Saw this fantastic graph today and had to share it. This is Edmonton’s water usage (in Megalitres) during the gold medal men’s ice hockey game on February 28th, showing that Canadians can cause a Superbowl “Half-time Flush”. It’s what American infrastructure planners have nightmares about – huge fluctuations in water usage caused by the synchronized [...]

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Natasha and I caught a Senators pre-season hockey game last night, a chance to check out the new team-members and watch the coach juggle new lines a little. As a pre-season game the stakes weren’t very high, but the Sens were a little scattered and timid about taking shots when opportunities presented themselves.
Right in the [...]

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I scored some pretty sweet IIHF World Junior Championship tickets to the Russia vs Finland game, just to the right of the net behind Finland, which was a particularly good spot to watch Russia drill shot after shot on goal. Russia pretty much took the offensive stance early on in the game and won it [...]

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Apologies again for not posting much – it seems like we’ve been super busy, but haven’t generated a lot of bloggable content lately. We hosted some friends earlier in the month, followed soon afterwards by Natasha’s parents, then concentrated on our Christmas shopping and my mom’s Birthday, two work parties and some outdoor adventures in [...]

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