I got back yesterday morning from a four-day trip to Ottawa. I traveled there overnight Wednesday and then took the 12:30 am bus out of there Sunday night/Monday morning. But before I get into that, the previous week was full of fun stuff.
On the Wednesday I made a trip to London where Patti and I went to see The Tea Party at The Drink. The guys in the band are getting on in age a bit (particularly Jeff Martin, who’s looking a little pudgier these days), but they can sure still belt it out. (Fittingly, a Tea Party song from my playlist has just started up). The show was loud and energetic, drawing mostly from very early material and stuff from their latest release. The weighting of Splendor Solis songs was particularly nice for us old timers; we even got some Winter Solstice in the encore.
I guess I’m now a regular, albeit infrequent, Tea Party concert attendee; this was my third show, but spread out over something like ten and a half years. I first saw them at Wonderland Gardens in grade nine, with Soleil (where, oh, where is she now?), Chris Meuleman (I wonder if I’m spelling that right. He came to Waterloo for math accounting, switched into arts accounting, then went somewhere else and I’ve since lost track of him), and one other female who I think might have been Kelly Webb. A little over five years ago, during my second work term in London, I went with a bunch of people to catch the group at the Western Fair, with opening act Wide Mouth Mason. I know Billie and Patti were there, and I think Jared, Phronk, and Nick also came.
The scary thing is that the underage kids at the most recent show would have been in single digits in terms of age the first time I was at a Tea Party concert. Way to make myself feel old.
On Friday was Sven and Mandy’s Halloween party, which we did at his parents’ house in New Hamburg instead of the apartment in Guelph. Let’s see if I can remember costumes: me = Super Grover, Sven = Radioactive Man, Mandy = Mighty Mouse, Chris = Chronic, Sheena (Sven’s coworker) = Bluntman, Geoff (Sheena’s bf) = Fallout Boy, Meghan = Underdog, Jill = Astro Boy, Christine = The Tick, Laura != Darkwing Duck (she didn’t get dressed up!). I’ll get some pics posted once I make some progress on the image gallery part of my new site.
The next day was Movie Day the 13th, something of a special edition since we had Halloween and daylight savings hours to incorporate. I’ll have the track down the list of things we watched and comment on a few. In terms of quality movies it wasn’t our best lineup, but it was still fun as usual.
Once I got back to KW I had my biostats assignment to get rolling on. Luckily we got an extension until Wednesday, because it was one of those assignments where a lot of little questions come up as you’re doing it and having it due right after the weekend is incredibly unhelpful. Once I figured out a few tricky things, it wasn’t that bad at all. I was up late on Tuesday night typing up the good copy in LaTeX (I’ll say again, not a time saver, I do it for the prettiness) and watching US election results didn’t help things go quickly. Particularly as I’m cursing the idiocy of Americans. I can’t believe how a decision which would be a landslide the rest of the world over was so close and with an unfathomable result. Watching the breakdowns of the results was just sad: those primarily concerned with health care and the economy voted overwhelmingly for Kerry; those worried most with terrorism and ‘moral issues’ went with Bush. I can’t believe how conservative the US is right now. Also demonstrated by those 11 states which voted in favor of constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage. I worry about the ignorance and bigotry of society. I worry about all of dumbass society, in general.
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