Mindfreak66s place of randomness: Archive

New site

So Tumblr has been great, but I think I’m gong to move over to another site. Its on my own domain (k, not mine per say, as dad did all the hard work and is actually rating for it, thanks dad!) and I am using Wordpress, which has a lot more functionality that here. Although I do like the minimalist form of Tumblr, so I may be back. Until then, check out my new site at http://paul.winch.cc.

Jul 15th

And chaos shall ensue

Mother nature can be a cruel birch sometimes. Like when she decides to throw something at us that shuts the power down. Luckily it was only down for about 10 mins at the office, but that was net enough time for the shock to wear off and IT to get kicked onto gear and let remote offices know we are down. The real kicker with today is that something extra went wrong and it is taking us longer than...

Jul 13th

GOAL!!!

I have scored my 5th career goal! It may not seem like a lot considering we play every week for most of the yeR, and I’ve been playing for 2 years. But I think its pretty good considering I mainly play defence, and I had never played before joining this team. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough tonight, as we tied our game at 5. We played very well though, getting lots of good shots in....

Jul 13th

Ballhockey

For the past 2 weeks I have had to miss ballhockey, but not tonight! I am looking forward to getting back out there! Hopeful we can pull off a win tonight!

Jul 12th

Jul 11th

Lunch at the office.

Sitting at the office in the lunch room, next to 3 of the ladies in accounting. All they are doing is exchanging stories and proclaiming “oh my god!” at everything. It’s starting to get really annoying! The stories aren’t even that interesting.

Jul 8th

Jul 5th

Jul 2nd

Jul 1st

Jun 30th

Fixing the retaining wall, part one

We have a retaining wall at the end of our backyard that creates a nice little spot to hang out down by the river. Unfortunately it was never fully finished and over the years that end has started slipping towards the river. This summer we have decided to fix it. The first stage of that has started today. My dad came over and we got the old cinder blocks removed and Amanda’s dad came over...

Jun 27th

Jun 25th

Jun 22nd

Brutal game

Ball hockey was crazy tonight. Game started off great with us leading 4-1, and I even managed to get a goal in (4th of my career!) Then something went wrong, very very wrong. For the rest of the game we only managed one more goal, and they got 9, for q final score of 10-5 for them. It was also crazy hot in the gym, making me sweat like crazy. Which means we are now on our way to the pun for some...

Jun 22nd

Computer down

Turns out that there is something wrong with my computer at work. It somehow single handedly took down a bunch of our web services this morning. Now there is an investigation by our network admin into my computer and why it did that. Apparently its continuously listening on a strange port. so now I’m without a computer, and for an IT person, that kinda makes it hard to do my job properly....

Jun 21st

Random post time!

I’m gona be a daddy! Yay me!

Jun 21st

Tumblr app for Android testing.

Testing out the new Tumblr app that has been relased for Android.

Aug 17th

Bulldogs Ball Hockey, Winter Season, Game 7 and 8

Last night was our turn to play 2 games in one night. Our first game was at 7, and out second game was at 9, at the same location. Our first game was a good one, playing against the team that was in second position overall. It was a tough one, but we managed to come out on top with a win. I can’t remember the score, but I think it was a close game. We had plenty of people, so we had lots of...

Mar 3rd

Chameleon time!

It’s been about a year since the passing of our old Chameleon Buddy, and we now have a chance to get a new one, thanks to the wonderful folks at Dino Reptiles. We first met Norm and Diane at reptile expo in Ottawa last April. They were the only ones at the expo with baby Bearded Dragons (something we had been looking for). We bought Flash, and got talking to them and found out that they are...

Mar 3rd

The Daily What →

Best creature ever!!

Feb 27th

Feb 23rd

Bulldogs Ball Hockey, Winter Season, Game 5

We had a good game last night. We didn’t win (not sure of the score, but I believe it was somewhere around 6-3) but we had a good time, or at least I did. I don’t know if it’s cause I missed last weeks game, or if I was still excited about the new deep-fryer that I bought yeserday, but I had a really good time playing, and didn’t want to change off. I also noticed that I...

Feb 17th

Falling into nothingness.

Well, it looks like it’s happening again. I say that I’m going to start writing and posting more, but it never happens. I think this has been the worst one though, as this is my first post since I decided to come back to the blog, and it’s been 11 days! I was all gung-ho about my switch to Gmail post, but that is still sitting unfinished in my Drafts area. And I’m not...

Feb 16th

Inspiration has struck from somewhere unknown!

I have been inspired to start this blog back up, and to keep it going. I don’t know who or what has inspired me, it just happened. Maybe it was the need to chronicle my switch over to Gmail (coming soon), or looking through my old emails and seeing comments and notes on my old posts, or maybe I just want to let everyone know my random thoughts, and share random tidbits of greatness. All I...

Feb 5th

PicoCool - Why people working with computers have spare time…

Jun 11th

Jun 9th

“I see lights up in the sky They’re searching for me They want me to join...”

Jun 9th

44 notes

Jan 28th

Darwin's Bulldogs Game 1

We had our first game last, my first game ever of floor hockey, and it was tons of fun. Sure, we lost 14-1, and I am extremely sore today, and I was very out of breath for most of the game, but it was still tons of fun! The night started out badly, because of last minute schedule changes, half of our team showed up to the correct location, while the other half (including our goalie) were at the...

Jan 21st

ZIP.ca

Amanda and I enjoy movies. We enjoy them so much that we were renting 4 movies every weekend (that’s about $25-$30 a week). We then heard of this service called ZIP.ca from out friend Jen, and decided to give the 2 week free trial a go. This service is awesome! For the same price we were paying every week, we can now have upto 3 movies out at a time, for as long as we want! When you sign...

Jan 20th

OSSC Floor Hockey schedule went up this weekend. We have our first game tomorrow night (Tues), and I still don’t know how to play! Wikipedia, here I come!

Jan 20th

Jan 12th

Blackberry Storm Review

The new Blackberry Storm is here, and my boss just got one. It came in on Friday, and because I look after the BES, I got to be the first to look at it and play around with it. My first impression was that it was small, heavy, and I found the touch part didn’t work that great. But the more I used, the more I started liking it. After awhile I got used to the weight (it’s at least twice...

Jan 12th

Darwin's Bulldogs

I am creating personal history here; I have just joined my first sports team ever! Amanda and I have signed up to play on Darwin’s Bulldogs floor hockey team! I have to say, I was a bit skeptical at first, because it is a physical activity, and I’m not really into that at all, but now that I’ve actually signed up I’m getting pretty excited about it. I’m hoping that it...

Jan 8th

Jan 6th

Long time, no anything

Wow, almost 1 whole month since I’ve posted anything. Even longer since I’ve posted an actual text post! Things have been pretty busy. First with work right before the holidays, then with the holidays, which were great. Thank you everyone for the wonderful gifts. But now that I’m back at work, and in the new year, I’m going to try to post more often. I’m going to try...

Jan 6th