Another Opprotunity To Make Some Money

Alright, my company needs some more people who want earn $15 an hour. This is different than the last one... it's a traffic count.

The job entails counting either the entrance (ins and outs) of one of two sites (either Cambridge Bingo on Elgin St or Krug Street Shopping Centre on... well, Krug Street) or one of three intersections (near Krug St Centre).

The hours would be 4pm - 9pm on Friday and 11am - 3pm on Saturday. That's this Friday and Saturday.

Email me at mbrouwer@ptsl.com if you're interested asap.

Update (10:15am Thurs) - We're full up for Saturday, but still need people for Friday. Email me if interested.

Update 2 (Thurs @ 3:50pm) - Applications are now closed. Thanks for your interest.

Maple Leafs' 06-07 Schedule (or... "Do You Think Doing It More Makes It More Special... Or Less Special?")

Every season I like to put the Leafs' TV schedule in an easy to print format in a spreadsheet to put on the wall beside my desk for easy reference (click here to download the .pdf... it's quite good). Nothing too much different this year when compared to last year. 28 games on CBC, 27 on TSN, 15 on Sportsnet, and 12 on LeafsTV. There's no olympic break this year, so it's not as busy at the end, and it ends a couple weeks earlier.

However, something struck me as odd. 7 of the 8 game that Toronto plays against Montreal are on Saturday night... Hockey Night in Canada. Am I the only one who thinks that the CBC is really overdoing the whole "it's a special night because it's the old-time rivals meeting up on Saturday night on HNIC" thing? When it was a handful of games a season, I agree, it was a little bit special. But I think it's just a bit of overkill. Last season, 6 of the 8 games were Saturday. Granted, they play a bunch more games against each other now than they did before the lockout, so maybe that has a hand in it. I don't know, maybe I'm being overly sensitive. Sensitive to what, I don't know.

Anyway, predictions for this season... 11th in the East. That's right, I went there.

Trebuchet III - Long Distance Food Wasting

This past weekend, Dan, Rudy, Pat, Tim, Marc and I went back to tinker with our trebuchet and have a poker game. Just to get the formality out of the way, I won the poker game... my first this season. I'm back on top, baby! Anyway, with Tim and I both having our cameras, we expect to have some good angles of our shots. We just haven't gotten our stuff together yet... but soon! In the meantime, here are some of the raw video footage from this past weekend.

The first video on display is one of our first shots on Sunday: A canteloupe that flew 300 feet.


The second video is of a cabbage that flew 302 feet. "Nicely Done"!


This last shot is my favourite. I got up close and personal with this pumpkin that was fired about 230 feet.


Once we get our videos together and through some sort of editing, I'll post those. Hurray for YouTube!