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| Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 | | 11:11 pm |
Hmm. 114 weeks, that's a long time between posts, and I don't really think anyone is avidly waiting for my next post, but here it is. I'm still not dead. So there.
I have moved, changed jobs, lost jobs, become engaged, and am learning to play ice hockey. I can't say I'm doing it well, but if you can't do something poorly when you're 30 years old and doing it for the first time then you must be channeling some long dead hockey great that I don't have access to.
Can't promise that I'll update this journal again before two years is up again, but if you're interested in reading what I've been doing, and not interested in either flaming me or reporting me to the grammar police, comment.
I may write back.
me, | | Sunday, December 4th, 2005 | | 9:33 pm |
Much like his father, little Charlie has Horns on his Head  | | Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 | | 3:08 pm |
Game 2 Against Nanwaluk Nauyans
The Peacekeepers once again were victorious against the Nauyans, with a convincing shut-out against these Alaskan athletes. The Nauyans were better prepared for this grudge match, having filled in the Peacekeeper end with concrete to prevent the Peacekeepers digging in, trading their hockey helmets for Kevlar helmets, and most importantly hiding the keys for the Ice resurfacing machine between periods. The single goal of the game was scored when Sgt Xnube of Ghana fired the puck from his grenade launcher which was duct taped onto his stick. Rules will again be amended forbidding the use of grenade launchers in Alaskan matches. The next match will run on the 26th against the Royal Norweigan Mooseherding Association. | | Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005 | | 8:18 pm |
Peacekeepers Hampered by Environmental Concerns In the second game of the season, the Peacekeepers found themselves quickly wrapped in the red tape of environmental concerns. Following recent policies of sustainable operations, Peacekeeping personnel are prohibited from removing natural growth from their areas of operation. When the peacekeepers arrived at the rink they were startled to discover that the roots and shoots team were exactly as described, a collection of flora planted within the ice rink. Unable to navigate their modified assault vehicle without damage to the trees and undergrowth, the peacekeepers were reduced to advancing the puck slowly through thick vegetation, often having to remove many of the spikes riveted to their equipment after seeing the effectiveness of their goalkeepers modified gear, after becoming tangled while crawling through the thickest portions of the growth. In the three periods of the game, the peacekeepers were only able to advance to the goal twice in regulation time, managing to squeeze the puck in through a particularly thorny bramble bush. An unidentified person(whom we assume to be the gardener), pitched a puck several times into the abandoned Peacekeepers net while all players were brewing up a cup of tea, bringing the final score to a peacekeepers loss of 2-5. For the Roots and Shoots version of the game, see http://www.henriettesherbal.com/blog/ | | Friday, November 18th, 2005 | | 1:51 pm |
BHL action figure Based on the audience response to the Peacekeepers goalie gear, the BHL is looking to release an action figure. Photo's of the prototype have been leaked, and we are proud to introduce. ( Photo Under Cut )Happy Goalkeeping! | | Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 | | 9:41 pm |
Opening Game against Nanwalek Nauyans Fans Outraged as Peacekeepers Win Opening Game
Accusations of blatant cheating mar the victory of the Peacekeepers opening game, with a 2-0 win against the Nanwalek Nauyans.
( Read on for all the sordid details. ) </font> | | Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 | | 8:07 pm |
Game schedule posted for BHL season Please folks, bug the heck out of me to stay with this, I've been busy, but I want to make this work, and keep it fun. see schedule at http://www.steveospage.com/bhl/xml.php?team=7 if you're interested. | | Thursday, November 3rd, 2005 | | 3:30 pm |
Excitement is rising with the opening game of the BHL approaching fast, and we've secured a telephone interview with team GM and commander General D'Stresse.
Interviewer: So tell me General, how is recruiting for the Enforcers expansion team going?
Gen. D'Stresse: Interesting you should use the term recruiting, since that’s exactly what we’ve done, we’re taking our U.N. peacekeepers, and giving them a chance to have some down time, build a little esprit de corps, have some fun, Oui?
Interviewer: What sort of route are you planning on taking with this multi-national team? Are you going to concentrate on skating? Shooting? Defense? A solid front line?
Gen. D’Stresse: Mon Dieu non, most of our troops come from countries with no ice, so we’re mostly concentrating on finding the biggest troops we can jam into a jersey. We’re currently lobbying to see if the BHL will allow them to wear crampons instead of skates because we’re sure most of them won’t be able to stand on skates.
