Trick or Treat

Those who know me will quickly tell you sports like football aren't my cup of tea. Every now and again when I take on a new project such as a car build etc... I buckle down and take the offers that come with the means to make these projects happen.

Today that put me in the freezing cold at 9:00am at the stadium for some championship football action.

I was gonna post some sort of "photo of the day" as there were a handful of fun action shots, but instead I post a shot for # 14. This kid must have run a bazillion yards resulting in touchdown after touchdown.

A couple more photo shoots later and finally we were on to trick or treating.

The temperature sucked today. The silver lining: The first snowfall didn't stick around all that much. Despite the cold and the snow I heard there is good news on the horizon. According to the local skateboarding weather network aka Winnipeg Skateboarding's facebook page it's getting warmer this week.

In other news...I hear Adam Hopkins is in town. A Mix of warm weather, a bowl and Adam Hopkins could provide great results. We'll see. Stay tuned.

This ain't no barrier kult

A couple months ago I was approached by a local skater who just happens to have some wicked skate park building skills. He was in town in between trips, had a bag of cement, some tools and was on the hunt for the perfect barrier to create a new skate spot. He tried to enlist the Skateboard Coalition to help him find a barrier. He thought of taking the idea and having it blessed with some sort of legitimacy from the powers that be.

There were discussions made and some contacts contacted, but nothing came to fruition for the time being. Which is a bummer, cause I was hoping to see some barrier kult action.

My disappointment was lifted quite a bit today when some Wreckless Vikings invited me out to the bowl to witness the "Viking Grind".

We all know serious Vikings are full of hate.

It's simple, it's hardcore, it's the Viking Grind.

Unlike the barrier kult the Vikings don't need balaclavas, it just happened to be 2 degrees Celsius with a wind chill bringin' it down to -2.

The End.

Saturdays always start the same way...

...pancakes! Everyone loves pancakes.

Here's an oldie, but a goodie.

Round 3

So Sam Katz has been elected for his third term with 25,000+ vote gap between him and the closest candidate. I've seen and heard quite a few people complain about the victory. I'm hoping they at least voted to express their concerns. I get it....people are concerned about our high murder rate (per capita). I doesn't matter to me how big or how many more people live in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Chicago or LA...they simply have more murders by the hundreds in some cases even when their crime rates are at their lowest.

A lot of the murders have to do with a lot of drugs. Allegedly we have a lot of it. They can shut down a crack house, we all know it will pop back up again. Supply and demand is a bitch. We're lucky when record amounts of drugs are seized before they even make it in to the city. The same police that I'd be the first to complain about when they aren't doing their job (so far as to go public with concerns on The Great Canadian Talk Show) even have their wins as well.

I'm sure there are some pros and cons with having Sam Katz as a mayor as I'm sure there would be with some of the other candidates.

I always try to view the situation on how much is my life really affected in a ten foot circle around me as I go on about my life.

Despite who's in charge at the moment I still have to drive down this road to get to work every day.

Before I can get down to the fallen apart road I do have to pass these lovely brand spankin' new traffic calming devices. I hope to see some wax on these curbs and possible some modified signage location in the near future to make these things really worth the investment.

I was confused by "curb outs" at first, because I thought they were to make it more bicycle friendly (by leaving less room to pass the cyclist?). Then I read up on them and learned that this particular traffic calming device is to extend the sidewalk so that the pedestrian has a shorter distance to cross and to avoid popping out in front of parked cars. Ok ...expensive...but makes sense.

The bike paths are lovely, but in my opinion designed for leisurely riding on a Sunday afternoon due to the fact that you have to "dismount" every so many yards for every yield and cross street that intersects the path. Not designed for commuting unless you have an extra 45 minutes on your side. At least Winnipeg is all caught up with the Joneses.

It doesn't matter who is mayor today, there are still cute girls abound. Seriously... Winnipeg wins this category hands down. Yes I am a male, I have put in the work, traveled a few corners of the globe and still come to this conclusion each time I return home.

The rumour was that the mayor wanted the police chief to crack down on Sunday Night cruisin',but it was denied. Crackdown or no crackdown cool cars are still built and driven every day.

The mayor kicked a kid in the face, but the voting majority loves him anyway (yes it was an accident).