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I’m a big fan of rock and heavy metal. Although Ozzy Ozbourne is not very heavy compared to the recent releases he’s still quite heavy and puts on a good show.

The show started at around 8pm with opening band In this moment. I love my heavy metal, the riffs where great and very heavy. I must be getting old because I can’t get accustomed to those vocals. I can’t understand a word they say.

After about 8 songs it was the break and a good time to replenish on fluids.

Ozzy hits the stage after a montage of clips where he appeared in popular shows. I particularly like the one where he’s posing as Tony Soprano’s psychologist.

The crowd was very into it as he started with his latest release “I don’t want to stop” and jump started the show with crowd favorite “Crazy Train”. Ozzy plated hit after hit until Zakk Wilde gave the rest of the band a break by wayling on his guitar for about 20 minutes. The fans thanked him with cheering and some occasional female indiscretions for everyone to see.

The show lasted another 40 minutes with more fan favorites. It ended with “Paranoid” and a big bang (fireworks).

A few weeks ago a friend from work invited a bunch of us to go to TreeGO. All summer I would hear about it but never really had the chance to do it so this was definitely a good opportunity. To make things even more interesting, the guy who invited us did it the day before but found it was a little to easy for him. The owner challenged him to find a few people and he would open up the park for us at night.

When we got there we were around 10. The first part of the trail is somewhat easy but it does get a lot more challenging towards the end. The coolest parts for me are definitely the zip lines and the rope bridges. Everyone as a kid, has seen someone doing a zip line on television and dreamed about doing it. Well you can live it there, and about 10 times! The longest zip line last about 25 seconds !!! An advantage of going at night is if you’re scared of heights, you can’t see the ground. It’s an awesome sight too when you look up and you see all the lights blinking around from the people ahead of you.

They dont have a website yet but you can find their contact info HERE. I was actually talking to the owner and he is looking for someyone to build him a website so give him a shout if you’re interested.

So if your looking for an adventure and have an extra $30 in your pocket, head to TreeGO in Centennial Park.

Do you play Sudoku? I have played a little myself when I’ve had the time.

A fellow Monctonian wrote a cool Sodoku web game a couple years ago. I’ve played it a couple times. It’s fun and easy to use. If you play Sudoku on a regular basis you should definitely give it a try.

He has two versions;

The easy drag and drop.

http://www.digitalsudoku.com/Sudoku.aspx

The easier click version

http://www.fiveminutesudoku.com/sudoku.aspx

Check it out

I rarely watch the news. On Saturday January 12th before heading to the Dieppe market and waiting for my girlfriend to get ready I sat down and turned on the television. After two clicks I landed on a news channel and saw a Bathurst headline.

Since I’m originally from the Bathurst area it immediately drew my attention. It felt unreal, like an episode of cops. The more I heard about it the less I believed it. Unfortunately it didn’t make it less real. 7 kids and 1 mother and wife were killed in a head on collision with a tractor trailer. How’s that for reality? Painfully real.

My first reflex was to call my mother to find out if there was anybody we knew. Somehow it would make me feel better. Mothers have that appeasing quality that is so precious.

To keep on keeping on, we ended up going to the Market with my brother and his girlfriend. The conversation was light and you could hear murmurs of Bathurst and the accident all over the market. “This is a tragedy”, “I can’t believe so many…dead.”

Bathurst is a small community with 2 degrees of separation. If you’re from there you’re bound to know someone that knows 1 of the 8 victims. That makes it hard on more people but at the same time easier because in a small community like Bathurst you end up getting real support from people who truly care.

I wish the best to all the families and friends that have lost a person dear to them.

On a Saturday morning with a storm warning on the horizon what do the majority of people do? They go buy some milk, a little bit of groceries, rent a movie or two, and prepare the shovels for the snow. But what do ski and snowboard enthusiasts do… they celebrate !

With a couple of phone calls and a few IM’s, your car is full and good to go. That’s exactly what I did on December 27th. If you compare the start of this season to the last 3 years…well you can’t compare them. We had more snow in December 2007 than the last 3 years put together.

On the 27th we only had 5 to 10cm of new snow but that’s enough to make the slopes 10 times better. Every time you go up the chairlift a new thin layer of snow piles up and it feels like a new run every time. My day at Poley mountain was one of the best I’ve had in a long time. All the trails were open and their was a fresh cover of powder everywhere.

And of course it’s to good to be true. We’re not allowed to a have a normal winter anymore. The snow is basically all gone so the conditions are probably back to what they were the past few years. ICE, ICE and ICE. If you’re an addict like I am, Poley is still the right choice. It’s still the only mountain in the Atlantic’s that has snow machines. Unlike the other mountains, it only needs cold weather to remain open.

So if we get more snow and you’re looking for a good time. For 60$ dollars, or 30$ if you’re one of the lucky ones with equipment, go out because the snow tends to leave us fast theses days. I’ve looked around and the prices are comparable with every other mountain in the area. Before you go out take alook at their website HERE. and look at the conditions. I’ve used it a lot and they’re honest about it.

Here is a list I found while searching for Monctonians

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Moncton

Hi fellow Monctonian,

• Do you have an area of interest? (aviation, model trains, fitness, antiques, date squares… etc)
• Would you like to be published?
• Do you want to get your name out there?

Did you answer yes to any of the above questions? If so? We’re looking for Moncton writers to contribute to Monctonians.com on a regular basis.

A few topics:

Adventures, sports, scrapbooking, fashion, antiques, cars, games, poker, fly fishing… the list could go on and on and on.

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