesome trails. I will post more about those later.

I have noticed one thing about my weight loss journey. I am not sure it is something that bothers me but it is definately something I find strange. Over the past few weeks a lot of random people have commented on my weight loss. I am not talking about close friends and stuff like that. I mean random people that see me often enough to notice. People like co-workers and parents of the kids I coach at baseball. People who are a little more random in life. I have noticed they have all made the same comment. The conversation goes a little something like this:

Random Person (RP): "Hey Duncan, how's it goin'?"

Duncan: "Pretty fantastic!! Yourself?"

RP: "Pretty good. You look great and more attractive than usual, have you been losing weight."

Duncan: "Yeah, I have been going to the gym and eating a lot better."

RP: "Awesome! You can really see it in your face."

Ok, that is just fine. But I have to say this, "How big was my face before?" I have lost just over 15lbs. My face must have been huge. I never realized that I was walking around with this huge, massive, 15lb overweight face. I have to say that I guess I am glad my giant face has come done in size a bit.

So, in using this I have uploaded two pictures. One is of my face about a year ago and one is my face today. See if you can tell which one is my giant face and my less giant face.

Didn't Even Cross My Mind

We finally moved into our new place yesterday. I have to saw that I am pretty proud of my mobile home. It was a long evening move and I can not thank the movers enough for all their help:

Brizzo, Maddie, Alex, Papi-in-Law, Magnus, Shaq - without you Lola and I would still be moving furniture...or maybe be dead.

Anyways, pats on the back aside, it never crossed my mind that we would need to buy one of the simple things in life. It is underrated in it importance and oft forgotten. What is it you ask?

...A Shower Curtain!!

It was one wet bathroom floor this morning!