2012 Curl for Cancer Fundraising

Fundraising Goal

Goal: $2,500.00

Achieved: $2665.00

Make a donation!

It’s nearly time to head back to Fredericton and participate in Curl for Cancer at the Fredericton Curling Club and that means fundraising time again. This is my 4th Curl for Cancer event since the death of my mom (from cancer) in [...]

2011 Curl for Cancer Recap

A couple weekends ago, JK, Grant, Dave and myself piled into my old Mazda and drove 1000+ kms (overnight Thursday thanks to an impending storm) to meet up with Trev to participate in Curl for Cancer at the Fredericton Curling Club.

Huge thanks to Dave who agreed to come along this year as our [...]

2011 Curl for Cancer Fundraising

Fundraising Goal

Goal: $2,000.00

Achieved: $2,418.75

Happy New Year!

It’s coming up on that time of year again – time to head back to Fredericton and participate in Curl for Cancer at the Fredericton Curling Club. This is an event I’ve participated in twice since the death of my mom (from cancer) in [...]

9 Run Run race report

October 23rd was the date of the first annual 9 Run Run event. The race took place here in Stittsville, so I really had no excuse NOT to run – although I did leave it until a few weeks before the race to actually sign up. They offered a 3km family run and a half [...]

Perth Kilt Run race report – 5 months late

I’m sure the suspense has been killing you, waiting to hear how the Perth Kilt Run went, and more importantly…did I manage to beat Grant? Well wait no longer (5 months is long enough I think). Who am I kidding – I’m sure anyone who actually cares already knows what happened, but I’ll write [...]

Conserve water and pay more

The city of Ottawa has been asking us to conserve water, or cut back on consumption as much as possible. I’m sure you’ve seen / heard the ads – especially the ones in the summer about watering your lawn. As it turns out, people were listening and actually did cut back on their water consumption. [...]

Fundraising isn’t easy…

One of my last posts was about Fat Cyclist and his amazing fundraising efforts for both LIVESTRONG and World Bicycle Relief. While he had amazing prizes that I’m sure helped his cause enormously, he still made the task of raising over $100K seem easy peasy – I mean he accomplished it in only a few [...]

Pray for the Men in Blue

It’s days like today that scare the hell out of me. I’m sure everyone (at least those that live in Ottawa) has heard about the Ottawa police officer that was murdered today. For me the scariest part is that this wasn’t an act of revenge or anything like that, but rather a random act against [...]

Fat Cyclist joins Team RadioShack at training camp!

This is one of the coolest stories I’ve heard in a while. The short(ish) version is this: Elden, THE Fat Cyclist (you can read about him here) wrote up a post where he said (in jest) it was time for a career change and he decided that a pro cyclist sounded like a great job. [...]

Twitterrific Premium for iPhone

A while ago I was trying to decide on which twitter iPhone client I was going to use. There are a ton of them out there and I wanted to make sure I got something that worked for me. I narrowed it down to either Twitterrific or TwitterFon (which is now called EchoFon), which seemed [...]