I’m leaving for tour with Blue Rodeo tomorrow.

16 shows so far. I’m looking forward to it as they are a really cool band and are terrific live.

bluerodeo.com

The new Scotland Football Jersey was unveiled today.

I don’t like that I have to wait for June before I can buy one. Maybe there will be a scout for the National team at my football game tonight. Maybe the scout will see me play and ask me to come try out. Maybe then I can make the team and play for Scotland. I assume that because I’m so good the Scottish government will make me a citizen on the spot. You know, to better the National team and all. Then I’d get my jersey right away, and free too no doubt. Score!

**PIXFULL**
One of the websites that I read daily without fail is Hodinkee.com

Its a very cool site. They offer insight into watches and horology coupled with links to purchase the timepieces they write about.

They often have special Hodinkee discounts that they negotiate with certain retailers and sometimes hold give-aways. Last month they posted this story.

AND I WON!

This bad boy was waiting for me in my U.S. mailbox this morning:

Its tough to get a good picture of any watch with an iphone. You really need a camera with a macro setting.

Its a good size watch. Here its beside my Omega which is 42.5mm.

The Japanese make a nice automatic movement. Its in no way up to the standard the Swiss produce, but its still a solid watch. I shall give it a good home in my winder and surely bust it out from time to time.

Many thanks to Hodinkee and Orient!

FA Cup football on the telly and PB&B cookies in the oven.

I want some milk

I’ve been to what I can recall five weddings in my life. My Uncle Jimmy’s when I was 10. My college friend Jeremy’s in the late nineties. His sister Steph’s in what I believe was 2000/2001. My high school chum Remo’s a couple years ago, and now my friends Paulie and his Lovely Lady’s last night.

Hooch and I played Santo and Johnny’s instrumental song Sleepwalk for the first dance. It was really cool. The bride and groom came into the hall to Andrew WK’s Party Hard and then danced to our version of Sleepwalk.

During the very tasty dinner we sang songs of love to get the couple to kiss. I didn’t get many pics but I did manage to get the ladies at my table practicing their tunes into the silverware.

After dinner we ate ice cream cake ice cream filled crepes and the ladies danced the night away.

Oh and seeing as we had the band together in same room looking all perty, we got a few pics of us too.

Kudos to the happy couple and best wishes for a long and fruitful marriage!

I started playing indoor soccer again. Last night I scored my first goal since 1987. That was the last time I played for my local team. We won 4-4 on penalties. I forgot how much I love playing. High School I was focused on music and arts and didn’t play at all. During college I was the play-by-play guy on local TV for the St. Catharines Wolves, but again never walked on the pitch to play. Post college I opened my business and was busy with my band. Now that I can take months off at a time its perfect. I can find a night a week to play, and two days a week to be sore!

On an unrelated note. Amigo wants Kori’s BIO-K supplement. Hes not getting any though.

Oh, and Lily is funny.

I replaced our smashed up Mercedes E Class today with a Land Rover.

Its a Discovery II. A lifted, box framed, bob-tailed, big tyred, monster with a 9000lb winch, spot lights, and brush guards!

Kori can run over all the medians she likes now and hardly notice it.

Medians or mail boxes or bus shelters or Volkswagens or churches or communists…

you get the idea.

The insurance company provided me with a car to temporarily replace my smashed up car.

Its a 2010 Ford Fusion.

Its a bit “plasticy” inside. OK its very “plascticy” inside. Its like driving around in my recycling bins. The rear window is too small too, so you can’t really see who is behind you unless they are 50 feet behind you. Which will never happen because its too slow to get 50 feet in front of anything.

I was running some errands yesterday and I was at a stoplight next to a dump-truck full of sand. My lane ended just ahead of the lights and when the light went green I struggled to overtake the it! A fully weighted dump-truck gave the Ford Fusion a run for its money off the line. I’m not joking, I think I’d have passed it easier if I HAD been driving my recycle bin. Its only saving grace is its Sirius satellite radio…

I’m probably going to be enjoying more time off this month and maybe next. Which will be nice. The weather here is foul.

Snowy, dark, cold, bleak, ect. Its nice not having to go out in it for any real reason. The office says I’ll be on the road come late Feb – early March.

So… for the next little while I will:

1. spend some time with these pups

2. Continue learning to speak German.

3. Play some World of Warcraft (Dragon Age: Origins was a disappointment so I reactivated my WoW subscription)

4. Watch Setanta

5. Get tattooed. I really need to finish my chest piece and move on to finally finishing my back

That is all.

Oh and for some reason the Bank of America thinks I’m a secret agent.

I think I’ve said too much…

1. On the road in Maine
2. $120,000.00 of AC/DC’s cash
3. Doughnuts!
4. Everclear in Kentucky
5. Gavin in Nashville
6. Bunks!
7. Sting and Sheryl Crow in Toronto
8. Stool Pigeons!
9. Allison and Steve soundcheck
10. Pretenders soundcheck in Albany NY
11. Botanical Gardens in Atlanta GA
12. Me in Chicago
13. Steve Fucking Earle
14. Whoa Thievery!
15. Set List in Chicago
16. Thievery Corp
17. NYC from our office
18. Goin home!
19. Selling merch from the bus bay in a storm in Pittsburgh
20. Serenaded in Texas