The price of gas is just soaring with no end in sight. I am beginning to think that it is time for the government to step in an regulate the price of fuel much in the same way that the state of Hawaii has done. Hawaii sets caps on wholesale gas prices – Automotive – MSNBC.com.

The time has come to Cap the fuel in Ontario. I may be just ranting but I cannot see for the life of me that the cost of gas goes up 25 cents a litre in one day. There is no way that all the fuel in the tanks at the gas stations would automatically go up instantaneously. There should at least be a gradual increase not the slam bam thank you ma’am boost in one shot.

You really cannot tell me that the Gas stations / companies are not making a killing. They are using the fear mongering based on the Hurricane to artificially jack up the price. Other than that the car companies are ready to release their designs on the hybrids… the ones that use hydrogen for fuel and exhaust of water.

I think it is about time for the manufacturers to get those specialised cars on the market.

But getting back to fuel costs. There is a neat way to find out where the best prices are in the province. Check out OntarioGasPrices.com.

This site has a neat take on how to find the best prices by using the consumers to report on the cost. You can register on the site for free and then update the price of gas at stations in your neighbourhood.

Given the price of gas now at approximately $1.25/litre it now takes almost $100 to fill my 70 litre tank. I am not sure whether it is worthwhile to even drive any more. I would suspect that many others feel the same way. Doesn’t do much for the economy does it?

Let us all hope that the prices come back into the affordable range.

Today was a very lazy day. I did not accomplish much today except watch a little TV, play on the computer and walk the dog.

Another Summer of Soccer is done. Heather finished her season with an attempt at scoring a goal. She was so close that she could taste it but alas it was not meant to be. Despite her efforts to break out on a breakaway the ball got a little too far ahead of her and the goalie managed to scoop it up. Her team played three games. We had to get up for a first game for 8:30 a.m. then another at 10:30 and finally another at 12:30.

Fortunately the games were only an hour in duration with two 20–minute halfs and a 10 minute break between the halves. Still it was quite draining on the girls and especially us coaches. I think that the only thing that I can do now is type because after all the yelling to pass, come back, shoot etc… I was so hoarse that I don’t think that can talk all that much for the rest of the day.

I would also like to thank my team the “Teal Titans” as they were a terrific, hard working bunch of girls. I hope that the rest of their summers is enjoyable before they go back to school.

Thanks also goes out to all the parents that have made coaching this year a pleasure. I hope that if I coach next year( and I will likely do so) that the parents are as pleasant to work with as the group this year. As well, coaching partner John who worked especially hard to ensure the girls had the best time and teaching that they could.

Until next soccer season, keep on Kicking. “Teal Titans”

“T” is for “Titans”

“E” is for “Excellent”

“A” is for “Awesome”

“L” is for “Let’s Go!”

Well in the end my team did wind up in second place, but we did not go down with out a fight.  After thrashing the number one team in their first game on Sunday, we had to play them again immediately after.  It was an exciting game and it took two extra innings to come to the final decision that the other team would call themselves champions till next year and my team finally got to drink our beer.

One more big weekend for Heather and I.  Tomorrow is Heather’s end of the season soccer tournment and then she will get to hang up her soccer shoes again until next year.  Her team has had a mostly winning season so I’m sure they will do well.  Good luck to all the teams.

We will post the final results tomorrow, or as soon as we get around to it.

This weekend has been busy playing in our leagues’ end of year tournament. After a crushing defeat in the first game we have managed to triumph through the adversity of three more games to wind up in the finals. Of course the team that we lost to in the first round we have to play again in the finals. This is what is called as taking the low road. The high road has been taken by our opponents who have yet to lose a game but now we have the chance to meet them again on the field of battle and hopefully we will rise to the occaision.

We managed to finish the season as number two and the team that we played this afternoon was the number one team but since they did not bring their “A” game we managed to beat them quite handily.

Tomorrow is the final game but tonight is the banquet…go figure!, anyway Karin and I will attend, drink beer and have a rousing good time nonetheless all with the view that we have to get up in the morning to do battle.

Until tomorrow. Good night

Heather and I spent a great weekend in Ottawa at the Labatt 24 hour Relay in support of the Ottawa Health Care Foundation. This year the charity was for Mental Health.

There were about 40 teams that participated in the 24–Hour relay and still some more that were there for the 12–Hour relay. On top of that there were a number of other activities. Namely the Spirit competition which our team entered and came in 4th and a Softball tournament. Unfortunately we did not fare too well there.

The weather looked like it was going to dump on us as we arrived there Friday with the rain coming down and no clear skies in sight I was worried that it would be a wet weekend. Alas I was pleasantly surprised to find that the night and the next day were ideal for running.

I have captured a few shots of the Relay that you can check out at the 24-Hour pages that I have set up. We ran the relay three times throughout the day and participated in the Exposure Ball team and other events. Here is a little snap of the start/finish gate. Heather is already talking about running in next years relay. We hope to rund even more.

Today I will be running in the Labatt 24–hr Relay. I will be departing for Ottawa very shortly with my daughter who will be participating with me. It has been a number of years since I was last able to participate so I am looking forward to it. It looks like it will be a blast.

I will post more info on how it went once I get back but below is a little of the event information for you to read up on.

24 Hour Relay Event Information

Today was Buddy’s Family reunion. There were a plethora of Goldens on the ferry over to Wolf Island including a couple of young puppies that were only 14 weeks old. They were so cute.

This is a picture of Buddy when he was only 8 weeks old so you get a little idea of what these little guys looked like.

We have a couple of pics of the little guy today and he is somewhat larger than above. One of the neat things is that he got to play in the water with his mother  and he met one of his brothers, Midas  who is almost as good looking as Buddy.  

Well the weekend is here and time to relax…a little at least. Tomorrow we take our bounding Buddy back to his Breeder’s for a family reunion. If it goes as the last couple of years there will be a conglomeration of Golden Retrievers all in one location. You can check out what previous reunions were like at Pat and Tom’s site. Visit Acacia Gold Kennels.

On another note as you can see by the fact that I am posting again, I managed to get the Firewall sorted out. I have to admit that the way that this version upgraded is nowhere like what it was with other versions. There were troubles with the retention of commands and I had to re-enter them a number of times before they stick. I hope that they correct this soon.

Configuring a Firewall has been a bit of a nightmare today. I just updated the Firewall on my PC and it has been a bit of a pain. The application defaulted all the accesses to denied and when I tried to reset them it became a bit of a cluster F#$#$% as you may have figured.

Don’t you just love upgrades.

Later.