The Return of the Coke Salesman

It seems fall managed to arrive up in Yellowknife while I was down south in the saug enjoying a mini vacation. It was a shock to get back up here to 15 degree temperatures. I read the star online daily and it makes me miss the summer sunburns I manage to pick up annually.
I arrived back up here with the intention of getting involved in the community and have I ever. On Sunday while many of you were enjoying the various cottage activities and the winding down of the summer season I was strapping on my shoes, knee pads, shin guards and jock for a good ole game of broomball. For those of you unaware this is a sport similar in many respects to hockey however it is played without skates. I sucked balls! Every time I jumped the boards to get on the ice I slipped because the two inches that make up a skate blade were mysteriously absent under my foot. However, I didnt suck badly enough and I think I might have earned a spot on the Territorial team that represents NWT in the Western Canada Broomball Championship to be held in Yellowknife in September. There are 40 spots available and there were about 30 people that came out for the initial practice. It was hilarious and with any luck I will be standing and also running on the ice in time for the tournament. Thats the biggest piece of news these days for me up here in the chill.
In other news I have applied to be a volunteer firefighter. In no time at I am sure I will be running the station just like Fire Marshal Bill of SNL fame. There is an initial meeting tomorrow night so we will have to wait and see what happens with that. That would be an amazing experience. Ironically people are actually paid to VOLUNTEER for the fire department.
Work is going well, I am always amazing at just how much Coke people actually drink. I am starting a new project tomorrow where I will be selling our Old Dutch (potato chips not bleach) products up to the truly northern communities. We will have to wait and see well that treats me.
I still dont have a place lined up to live, its quite difficult to find acceptable roommates. For the time being I am house sitting my brother's girlfriend's place. I am essentially here to ensure he doesn't throw any parties. I failed miserably at that as I went out to the bar Saturday night and came home to a mini bender in progress. I am also painting the house and Sunday was a miserable day to say the least. I slept in, one of Dustin's guests literally walked off in one of my shoes, and I was holding a paint brush all day. The love hate relationship with paint continues. My other responsibility was feeding that cat. I just found the cat food today. Marie left Saturday, today is Tuesday... Good thing its a fat cat otherwise I might have had a real problem on my hand!
The next night we were all just hanging around drinking a couple of beers winding the weekend down in a garage when the bright idea of a fire was brought up. We loaded up the coke van with stolen pallets and headed off into the sand pits. I have never seen so many stars in my life! I thought I was seeing something really special and I pointed it out to my friend who laughed in my face and told me it was a satellite orbiting. I never even knew it was possible to see them from earth. I guess I am just slow. The northern lights were also out which are simply amazing. If you ever have the chance to travel north to check them out I highly recommend it. I will get some photos and send them out soon enough but they will do no justice to the beauty of the northern lights. They aren't even really good yet I am told. I am in for some sweet scenery all winter long! All I have to do is put up with the cold...
Not much entertaining is going on around these parts. Its really easy to get involved though because it is such a small community. Anything that you want to do is available because there is such a limited amount of competition for things.
I am off to bed I hope that this post finds all of you in great health and happiness.

PS - There is no snow yet... I am sure it is just a matter of weeks not months. There is never any doubt there's a white Christmas since most every year people celebrate white Halloween!