March Poker Night

Tonight I went over to Nadim's to play the patriarchy poker night (interesting way of calling it a boys night). This was his second attempt at bringing a bunch of guys together and having a night of fun. At his first attempt a month ago, most people had to cancel and thus cancelling the poker night. As for this evening, Nadim had no idea how many guys were going to show up. To his big surprise, we were 12 guys, and it was a great evening of laughter and fun. We played 2 tables of 6 players, and finally bringing the last 6 for a final table. At the beginning of the evening, I was almost the first guy out at my table. We all started with $20 worth of chips, and I was down to $3.50. I remained calm and started my comeback. The evening ended with me finishing on top! I was excited with the winnings as you can see in the photo. I figured I'd also share a couple of photos of the evening. Kudos to Paul for finishing second, at one point, I was sure he was going to win it all, but I came back from behind to clean up the house!

Here are the other players waiting to see who is going to win the big pot!

And here's good ole Phylroy with his special cup :)

Getting home

After a very late night game of soccer, this is the last view that I get before walking into my apt. I'm not the biggest fan of those 11pm soccer games. I get home around 12:15am, wide awake and not ready for bed. Only good thing I can say, I napped earlier hoping that I wouldn't be too tired tomorrow morning.

Evening snack

A little snack while watching a movie. Amy borrowed Scott Pilgrim from the library. I often forget that the library has movies, I need to take more advantage of their services. I am a librarian, and I should know this! I under utilize the Ottawa Public Library, I should make a point to walk-in more often. Here's a photo of some sour cream and onion chippies :)

Light scales

Today I looked for something different, and came up with these photos. I decided to see how play with light and a new texture, and this is the result:

WTF Spring? Looks like a blizzard out there

The title for this post says it all! Spring started yesterday and it was a really nice day outside. Sunny, above the freezing mark, and when I look outside now, I wonder, when is it going to end! I remember the groundhog not seeing it's shadow, and now I wonder, how could this be!?!?

Mmm Muffins...

My roommate Amy often spoils me. She usually makes muffins every week or so and usually offers me a muffin. I figured I would take a photo of this week's muffins: blueberry muffins. The whole apartment smells of blueberry muffins, yummy!

Radio Radio

Tonight, I had been invited to see Radio Radio by one of my teammates from Captain Pony's Rainbow Squad: Anna. I was surprised when I got the email from Anna, but then remembered a conversation from a while back, where she had told me that she really liked the band and had seen them once before. I was also a bit surprised as they are from out east, they have a different style from most Maratime groups, as they are an Acadian Rap group.

Radio Radio has a good following in Ottawa. Tonight's show was very intimate, it had about 140 people at a small bar on UOttawa's campus. The show was prepared in conjunction with "La Semaine de la Francophonie." On a surprising note, the group also told us they had just come in from France, and even though they were a bit jet lagged, they felt great as the crowd had a lot of energy and they enjoyed the show. I also recorded a few videos, live songs that I will add later on, as I want to get this up tonight before going to bed. I might just have to add them to YouTube and embed them to this post. If you've haven't heard of Radio Radio, please check out their website (myspace site) and give them a chance. You'll be introduced to a whole new culture of music and expression. Something truly original and unique! On that note, they will be back in Ottawa on April 1st at Barrymores, check them out!







After the show, we went to a house party and met with a few other of the Ponies and I'll only add this photo as it show's one of the Pony's at his best! Way to go Dave!

and another photo to demonstrate the festivities: