15" Black Rubber Cock!!!

Nuff said...

LOL, the biggest oxymoron of all time, my 'deluxe PVC' pool cue case :)
So tacky with it's red velvet interior that I could not help but be completely immature and give it an appropriate name... in Tipex, written at the bar just before we left.
Nicole said 'These guys are representing Charlottetown',
to which Andrew (Dooly's manager) could only reply in his best Jack Dee impression... 'Classy'. :)
However the 15" Black Rubber Cock was well received in Halfax and 50/60 years olds found it funny - proving that my teenage antics apply to men of all ages...

The tournament was in Halifax, Nova Scotia and it took around 4 hours to get there on Friday night.
Here's my room, I chose to share with Danny as we figured he didn't snore and knew that both bob and Chester did. Luckily Danny didn't even stay so I had this room all to myself :)

We were welcomed in our room with free beer, a beer cooler case from the sponsers and  engraved beer glasses... nice.

Couldn't stay long though, the buffet dinner started at 7:30pm so a quick freshen up and drink of the free beer and we were out to Dooly's to register and meet the other teams.

Chester is an idiot!, It's official, he must have spent a fortune trying to get the 'Nastiest' shots available for us to down, we went through a lot as they were'nt 'nasty' enough - some actually quite tasty.

See.... 15" Black Rubber Cock gags are funny to all ages :) Especially after many nasty shots...

Friday night we headed out to a Country and Western bar called Rockin' Rodeo. I promised Bob that I wouldn't publish any pictures from the walk home... but I didn't say I wouldn't talk about it!!...
Heh heh, suffice to say it was a good night, took us quite some time to stumble back to our hotel, where we crashed at 4am. Bob was escorted back to his room at 5am or something when he was found waundering the halls in his boxers!! ROFL.
And at 6:55am Danny comes knocking on the door shouting 'Come one let's go!'.
We had to get showered, breakfasted and to Dooly's by 7:30am or something.
Shane who was in Halifax elsewhere this weekend met us and we began our first game of the day.

Chester's Dad was here.. LOL.. (Not really his Dad... so he claims...)

There were a ton of great guys and gals in the teams. The Dooly's staff were awesome and the event well organised. We had 7 rounds to play EACH team and each player once. The total scores cummulative throughout the day. It was a marathon which took about 10 hours. The team from St John's, NewfoundLand were a bit serious compared to everyone else and it showed in thier game, taking an early lead.

When it became apparent that we would not score as much as them, we just had fun.

Bob (who's a twat by the way) had a Whiskey in his coffee at 8:30am, and then proceeded to buy me a Long Island Ice Tea shortly afterwards. 

It starts...

We decided to have 1 pint per round.

Round 7 was against the team from Sackville, Nova Scotia - and both me and Bob were on about 11 pints by then.

We had a great game with these guys, who were likeminded drunks, dancing and having a good laugh.

This is Archie, who being quite drunk, saw me and Steve dancing and thought our game was over (the final game for us), so he started emptying the balls from the pockets before he realised that we were still playing!!. His team kaned him for it, because Steve was winning LOL.
We had to start again, but luckily there were no complaints - after all it was the Fun League.

Oh.. and there goes Archie after Nick dropped him....

It was a great weekend and a great Saturday.
After the games were done we had a buffet dinner, a Comedian came in and did a stand up routine and prizes were given out.
Bob, who'd been kind enough to pay for all the drinks tallied up the bar total when he decided that he should stop drinking and we discovered that we'd had 18 pints each!!!
I haven't done such drinking since Prague a few years ago, which was a stag do.
Bob died shortly afterwards and crawled home, much to everyone's concern, as the previous night's escapades had proven he might get into trouble when left to waunder alone :)
But he made it!.
I continued to drink a couple more pints I think, making 20 pints total + a tequila, before heading to Rockin' Rodeos again with a lad from Saskatchewen.
The guys from Corner Brook, NewfoundLand were heavy drinkers and lasted the full day with us, but Burn was not allowed into Rodeos for being too drunk... he was about 60 and praised us for being able to not only keep up, but beat them at thier own game - clearly, these guys are hard to beat - and I think you have to be British to be able to do it :)

It was really good, and thankfully Chester did not drink on Saturday as much as he did on Friday night by any means, so drove us home on Sunday, whilst me and Bob slept :)

Mazda MPV

So our $850 car lasted a year and did well. It would still do pretty well, but didn't warrent the expense to get it through inspection (MOT) for another year.

