Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
I’m not really evil at all.
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Picked up my new glasses yesterday. The new glasses are amazingly light compared to my old pair, which were even lighter than the ones before that. My new glasses are Easyclip titanium frames with these nifty little magnets designed to hold some clip-on sunglasses. The sunglasses just stick to the magnets, so no fumling around to slide them on, or prongs poking me in the nose. The lenses are high index glass with UV, anti-reflection (AR is a must-have) and anti-scratch coatings.
Over the years, my wife has been slowly migrating my glasses to smaller and smaller sizes, which runs counter to my preference for larger frames that preserve my peripheral vision (which now falls outside of my glasses). The smaller frames look more stylish, but now I’m limited to just detecting large blurry moving objects with my peripheral vision.
One of these days, I’ll have to talk to my optometrist about maybe getting some LASIK or some other laser surgery done on my eyes. My glasses are pretty pricy at $450 a pop. If laser surgery can improve my vision so I don’t need as strong a prescription, I’ll be happy.
1. Do you watch sports? If so, which ones?
I usually don’t watch sports. I prefer participating rather than watching. And I find watching sports to be pretty boring.
2. What/who are your favorite sports teams and/or favorite athletes?
The Edmonton Eskimos and the Edmonton Oilers naturally.
3. Are there any sports you hate?
Well, I’ve never really be terribly fond of pro wrestling. Baseball comes to mind as well. I find golf to be pretty dull too.
4. Have you ever been to a sports event?
I’ve been to a few Oiler’s and Eskimos’ games. Almost went to a Red Wings a few years ago. I also saw the South Carolina Stingrays play a couple of years ago.
5. Do/did you play any sports (in school or other)? How long did you play?
Can’t really grow up in Alberta without strapping on a pair of skates. I spent most of my childhood winters on the ice rink playing pickup games. Played a lot of soccer in elementary, and some volleyball in high school. Did track and field in high school and university and played intramural hockey in university.
In most of my dreams, I’m watching myself doing something. Last night I had a peculiar dream where I was making soup. There I am, standing at the stove stirring a pot of soup. I decided it needed some pepper, so I sprinkled some in. Then I looked over at our new pepper grinder, and decided the soup needed more pepper. So I grabbed it, and have it a few twists. Grind grind grind. Then grind grind grind some more. Eventually after some indeterminate grinding time, I looked in and saw the top of the soup pot covered in pepper. Then I woke up.
There really didn’t seem to be any point to the dream. Just pepper and soup.
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