Acadia Axemen Football Schedule 2013-14!!!!!

Here we go Axemen Football fans.. the moment we have been waiting for since like ummm... November.. read on!

Friday, September 6 - Acadia at Saint Mary's, 7:00pm

 Saturday, September 14 - Laval at Acadia, 2:00pm

 Friday, September 20 - Acadia at STFX, 7:00pm

 Saturday, September 28 - Mount Allison at Acadia, 2:00pm

 Saturday, October 5 - Acadia at Saint Mary's, 2:00pm

 Friday, October 11 - Saint Mary's at Acadia, 7:00pm

 Saturday, October 19 - StFX at Acadia, 2:00pm

 Saturday, October 26 - Acadia at Mount Allison, 2:00pm

AUS Semi-Final: 

Saturday, November 2 - Third Place at Second Place, 1:00pm

 AUS Championship (Subway Loney Bowl)
Saturday, November 9 - Semifinal Winner at First Place, 1:00pm

Uteck Bowl (Location TBD)
Saturday, November 16 - RSEQ Champion at AUS Champion, TBA

 Vanier Cup (Quebec City, Que.)
Saturday, November 23 – Mitchell Bowl Winner vs. Uteck Bowl Winner, TBA

If you will notice, Friday October 11th game against SMU is Friday Night Lights at Raymond Field.. that has not been any nighttime games at Raymond Field in a few yrs. Also if you go back earlier in the schedule you will see that the Axemen will be taking on Laval in Wolfville/ WolfVegas.. a regular season game.. interleague play against the team w/ the 5 MILLION dollar budget and has spring training in Florida.. i won't say too much.. but sometimes i must wonder about even playing field and i wish Axemen Football had a crazy budget like that.. sometimes it takes the right organization/ group/ person w/ deep pockets to come along... esp when we want championships...

I also noticed in the Chronicle Herald today that the Uteck Bowl is set to hit the road.. esp after the disaster in Moncton and instead of returning to the decaying Huskie Stadium, the Bowl will be offered to the winner of the AUS to take on their opponent from the Quebec Conference (More than likely it will be Laval) Excuse me for offering my opinion on the topic, but i think this is the right thing to do.. why have it at Huskie Stadium every year? Make it an extra incentive to win for the teams in the AUS.. if you win.. you get national coverage in your town.. even though you will get those TSN announcers who screw up everyone's name, you get the Uteck Bowl.. i said it yrs ago.. why have a host city? Give it to those who deserve it.. the yr Moncton had it stunk because Moncton has no AUS football team, thus no attachment to the game.. no personal reason to go watch two strange teams.. and it was on a Friday instead of a Saturday.. students couldn't get away from classes to make it up in time.. dummy dummy dummy decisions.. Anyways let the best team win...

Perhaps the "Three-peat" for the Axemen... perhaps...

Anyways folks rejoice and let the AUS football season start on September 6th!

Have a good one folks...

 

When i Was Young...

Was looking around the ol internet tonight and saw this post on Facebook.. thought i would re-post because its pretty true about today's youngins....

Hilarious! Growing up without a cell phone

If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons.. for Scooby Doo, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play..and play. all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!

And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!

See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd

Have a good one folks! 

 

Things I Learned Watching The Chinese Connection (aka Fists of Fury)

