Tempus Fugit

Latin (tem-pu̇s-ˈfü-git): Time Flies

Category: Family

  • Birthday

    Today is my Birthday and I’m very grateful to be celebrating it with my family and friends. It’s early in the day and I’m taking the day off from work and enjoying each moment. I’ve received thoughtful cards, and a phone call from good friends, and in this wired world I’ve received and e-card as well with a very thoughtful and touching note.

    The main part of the day will be spent traveling to the Alerus Center to see the TSO. Shirley, Eric & Dez and Scott will be with us. Unfortunately, Mandi is out of town on business and we’ll miss her today. I’m looking forward to the time together and our conversations in the car on the drive there and back. We’ve heard that the TSO will be awesome and that will be great as well.

    We were our with friends last night and part of the discussion was around the importance of relationships and how much of life is wrapped up in those relationships. In fact, relationships are what life is all about.

    Enjoy each relationship in your life, and make it the best it can be. I know I’m going to try.

    Card for Garry Stewart

    I hope you have a great day celebrating the life and times of Garry Stewart. He is a pretty cool dude and I’m lucky to know the guy. Wishing you many more birthdays and a life that is full – filled with all abundance.

  • Water Play

    The Right Stuff
    The Right Stuff
    Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo

    Today was a little cloudy at the lake but still nice and warm. Most of the day was spent on the dock with Eric, Dez, Scott & Mandi and everybody hit the water toys big time. After some swimming and floating around Scott & Mandi took the kayaks out for a paddle, then Eric set up the wind surfer and wend out for a while. After he returned, Dez took a spin. Then we got the motor boat into the action and Eric went wake boarding. This is quite a feat of endurance behind a 25hp outboard on a 16′ Lund. Then we switched up to the Knee board which works a little better given the horsepower restrictions. Everybody took a turn, even me! As you can see from the pictures, I still have a trick or two up my sleeve. Hey! Wait a minute! I don’t have any sleeves!

  • Treasure hunt update

    This morning Eric, Dez, Scott and I went hunting for treasure.  Dez found the first two, Eric found three more, I found a couple to save myself some $s and unfortunately, Scott didn’t fine any. Good thing it’s his birthday! 

    Happy Birthday Scott!

  • Treasure Hunt

    I’m initiating a treasure hunt, complete with rewards. But, you’ll need to be family to participate. Here is the deal. Have a look at the map. There are 8 objects to be found. Please don’t move them. Each one, when you are the first to show it to me is worth $20. So all up, there is $160 to be won for a little bush wacking.

    Good luck treasure hunters. Of course if I find them first, well no money for you!

  • Spring arrives

    The temperatures are on the rise and the snow is melting fast and I saw a sure sign that Spring has arrived on Friday. No, it wasn’t a robin, it was a guy on a motorcycle, and at 6C it still makes for a very “cool” ride. I can remember riding my motorcycle late in the fall to put it away at my parents for the winter in those temperatures. Definitely cool if you’re not dressed properly for it.

    Saturday was a busy day with an afternoon wedding that was very nice, and then we went to see the Cannes Lions winners in the film category at the Art Gallery. The Film Lions are awarded to the best commercials of the year. A lot of the commercials were uproariously funny, some quite poignant and a few quite tasteless, but overall it’s a great show. This is one of the Gold winners.

    Lots of laugh out loud stuff and quite a few “how did they do that?” moments. Perhaps a few “Why did they do that?” moments as well. Like what’s with the frog jumping out of the drain pipe on the Sony commercial?

    This afternoon there was another spring time first. The boys were over for lunch and we all went for a bike ride afterwards. No motors, just leg power. It was a bit wet and generally we took it at a pretty easy pace. Well, except for when Scott went flying by me a couple of times, and then the chase was on! We went 26.4km at an average speed of 19.5km/hr, a decent pace for the first time out considering we stopped a couple of times and slowed down to look at some houses on South Drive. We discovered that my rear tire throws the most water, and I got the wettest, which was surprising since I had a fender and Eric didn’t. Later we figured out that perhaps I had it set too low. I’ll check it out on the next wet ride. I was a good time riding with Scott and Eric.

