Today it was warm enough and dry enough to go biking!  I took my road bike out and rode along the canal.  I loved it so much!  Here are my shoes after the ride.

Guess what, I’m totally out of shape.  I only did exercise twice during the winter.  Not including skating on the canal.  Biking is probably my primary form of exercise and everything follows.  If I’m not biking, I’m usually not doing anything else, it seems.

Other key changes today: the building across from my house is now open.  It is a Rogers store for cell phones, home service, and a few other things.  No movie rentals, unfortunately.  The construction was friggin’ fast, I must say.  That place was fixed up in a mad hurry.  I’m glad because for a short few weeks it was really loud.  And it was also really crappy looking before.  Now it is much prettier and there is no longer any construction noise.

Today I also managed to change my WordPress software and update to the new 2.5 release.  It is a lot cleaner and easier to use.  It doesn’t show up on my blog, but I feel it whenever I make a post now.  And apparently there are gallery features built in as well.

School is almost over!  That means more of my work will be prep for project and next year on campus.

I found out that my eMusic free 30-song trial has expired and now they have billed me for my first month of “Basic” membership for $9.99.  This is lame.  And I can’t get a refund.  So I spent a bit of time tonight trying to download another 30 songs before cancelling my membership asap.  But I found a whole bunch of good bands and discs again, probably worth more than ten bucks.  eMusic has a really lame and skimpy portfolio of music.  It’s not worth joining.  But this restrictiveness forced me to find some good music I haven’t listened to before…  Or thought was worth purchasing in the past.  Groups like Thievery Corporation, Zero 7, Reuben Morgan, Arcade Fire, and Watermark.

It’s the first day of spring!  Today, there will be an equal amount of sunshine as there will be darkness.  If the sun comes out from behind the clouds, that is.

Go jump in a puddle or let the rain soak your hair.  Green is coming back!!!  Soon.  I hope.

And on another note, I have realized that I have 7 books in process right now.  Some have been great suggestions by other people, some were gifts from staff, and some are required reading.  It’s pretty insane to realize.

- Possibilities in Prayer - E.M. Bounds
- Building Your Self-Image - Josh McDowell
- Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton
- Knowledge of the Holy - A.W. Tozer
- Sex, Men, and God - Doug Weiss
- Witnessing Without Fear - Bill Bright
- Boundaries in Dating - Henry Cloud and John Townsend

I aim to be finished at least one of them in the next week.  This Easter weekend will be nice for that!

I was intending on posting another photo to commemorate my wonderful day, but instead I cap it off with this one instead.

I am in tons of fun pain on my right shoulder.  Somehow when I fell off the GT Snoracer with Peter Onate behind me, we both fell really awkwardly and I’m nursing a very sore and likely bruised shoulder.  At the end of it all, I told the friends, I can hug, but I cannot point straight.  It’s painful.  So I have a bag of frozen peas wrapped up under the towel, and yes, a tie-down strap to keep it tight.  Yes, the strap has my name on it.  I label those things, because they got lost so easily!  Waking up tomorrow morning will be fun.  Oh…… walking to school with my bag will be fun.

Oh and my jaw seems like it shifted as well.  The right side.  But hey, I’m not complaining, it was a lot of fun!  Go tobogganing before winter ends.

And fyi, in my eyes, spring has already begun.  Yesterday I saw a mallard duck on Carleton campus by the Unicentre.  Beautiful green-headed male mallard.  with a few dull looking female mallards.  Apparently the mallards are coloured like peacocks; the males are really colourful to attract the females.  Whatever happened to the human race? We’ve got it all the other way around.

Dang, I don’t want to go to bed.  It’s going to be so painful.  And I don’t really want today to end… it was a good day.