The Saskatchewan Roughriders pulled through bigtime with a huge win over the Winnipeg Bluebombers. I had a great time at the game and even though our seats were high up, it proved to be a good view of the field. I forgot how different a game feels live compared to on television. There is so much energy flowing through the crowd although being ahead and winning sure helped that out. I was surprised that they managed to get over 30,000 at the field. It sure seems like more of an achievement compared to the normal sellouts of 29,000. Hopefully they can pull off another win in Winnipeg and keep on their winning streak.

With our loss last night, the season was officially over. We only had 7 players again, although during the second half we put on forward a great effort and only saw us lose 6 – 3, maybe it was 5 – 3. I scored in the losing effort but with a larger roster we could easily have won. I’m not sure about the playoffs yet since the schedule hasn’t been made, but if we are involved we could be having a hard time. Next time, we should enforce some sort of obligation for attendance. These excuses and reasons for no-shows are getting lame.

I bought a Sirius SV1 in-car satellite receiver. It is shaped kind of like a radar detector and is plug-and-play. I figured that since I drive every day for at least an hour, I might as well get something interesting to listen to. The reason I chose this model, and Sirius is because of the price. It was on sale at Bestbuy for $39.99 so I bought it from Futureshop. Thank you Arthur for digging out from the back. The whole installation was very easy and quick. I wouldn’t even call it an installation since all I did was run the wires around. I placed the antenna on my hood since other locations on the car seemed inconvenient. Activation online was a breeze. I thought I might as well go for the one year subscription even though I hadn’t ever used the service. By the end of the one year, I’ll probably buy an XM radio so I can listen to hockey games; since XM signed an exclusive contract with the NHL. After listening to it a little bit, I’m sure I’ll find some favorite stations and it’ll make the whole “investment” worthwhile.

Last weekend was great. I spent all day driving to Calgary on Thursday so I could make it to the first Tool concert that night. We had floor seats so it was pretty good. The only negative that I could think of would be the people standing on the chairs in front of us. This resulted in everyone standing on chairs then (stupid). After that concert we went back to Black Diamond sleep at my brothers house.

Then the next morning we drove off to Edmonton. Since we left early enough we checked out the West Edmonton Mall before we ventured off to the second Tool concert. Our seats for this show were up in a bit which resulted in a really good view of the stage. The only negative I could think of is the setup they have at Rexall Place in Edmonton. Everyone in the building shares the same concession stands. This resulted in huge lines for beer. I think we probably waited 40 minutes (basically missed the entire opening ISIS show) Both concerts were great, I had a really awesome time. I bought a couple shirts, while Ben and Jesse bought some big posters. After the concert we decided to check out the hype and see White Avenue.

After taking the taxi to White Avenue we found out that it isn’t actually very close to Rexall Place. The street was busy and a lot of people were mingling around. We didn’t really know which bars to check out. We first stopped at an upstairs bar called “The Attic”. It was alright, kind of just whatever, only having one small bar. After we finished a drink we left and went walking down the street in pursuit of another bar. The next and last bar we stopped at was the Funky Buddha. It was a little bit bigger with definetly more people. We ended up staying at this bar for an hour and a half or so until closing time. We were basically the last people out of there. After this we were trying to get a taxi. This was way harder than it should have been. We waited and waited but nothing. We got a hotdog and kept waiting. Ben got lost for a bit but we eventually found him. We saw a group of people surrounding one guy who was turtling. Jesse the good guy he is convinced this group to leave the guy alone and get some hotdogs with him. So Jesse was leading these 5 guys towards the hotdog stand when a police car flies across the street almost driving up on the curb. The police jump out and immediately move towards Jesse. They say “put down the pipe”. Jesse looks around. They say again, “put down the lead pipe”. Jesse looks at his poster and says, “I don’t have a pipe”. The police officer runs at him open handedly punching him in the throat knocking him down. Ben runs in and says “what are you doing, calm down”. The police runs at him and pushes him, while I get knocked over standing beside Ben. After a couple more seconds I get Jesse back over beside me and Ben, while the guy who was about to get killed earlier tells about the real bad guys and informs the police that we were a bunch of good guys. The police officer goes on and on telling about he was justified to hit us since the posters looked like lead pipes, so we matched their description. It was retarded and I thought we better get out of there quick. So I turn around and within seconds get a taxi who we immediately make our getaway in. The taxi driver saw the events unfold and said the cops had a misunderstanding. Whatever though, it’s just police brutality, we got back to the hotel and went to sleep.

The next morning, Saturday, I drove back to Calgary from Edmonton. That night, we went to some guys party at his house. It was interesting and only 1 or 2 fights broke out. That was a very entertaining evening. Finally, Sunday morning, I drove back from Calgary to Regina. I had just enough time to recouperate in time for work on Monday. Overall, it was a good adventure, with a great band for entertainment.

We lost our soccer game last night. The problem isn’t that we lost of what the score was. The problem for me and I’m sure everyone who did show up was the lack of commitment by our teamates. We had to play our game last night with 8 people. For the better part of the season we have been plagued by lack of players and a lot of excuses. Before the soccer season started I could have signed up for a night class at university but I didn’t want to cut into any games so I didn’t do it. Without players commiting themselves to the team and to the games it is going to be very hard to be competitive and win. With one regular season game left, next week Wednesday, maybe we will get a solid roster out and prove to everyone what could have been.

The concerts are approaching. The plan right now is that I will leave bright and early Thursday morning. I hope that my DVD’s from Amazon get here today so I can watch Mr Show during the drive. That is some good entertainment that will keep me occupied for hours. Just like last night watching The Brave Little Toaster. I hadn’t watched that movie since I was little guy. It is strange watching the movie again and seeing how often the appliances insult each other. As well, the movie seemed very scary for a child to be watching. It’s funny because the scary parts weren’t memorable to me, so I probably wasn’t very scared as a child.

Second last regular season soccer game tonight. Should be interesting, and hopefully I have recovered enough to actually be able to play well. My heel is still hurting but I am now able to walk on it.