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Since joining Facebook last year, I really haven't been keeping this up to date. That sucks, because I like being able to look back and see what I was doing on specific dates. Well, here's another update...

• December 28?-January 2? - Condo in Canmore: Mom and Dad rented a penthouse suite at Solara in Canmore for the week. It was an awesome trip! I got sick as soon as I arrived, but was better two days later. We went to Sunshine Village for a few days. The temps were cold, but the snow was OK. It was nice spending time with everyone. The condo had an excellent view of the fireworks on New Year's Eve. The condo itself was amazing, I don't think I have any pictures that do it justice.
• January 7 - CLUG Meeting: Topic was Network Security. I also learned that I will never buy a macbook unless I figure out how to middle-click with it...
• January 15 - First meeting of Calgary Hackerspace (Now called Protospace) Lots of people showed up at the Oolong teahouse in Kensington... more than there were seats for everyone! I haven't gone to any subsequent meetings, however, since it looks like they are on-track, and I'm not terribly interested in the idea.
• January 16-18 - Snowboarding trip in Fernie: Chris Bray rented a condo in Fernie for the weekend. We rode down in Ryan K's truck. The snow was old, and there was avalanche debris all over the place, but I was able to find some fresh snow in the usual places! Woohoo!
• January 20 - ACC meeting: Dr. Bill Hanlon gave a presentation about his foundation (Basic Health International Foundation) and the work he has done in other countries. It really makes me appreciate our health care system!
• January 23-24 - Best of the Banff Mountain Film Festival: Shanna and I went to the best of the BMFF at the Rozsa Centre at the UofC again this year. We had already seen a few of the films elsewhere, but it was a really fun time, regardless.
• February 1 - Marilyn: Forever Blonde! at the Glenbow Museum. It's a one-woman show comprised primarily (entirely?) of quotes by Marilyn Monroe. Funny, sad, and entertaining all at once.
• February 1 - 2008 World's Best Commercials. We've seen this a few years in a row now. It's neat seeing commercials from different countries for products we normally see as North American (but are really European. e.g. Nestle.) If there's one thing I've learned from these, it's that we don't have enough nudity in our commericals.
• February 4 - CLUG Meeting - Network Auditing. I really didn't pay that much attention though...
• February - Then, I got kinda lazy. Well, maybe not lazy, but I sure didn't get out snowboardnig as much this season as I wanted to (back in October...) The snowpack was pretty poor in the Canadian Rockies, and the temperature were pretty cold on some key weekends where I was available to go Snowboarding... After getting an 8-month pass to the Crux, I am still going hard at it, 2-4 times a week. I'm still going through my periodized training schedule, and having a great time!
• February 17 - ACC Meeting: "Gothics: 2008 Calgary Section Camp, Bill Corbett" I really need to take some mountaineering courses (or at least one!) so I can enjoy some of the amazing alpine rock around here!
• February 20? - The Dentist. After a few years absence, I put myself in the dentist's chair again. Only a few unexpected cavities, which I had filled on the 27th.
• February 27 - CPO - The Planets. Shanna and I celebrated 6 years together by going to the Calgary Philharmonic Ochestra's presentation of Holst's The Planets. There was an excellent visual component as well (photos / 3d renderings on a large screen.) It was Sol Gabetta's (Argentina) first performance in Canada, and she did an amazing cello solo.
• February 28 - Pizza at David Muncaster's new apartment downtown. It was a nice place. We watched the new (4th) Futurama movie (hilarious, by the way!)
• March 1 - We took a lead climbing course! at the Crux. Shanna did really well, so it looks like it's going to be an awesome summer of climbing for me!
• March 5 - Bought our first climbing rope! and took our lead belay test at the Crux. Shanna took a big whipper and fell about 20 feet on about 32 feet of rope! (not including the stretch) Her feet ended up being at about my head level (which was an extra 6 feet off the ground by the time I stopped going up!) She's still a little sore from that (2 weeks later!)
• March 13 - Snowboarding with Chris at Sunshine. I took the day off to go snowboarding because my weekend looked like it wasn't going to fit into only two days. The weather was good. Not much fresh snow, but at least many of the rocks were covered up, and there wasn't toooo much ice. We found a gnarly cliff drop, and both of us nailed it! It wasn't that difficult, but it looked scary from the top: 30 degree entrance, and you have to ride this fin that's the size of one snowboard, then ride it off to the side so you don't land in the wrong place. It was only about 6 feet once you actually drop off of it, but making a wrong move would have really sucked (for the snowboards, at least!)
• March 14 - Tour De Bloc (a Canadian bouldering [climbing] competition) was at the Crux. Shanna and I showed up to watch at 2:30ish. There were 35 problems, and you had as much time as you wanted (well, several hours) to complete any number of them. At the end, points were tallied based on how many tries it took to do each one, and finalists were chosen. We left at around 4PM to go to the Outdoor Centre at the UofC so I could pick up some equipment for the next day. We came back at 6PM for the finals. There were 8 problems for the finals (4 each for the Mens and Womens finals.) Each competitor had 5 minutes for each problem, and they didn't get to see the problem before-hand. For the men's final, it came down to how many attempts each made, since they were tied for points!
• March 15 - My first time ice climbing! I could go on and on about how awesome it was, but I won't. I went out with a bunch of people I met climbing with ACC last year at Rock Rage on Wednesday nights. We climbed "Wet Dream" in the Icefields. To get there from the road, we had to hike 45 minutes through knee to waist deep snow. There wasn't much of a trail to follow, and I led the way for the first 10 minutes. We ended up right at the ice, the storm blew away, and we had blue skies and above freezing temperatures the rest of the day! I didn't get back into cell phone range until 7:45, and my gear had to be back by 8PM, but they let me extend that to 9AM the next morning, thankfully!
• March 19 - Networking event (S.I. Systems) at the brickyard. I'm not much for this sort of thing, but Carl won a gift basket.