It's that time of the blog-off

With only three days left I have no choice but to defend against a late surge from Neil by making posts about such things as remembering to take my vitamins today (and remembering to photograph them before swallowing them).

Can you tell that my day has been pretty exciting if this mundane event merited (I use the term loosely) documentation?

Maybe a little later I'll go for a walk or take the compost out later or at least do something a little more exciting that remember to take my vitamins.  Whatever it is I end up doing, I'm sure you'll care about it so much that you'll want to kept apprised via this blog.

Cameron: 38
Neil: 0

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-While mostly overcast, and occasionally rainy, today, on the whole, seemed to be pretty passable, though certainly nothing great. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little nicer.

-Today, while at the grocery store, I decided to do a little multi-vitamin shopping. At first I was just going to quickly grab a bottle of general multi-vitamins, though when I saw that most options would put me at least the $10 range I decided that I should probably take the time to find a good deal or appropriate multi-vitamin. Eventually I settled on a 365 pill bottle for $24.99. What I found impressive about this bottle is that not only was it the best deal that I found, but also that there seemed to be few size options between 100 pills and several hundred pills.

-It seems that after a few days of haggling and coalition negotiations that David Cameron of the Conservative Party will be the next British Prime Minister. Also, after quite a number of years on the outside, the Liberal Democrats (arguably the party, at least the successor party, of Asquith and Lloyd George) have finally made it back to the cabinet table.

-My recently planted herbs and vegetables are continuing to sprout. I am quite surprised that so many of them have sprouted in such a short period of time. If time permits, I may have to try to plant a few more seeds in the coming days and move some of these recently sprouted plants outdoors.

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-Today was a pretty beautiful day for early March. From the time I awoke the sun was shining and the wind almost non-existent. While the recorded high was 6, it felt a little warmer than that in downtown Halifax.

-I reached my iTunes goal today, my Recently Played playlist was at 1039 when I stopped accumulating more new tracks. All it took for me to get there was a very concerted effort and a willingness to play music whether I was present or not.

My success on this front has been somewhat fleeting as in hour or two after I stopped adding to the number of recently played tracks we have entered a new day, meaning some number were removed from the list. Enough were removed from the Recently Played list to drop me back below 1000. Hopefully I am not tempted to engage in this practice in the future.

-Tonight, while filling up my day-by-day vitamin dispenser I managed to run out of both vitamin E and vitamin B12. Interestingly, it seems that Neil ran out of his stash of alpha-lipoic acid while engaged in similar activities (fortunately he as able to tap into my stash to complete the job).

-Our Ultimate game didn't end up taking place yesterday. It seems that someone double booked the gym. There is some talk of a double-header next week, which is something that doesn't sound particularly appealing to me.

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-Today was a pretty standard winter day, not particularly great, but not bad either. Temperatures rose to about zero, and then dropped to a few degrees below freezing as the afternoon progressed. We now seem to have settled in to a nice equilibrium at about -7 (it doesn't take to long for me to assert that we have reached a temperature equilibrium).

-As some of you may have noticed, Neil doesn't tend to post all that frequently. I find this somewhat bothersome because the idea behind Montifax was that it would be a joint venture, not simply a blog that Neil started and that I continued.

Anyway, over the past number of years I have tried to get Neil to post more frequently through a number of means. Of course I started by asking him nicely, and occasionally dropping hints as post scripts to email. More recently I have just been telling him that he should be posting more (using 'please' didn't seem to work so I dropped it from the routine to conserve energy). It seems that none of the methods I have tried so far have had any noticeable effect.

Just this evening I think that I may have come up with something that might get him to post a little more. Not only did I suggest that his lack of posting indicated that he was yellow (though I didn't use those words), I decided to challenge him to a blog-off, a competition to see who could post more in a given period of time. I thought that I turned it into a game and added points I might be able to get him to post more (he has such a hard time resisting games).

Anyway, after a few brief negotiations we seem to have preliminarily settled on a few ground rules and parameters.

Neil gets 5 points for each post he makes while I only get 1, he seemed unwilling to participate without me handicapping myself.

Each post, to qualify for the blog-off, must be at least 30 words long and tagged (within reason). I also feel that there should be at least some content, though who am I to talk, I post content-free crap all the time.

The event will run for the duration of February, so he has a few hours to mentally prepare himself.

An additional condition that I think that we should add is that for a post to count a tally of the score must be included (though this wouldn't count towards the word total).

Hopefully I will have a few more details in the coming hours or days.

-For those of you interested in learning a little more about the video New Townie Man that I posted yesterday you can listen to this CBC Morning Show interview with Roger Maunder and Colleen Power, the makers of the video.

-Today is a big day for me, I have consumed what may be my last Flintstones multivitamin tablet. While these are targeted at children, I have continued to consume them for years. Then, all of a sudden a few weeks ago, I just became sick of having my mouth filled with a sugary substance every time I had a vitamin and consequently decided to finish off the bottle and move on to swallowable multivitamins. Now I have to finish my chewable vitamin C so that I can go all swallowable and not taint my mouth with vitamin flavour.

-I baked a Texas Sheet Cake this evening. The downside of the decision to undertake this task was that it meant I had to head out to the grocery store to pick up some icing sugar. Only after I returned from the store did I realize that I also needed some milk, causing me to return to the store for a third time today.

-Though I have a fair bit of work that I should be doing, I don't seem to be doing a very good job at focusing on it. Maybe once I get this post off my chest I can hit the books hard for a few hours before going to bed.