That ol' chap

Ernest Hemingway.

What a guy.

Had alot of ish.

Very gifted.

Terrible End.

Everything is opening my eyes lately, including his writings.

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And now for something completely different
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I think this new job of mine could pay off in about a year or two...it seems everything microsoft is doing on the enterprise level is going to sit in a SQL database which I'm learning how to design, implement and program...slow like turtle...but I'll get there...and then I'll drop it all for Rock and Roll (ok urban-folk), and surfing. (Cool Huh)

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Random Picture
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Can You guess who this dude is?

Hint 1- He's Scottish

Hint 2- He was born on Dec 10, 1824

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Food I'm going to eat when I get home
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A chocolate bar called (hold on to something)

the "Mighty Perky Nanna", it is bananna flavored something inside cadbury chocolate, and of course it has a picture of a monkey eating a bannana!

Thanks for listening to tonights broadcast,

Sponsored by - UNDER ARMOUR

Peace

She's out there somewhere

My car that is...

I feel her.

She can move, let me tell you. She's dark and lovely. She's quiet, but you shouldn't get in her way. She has 5 speeds and they're all a little fast for me, but I'll manage.

She was born east of here, she'll like my cooking I think. She knows a few more languages than I do, maybe she'd teach me one or two?

I don't know her name, I feel her.

My car that is...

Let's just say this together:

Dear Jesus,

If I am ever ever about to eat a shiitake mushroom, please come back right before it happens.

Amen

Once in a while it's simple

That's what I'm shootin for...

uncomplicated.simple.wysiwyg

"The words of a mans mouth are deep waters, the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook" - Proverbs 18:4

Life Lesson - #11(and #46, #97, #134, #201, #247, #etc)

-When to shut up.

It's hard when I was formed in the shape of a flipping trumpet! Only excuse I get. But (this is for the investors) we are devoting at minimum 35% of our R&D to this pursuit in 2006!

Enough about that.

Reasons why Jon Puddle worships me at work:

- I always fix everything he can't

- I swear without closing the door

- My boots

- My dance moves

- I somehow make his life easier without him having to know how/why


But seriously now folks...please join me in congratulating Jonathan Q Puddle on his recent appointment as "Assistant IT Manager".

That's enough...since that makes me "Only Remaining Lacky"

In the News:

On Saturday a old friend of mine comes into town for 1 week (At least with me, i think he's goin downtown after that) Ashley Finnigan is the name he goes by and he's one of Fords best models, - Ahem- that's where we met actually. Anyways, come round for a beer, meet the Ash, ya know.




Cheers,
Ben (tried out my middle name for once)

P.S. instrumentals are up

Isn't it fun!

This is a meaningless post for admin purposes only

Talk amongst yourselves

If I keep this up...

It's sorta late...when did I become a freakin owl?? musta been at the joneses(es)

I just finished a song I started @ 9pm, man time flies when your hollering with a guitar strapped to your gut. (actually it was resting upon my leg)

Let's recap:

Worship yesterday went interesting, I had fun as did Bill and Tyler, but...I don't know that too many others there did, they weren't too interested in our brand of fun, but dang we had fun so we're gonna do it again

Today blew by me like 1(one) short breeze...gone, whole day at work done, just doing this and that and bam it's 5pm and i really ought to leave and guess what

No guess.

OK fine

I went to the gym!

Hallelujah I'm healthy again...and as per norm I kicked my own ass for 35 min, dave would have been laughing (until he saw my HR was at 200) then I ran off to some meeting regarding worship where they fed us nice pizza (there's some protein on that) and told us how it was gonna be...wasn't gonna be too bad, but I felt like a loser for a bit since I don't care one iota to sound like Hillsong United or any other thing that I hear in church these days (oops), then we all prayed and everyone was saying "new sound, new sound" and in my heart i was encouraged but at the same time was pondering "is anyone willing to stick their neck out" I am, hope it comes. The problem with a new sound is it's likely to be a real honest spirit and truth type sound...which will put cracks in the pavement and along with everything else that has life - destroy concrete church.

Thank God I'm his very own son and he and me get to punk religion (as Ashton would say?) and have a little fun along the way...

