A fun first year

Wow, where has the time gone? Seems just like yesterday I was in a room with a bunch of strangers with Diane, Bob, Greg, Jill and Graham sitting at the front of 427 to welcome us to ACC. For me it was kind of a scary time. It was my first time away from home in a strange town. I've always been the kind of person to keep to myself and maintain a smaller network of close friends, but I've met some really awesome people over the past 8 months.

It seems almost funny how clueless we all year in Grahams first few video classes. Setting up a tripod and white balancing a V1U might as well have been a physics exam given how some of us were at the start (me included) There were lots of great things about first year, like Bob's jokes that only a few would catch if you were paying attention, or the laugh we all know as Brett, or Curtis screaming half way down the hall. Speaking of Brett, the mini disc had a funny story he told in stereo 1 about an old lady he knew back in Neepawa. If you heard it, you definitely know what I am talking about. Funny shit.

The election was a very long but fun thing to participate in. Obviously it was much longer for the 2nd years but given how new we still were to everything, it was definitely something that took a lot of energy out of everybody, but the after party at BP's was good times. I think that was one of the first times we were able to chill and socialize with the whole group and get to know each other a little bit.

For myself personally, the first newsline and radio shifts were a very scary thing. I was (and still am to an extent) fearful of making mistakes, which I suppose is one of the worst things you can have, but things of course got smoother the more times you did them. It will be fun to enhance those skills in 2nd year.

I'm really looking forward to being home for the next 4 months. I know myself, and in talking with others, were feeling rather burnt out around the end of March/start of April, so it will be nice to kick back and relax for quite some time. I'm going to be going back to my old job serving at Applebees during my time off, plus a 2nd job reffing in the football league I play in. It will be great to be paid to be outside for an hour and a half on a hot summer day. I plan on spending a lot of time in my back yard chilling with the dogs. I really wish I could have a hammock in my back yard, but there aren't any trees in it, so no can do I guess. Oh well. I also want to take the dogs for lots of car rides, they love it. I'd love to hit up the beach as much as possible. Our football league has a tournament out at Grand Beach over August long weekend. That will be a blast for sure. What are your plans for the summer?

As I wrap up, all the best to the outgoing year two's in your future endeavors. Hopefully you all get what you are looking for in this business. As for my year ones, have a great summer, see you in September.

Dear Idiots

Since I think this particular issue was going to make me snap over the weekend back home, it's time we have a chat. Lets discuss merging when you have a merge lane/acceleration lane, whatever you choose to call it.





When entering a merge lane, you DO NOT stop at the BEGINNING of the merge lane and wait until there are no cars coming so you can pull into traffic. No, you are supposed to accelerate and gain speed so you are able to MERGE smoothly with traffic - Hence the term merge lane (fancy that)

Not only that, but in most cases, assuming the person in the right lane isn't as clueless as the idiot that stopped in front of you before you entered the merge lane, the car in the right lane in most cases will move over to the left lane allowing you to merge properly, and if not will adjust their speed so you are able to merge safely.

Now, if you do have an idiot in the right lane, like the one you probably had in front of you before you tried to merge, that makes it impossible for you to enter traffic, the only time you are supposed to stop as at the END of the merge lane. At his time you enter traffic when the right lane is free. Make sense?

You're Welcome :)

A little True Patriot Love

So I stopped in at Petro Canada for a drink, and saw this on the side of the cup, kinda made me smile and go "Oh yeah!"

"In Canada, we've seen... Confederation, a lifetime of Stanley Cups, a railway from coast to coast, a year of centennial celebrations, The Bluenose, the Marathon of Hope, The Great One, the inventions of the telephone, the heart pacemaker, the game of basketball, the discovery of insulin, the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, the first Canadian in space, the tallest free standing structure in the world, 10 provinces and 3 territories make a country, a local boy's victory at Augusta, the Blue Jays winning it all, twice, the Group of Seven, our own way to play football, the Gold Rush ... history in the making"

Cheers