1. Don't kill someone's teacher. His best student come and kill you.

2. To fix a telephone, open it and close it.

3. Japanese people look Chinese.

4. Large glasses make perfect disguise when everyone is looking for you. 

5. Japanese people wear girdles (or kimonos I guess).

6. Japanese people cover up their nipples before they fight.

7. When the camera zooms into a piece of clothing, everyone focuses on the nipples.

8. One Chinese can take on 20+ Karate students. 

9. When executing a person, no one behind the condemned will move out of the way.

10. Trying to kill someone with a stone in plain sight is a bad idea.

11. Cracking someone's ribs will kill them.

12. When you are in disguise, people around you will start leaking all the information you need to know.

13. If someone says they're the worst student, they're probably not.

14. If you're strong enough, pivot points of lever gravity will not apply when lifting carriages.

15. When there is a sign for no Chinese or dogs, the guards don't always pay attention.

16. When a telephone wire is just cut, people will have been waiting all day long.

17. Caucasians are significantly stronger than Japanese people.

18. Your hand can also be a hammer for nails.

19. Metal bars wobble when you bend them.

20. Japanese people like mustaches.

21. A good place to hide is a graveyard.

22. Japanese swords are so sharp they will go right through you with no applied force.

23. Random blocks of wood are waiting for you on top of doors.

24. Don't touch angry people.

25. If you kill somebody's teacher answer him why. Why? Why? Why? Why?

26. You can pretend to be a dog and a Japanese guy will give you a tour of the park.

27. When confronted with 20 rifles just start yelling, run at them at top speed and try to drop-kick them.

28. You can eat a lot of paper in front of a group of students. 

29. The only way to calm down a grieving realtive is to bang him on the head with a shovel. 

30. In 1908 China, Japanese and white people wore suits that apparently came back in the 1970s. 

31. When a ticked off Chinese guy tells you to leave.. leave.

32. It is necessary to disguise as a telephone repairman in order to find out that Russian wrestlers are very strong. It is okay to risk the real repairman showing up and asking: "What the hey?" While you are in the boss's office, don't kill him, along with the other goons. Wait till it is night, so that everybody will wake up and ask: "What's the *beep*ing noise?" 

33.  If you're from "Rusher" (Russia), and can say "Let Me Take Care O Him", sounding like Sylvester Stallone, and Dolph Lundgren at the same time, you can get into a Bruce Lee Movie. 

34.  When it rains, during a funeral in Shanghai, the dirt will not get wet. 

35. Don't take a flying leap while screaming at a bunch of policemen with their guns out. You might make them mad at you.

36. White and modern Asian people in 1908 (or whenever) wore the same hairstyles as people in the early 1970s.

37. Pick up two Japanese guys off the floor, spin them around, and they'll morphed into rag dolls.

38.  I don't care how old he is,Steve Martin is the only white haired man in 1970s karate movies 

39.  Jackie Chan makes a good stunt man 

40. "Scram" is English for "Get the FUCK out of here NOW" 

Have a good one folks!

 

 

Escape From The Bronx KILLCOUNT

Ahhh! Good ol "Escape From The Bronx"! aka "Bronx Warriors 2" the follow up to 1982's "1990: The Bronx Warriors! I was very excited to see this killcount tribute to Escape From The Bronx.. the bodycount for the movie is pretty high.. the only bad part about this killcount is that it is not every one in the movie as the dudes in the silver suits, aka the "Disinfestation Annihilation Squad" led by Henry Silva ran up a pretty high bodycount on their own while they were disposing of all the remaining citizens of the run down Bronx...

Anyone remember Henry Silva being on Buck Rogers? 

I would still love to know what the heck happened to Mark Gregory? Oh well...

Things I Learned From Watching "Death Wish 3"

1) Dramatic scenes are drowned out with Jimmy Page
2) Rocket Launchers are only good on enemies who are in groups..

3) Doing crimes in private means witnessing public executions
4) A zip gun has the range and accuracy of a hundred or more feet
5) Backgroud checks aren't needed to secure a postal address
6) Getting high before a night of crime always is productive
7) Chicken is good and likeable
8) Stuffed Cabbage smells wonderful
9) A firearm is illegal within city limits
10) It's okay to violate constitutional rights
11) Due Process doesn't exist when it comes to gang members
12) The unidentified shooter was a "good shot"
13) And he was better than anyone in the department
14) Sometimes you can't have both
15) An elephant gun leaves a big mess
16) When constitutional rights are violated, you can sue.
17) Grand Theft Auto is capital offense
18) When someone has a nail go through their foot, they are "hurt man"
19) You can die from a broken arm
20) When faced with a riot, instead of using a gun,bat,or knife, a plunger is a suitable weapon
21) Gang leaders have a Gangs R Us. They can call up another gang and get more "guys" whenever they feel like it.
22) Kersey can get any women after a total of dull conversation for 3 minutes. He can also be 30 years her senior too.

23) Harassing a man and his wife for 5 dollars doesn't always net you 5 dollars
24) They had no business in killing the Giggler. None at all.
25) When falling from a 6 story building one flails their arms behind their body. (obvious dummy)
26)  a lady should never get involved with Kersey because they always end up dead.

27)  If you have an apartment window next to a fire escape, leave it open so people can walk through it. In addition, leave the front door to your apartment open, so not to inconvenience them with having to open it.
28)  Tire Irons show up magically in the most desperate of situations.
29)  A .38 caliber revolver never runs out of ammo.
30)  Eating Ice Cream and swinging your camera around nets you a free kill.