We bit the bullet and had to buy a new car.

Still unable to get any kind of lan, car finance or help in the country we had no choice but to lean on our UK bank accounts and overdraft and buy something using VISA. It was impossible to buy a 2nd hand car from 'Joe Blo' as he'd have required cash, so we went to the Mazda dealership and got something for $6K.

this car will be our main car for the long term. We hope it will be a good runner and hope to do many long journeys in it.

It's exciting to have a car that's reliable, something that's comfortable and with air fairs in North America being so expensive it gives us the opportunity to travel and see other parts of Canada now - Toronto, Montreal.

And our first trip will be 1000km (700 miles) to Boston in the US.

We can drive straight there and it should take about 9 hours (we've had an 11 hours journey from Plymouth to Harlow a couple of times before), and traffic shouln't be a big deal, just a looooooong drive on open roads though Nova Scotia, Maine and Massathusets ?!?! (I can't be bothered to look up the spelling!

So here's the car...

It's in really good condition, low kms (only 100k about 60K miles), 2001. It was bought and serviced regularly at the same Mazda dealer we bought it from. Now we can travel, get people from air ports and have a car big enough for visitors to enjoy the Island - if any of you guys ever come to visit that is!! ;)
Kath thought it looked a bit like a Merc... :)

And here's the happy crew ready for our first drive out... taking me to work...

GM Day

Another title I've been working one went GM today thankfully.
the title was a pain, I was placed on it dur to someone leaving the company, and it was a purely bug fixing situation for me. The main game and content was done long ago.
It's not been particualrly fun, fighting other people bugs never is, and the testers were a bit lax, prolonging things, finding bugs that could havebeen sorted weeks ago - but finally it's over.

I was going to have  some time off as soon as we GM'd, now I'm not so sure... perhaps I will take a day or so...

Chester'z Nutz!

So....

As you know I've been playing in the fun pool league this year at Dooly's. Our team consists of Chester (Everbody's favourite cabby - and our team captain), Myself, Bob, Danny and Shane (formally Jax, before he left for Vancoover).

Monday 22nd March was the finals and we'd made it through the play offs. Bob was unable to make it that week as he was away on business so the pressure was on me. Once again, being the weakest link, I played pretty crap - but I guess I managed to do my part for the team, finally defeating Remi for the first time ever who was in the opposing team in the final. JR of course beat me, but I guess it wasn't as bad as the last time we met when he 7 balled me into oblivion.
Managed to beat Ryan at one game which upped the points a bit, so I suppose I did enough to help out.
Of course Danny and Shane pwned many of the opposition, I think Shane 7 balled 3 times!!, and thanks to them our team emerged victorious!!!

So last Monday was the fun league party, where were crowned as champions receiving a trophy and our pic which will no doubt be up on the website at some point.
The prize is a 'free' trip to Halifax...
I say that because beer and food is not included, just travel and accomodation and it won't exactly be a holiday. We'll be heading there at the end of April to complete against all the other champions from the other Dooly's clubs from across the Maritimes. I understand that it's pool from 7am on the Saturday and just one massively long tournament all day long!!.

The good thing is that I won a pool cue worth $130 at the league party and it defineately has helped me play a bit better, so pressure is on, but I have to take it light hearted and have a good time, I play better that way, and also witha  few bevy's down my neck.

Wish me luck I will update here when that weekend occurs, in about 3 weeks time :)