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 :)

Save some steel, ride a horse or a cowboy

Tonight I was out at the Lonestar restaurant on Fisher and Baseline and I saw this saddle in the corner. The restaurant just got a makevover and just reopened tonight. The place looks much nicer compared to before, a good upgrade. The added addition of the saddle just made me laugh, especially when I saw staff drag this metal contraption with a saddle strapped onto it. Here's a dude riding the saddle for his birthday. He seems quite content to be on the saddle. Happy that it was him and not me. Qualifies as good ole Friday entertainment. What can I say, I don't need a lot to make me laugh.

Goodbye 350 Albert...

Today was my last day in the office at 350 Albert, next week is a new office. Today's photos are partly to remember my office space, might look similar to photos a few days ago, except, I'm in one of the photos, and everything is now packed and ready to go to the new space.










I had not been there very long, but I will miss you, especially the view out the back window which has made a photo or two (the kids playing outside).

Goodbye

Morning frost...

This really reminds me of my childhood. It's something simple, it's about winter, but it's neat to see what frost can do to a window or the effects of frost on a window. I remembered seeing this last year on this window and thought to myself, someday I'll try to take a photo of it. I took some photos this morning. I'm not truly doing it it justice, but it was my first attempt at capturing the frost.

No.3 are you there?

TGIF! Another Friday, well the second Friday that I'm posting on here :)

As I walked out of my building to take my bus home, I thought to myself, here's nice shot, buses almost as far as I could see. Hoping that my bus was there, but I wasn't so lucky, I had to wait about 20 minutes for my bus, something not to surprising with the No.3 bus with OC Transpo. Rarely is it ever on time. I have a friend who calls it "OC Turtle" and I definitely know why he's nicknamed it that. Before this past July, I used to always walk to work as work was just around the corner, and not it's not so much around the corner, so I take the bus.

Friday afternoon assistant hard at work...

I decided to go for a little break and l left my assistant at my desk. As you'll see in the next photo, he's hard at work!




















Here he is, the infamous assistant! He always seems to have a smile! I think that's why we get along so well :)

TGIF! I am happy that Friday is here and that this was a short week! I was a busy week, productive week, but glad it's almost done!