Somehow Thrice’s new album leaked online this week, almost three months before the intended release date! What a fiasco, the band has decided to change the digital release date of “Beggars” to August 11, while the hard copy will still come out in October. Honestly I feel bad for my favorite band, but I just couldn’t resist, I had to download it. Beggars is great, of course, Thrice is just a great band, no matter what kind of music they are playing. They continue to evolve with the new release, letting go of some of their intensity and becoming much more groove based, think post hardcore Radiohead. Much different then the shredding machines that they were a few years ago. Well two thumbs up from me.
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Well the NHL free agency period has cooled off considerably. Once again millions of dollars were thrown around like nothing and players were overpaid in an effort to make ones team better. I thought the Canucks have done a solid job of getting the twins resigned at a reasonable rate and grabbing Mikael Samuelsson out of Detroit, also at a fair price. They now have 20 players signed with just over five million left in cap space. And if they can ink Luongo to an extension they could possibly trade prospect Cory Schneider for someone. Yes, I know, its July. I must be starving for material. One more thing, I just wanted to mention this cool website called 
I have never really understood stand up comedy, I just haven’t found it funny. What I mean is that while I love Seinfeld the television show, I don’t really like Jerry’s stand-up routine. Of course one option there could be that Jerry suffers with out Larry David’s input, but I have always thought it was the stand-up medium that didn’t do it for me. I think I’m changing my mind.
We have a new baby in the house… I bought my first bicycle in maybe twenty years, a Rocky Mountain Solo LE. It’s a road bike, which may not be as cool as a mountain bike, but is better for what I’ll be using it for, and I still think it’s pretty slick. I’ve discovered that riding is a lot of fun and less impact then running, so it’s good when my joints or tendons are sore from soccer or running. I feel fast on my bike and enjoy traveling further distances and exploring, things I can’t do running. We’ll see how much of a commitment I make to riding, right now I’ve got some big ideas. For starters Gibson and I went for a fun ride around the hood yesterday, it was fun, the first of many to come.
The weather didn’t cooperate with us much so one day we went into Kelowna and spent a few hours at the coolest place, H2O Adventure and Fitness Center. It had water slides, an Olympic length pool, spray park, river run and wave pool. I really should of waited out the lineup for the flowrider, boogey boarding indoors! Very cool. We all had a blast, if we are ever in the area again, I think we’ll make another visit.
Liz and I saw the new John Dillinger movie Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. I thought it was surprisingly mediocre, considering the cast and the subject. I also realized that I’m totally used to the “big time,” Colossus or Silver City experience, the Kelowna theater just didn’t cut it for me.
