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august 31 2009

Both are Canadian authors, Malcolm Gladwell of Ontario, and Robin Sharma, a Nova Scotian.

august 30 2009

Both I recommend to you, both are change-your-perspective kinda reads and both, despite their weighty messages, are easy to consume.  

My favourite part in Outliers was the ’10 000 Hour Rule’, which I tweeted this about a little while ago, and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari re-inforced my theory that, in the winners-circle-of-the-world, they’re all getting up at 5am.

It was beautiful and congratulations to the new Mr&Mrs!

august 29 2009

Each guest was asked to request a song which were listed on the back of our table place cards, top left is mine, click here to listen to it.  Also, I was in charge of the kids photo scavenger hunt, and there on the right is how I’d decorate my boat if I had one.  

And then I ran into this guy:

That’s Nik Sexton, ex-pro skater (click here, he comes in at 1:58) and he was with me at CBC at the same time on the same type of development deal.  There were three in total, the two of us and this other guy we never knew.
 
His show is called ‘The Motion Show’, comedy and sketches whose one character, ‘Donnie Dumphy‘ has become popular on YouTube, nice Nik.  Click here to meet and watch Donnie, a guy from Newfoundland who kills me and who’s girlfriend’s jacket also kills me.

august 29 2009

The studio would not start.  I didn’t leave the light on overnight or anything, I don’t know why it’s happened.   Same thing happened with my cel phone.

Three times I had to get boosted today, and when I had to go inside somewhere for an errand I had to leave it running outside and just hope it’d be there when I came out.  Of course it was.

august 29 2009

If you’re in a rush turns out that Beck Taxi will come and boost your car for $20.  For those not living here, Beck is our largest taxi company, all their cabs are orange and green, and they’re kinda like Toronto’s version of New York City’s yellow ones.

I know how to boost a car now – take those cables and match up the red to the red wires on the battery, and the other ones to the other ones, easy eh.

Then CAA came and helped me twice.  I’ve yet to meet a CAA guy I didn’t like.  I blew out a tire last summer in Midland and the guy was really good to me but I didn’t have cash to tip him so dude, I owe ya.