Where's Waldo?

It's been like a week. Where the hell have I been? My mother and you have been worried sick!

Well, I've been traveling, as you may have read. Ottawa:

- Had dinner with Meagan, deah, and skaughty.
- Had dinner with jpman (my best man from my wedding) at my brother Tim's bar in the Market
- Had yummy pizza made for me by deah, ate also with Doris, Sandra and Meag.
- Hung out at Jeff's new house out in Riverside South (a galaxy far, far away). Very nice place, TONS of space to fill with les enfants les enfants les enfants.
- Had dinner with Daniel, watched Survivor with him and jpman
- Flew home on itty-bitty QuikAir.
- When I got to the airport, I had sort of forgotten how small the Jetstream-31 aircraft was. I saw a Dash-8, and thought well it's not much smaller than that. But then my plane taxied out from behind the engine of the Dash-8, just three apples tall. Crazy.

Toronto:

- Vinny's birthday was Sunday. We went to Toronto to celebrate, since we know people there, but not here.
- Got a rental car (after a brief struggle, see leapfish's journal for more details on that front)
- Dinner at John's Italian Caffé
- Drinks at The Hair Of The Dog
- Drinks at Woody's
- Stood in line at Fly
- Drinks, dancing, and very rude service at The Barn (plus it sucked)
- Naked men at Remington's (but they sucked in the negative way, never going back to a Toronto strip club)
- Bed
- Drove back to Kitchener, returned the car. Cleaned up a bit, then caught my shuttle to Toronto's Pearson International Airport to fly to...

Halifax:

- HORRIBLE landing. Stormy, windy weather. Plane was jumping and dropping randomly even quite close to the ground, and since I was in the aisle I couldn't see what was going on, and didn't enjoy it much. Worst landing I've had in 2-3 years.
- Dinner at Fireside, then saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Highly enjoyable. Very stylized, very detailed. If you don't like suspension of disbelief, you won't enjoy it.
- Today: Amazing Race finale with some of the gays.
- Tomorrow: no plans
- Thursday: Five Minutes of Fame at Club Vortex
- Friday: fly back to Toronto, shuttle to Kitchener, and relax.

Crazy!

Humour

This was probably written for him ahead of time, but it's still funny. From Salon.com:

Kerry's best shot at narrowing the race will come in the presidential debates, which begin on Sept. 30 at the University of Miami. Letterman and Kerry joked about the negotiations that led to Monday's announcement of an agreement on debate scheduling and format. Kerry said the campaigns had argued over seating arrangements for the vice-presidential debate. "I wanted to have John Edwards stand," Kerry said. "Dick Cheney wanted to sit." Letterman asked about a possible compromise involving squatting. Kerry said that wasn't the deal. "Well, now what's gonna happen is, well, we compromised and now George Bush is gonna sit on Dick Cheney's lap."