G'night

Sleep Well

I stayed up until 7:30 AM last night

At which point I thought "oops I'm leading worship on Sunday morning out at TACF-North" So I slept for the next few hours and I'm back at what I was doing last night

Making the Site a little less ghastly :>
So now it's in ver. 0.1b and it's no-longer extra scary, because of our friends at Macromedia.


Regarding Worship:

I like that stuff, I feel like I'm just rediscovering my friend Jesus here in my home when it's 2am and no one can hear me cause I'm in this sweet basement (although water leaked in again and I had to remove my bed again...)

I don't have any tricks, don't have any expectations these days, just these moments of childish amazement like "ooh that's God's presence...I like that, do that again".

Funny That huh...

Regarding Birthdays:

It's Sarah Dalleys Birthday....where she is. (Tomorrow it's her birthday here)
That's pretty cool so - Everyone lift a glass to Sarah - May this be your best year yet!

Regarding the car:

I miss Maggie (Margaret Thatcher), she was soooo good to me...and soon Marcel (I love you man) will arrive home and take stinky from me and I will then actually need to buy a car again.... I don't know how many of you know what happened but A TTC bus changed lanes on top of me right after (key detail) I had gotten into a lane from a driveway....totaled. God has provided amazingly since then for the new car, I just gotta find it now...

In Reference to (and to correct) my second post ever:

I don't love technology

I love all of you

JP

click this link every few days until the end of the world

The Creative Shift

it is only a twinkle in my eye right now...but soon it will be more

The Beginning of the End

Tonight Me and Cho went to a li'l coffee shop some of you have frequented on bloor street and discussed how to make a dream a reality. Well that's not what we discussed but that's what the title of the sermon shall be for tonight, since that's what the outcome will be.

I have been sweating ideas for a bad-ass label/ad agency/stunt org./toxic waste management company for somewhere near 3 years. I've found people with the same passion and we've brainstormed and almost done something, but it's never happened so far. But I'm different now, I used to try to fly before even learning to run, and it wasn't often I desired to walk, but now...I'm willing to walk. In fact for the next 8 months I'm gonna walk (thank-you cho) I'm gonna walk until I learn to run, not sprint mind you but run with some endurance.

So yeah we sat there, drank our drinks, and Cho helped me get my head onto paper, with a timeline, that has achievable goals for 3 stages of the creative shift I am planning with the help of many.

While we were there a dude walked into the place with a guitar and we struck up a conversation with him. Pete was about to play a gig a few doors down so he came to chill with his ex-barrista crew and practice. So he plays us some tunes and we get to talking about all the stuff we're thinkin about like Stunts that we'd like to pull off in Toronto (Like the massive Pillow Fight on the subway in October that newmindspace did) and he gets excited and wants in and gives some ideas of where to pull off one the sweet ones. It was a divine moment. He'll probably join me and all the others that found "tlr"(details to follow once we decide just how legal to keep the stunts).

I've registered the domain names:

thecreativeshift.com/net/org

You'll see a small site there in a month or so.

I have a fair amount of work ahead of me but the first job is to finish Kelly's Album. We are close now, I can see the landing strip, and I know your going to love her music.

Tonight feels good...

Grace,
Jon

P.S. here are the photos of my reaction to Dave and Adele's wonderous news

**Shock**



!!Good Job Dave!!



:0 Singing For Joy :)

ok I remembered my username so i'm back

Hallelujah it's raining blogs!

Uhm...there's a boat load of new things to talk about

I'm making friends, I like that...so do they

I haven't bought a dog, but one day I will

I'm liking life again cause God is alive and well so I'll stay that way too

I bought a car in October and it got eaten by a TTC bus a few weeks ago...

I'm writing songs like mad

I'm learning the inside, outside and backside of MS-SQL and check this I like it

Puddle is behind me with his wife and since it's valentines day they are making numerous funny noises...I choose not to be aware anylonger amen

Whew

Uhm I'll tell more l8r
soo see ya
sk8r

Oh almost forgot:

To all my friends near and far, high and low etc...

Happy Valentines Day!!!