Holy cow! A blog post! What year is it? A better question: do I make that same joke each time? The answer is yes. Yes I do.
"So Reid... what are you doing here?" you might ask. Great question. The truthful answer.... I got an early birthday present: my first mechanical keyboard. Might seem like a pretty dumb reason to make a blog post to some, but to others who know about mk's having the sudden urge to type something up probably sounds totally understandable. For reference, I got this bad boy: the Filco Majestouch 2 Ninja with Cherry MX Brown switches. It's sweet.
So... what else is new? This Sunday the Pats are going back to the Super Bowl to face the Falcons. A bunch of us are getting together at Brad's to watch it. As a pretty big Pats fan I'm extremely exited but also fairly nervous. And of course my friends are going to be ragging on me all day, but that just goes part and parcel with cheering for a team that has been this dominant for the past 16 year. I was just able to talk Brad's new girlfriend into wearing my spare Pats jersey, so at the very least trolling him should be really fun.
We had a great Christmas 2016 down in Kingston with Shireen's folks. They've purchased a lovely place on a lake about 30mins outside the city. For the first time in a decade of playing, I finally won a fantasy football championship! I took home the cup in the Ottawa Money League as well as one of my reddit leagues (NarFFL)... made me so happy. I get my cup on Sunday at SB51, in fact.
Christmas 2015 we spent in Feltham, England (suburb of London) with Shireen's grandmother (Bapa Gi). On Boxing Day it was on to Mumbai for Shireen's cousin Roxanne's wedding! It was an incredible trip. My god, the food. There was an event essentially every day for almost 2 weeks. It kept us understandably busy but I wouldn't have changed that. I got to meet all of Shireen's extended family which was great; they're lovely people.
Skipping back another Christmas (because that's the easiest to think of right now it seems), we spent the holidays 2014 in Minneapolis. Shireen's dad had a posting there as Consul General to the Midwest. Their place was, as you might expect, very nice. Sadly one of the last things the Harper government did before leaving power was giving up all foreign properties... even ones that have been gifted such as this. Pretty sad and kind of dumb, but c'est la vie. We caught a Minnesota Vikings game while we were there. If memory serves it was about -15 Celsius that day... but we bundled up and enjoyed ourselves all the same.
Coming back to the present (because why not, I control the timeline here!) ... Bri and Lesley just had a baby! Abigal Grace Hillier was born on Dec 23rd 2016 (Tibb's eve!). She came early and gave us all (especially her mom and dad) a bit of a scare, but she's a trooper. She's been in the NICU since then, growing and getting stronger. No news is good news type situation; here's hoping she continues along!
Shireen and I took a trip to NYC in November... just days after Emperor Trump rose to power. We had a great time... we stayed just off Manhattan in Long Island City; our hotel was awesome, and we got a lot more for a lot less because we were off the island. Chis and Angie went with us. It was Shireen's fist time there... we had a blast. Lots of walking, lots of food and lots of booze. The weather co-operated which was always a plus.
Anyway.... that's all for now. How about we do this again sometime (under 3 years)? Sound good?
Cheers,
Reid
