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Awesome event: everything and everyone open and out in the middle of the night. 

– click here to meet Councillor Ray and see a TwitVid broadcast during the party

– click here to meet Winnie, my producer for the night who was amazing, thanks lady!

– click here to read about the pre-kick-off party at Scotiabank I went to Thursday

– pretty cool Toronto’s Mayor is on Twitter eh, click here to go to his page

– and click here to kinda peek at his office from that time I was there sorta 

– thank you MusicBakery.com for the music

I sailed with the HMCS Ville de Quebec for two nights from Toronto to Sarnia on September 8 – 10th.  For more about this episode: september 22 2009

– how I ended up on the ship in the first place, click here

– what I did during my first day, click here

– ship facts click here, and ship artifacts click here

– me on the ship at night, click here

– about driving the ship, click here

– what it’s like to sleep on the ship, click here

– the crew’s favourite mission, please do click here

– my desk on the ship, click here

– about editing this episode, click here and here

– some in-studio screenshots, click here 

– how I got home, click here

Yup that’s me at the end there, gunner-at-heart… did you see me flinch?  Exactly.

Lastly, our Navy really “gets it”, this online stuff.  They’re the ones who dreamed up my epic ending and fought to get the footage, they’re allowed unrestricted online access aboard and the ship even has her own Facebook Fan page, one of the first in the Forces.  

[thank you to MusicBakery.com for the soundtrack]

Meet Keith Williams, owner of the largest diamond house in Canada and also, ‘The Official Gemologist of The Canadian Explorer’!

september 2 2009

We ogled stones (below top photo is 30+ carats total weight), I pushed them around with jewelers tweezers (which are more delicate than you think), and shone a UV light on them because 10% of all diamonds will refract back a solid purple.

The scales gemologists use to weigh stones are so sensitive they’re housed in a box you must close the door to because a light breeze will affect the results.  Bottom right is a design that’s being shipped to Tiffany’s soon.

Then he took me for dinner to George and we cackled and laughed, agreed ‘Hells Kitchen’ and Gordon Ramsay are fantastic (Keith, I saw him once, click here).

I met Keith at a cycling race weeks back and did you know last year he came ‘3rd in Ontario’ in the Time Trial races?  I know, sick.

Thank you Keith, a lot!

NOTE: woah, as I linked up that restaurant I saw the adress is 111 Queen Street, weird, because as I’ve said is my special number.  There were many things like that today, love it.

NOTE 2:

Learn more about diamonds in this post

Watch another video of us here

 

More information on this episode.  In order of appearance: august 26 2009

– Hearn Generating Station, click here and here

– map of where I’m driving, click here

– what I did at the Indy, click here

– about the Brennen & Rowenta partnership, click here, here and here

– I chose those potential sponsors because I actually use the stuff… click here for ‘The Tim’s Shot’, here for ‘THE Blackberry Shot’, here to meet my Rogers girl Sandra, here to meet the owner of my favourite gas station… and so it goes.  Keri Lotion obviously.

– about Stéphane’s grassroots marketing campaign here and here  *

– see the postcard I mailed to George here

– what I said on Twitter about the C130 here

– about my brother and I laughing hard here

* Why I felt compelled to tell you about this in French, that was a mistake… Stéphane is French so I thought it’d be nice to speak in his language but I just butchered it all.  That’s the peril of doing “I get one shot at this”… so sorry, I realize it’s painful to watch, least you didn’t have to edit it OMG I was in a perma-cringe.

For more on this episode, read about:august 1 2009

– the first race in Hamilton, here

– the second race in Calabogie, here and here

– the third race in Kitchener, here

– the jerseys here and see gratuitous logo shots here

– the race in London which I didn’t film at here 

– who I’m greeting with the ‘Hi Heidi’ text here

– a recent race in Burlington here

– see what the Final Cut file looks like here

– meet some of my team here