A couple people brought cameras to the comp last Saturday, so I have some pictures of me climbing and stuff. The first shows one of the main walls at the comp with a bunch of bouldering problems on it. Problems are marked by different colours of tape and the start and end are marked with boxes. The second photo show me on one the start of problem number 19, which is about midway through the range.

The last two photos show me on problem 22, which was a really fun unique problem that I was super happy to solve. It started with a running jump to get up to the big orange blobby hold and followed by a set of long reaches to more hand holds. It was a lot of fun!

One of the walls at the gym filled with problems

Me on a bouldering problem

Me on the start of a bouldering problem

Me slightly further along on a bouldering problem

Things have been fairly busy so far this year and I'm sleepy as a result of that. There has already been wedding planning (the date will be October 10, the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend) and I had another bouldering competition Saturday. This one was a at a new gym at Lansdowne and Dupont and it went really well. I hurt lots today which means that I worked appropriately hard.

I've also been playing "The Force Unleashed" for the Wii and I thoroughly enjoy it. Basically you're Darth Vader's new apprentice and you run around using the Force for evil (mostly). My only criticism is that it's very easy to beat the game in under ten hours. Does that seem short to anyone else? You have the option to play through again with all of your accumulated powers (which I am doing), but other than that and the two-player duel mode there just isn't that much stuff in the game. I can't imagine putting in all the effort to create the game's framework and to interface with the Wii's unique controller system and then not generate lots of content to go with it.

I also played with the Google Maps API a bit last night to answer some questions for Patrick and his upcoming wedding. It was pretty cool and easy to use. You can do a lot more to a map than I thought you could, including custom overlay drawing. Fun times!

Finally, I left my camera battery charger at my mom's house over Christmas and it's making me sad because I can't take pictures. I need to rectify this situation.

Well, other than eating all of the chocolate I received, the holidays are over. I had a good time at all of my events as usual, but also as usual there were too many of them all in a row. I averaged two Christmases a day for four days straight and then more random stuff until New Years.

The biggest news from the break (and possibly my biggest news ever) is that on the Saturday before Christmas, Kim and I got engaged!

Anyway, here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks.

Patrick...number 4 in the Secret Santa game at the Chili cookoff

Celebratory champagne served by Patrick, post wedding proposal

My reflection in a Christmas ball on my mom's tree

Flower

Christmas candle

Kim at the Eaton's Centre

Mike at Swiss Chalet

New Year's sausage destined to be currywurst