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Finally we were graced with some beuatiful weather for a stretch of longer than a few hours. The weather was perfect all weekend and I was able to take advantage.

The drive down (up?) from Windsor to Waterloo was probably the most stressful drive I've ever been on in my life. Why? My goddamn 1996 Dodge Neon. Piece of crap. A recurring problem I've had since last August (the weekend of the Great Northeastern Blackout) is that the car violently shudders or jerks when it reaches slightly above 90km/h. Well, you can imagine having to endure a 4 hour drive along the 401 in sweltering heat dealing with Friday escape traffic coasting along at a paltry 90km/h when everyone else is whipping past at 120km. It was not fun.

But we arrived. I dropped Dan off and headed home for the first time in over a month. Being away from Waterloo and living in the armpit of Ontario known as Windsor, I had forgotten just how lush and expansive the front lawns of the homes here in Waterloo are. The streets are in much better shape here, also. It was nice to be home and enjoy some good food again.

Saturday I got some sun, read a lot, played some tennis with my pops and hit some golf balls at the range. Then it was party time 1980s style for Dan's sister, Christie's, stag and doe. Good times were had by all. And Calgary lost game 6 so I didn't feel bad about missing the game. Game 7 goes Monday night, by the way.

It was a fun night and was good to see a few friends I hadn't seen in quite awhile. A few tentative plans were made to visit each other, which would be a'right.

Sunday I spent relaxing before working out and swimming some laps at my university's pool. I am in nowhere near the shape I was in when I was 10 years old and swam 4km of open water swimming in Bermuda's Around the Sound Swim. I have a newfound respect for the kind of shape I was in back then. But I'll get back into it hopefully.

After swapping cars with my parents for the week, we had a stress-free drive back to the slum known as Windsor. I tried to get to bed early but was woken by some shouting from somewhere nearby on our street and frantic yells for someone to call 911. I'll have to see what happened later today. Ahh, it's good to be back.

Posted at June 7, 2004 01:42 PM