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.

Today it poured outside and I stepped out onto the porch to watch the rain come down. Of course there is nowhere that I can go where Buddy does not want to come.

As I was standing in the shelter of the porch, he of course decides that it is time for him to get a little running in and promptly raced down the stairs to the lawn and start to chase his tail. Considering that it was raining “Cats and Dogs” he of course got soaked, hence the title of todays Blog. The tail of the Soggy Doggy Bloggy. I like the name so much I may just rename this Blog that.

Aside from chasing his tail he decided that, hey since I am already wet and running around on the grass why not run up the stairs and jump on my master. Well that is just what he did…at least for the first circuit of his race up and down the stairs.

Speaking of Dogs. I said that I would get back to a review of the movie that we went to see. “Must Love Dogs”. I like both John Cusak and Diane Lane and have watched many movies starring each of them. I found the movie quite enjoyable despite it being a “Chick Flick”. John Cusak plays Jake Anderson, a divorced rowing scull builder whose buddy responds to an add for (Diane Lane’s character Sarah Nolan by her sister Carol, played by Elizabeth Perkins. Silliness ensues and Cusak is taken by the freshness of Lane’s voluptuousness in the description.

Though neither expect to have a night of passion, the trials and tribulations that are experienced during the hunt for condoms is quite humourous.

As with all movies of this genre they main characters get together and live happily ever after.

What can I say it is a Chick Flick(Click for definition). I can catagorically state this because of all the people in the theater that went to see the film at the same time as Karin and I, there were only 5 guys at the movie and I was one of them.

Next time, an “Arnie Schwartzenager” crash bang smash-em-up movie for me.

Today was a special day. I treated my special girl to a day at the spa followed by dinner and a movie. I had to suffer through a chick-flick but since my sweetie was there it was okay. I will write a bit of a review of it tomorrow.

Just a litte bouquet of flowers for my sweetie. Time to go and sign off for the night as all I was doing was shutting down this infernal contraption and joining her.

Tah!

The adventure to the water slide was wet and tiring. Between the slide, the pool, the sauna, the hot tub and the water park we thoroughly got soaked and totally exhausted.

Buddy and I went for a little stroll around the neighbourhood this morning and as he usually does meets all kinds of interesting people and critters. We attribute much of Buddy’s mannerisms to those like Louie in Overboard. He has this fixation on squirrels and today was like any other day was one where he tried to capture the furry little creature practically pulling my arm out of its’ socket.

Hopefully tomorrow will be different.

Until then. Ciau!