This is the Trent gang.  The picture was taken beside the Trent river on the university campus in summer 1997.

This is me and Bruce at his cottage, drilling through the ice for water.  I still maintain that there is something terribly wrong with a country where you have to drill through the ice for water.  I want to live in Arizona!  The logo on Bruce's jacket is for Trent University, where a bunch of my friends went to school.

This is Steve and Christine, a friend of his from Trent.  Every year a group of Trent people and their friends get together and get very drunk.  This is nominally called "Beavermead", after the trailer park in Peterborough where they used to rent a tent and spend the weekend.  Now they are too old to sleep on the ground, but they pretend they now stay in a hotel only because the tent park increased its rates.  Christine always brings tattoos which we place all over ourselves.  There are some very embarrassing ones of me with a "biker chick" tattoo on my forehead, but they didn't make it past the site editor.  :)

This is Todd and Steve and Jim and me (clockwise from left).  I don't remember where we were...  I think we might have been at one of Steve's parties.

This picture I include purely for spite.  :P  This is Weezie and Christine with Kyle in the background.  They are playing a game called "TubaRuba".  You wrap these hollow tubes around people as many times and in as many directions as you can, and then you drop a marble in one end.  The poor souls have to get the marble to come out the other end.  Picture Twister in 3-D.  Being masters at the game, we choose to get drunk before we play, just to make things interesting.  :)

Kyle and Weezie (Louise).  Our charming friends from far west.  (I think they live close to Vancouver, or something.  Somewhere west of Toronto, at least.)  Weezie is Christine's best friend.  (Although after the TubaRuba picture, you might have a hard time believing this!)  They have an evil cat that bites with only the slightest provocation, and a car that spits at you when you least expect it.

Oh dear...  another party!  This is me and Mare.  She's Gavin's wife.  They just bought a lovely house fairly close to mine.  

Weezie, Christine and me at Medieval Times.  <sigh>

And here's Mare, Todd, Jim and Kyle, too!

Here's Gavin!  He's holding the bag 'o truffles that Todd always brings with him. 

Who in the hell talked me into THIS trip?

Mare makes friends at SkyDome on Canada Day.

Christine, Weezie, Jim and Todd at SkyDome.