Guitar Hero World Tour

Good times are happening at the Neufeld house. It's amazing how video games are such a big part of our culture, and I am totally fine with that. We purchased Guitar Hero World Tour for our Wii yesterday. Some friends joined us, Ryan, Aaron and Shelly, and a good time was had by all. Yes, Ryan is still hitting all the notes and not even looking at the screen, and he had never played before. It was very impressive. Shelly also seemed to be a natural. I am looking forward to trying to get my arms to work with the rest of my body, to try and keep a beat going on the drums. This might be a impossible task, but it's worth a try.
With winter coming, it's a good time to get the house cleaned, the garage in order, and your entertainment ready.

On a totally way more important note, congratulations to Rob and Megan on the birth on their bouncing baby boy! Niki and I are very happy for them.

That's about it for now, have to get some work done so I can find some rhythm.

Fires, Great Danes, and Internet Confusion

I think I have everything figured out now. My lovely wife gently pointed out that she had set up a blog for us over a year ago, and that the address was on all the cards we handed out at our wedding. So I have ditched the other site and this is now the site for all news Neufeld.

I have good news, I saw a dog yesterday! It was a harlequin great dane. I love the look and personality of these dogs, they are just amazing, if I was of the canine persuasion, I would be a great dane. I know we can't have one though. The first reason being Niki will not go for a huge dog she can't physically move, can you believe that!? The second reason is, all the little hairs that would be all over our house. I don't think I could ever get over having little coarse hair everywhere. They're like little needles. I will have to wait until we one day have a large acreage, or one of you gets one that I can visit...
On the way back from our walk and the excitement of seeing the dog, there were lots of sirens and fire trucks three blocks NE of our house. Turns out someone decided to light a truck on fire, lots of flames and shiny lights. I did not have my camera on me, so you'll all have to picture ten foot flames shooting out of a pickup truck. It was neat, the fire people had it out almost as soon as they got there and no buildings were damaged.


That's all the excitement for now.

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Well, I've never done anything like this before. I guess I am a regular mammal and follow the herd. It seems like the thing to do, especially now that winter is coming. The trees are almost all bare now, and -5 at night seems normal.
This summer was a good one, we did a trip out to Sask, Niki and I each went to Victoria, and generally tried to be active.
Summer in Edmonton is pretty amazing. Festivals never stop, and people have this manic activeness about them. You want to squeeze every ounce of activity out of the sun you can. Not that winter is not enjoyable. Winter is just so long, you want to be able to get everything out of summer you can. Autumn is also particularly awesome, and I feel like Hobbes at this time, but I think my lovely wife is much more like Calvin.
That's about it for now.