What a Year So Far

I don't know - it seems like every year gets better. This year is no different.

We have an amazing boy Ethan - his personality has really developed and he's at the stage right now where he loves getting things for me. "Ethan - pass me that bottle opener". "Sure Daddy!" and he'll go and grab me a shoe and give it to me. We're still working out the kinks but we're getting there.


My beautiful wife Kathleen and I are expecting a second child in February - on February 14th actually. Ethan was born on February 13th so if they happen to be born on the same day that could really be cost-effective. We know what gender it is but my brother-in-law doesn't want to know so I won't announce it here.

I love golf - and this year I hit a Hole in One - 129 yards with an 8-Iron. I kept the ball and will be getting it framed because odds are it will never happen again. I'm going to put it next to my first home run ball - although I don't have that framed either. I'm not worried about the baseball going missing but I know if I don't do something with the golf ball soon I'll probably take the "lucky ball" to see if it has any more magic and it'll wind up in a lake in Kingston. My Driver is in a lake in Ottawa - but I put it there on purpose. It wasn't very nice to me.

My brother Brent got married to my fabulous sister-in-law Louise and we all got to attend the wedding in Turks & Caicos.





We sold our house - finally. It was on the market for 4 months and it sold.

We bought a house right away. We moved to Kingston in June and had our eye on one house the whole time. We kept expecting it to sell but it stayed on the market as long as our house did. We can't believe it worked out that day but it did. We move in next Thursday.

From June until next week we will have stayed at my parents house living in the basement. If they didn't live here I don't know what we could have done. We're paying a mortgage in Mississauga but Kathleen got a job in Kingston so we had to move right away. As much as I make jokes about moving back in with da parents - it was the ideal scenario for us and they couldn't have been more accommodating. We feel bad staying so long but I know they were happy to get to know their grandson more.

I've done a lot of comedy shows this year but obviously the Afghanistan shows were the highlight of my career. The only thing left for me is to get on national television and hopefully that will happen sometime in the near future. I'm not looking to get famous - that would be awesome though - I just like reaching the top at anything I do. Getting on national tv won't get me famous - but it'd be a heck of a story to tell the kids.

And obviously - next year will be even better as I'll have TWO people to train to get the bottle opener. At least I'll get a pair of shoes.