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Chuck Norris Facts

Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.

Just doing a little blog reading and idle surfing with a cup of coffee and up pops the Apple Software Updater window. “Hey”, is says, “I’ve got something new for you!”. But, it’s not the usual update to iTunes or Quicktime, but a cross proportional up sell to try and switch me to Safari. For some reason I click “accept”. You’d think I’d learn after spending a better part of a week trying to track down why my computer would automatically re-boot on it’s own ever 3-4 hours. Why just yesterday I told myself, “Self, no more installing random software, at least not without backing up everything is sight first”. So much for that resolution

OK, I totally own the first page of Google search results!

Tracking
Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo

I was out cross country skiing today after church. It was a great afternoon, clear skies, light winds and warm, only -8 which is warm considering the cold week we had prior to today.

I headed out to Birdshill park where there are lots of groomed trails, most of which I’ve not skied yet, in fact I’ve only skied one other trail so far this year. With the nice weather, lots of other folks had the idea to go skiing and the paring lot was jammed. I squeezed in between a couple of cars on and angle and got my gear together and launched out on the trails.

Pole Position
Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo

Give my inexperience with the trails you’d think I’d take a trail map or at least pay a little attention to the map at the trail head, but oh no, I just headed out on the first trail that looked interesting. It was the Chickadee, and innocent sounding trail name. It seemed a little boring so I cut over to another trail called the Bluestem. It was a very nice trail, in and out of the woods, with lots of turns and a few gentle hills. In fact there were lots of turns and switchbacks. While I have a good sense of direction, after a while I really didn’t know where I was, which direction the parking lot was in, or how far away I was. After a while I was keeping an eye on the sun, watching it go down and wondering if I’d get out of here before nightfall.

I was really kind of stuck on this trail. Not knowing where I was, all I could do was to keep on going and follow the trail markers. After a while I started putting my initials in the snow back just in case I was looping around in an endless loop, or perhaps the rescue party could use them to recover me frozen body. Any way I just kept on going knowing that sooner or later I’d go by the parking lot as all these trails are loops, unless I made some sort of mistake.

Once I was pack at the parking lot I looked at the trail map and I’d managed to get onto the longest trail in the system, 14km, so it was a good workout for the afternoon.

Bears like going to church
Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo

This Polar Bear caught my attention on the drive home from the new work site a couple of days ago. Today, when I was out walking at lunch, I snapped this shot. Who knew that Polar Bears had an interest in Church!

This guy is one of the bears form the Bears on Broadway exhibition that has 50-60 bear figures up and down Broadway Avenue for the summer. At the end of the exhibit, the bears were moved to various locations around the city. Do you know where this on is? It’s in front of a travel agency.