While the overall weekend was enjoyable there was one really lousy incident but I’ll get to that a bit later.  Saturday morning we went to Sail‘s location in Oshawa to pick up some winter items, I wanted to get a new winter coat and Maggie wanted to buy Brandon a new set of snow pants.  Initially I was thinking about getting an Arc’teryx jacket, I know they make good stuff and Mario’s been going on and on about the brand but as fate would have it, I bought a The North Face winter jacket instead.  They make good stuff too and it’ll be perfect next week when we do our annual Beavers winteree.

In the afternoon I was inspecting some of my AR15 magazines and noticed that one of the rivets that stops me from loading more than 5 rounds into a magazine was damaged.

Great thank you government of Canada for such stupid laws, that $0.02 piece of junk keeps things legal because criminals would never take the 5 seconds it needs to knock that thing out.  Anyway I removed it and had a prohibited device for a few minutes before replacing it with another.  I’m all for licensing and I even buy insurance (optional) but I think the magazine laws are stupid. All it does is keep law abiding gun owners like me from having fun while not addressing the criminal element at all but this is suppose to be a weekend update, not a gun owner rant.

We didn’t do much the rest of the day Brandon went swimming but skating was cancelled, I didn’t know about it so we were surprised when we saw two hockey games going on.  I dropped Brandon off then went to get a haircut, when I returned I parked the Mini in the garage and as I’m getting out, I see this Cadillac run into the back of Maggie’s Toyota which is legally parked in front of my house ugh!

My driveway is only wide enough for a single car, so if we want to get the other car in the garage it’s a bit of a pain.  Sigh, I think the woman was going to run as I saw the wheel turn but I was down the driveway yelling so she stopped and got out of the car.  She was apologetic about it, apparently her baby was crying so she was distracted, at least it was at low speeds.

The accident occurred around 7:15pm Saturday night, the car was pretty dirty so I told the lady to go home, that I’d get it washed in the morning and give her an update.  The rear of the car is slightly out of alignment with the lights, there’s scuff/scratches on the bumper and there are also two punctures in the plastic.  I told her in the morning that i’ll bring it to Toyota for inspection and to get a quote and she agreed to fix it so it won’t affect her insurance.

The Toyota Matrix has been good to us but man it’s been very unlucky the last few years. 🙁

Today we didn’t do much, about the most exciting thing was going to aunt Dora’s office to top off our RRSPs, it’s not the most sexy thing to do but a necessity and I need to save more for my retirement (lol who doesn’t).

In the evening Brandon and I shot some pop cans with the Nerf guns, he’s a bit older now so I’m teaching him how to aim and handle it properly, hehe next up in a few years is airsoft then who knows maybe some real guns. 😉  I can hear my mom’s disapproval sigh already but I figure I have guns in the house (albeit locked up) and want him to learn how to handle them safely.

Nothing else much the rest of the night go to work tomorrow and it’s going to be a long day full of meetings, great.