What does the FC stand for, in Toronto FC?

Fantastic news ,as mentioned WAAY back Toronto has a football team, and not the Buffalo Bills getting pushed two hours down the road from sleepy Buffalo to the big city.
Toronto FC , a colleague actually asked me what the FC stood for , and the thought "it was kinda lame"
They`ve sold out 14,000 season tickets, and had a crowd of over 20,000 for yesterdays home debut against the not lamely named Kansas City WIZARDS.
CBC carried the game and had the good sense to have an English commentator to keep a lid on the tendancy of most North American commentators to get over reliant on statistics. I have to say they did a good job, the crowd did a GREAT job! I closed my eyes and it sounded like football, there is no other sound like it, even the weather cool and blustery added to the authentic product, I think we have a winner........................

This is Ninety

That was the aim way back, the first 90 days are the hardest. It has taken close to 290 , with many of them unreadable, still what do I care, it`s just an excuse to publish a picture of a dog which caused a great stir just by walking around town breathing............

grabbed from the ether

The word is there is something to be heard here, must consult the web guru to get it audible...

Typing of the dead

Way back on the 4th day of April, I mentioned the above "learn to type software" based on the living dead zombie film, you type what is in the boxes in lieu of shooting them and it has the same result.

It`s incredibly hard to get hold of though only published in 2001. I am convinced it must be sat in a bin somewhere for $1.99 along with countless other pc games which as well as being antiques of greater than 1 year are also not ps 5 , wii , are other blue toothed trends.

I saw an article entitled are dvd`s going the same way as cd`s? WHERE THE HELL have cd`s gone, the shops are full of them.

Here in Toronto you can buy cassette tapes and especially vinyl everywhere, mind you North America isa bit behind as not all cell phones have cameras.

For now I am still largely on one finger, waiting for easier keyboards or voice activated systems, and I still know several colleagues who were born into a world where owning a watch was just only necessary as fashion jewellry so they never bothered.

Search those bargain bins, the cheapest pc example on e bay is $110! this is at least $100 too much, happy hunting....

Nowhere to put it

Been really slacking off on the posts this year.

For the first three months I was away but there is no excuse for April -now that le Printemps is here.

The weather is glorious for a second day out on the deck , inside it is better for my sunburn!

We are looking for a pet from the local humane society and city animal shelters, the have websites but the accuracy of one is suspect , so every 48 hours I am down en velo for a check.

We have missed two dogs we both liked, both taken by more agressive people putting holds on them, now we know the rules!

Both dogs had poodle in them though were vastly different in size, both had a certain undiscernable factor.

Reading a book sent over by a dog loving friend all about the arctic wilderness, coincidentally I was reading it when I got burnt. Just got to the bit about the huskies. The photo`s confirm that some huskies do not have the piercing blue eyes . In the early days of the search we passed up a beautiful three year old with one blue and one brown eye. We shall keep looking, see a lot of them on the streets (presumably from breeders) strangely they are often wearing boots like 50% of the dogs here in deep winter, or is it just the ones in our yuppie neighbourhood?

We both want one with character, we can train it not to pull (too) much but will probably keep it on a leash all the time we are here in the city. I have seen a lot of people running with their huskies and think I could really go for that as I have to run anyway and the local gym is expensive , I can think of a lot more things to do with $70 a month.

Off to check the web sites.........

Cycling season back!

While it never goes away, even here in Canada, it came back yesterday with my first ride of 2007. I didnt realise how much I missed it whilst being mired in work for three months.
Many years ago a friend cycled from London to Australia , it seems barely credible, but I was there( in green ) to witness the start.
Since then lots of training a few short triathlons and a short stint as a bicycle paramedic, brought me to Canada, a year of grinding to work, the only bit of a tedious job I enjoyed, and NOW it`s back to fun a hopefully a summer of cruising to work in the big city......

upskilling, is that a word?

Back when I could understand algebra, calculus and differential equations, I knew nothing of their value.
Now understand some of their value, I can`t do them.
I learnt French at school , dropping it for German at the first opportunity, years later I had to do French all over again in order to emigrate to Canada. Since arrival I have barely bumped into anybody who can speak it( including all of the recent high shool graduates, who presumably dropped it for chinese or something more relevant), and thouh several TV channels are exclusively French they seem to be Quebecois which is different again.
I sat an exam recently with a whole section of simple algebra, the algebra has not changed in X years but my brain is full of more useful stuff like jingles for Sleep Country Canada, and I wonder why buy a matress anywhere else?
The new job has dragged me into the 1990`s , writing reports on keyboards, my mid twenties colleagues have use of all ten digits at bewildering speed, rather humbling my" index finger of the other hand if I want to look good" style.
Many comments later, we are going back in time to university were at one point, after about 20 free lessons, I tentatively , could slowly, TOUCH TYPE!
I am going to buy "Typing of the dead" on e bay , from which the excellently small graphic.
Essentially it`s killing zombies by typing the on screen digits before it takes your head off.
Moving into the digital age..................