First Goal

My son Andrew age 8, scored his first goal as a hockey player last night. It was a proud moment for him, and you could see it in his face when he came off the ice. I was very happy for him as this is his first year playing hockey, and due to his age, he is playing with kids who have already been skating for 3 or 4 years, so he's a little behind skill wise. Still, he enjoys it and is having fun which is the main thing. I remember my first goal as a kid, I was 8 and playing my first year as well.
Next one is Cameron, he's going to be six on Dec. 14. But he doesn't play any games until his first jamboree which is in January, so we'll see what happens.

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Gig Cancelled

Unfortunately, our gig last Saturday had to be cancelled. A bit of a downer, but for us, family always comes first. See you next post.

Gig: November 15/09

My band; the incomparable Edible Rex; is jammin' in Dryden this Saturday, Nov. 15/09 at the Queenstreet station. Stop by here next week to see how it went, or better yet, if you're in or around Dryden on the 15th, come!!

Hockey Hockey Hockey!

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd write and say what's up.

Last Saturday me and some friends from Sioux took a coach's clinic in Dryden. It was a good course that also provided us with a lot of resources to refer to in the future. I've decided to be more active in my kid's hockey since I'm at the rink with them anyway! Plus on my own, I play two nights a week, sometimes three if I think my body can handle it!

Getting back to the course, part of it was two on ice sessions which were optional to participate in. We all went and watched the Dryden coaches run their practices but didn't go on the ice. I personally regretted the decision of not going on the ice with the kids and the coaches, they all looked like they had a lot of fun.

Today was a Sunday, so it was a day off of hockey for us, but tomorrow it's back to the rink!

My Metallica Concert Review

Last Monday, October 12, my friends and I took in the Metallica concert at the MTS centre in Winnipeg. What a blast! I think there was something like 16,000 people there; I heard it was an attendance record for a concert there. Here's my take on the show.......

Metallica hit the stage shortly after 8pm with the song "That Was Just Your Life" off their new "Death Magnetic" album. The band played the entire song while the arena was dark except for some laser lights that darted around and others that formed designs and shapes on the stage. Very cool, and very different for a Metallica show. Singer James Hetfield had a spotlight on him everytime he stepped up to a mike to sing. After the song, the house lights came on and there they were on stage for all to see.

"The End of the Line" also off Death Magnetic, was their second song before they finally launched into a classic Metallica tune; "For Whom the Bell Tolls" a song I am absolutely in love with due to the bass riff at the beginning, it was my first time hearing bassist Robert Trujillo play it and it rocked.

It became very clear to my friends and I that this concert was all about the new stuff, as they played no less than six songs off their new record.

Metallica's stage was in the middle of the arena, and was about as big as a hockey rink, maybe a little shorter. They had seven (I think) vocal mikes that James and the band alternated between while singing songs, James never sang one song from just one mike. They had four coffins floating above the stage with lights all over them, and as usual, lots of fire and explosions.

A highlight for me was "Master of Puppets" a song which the band played but let the crowd sing the choruses, pretty impressive to hear 16,000 souls singing along. When the band played "Bell Tolls" and "One" they were actually shorter versions of the originals, which we found interesting.

The rest of the set included the new songs, "The Day that Never Comes", "Cyanide", "All Nightmare Long", and a couple others, as well as the classics "Enter Sandman", "Sad But True", "The Unforgiven", and "Nothing Else Matters" all off their "Black" album.

Some surprises to us were "Damage Inc.", "Whiplash", and "Seek and Destroy", the latter two were played as encores.

I'd like to end my little review with this; folks, nobody engages a crowd live like Metallica. Even if you are not a fan, I would encourage you to see them if you can, a live Metallica concert is an amazing experience. Can't wait to see them again,
which should be "soon" according to drummer Lars Ulrich as he left the stage.

Hi, I Can Help You Save Money!

Hey there. Some of you may be visiting because I personally invited you here. Here's why;

I have a side gig promoting companies on the web. How it works is I direct customers to their sites and if the customer makes a purchase, I get a small percentage of the sale. What that means is.... yep you guessed it.... you're a potential customer!

Now before you get mad and say "he's just trying to sell me stuff!" wait up for a second....

Quite often (but not always) the prices are cheaper at these places if you access the sites from an "affiliate" (me) than if you accessed the site yourself via search engine or whatever. AND...... these sites email me when they have big sales going on, and I pass this information on to potential customers by putting the links on this site. So I guess you can call this a win-win. I get a few cents per sale and you get to save some "cesh"!

Now this is a BLOG, so I have to write some content. I can't just pitch stuff or they'll close me down. So occasionally, when something cool happens to me, I'll write it in here for your reading pleasure!

Here's some companies I'm promoting. I'm hoping to update this list monthly, if there's a website you'd like to see listed here, let me know and I'll try and add it for you.

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