Interviewer: Surely you’re joking, this is supposed to be hockey..
Gen. D’Stresse: The official U.N. training manual for this project was written after some paper-pusher in Geneva rented “Inaugural Fight of the Hockey Enforcers,” it was all that was available at the movie store that evening, and have you ever tried to get something changed in the U.N.?
Interviewer: No...but surely..
Gen. D’Stresse: We’re stuck playing hockey this way, but we’ve decided we are going to be putting out the finest set of enforcers seen on the ice. If we’re real lucky the BHL will let them carry side-arms instead of those sorry excuses for riot batons they call “hockey sticks.”
Interviewer: Well, there you have it folks, General Manager of “The Peacekeepers” General D’Stresse. Somebody, please, stop this maniac. | | Monday, October 31st, 2005 | | 4:47 pm |
BHL start-up approaching
With the BHL league about to start up again, expansion team "The Peacekeepers", begins it's recruiting drive. A multinational organization of UN troops, this group is intended to give an opportunity to showcase some of the more unusual talents possessed by some of our troops. They may not all be able to skate, shoot, or score, but they'll sure be enforcing. So a hefty salute to the Peacekeepers, enforcing their way to their first attempt at the BHL cup. | | Thursday, October 27th, 2005 | | 12:35 pm |
Blogospheric Hockey League http://www.steveospage.com/bhl/ if you're interested in being a part of it. I've put my application in, and am hoping they see fit to place me in a slot for an expansion team. It's a fantasy hockey leauge which will take place entirely on the net on various people's blogs. Get involved, get a team, and keep your stick on the ice. | | Monday, September 19th, 2005 | | 12:41 pm |
Opinions from the gallery if you would.
Should females who may become pregnant be allowed to join the army.
Should single mothers be allowed the same choice of job positions as married mothers?
Should single mothers be allowed to work in jobs that "may" be hazardous?
Now for the big question.
Would it make any difference if it was a single father? | | Friday, July 22nd, 2005 | | 12:54 pm |
When heroes fall
I'm upset just now. I've been banned from posting in a friends journal.
I sat for a while and blinked at the screen in impotent rage, and tried to think of why it upset me so much.
I'm pretty sure I know why he doesn't want me posting in his journal. I threw a post in quite some time ago that went full grain against one of his beliefs. Given the current circumstances I think he actually deleted it, where as before I thought I'd fumbled the post. It happens.
I'm upset because the man I thought was a particularly good example of liberal thought couldn't handle a differing opinion. Now I have to take a person I still respect, and take him down a notch in my mind. I feel like the often dissed fan-boy who is upset because their favourite star has embarassed themselves in front of the camera, upset because their star no longer shines as bright under the tarnish.
It sucks, we're all people, and most people were never meant to be heroes. I still respect you, just not as much as I used to. | | Monday, July 18th, 2005 | | 9:51 am |
Change of venue
Those who follow my journal may have noticed a drop in the amount of post I've been making. This is because I've been splitting my attention between a couple of journals. I have a second one which discusses some more of my personal issues, including my sex life, which is why it doesn't make it onto this journal. If you're interested in following the many lives of me, send me an email and we'll see about adding you onto my other journal. | | 9:39 am |
| | Wednesday, July 13th, 2005 | | 12:32 pm |
Call for submissions.
I've been procrastinating in writing the third in a series of online stories, and should probably dredge up my notes and finish it.
I need a vital detail though.
I need three or four things that are completely Canadian, the idea being each one could be left as a clue leading back to a cabin in the back-woods of Canada. Why? Because I need an excuse to put a trio of unknowing clones into mountie pants, o.k.?
Trust me, it works.
So, submissions from the readership, when you think Canada, you think...... | | Wednesday, July 6th, 2005 | | 7:13 pm |
Once again I grit my teeth and go digging
Yeah, could I have my keys back? The ones to my car? Yeah, those.
Reply: I left them behind when I left.
My thoughts: Probably not, but rather than go into a screaming fit I'm left with assuming that in the past few months I've just managed not to find them, and that they are probably under a piece of paper somewhere waiting for me.
What I will do: Look for them, but really assume that if they were left behind they were left in the dumpster out front which has been emptied a couple of times since.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr. | | Friday, June 24th, 2005 | | 11:04 am |
Disaster averted
I am on course, I am going.
