Derrick the Amazing Mascot

Originally uploaded by msroest.

Friday night was the Roughnecks Home and Season Opener for the 2006 NLL season. The game wasn’t real great, we were playing the new Edmonton expansion team. We should have blown them away, but it ended up being a pretty close game. The final score was 11-9 for us so the result was a good start for the season. I brought my camera, long lense and monopod with me to the game (suprisingly enough I didn’t get hassled at all with my huge camera bag). I took about 90 pictures across the whole game and posted 58 of the ones that turned out the best. They’re all a little noisy at full size since they were all shot at 1600 ISO to get the chance at making them be decently sharp at 200-300mm with the available light in the saddledome.

Saturday in the morning I made a 50% whole wheat and honey bread, Imanaged to burn my finger in the process. The bread turned out really good though, I need to make bread more often. In the afternoon I went to see King Kong with Deanna & Keira. The movie is insanely long 3 hours and 10 minutes, which I wasn’t really prepared for. I really need to get myself in a mental place to handle a movie that long and yesterday I just wasn’t really ready for it. It was not too bad, the dinosaurs in the movie were a bit over the top, it’s not really Peter Jacksons fault I suppose since they were in the original, but personally I would have reduced the dino’s down to a small enough part to honor the original without making it silly. In the evening I went for dinner with the Mike, Ange, Colin, & Kristy at Brewsters then played a first person shooter board game called Frag. It was neat and hopefully I’ll have a chance to try it again soon.

Today is just a relaxing at home day, and preparing for my last day at the current job. Then to prepare for my first day at the new job that has me exicted and nervous all at the same time.

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