Yesterday Phil Giroux ate a fourteen dollar meal at Wendy's!  After tax it came out to $17.00!
Phil Giroux ate $17.00 of Wendies yesterday!  Yesterday!  Today Phil broke his skateboard.
He ollied onto a curb, and his body snapped the board in two.  Too much Wendy's for Phil.

Yesterday Derek and I snuck in to an Ottawa Senators game.  Humplik was at the game so we thought it would be fun to try to find him.  We basically did the same thing we do at the movies.... We just walked right in.  We couldn't find Glenn anywhere.  So we just sat down in some empty seats and watched the game.  Great seats, probably would have cost about 50 bucks a pop... Maybe more... Great seats.

There were these two girls sitting about fifty feet from us.  These girls were crazy.  They were all Baywatch and they totally knew it.  Probably about 25 years old.  It was funny to watch them, not because they were Baywatch... but because how they were acting.  I think they thought they were movie stars... See The Corel Centre in Ottawa has a big screen TV thing on the scoreboard...  The cameras inside the building show people in the crowd between plays.  It was fun watching the Baywatch Beauties watch the TV screen.  You could tell they wanted to be shown on the TV so much....  Their eyes were continuously glued to the big screen.  They would stand in their seats and clap trying to draw the camera's attention.  Whenever another couple of girls would get shown the beauties would boo loudly .  They would actually boo the other girls!  And they would stick their hand out and give a thumbs down, like some platinum blonde Siskel and Eberts.  They were in a competition with everything female in the entire building.  And they could not understand why they were losing...  Actually I couldn't understand it either...  Finally, near the end of the third period the camera guy took a shot of them...  They appeared on the screen...  Everyone in the Corel Centre was watching, this was the big moment.  They clapped and tried to look cool...  One of the beauties smiled at the camera, the other beauty pretended not to notice.  The one pretending not to notice still glanced at the camera, and then at the big screen.  They clapped.  They feigned indifference. But you could see they were happy.  Heck, I was happy for them!  I had been waiting for this moment with almost as much anticipation as they had.  The entire shot lasted about 6 seconds.  As soon as they were off the screen they cheered.  They actually cheered and looked at each other with the biggest Pamela Anderson smiles I have ever seen.  They were happy.  They were very very happy.  Way to go girls!

So today Phil and I went skating.  The roads were dry so we broke out the skateboards for the first time since winter took hold.  But winter is over, basically over, and we hit the streets.  I've been addicted to this video game in the arcade, Sega Top Skater.  I have a serious addiction to this game.  It's one of these games where you actually stand on a board and ride through a skate park trying to do tricks.  But the game lets you do insane tricks that are completely impossible to do.  Tricks that gravity will not permit are easily accomplished.  The sad thing is, after playing this all winter... You start to forget that in real skateboarding, gravity does exist.  It is not that simple to ollie off a curb and do a quadruple flip.  I think I'm gonna have to quit skating, the game is just way easier.

I know I haven't been talking much about my girlfriend lately.  Well, sadly we were unable to work out our differences.  I don't want to get into detail about what happened, just to be fair to her.  She was a very nice woman who I will always remember with fondness... Unfortunately our relationship was just not meant to be.  We broke up yesterday...

To all of you who cherished these tales of love which have been spun in this diary over days gone by, I apologize.  This chapter in my life unfortunately did not have a happy ending.  I know many of you who have followed the trials and tribulations of our relationship will surely be disappointed at this sudden outcome.  But indeed we both felt that this was for the best.  Our seven month relationship has ended.  This story is over, and to you the reader, I apologize again.

This does however mean a few things.  It means that this diary will now be more honest in regards to it's content.  It will now contain far more details of my private life.  It was impossible to write details about my relationship with Sue, for it would have been unfair to her.  We had been going out for many months before the idea of the diary even existed.  To suddenly begin talking openly about her, about us, in a public space... Well that would have been wrong.  There had been no precedent set for that.  I spent so much of my time with her that much of my life was getting left out of this diary.  There were things that you the reader would miss...  I was being courteous to her...  I was respecting her privacy, but due to this respect, was unable to damage my own.    I apologize, and from now on.... everything of relevance will be told.  No holds barred...

Nothing remains sacred.  I will try to give you the truth with as much honesty as humanly possible... a far more introspective look at my personal emotions, relations, and friendships....  From now on... This diary is my brain.

Goodnight

Tom