A Canadian in Ireland

Hard to believe that anther CFL season is almost over.

It's the eastern and western finals today.

The Alouettes and Lions are currently playing in the eastern final. Head over to Louis' to join the party.

And in a few hours - 1630 ET / 2130 UTC - the Riders will play the Stamps in the western final.

Listen online here.

All together now



Link for phone surfers

Go Riders!!!

Go Als!!

Oh yeah, and Go Lions!!

Avast! Belay yer normal jabberin' and prepare to talk like a pirate.

And before you go sayin'

but I'm just a landlocked lubber

so was I, that's no excuse.



For the phone surfers

Hey it's me

I know I haven't been around the OC much (work has me pretty busy, but that's another post)

I see that lots of people have moved, are moving, or may be moving sometime in the future. Well, you can add two more to the list. My brother and his wife are currently moving from Vancouver to Saskatchewan. And Mam and I will be moving at the end of the month.

We're going nowhere near as far, just the other end of the valley on the far side of the village. It's a nice farmhouse and I think we'll be quite happy there, but it's the move itself that has me concerned. I'm only going to have this weekend and the next and I'm not sure if it's enough time. Plus I'll have to get ready for the start of college straight after.

Oh, it will all work out in the end. It always does. But for now I just need a bit of time with my neuroses.

And I may disappear again until we get settled.

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No not yours. I'm not fishing for compliments here, or criticism for that matter.

I feel I need to say something to all you good people whose blogs I follow. Just because I haven't left a comment lately doesn't mean that I'm not still avidly reading your posts. It's just I'm not feeling particularly witty, profound, or original - or, depending on my energy levels, relevant or even coherent.

Also, if it's an older post that I haven't gotten too yet and there's already a string of comments, I can find it hard to jump into a "conversation" that's on the go. I have the same problem in the big blue room.

What it boils down to is I believe when one of you goes to the trouble of making a post you deserve a good comment which shows my appreciation and hopefully adds something. If I can't do that then I think it's better to keep my mouth shut. If anything, it's a failure on my part.

So I'm here in college with very little to do as two lecturers are out sick. I decided to do some surfing around My Opera, and came across this.

I really liked the poster designs so I took a closer look. Imagine my surprise when I opened the third one

and scrolled down to the user quotes.

“Built in mail client, Speed Dial, and finally, plain old speed!

http://my.opera.com/Mickeyjoe_irl/

Thank you Opera for choosing me

EDIT: I added my quote above for folks like Dennis who can't open PDFs

By now, unless you've been hiding - in a deep cave, under a rock, with your fingers in your ears, humming loudly to yourself - you'll know the Barack Obama haas been elected president of the US. All I can say is

About bloody time.

The campaign has been going on for what, two years?

A few things that I don't understand:

Ok, America is a superpower and an important player in global affairs. But why does the Irish media appear to be obsessed with American politics? I am baffled by the amount of coverage it receives, which seems comparable to the coverage Irish politics gets.

I doubt that Irish politics gets the same interest in America. Can the average American name the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister)? It's Brian Cowen, BTW.

And what about the Canadian election? Yeah, there was one back in October. I think it got one mention on the Irish evening news.

There seems to be something in the Ireland-America relationship that I've missed.

So I'm asking, what's your perception of the American election coverage where you live? Did you follow it all? Did you think you got too little, too much, or enough? How interested were you?

And for the Americans, how much coverage does foreign politics get in your media?

One final point, after all this Obama still won't be in office until the new year

My new sister sent me this in an email. She thought I'd be the first to reply so I got right at my answers. While I was filling it in I decided I'd post it all up here.

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