31)  When one lone man stands alone against the local creeps, the local populace will fight back with guns that they could have put to use before but didn't.
32)  You avoid being shot when running down a street with no cover to speak of, while gunning down people on rooftops or fire escapes.
33)  When your Wildy .475 Mangum handgun runs out of ammo and you know you had only two clips and you used both...search your pockets frantically for a 3rd clip.
34)  People at that rathole of an apartment building just continue to lay in bed reading as Kersey, and then a creep, enter bedroom windows and walk through apartments.
35) Bulletproof vests protect you from knives -- who would have guessed?
36)  A wildy .475 Magnum, a 35 Cal. Machine Gun and a Rocket Launcher...one Sniper Rifle - a bullet to the head of fraker from long range under the cloak of darkness. Priceless.

37)  It is humanly possible to ram a guys head through jail cell bars
38)  Gang members can sense when they're leader just bought the bullet. They respond 1/2 a second later by screaming bloody murder.
39)  When shot with a zip gun, windows explode OUTWARDS.
40)  Kersey is a man that doesn't run.

When I Was 13...

I saw a friend of mine over on Facebook has a set of questions called "When I Was 13". Old Man Robb figured he would take a crack at it over here on good ol RobbBlogs.. the long running blog of Old Man Robb that NOBODY ever reads... or that i think NOBODY ever reads.. if they do.. they sure don't leave any comments eh?

Here we go...

Drumroll...

When I was 13....the year was 1984

I was engaged to: Phoebe Cates... loved her in "Fast Times at Ridgemount High, Private School and Gremlins has just come out and me and my brother took the bus to the Penhorn Mall to go see at on Saturday afternoon matinees.. twice...

I lived in: Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia

I listened to: That damn heavy metal as my Momma put it 

I drove: My bike to Lloyd's and the Dairy Bar to rent VHS movies and buy pepperoni.. sometimes ice cream .. sometimes the store across the street from the white school

My biggest fear: Some of that gang that used to sit on the steps at the white school

I am now: 41

I am: Waiting for my chance to teach.. preferably in a Canadian classroom

My biggest fear: Not getting what i want... being able to teach in a Canadian classroom

I now live in: Middleton 

Have a good one folks! 

 

Old School Movie Collage

Just wondering if anyone... well anyone at all who might just read this blog by accident has stopped to notice the new cover that i just put up... a good ol fashioned tribute to VHS tapes.. remember those kids? No? Well they have kinda joined the 8-track and the cassette tape as a thing of the past. You can still get them at Rainbow's End in WolfVegas and at flea markets the Valley over... Andrew's got rid of them back in 2005.. the last VHS we had was "The Longest Yard" (Sadly not Burt... Adam Sandler) Anyways this is the collage i made the other day.. have a peek....

Can anyone out there name these flicks? Here we go...

Drumroll if you will...

Dawn of the Dead/ Jaws/ Orca: The Killer Whale/ Slumber Party Massacre II/ Pray For Death/ The Evil Dead/ First Blood/ Sleepaway Camp/ Warriors of the Wasteland/ Return of the Living Dead/ Shogun Assassin/ Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park/ Black Belt Jones/ Scarface/ Texas Chainsaw Massacre/ 1990: The Bronx Warriors/ Gymkata/ Terror on Tour/ Mother's Day/ Dr Butcher MD/ Flesh Gordon/ A Nightmare on Elm Street/ Graduation Day/ Attack of the Killer Tomatoes/ Metalstorm/ King Frat/ Mad Max/ Yor: The Hunter From The Future/ Friday The 13th/ Death Wish 3

Phew...

Wait...

Dammit i forgot Megaforce! WTF?!?!?!

I have to admit... sometimes i miss the old VHS... sometimes.. sure i don't miss the ol hack and scan transfers. but there is something nostalgic about the old VHS covers.. memories of afternoons in the Passage walking down to the Dairy Bar or when i moved to Greenwood how i would walk to the old "ABC Video" or "10 To 10 Video" in Kingston.. even memories of good ol' Andrews here in Middleton... RIP.. days that are gone.. but still fresh in the mind.. they say don't let the past overrule your present.. but sometimes it is good to reminisce of times past where we didn't have an internet... everyone didn't have a cell phone and texting.. a simpler time indeed...

Heck! I still miss cassettes!

