Police Recruit Graduation at Mewata Armouries

Kevin graduated from CPS Class #169 on Friday at Mewata Armouries. I've never actually been inside before, so it was pretty neat. Too bad I only realized you can go upstairs for a better view after the ceremony.



The mayor was there, the press was there, ... so it was a pretty big deal. Congratulations Kevin!

Outdoor Paintball

Johnson invited me to play paintball with his classmates and friends. It was my first time and it was pretty good! We went to an outdoor field east of Cochrane and played around four games.



What appears to be "plenty" of old tires and trees for cover quickly turns out to be inadequate for this beginner -- there never seems to be an appropriate "next cover" to move to.

Getting hit was actually not that bad, although I don't think any of my hits were from up close. One in the arm, one on a finger, one grazed my leg, and one in my back. It's all good.

For $52, I got camouflage coveralls (less worries about getting paint on your clothes and awesome for sliding and crawling around on the grass), paintball mask (gets hot, slides around on your face, and doesn't work all that great with glasses... but you need it), a gun (in this case a Level 2), and paintballs (400 for this price). Unlimited compressed air top-up's, free hot dogs, and free water/crystal-drinks.

Snowing Upwards

I'm not sure if everyone who lives in Calgary gets a chance to see this, so I took a video back in 2007/03. It shows snow "falling" upwards, which is pretty neat. This was taken from the 28th floor in a downtown building.

Trip Out East

August 2007: Johnson and I flew out to Toronto to visit Rob and Jeremy. It was a week of hanging out, doing stuff, sight-seeing, good food, and most importantly -- good friends. Some highlights...

A Dodge Callebaut (Dodge Caliber) as a rental car (Rob also called out a Mitsubishi Galaxy [Gallant]). The Caliber sounded really weird when you give it more gas, until we figured out that it has a continuous-variable transmission.



I cooked lunch one day and no one was poisoned. Johnson cooked for us that night:



Johnson and I downloaded as many crappy demos as we could find on Rob's Xbox 360.



We went to see Jeremy win a hockey game at Rinx:



Drove to Montreal. Actually, we managed to drive right through Montreal by accident, and had to turn back to get to our hotel.



We stayed right by the Guy Favreau Complex, and thus was born Rob's favourite French phrase ever:



Went to Centre Island in Toronto:



Being challenged by the maze on the island:



Rob denies plugging up Jeremy's toilet:



Getting wet at Niagara Falls:



And basically, our whole trip was 'sponsored' by Starbucks... I'm pretty sure we had at least one a day. :-)