Hi there, welcome to the BLOG of my life as a Vagabiker. Beryl calls me a 'Free Spirit' my Grandpa a B.U.M. of no fixed address. Kelly says I'm 'off the wall'. I think that the Toad is closest saying I'm the Cat in the Hat it's fun to have fun—but you have to know how.

These are the stories of my unique, home-and-job-free Natness.

Naturally, quasi-legal events are fictional. Everything else is the unvarnished truth.

Archive for September, 2007

Justin Marriage : the wedding of my taller younger brother to Kelly

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

justin's a mad bakerkj weddingSo there I was in Thunder Bay. 5 days before the wedding, all I had to do was not piss off the bride, loose/ injure my the groom, and wash out a row-boat. Oh yeah, I needed to write a speech and not screw things up.

so I e-bayed. went rowing. got into the moosehead. spent time in the biffy. entertained the vampire. and when i could, made out with the groom (ok the last part is a joke - seriously).
Kelly and Andrea did a very good job of planning things. Simply amazing. The skinners made me (always start with the best foot forward) welcome, and treated me as kin (which I guess I am now).

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Justin Marriage : the stag

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

toad on the couch bikeEverything was steaming along fine in our deck renovations. Once Kev and I had finished 3 weeks of procrastination and started work. We also fabricated and painted cupboard doors to complement last winters back-splash.

Long story short, I was 2 days late, and starting to scheem up very complicated methods for ‘biking’ (car ride, train, bus, fed-ex) the 500km to Justin’s (yet to be organized) Stag in KW. Tracy who was (thank muchas) flying my suit up to Thunderbay for the wedding, called to see why I hadn’t dropped my shoes off, and then suggested ‘wouldn’t it be easier to car pool with me to Toronto tomorrow?’

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