You too eight tracks... ya i admitted it... jeesh..

Have a good one folks!

Still Tired of Waiting...

Well how goes things on the teaching front for Old Man Robb? Pretty much non-existent.. no let me rectify that.. non-existent more or less describes what has been happening since i last updated on this topic. However it is not for a lack of trying true believers and other assorted wormslime. Yes Old Man Robb has been working on it..it has been frustrating at times believe me... i am just wondering if i have been chasing a nearly impossible dream and sometimes it is like gasping at straws when trying to find the positives in a situation like mine... the frustration of the unemployed ESL teacher.

I looked into a job teaching ESL- English Second Language in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. It was listed on Indeed Jobs and i had to look into it.. however the closing date was given as being November 20, 2012.. we are past that... yet the job was still listed. Lo and behold to non-amazement from Old Man Robb the job had been filled, yet the lady was nice enough to still grant me an interview.. looking for tutors for students in Yarmouth and in Digby.. alot of gas just to tutor a few times a week.. but she says she will be sending me paperwork to look over.. well that interview was Friday and im still waiting for that paperwork to arrive via e-mail.

I should be used to people saying one thing and doing another.. perhaps this person just simply and purely forgot to send the paperwork.. and maybe she ohhh conveniently forgot.. that happens too folks. They think i will simply forget about it.. nope i have yet to do that.. and the powers that be in this province wonder day and night why they are losing the newer teachers to other places.. well it is not too darn hard to figure it out that we are leaving because well some of the jobs are not there.. the other reason is the incompetence of others.. and lately i have been finding alot of incompetence where there should be professionalism. Its called getting amateurs to do work that should be handled by professionals.

Then there was China.. well a friend of a friend who knows someone in the know... if that makes any sense at all i don't know found a job for me... well they tried to help.. help is always appreciated in these situations you know. Anyways what attracted me was that the school as ran by North Americans and not by some greedy corporate assclown or mom and pop Hagwon looking to screw a teacher over... the other attraction was of a free flight over to China... only South Korea really offers the free flight anymore.. Japan schools did yrs ago but changed their policy when teachers would come over only to take off on the schools... not even show up to training.. but this was China w/ a free flight.. i was intrigued.

However it was not to be... only looking for those w/ a bachelor of education. Something that Acadia U denied me back in 2008-09 when i was denied admission to their education program. It's too bad they deny a teacher like me who took classes at the education level... and yes the TESOL classes at Acadia U are listed as education classes and guess what? I never in the last few yrs of taking those classes had a mark below an A-.. that is pretty damn good.. esp for someone like me whom had been out of school/ university for four yrs teaching in Japan and South Korea before taking on the TESOL Program offered through Open Acadia.

I wish them luck finding quality teachers... i really do... those with those bachelor of education degrees usually get snapped up by the schools around here. That leaves other teachers like me whom are wishing to get their break kind of in the dust. You have these high standards... your school and these one's i see from Alberta and British Columbia whom want teachers with five yrs of ESL teaching experience... you try and raise the bar so damn high.. how do you get this experience when no one is willing to let you come and get this experience? How do you get a bachelor of education when they base you on the person you were years ago when looking at your marks... they don't look at how well you are doing in your present with a current average of a 3.0 or so... just how shitty i was the first few yrs when i was drunky the clown...

However i will not give up trying.. i have sent resumes off to Fort McMurray in Alberta where they are looking for ESL teachers... there were other groups interested in China and even Thailand... but again it is where i would have to pay for a flight on over there and i don't have the spare $$$ for a flight to go teach there and i don't want to go begging to family just to be able to go. Could always go back to South Korea, but they pretty much take anyone and i do mean anyone... a free flight over.. but at what cost? Alot of broken promises and some arsehole of a Hagwon owner whom will try to can you before your twelve months are up...

Just wondering if it was all worth it the last few yrs of my life folks... was it worth spending over $2000.00 to achieve a TESOL Certificate/ practicum from Acadia U? Was it worth it sending away (And paying) for my TESOL Nova Scotia and my TESOL Canada Certificates? When is enough enough? Should Old Man Robb throw in the proverbial towel and just say fuck it? Get a haircut and get a real job?Im sick and tired of being sick and tired....  Sometimes lately it has been hard to keep focused on the positives and just spending time dwelling on the negatives.Time will tell folks... there are just frustrating times right now... hoping for something better..

Have a good one folks