iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

This weekend Lindz and I had our marriage perpetration course in a semi-rural part of Mississauga. It was some nice quality time for me to share with Lindsay and nature. Sunday afternoon while we where leaving my relationship with Lindsay couldn’t have been better, my relationship with nature was at a serious low.

Here’s what happened, as best as I can deduce things. A bird had left its droppings on a tree, the tree was no happy with this and decided to get rid of this by secreting a bunch of sap and forcing the bird dropping of the tree and allowed gravity to take its course. Unfortunately the my Acura was beneath that tree for two days.

The result was a pool of sap slightly larger than a loonie with chuck of bird dropping in it sitting in the middle of my windsheild.

After scrapping this across most of my windshield with my wipers I got home and put more effort into removing this. Spraying and scrubbing with soap did very little. It was a good 15 minutes into the process that I thought of using hot water.

What I did to remove the sap from the windshield was scrub with warm soapy watter while I brought a kettle to a boil and then used the kettle water to finish-off the pre-warmed windshield.

I hope my description of this process helps someone out.

Tony Blair was at the White-House today meeting with George Bush for one final time before he steps down as British Prime Minister.

Bush owes a lot to Blair, as Blair was on-side with the invasion of Iraq ever since he first saw the Iraq Dossier. As such, Bush got him a retirement gift.

Tony Blair has seen what’s in the gift, but he cannot disclose its contents at this time.

Autoblog.com helped me discover BusSelecta’s customizable car tools. Endless fun. Here’s my two favoutie classic German rides put together on my computer afterwards.

Since our Mom doesn’t have a blog I’ll take over this job.

The web site my brother Adam works on, the Digital Divide Network, a project of TakingITGlobal, is an 11th Annual Webby Awards Official Honoree! Congrats to Adam and TakingItGlobal!

Lindsay and I signed for a new house today! Here’s the same details I already posted over at our website clurko.com.

The house is located at Dundas (HWY 5) & Walkers Line in Burlington’s Upper Millcroft neighbourhood. It’s a brand new Monarch town home that has already started framing. It’s going to be a great place to start our lives together.

We’ve got lots of plans to modify the upstairs floor plan and and for upgrades we’re going to add, and we’ll post those soon. But for now, here’s a picture of a similar house up the road from us and a picture of our house as of April 15th.