This is a good thing, and it makes me happy.
For a while longer at least. | | 10:08 am |
Might be it for current employment.
I think I may have just had enough.
I've spent the last week running around arranging everything so that I could go on a course next week.
Now, today, that being Friday, my boss just tells me that it might be better to take the course that runs 6 weeks from now. Or maybe 8 weeks. Whenever he feels like it. I realize that they are paying for the couse, and they pay me to be here, but.......
I think I've had enough, I really do. I've hated this job for years, and stuck in because, well, I like eating, but there's got to be something better out there. | | Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 | | 7:19 pm |
Political rant
I threw together a post on a friends journal a couple of days ago, and either he decided I was being a tad too agressive in my stance, or just found me too different from his own view. Or I pressed the wrong button and it got deleted, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, he's a writer himself and I can't see him pushing for greater censorship. But it also recall another journal user reminding me that I have my own journal to write things in, and not to clutter other peoples up with stuff they didn't want to see.
What the basis of my arguement was that there seems to be a trend with people making political statments loudly, in interesting and amusing fashions, but really not doing too much about the problems. This Live8 concert is being pushed to promote the plight of african nations, its main suggestion being the forgiving of third world debts. O.k. fine, we have a bunch of rock stars now with Lennon complexes deciding they're going to change the world. *sigh* Guys, you play guitar, and sometimes write meaningful lyrics that move us, but please, you are NOT political experts, and if you desire to dedicate you life to it, then enter the political arena. Some of the African nations are legitimately in debt, 20 years of drought will do that to you. Others, such as Mozambique are some of the richest(in terms of saleable, developmental resources) in the world. They're in debt up to their eyeballs because they've so horribly mismanaged their funds, and engaged in decades of civil war that they're now unable to move forward. Before we forgive this debt we should take a long hard look at what caused it. If you give some of these countries debt relief they're going to throw the money into a new fleet of cars for the presidents dogs, and borrow more money to buy themselves a new boat, it is NOT solving the problem. I lived in Zimbabwe, a lovely little country on the border of South Africa, Mozambique, and Kenya. The "President" of that country, who runs a one party system of which he is forever the head is one of the most corrupt politicians I have ever run across. He's run his country into the ground, and his inability/unwillingless to police his countries own internal problems have led all external investors to flee the country in fear that they will lose everything, including their lives if they stay. He's squandered HUGE amounts of money on his own private army, his own Hospital, which sits empty in the village(yes village) where he was born, purchases military hardware which he cannot maintain or justify, and basically gives money to his extended family while huge numbers of his countrymen(whom an elected official is supposed to serve) are jobless, homeless, and starving in the streets. It's ridiculous. If we forgive the debt it will only make it even worse, because now he'll have more money to squander, and once the debts catch up again he'll have the country dug in even deeper. It's ridiculous, and I just can't respect a group of musicians demanding unconditional forgiveness of these debts to a people who are not able to yet prevent a recurrance of the massive debts they find themselves in.
Fix the problems, educate the people holding the purse strings, put conditions in place, restrictions, but don't just magically wave the debt away, it will only make things worse. | | Thursday, June 16th, 2005 | | 8:22 am |
Too long between posts
I've been trying to run two simultaneous journals, and you know what? It doesn't work. It kills them both. By the time I finish reading through them, replying to comments, and clicking links, break time is over. Still, too many interesting things to give up reading either of them. Uh....interesting things to happen to me? The tent over top of my computer at home was fun. I live in a century old heavily modified house that has a few gaps in it where there should not be gaps, most notably one that seems to be above the front window. Which is where my computer is. So middle of the evening during a particularly heavy rain storm it starts to drip from the ceiling. After the requisite "AUUUUGGGGHHHHHH, WATER, ELECTRICTY, DANGER!!!" I go racing around for containers to hold water, and set up my army shelter over the computer station. It's basically a glorified tarp, so there were no poles, brownies, or campfires involved, but it was amusing to be typing to people while peeking under the corner. Images of the camera-man under his hood come to mind.
I am so glad to be moving soon, no more dripping ceiling, I'll be living in a basement. So unless the upstairs leave a tap on or something I'm good to go. Unless it floods, then no glorified tarp is going to save me either. |
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