Went to the Sears store at Brampton's Shopper's World mall which was going out of business. While Kate shopped for clothes, I hung out with the naked manakins.

Watched construction workers put the finishing touches on the ROM's new "Crystal" wing.

Celebrated my 32nd birthday.

Follow up:

Watched Japanese psychedelic rockers Acid Mother's Temple at Lee's Palace. The photo above is actually the openning act. Don't remember what they were called, but they had this cool wizard dude that waved a big stick around in lieu of playing music.

Enjoyed hanami in High Park with scores of Japanese Torontonians.

Designed lots of contest pages, ads and other stuff for CTV at my fancy cubicle.

Watched a bunch of cute goslings living on the CTV property grow up into young adult geese.

Drank beer.

Bowled.

Got fluffed on Ward Island.

Checked out the bronze beefy statue at Hanlan's Point.

Checked out the bronzed beefy dancers at this year's Pride Parade on Yonge street.

Spent roughly 100 hours on the subway.

Spent 200 bucks at Canadian Tire on a pair of new bikes. That's a pretty good price for two bikes, but perhaps we could have gotten a better deal. Kate and I have been intrigued by this mysterious rack of "used" bikes for sale in the Coffee Time parking lot. Where do these bikes come from? How do you buy one? Why is there an exercise bike among them?

Became a father for the first time after Kate gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Jamie Patterson the 2nd!
...Just kidding. This baby really belongs to my friends Jenn and Paul and is named Lucia.

Sucked on this massive gobstopper given to me for my birthday by a friend at work. Here it is in profile for a better idea of how much time I spent sucking on this thing.

Went to a taping of Canadian Idol with my co-workers to see Rihanna do her umbrella dance. It was such an awesome show I could hardly contain myself.

Drove down to Montreal for the August long weekend and took in the sights.

Of course you can't go to Montreal without eating poutine. This "extreme" variety includes beef, sausage and onions.