    Technorati Tags: cannes, film, awards, biking

  • Catch me if you can

    I’d had this podcast on my iPod for some time and I just listened to it last Thursday. I was quite impresses with Mr Abagnale’s story and even more impressed with his life after being caught. He had some profound things to say about life and his values. Just last night the movie was replaying on TV and it was interesting to watch it again after learning some of the truths about the story.

    Well worth a listen.

    » Flying Pilot Podcast #17 Catch Frank Abagnale If You Can!

    As pilots, we have probably all heard of Mr Frank W. Abagnale, whose life inspired the hit movie and book, Catch Me If You Can. I had the opportunity to meet him on one of my flights. To our good fortune, he graciously agreed to talk to the Flying Pilot Podcast listeners. So, in this episode we hear a speech given by Mr. Abagnale about his life, and then I ask him a few questions in a short interview over Skype about his earlier years, and about what he is doing now. We also talk about some things that pilots should do to help secure themselves from identy theft.

  • Creativity


    Winnipeg in Miniature
    Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo.
    Photo credit: s2photo

    Who knew you could do this? Well, apparently Scott did!

    I was recently in the CanWest Global boardroom for some meetings on the 33rd floor. The building is located right at the corner of Portage & Main, the heart of downtown Winnipeg. So, on one of the breaks, I took a few photos.

    Well, last night one of them became a Photoshop project for Scott. Quite an interesting effect. The original photo can be seen here and some more examples can be seen on the flickr tilt-shift miniature fakes group.

  • Outdoors on a cool Saturday

    We had a relaxed Saturday morning getting up a little later that usual and having a few coffees while doing a little reading before being picked up by our good friends, Chris & Elaine. We headed over to Cora’s at 340 Provencher Blvd. Great restaurant and great food. We all sampled something a little different and were impressed by the quility, decore and lots of fresh fruit. OK guys, there were a few things on the menu with lots of meat, fried potatoes and alike, but generally a little more healthy that your average Perkins mega-meal.

    After brunch we headed over to the Fort Whyte nature center for some outdoor activities. Shaun, our financial advisory over at Assante invited us out to a customer event and we had a great time in spite of the cold temperatures and a wind chill of about -30C. I went down the Richardson rrrrun toboggan slide, where “screaming is compulsory!”. Then we all went on the sleigh ride (my photos) which was pulled by a beautiful pair of Clydesdale horses. On the sleigh ride the kids had a great time jumping on and off the sleigh, and we saw quite a few deer along the route. Afterwards we explored the sod house, and then headed over to one of the main buildings for some hot chocolate and cookies. It was a great afternoon, thanks to Shaun and his assistants.

    Since we were out and about the ladies wanted to explore some shops at one of the big box complexes. Chris and I explored another kind of shopping over at the auto mall, checking out the latest Acura, Honda & Toyotas. That new Ridgeline is looking good, but then so is the Pilot. Chris was really checking out the Rav4 quite closely. Well window shopping is still free, thank goodness.

  • Wakeboarding


    Wakeboarding
    Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo.

    I was cleaning up my home office and came across a photo album. Well of course I had to stop working and flip through the photos. There were lots of great shots from the lake, biking at Maah Daah Hey, parties and graduations.

    This one really brought back some memories of a great day with friends at Granite Lake. I even took a couple of runs on the wakeboard for the first time. But, I wasn’t flying over the wake like this!

  • The Phantom


    The Phantom
    Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo.

    It’s not every day you come home to meet The Phantom, but tonight, as I came in the door, I was greeted by a tall gentleman in a tux & tails with an opera cape who looked quite spectacular.

    The occasion was a Masquerade Theme party for a volunteer group at our church that Scott is a part of. It will be interesting to hear about the other party goers as what costumes turned up for the event.