We've all seen these lists on posters and around the net.
Here's mine:

1. Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.
2. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
3. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.
4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
5. It is (way) easier to get forgiveness than permission.
6. Nobody ever said life is serious.
7. You should not confuse your career with your life.
8. Reality is outside, not on TV.
9. Forget the drama. It's not worth it. Really.
10. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

The long weekend came around and Brendan finally made it into town after his trusty diesel VW had some issues.
We headed out to Canmore to hike around, fly the kite and throw some disc.
Possibly the best disc golf course I have ever played at, on one of the best days of the year.
During the game it became a bit of a contest to see who could take the best action snap. I think Brendan won.
We spent the night at at friend of a friend's place at Lake Louise. Even though it's been 28 in Calgary, the lake was still very frozen.

Tons of smiling, laughing and general trouble-causing was had all round.

I had to try and get some good shots with the new camera. It's a Fuji S6000FD.
I still havn't gotten around to buying a tripod, so I had to resort to resting it on a park bench.

Not bad for the first time I've really played with the camera.

Murphy's law kicked in big time this winter - first weekend I smoked a nice rock, tearing all the way to the base.
I was super lucky not to even dent the rail.

At first I P-Texed the hole, but that would fall out after only a day or two. After a bit of reading around, I figured I'd give base welding a shot.
I only used a cheap soldering iron, which I don't think was hot enough. It wasn't too hard though, I just had to "wipe" the plastic off the iron.
The base-weld has held perfectly since then and is rock hard. Waaaayyy better than P-Tex.

Only a few weeks later, while standing in line for the first chair of the day, I broke the cable on my NXT-FX Flows. Damn.

I drove down to Rossland, B.C. and spent a week with Mike and & Erin.
We had a great time - snowboarding, cooking, laughing and generally having fun.

I found this online somewhere and thought it was great.
Maybe I should have lived in ancient Greece.

“ In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance, who ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students...?"

"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me, I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Test of Three."

"Test of Three?"

"That's correct," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to test what you're going to say. The first test is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man replied, "actually I just heard about it."

"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second test, the test of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"

"No, on the contrary..."

So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him even though you're not certain it's true?"

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.

Socrates continued, "You may still pass though because there is a third test -- the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really.."

"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is
neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?" ”

I'd hoped to be around for a shuttle launch, but it wasn't going up for another month.
We did get to see a Delta II rocket launch and it was cool. We got up super-early two mornings in a row (launch was delayed) and joined a group of people just on the side of the road. It was pretty spectacular and the "cloud" hung around for a good 30mins.
The YouTube video I've linked to gives a really good idea of what it sounded and looked like.

Today actually finds me working on my website. It's something I've talked about for a long time and now I'm finally doing it.
Yesterday Bari & I did all the tourist stuff around town, it was a great day.
Tons of history in this town.