26 - Volume Two - The Rex August 15

Another wonderful Saturday afternoon at The Rex. Went to enjoy Laura Hubert sing old jazz standards. Sitting next to me was a woman who regularly participates in the Wednesday night jazz jam at Chalkers, another jazz club that I must go and check out sometime (maybe this Wednesday). She gave me an Indigo gift card, complete with the little paper envelope they always come in, and the receipt showing the balance ($4.44). This is a first - a little complete package added to the journal.



On the other side of me were Stan and Pamela (my sister and I call her the Ella Fitzgerald woman, or the Dionne Warwick woman - she is a very striking lady). Stan and Pamela each made an entry just a short time ago (in the blog entry #22). But after getting Jacky's entry, they had taken the book from me and were putting this in. Very sweet. It's fascinating to me that people give thought to what they want people to see of what they put in here. Total strangers that - for the most part - they will never meet; they want them to read something important or meaningful.



Sitting at a nearby table was another pair of regulars, the couple we refer to as the Scottish couple (even Stan and Pamela call them the Scottish couple). They live here now, but they have wonderful thick Scottish accents. Stan grabbed the book and told them that they had to be in the book. He went over to sit with them and explained the journal to them while I continued chatting with Jacky. It was very funny to me that other people are recruiting new entries for me.



Also love the fact that there is a theme to the two entries provided by this couple.



Oh, and .... a bandaid! Another first.
Stephen made the funny observation that a small bandaid would suffice after almost cutting off her finger.

25 - Flashback - Volume One - Kerri

So .... Kerri's over at my place the other day and we're talking about the blog. And she points out to me that her page is not on the blog. She made her entry when we were in Daytona together. I get Volume One, the actual journal, and ...yup, there it is. But I searched the blog site and ... nope. So, long overdue, here is Kerri's entry.


I think it's ironic that her opening line is "Holy crap, I'm finally in the book".

24 - Volume Two - Toronto Beer Festival

Beer Festival, or as it is officially known, Toronto's Festival of Beer.
August 8, 2009

Went to the Beer Festival with my friend, Kerri. It was in a new location this year - the bandshell park part of the CNE grounds. Most people seemed to think it wasn't as intimate as Fort York, but Kerri and I liked it just fine.

Didn't get a lot of entries at the Beer Fest, but we hung out at the Steelback booth for a bit, talking to Jonathan, the owner of Steelback who was working the taps. We also got to chatting with one gregarious guy. He said he was in the business of ideas, so I asked him for something from his wallet. Very unique entry idea ... a game of hangman. He had us play hangman to guess the name of the movie he had rented on this card.


The movie is a documentary about Wilco, and he highly recommended it. He was very impressed that we guessed the movie with only one wrong letter.

Since I'd started the ball rolling, I asked Jonathan for something from his wallet. Although I normally object to business cards, getting the business card from the owner of a brewery is pretty cool. For more info on Jonathan and Steelback beer, check out this blog entry by the beer blogger guy: Meet Jonathon Sherman: Owner Steelback Brewing Co




After Beer Fest (which, by the way, is a time warp zone - six hours goes by way too quickly), we headed to "The Brazen Head" in Liberty Village. The group at the table next to us were having a lot of fun and got to talking with us. Here are a couple of entries from a couple of them.



The reference to "Puma guy" in the next one is because I had complimented him on his hat. It had the pouncing cat logo of Puma on the side of the ballcap, and the legs of the puma are the guy's side burns. Pretty cool visual.