Had last week off. Relaxed, lots of gaming, some chores.

Yesterday went to Art in the Park at Minnekadha Lake. Ate bannock, yum. Got free magnolia plant for the front yard.

This week, lots of late days at work as Twitchy adjusts to being one staff down.

Now I must return to making instructional videos.

I participated in a focus group last night for Mr. Mikes. Yes, that restaurant chain which was everywhere across the province in my childhood (I have fond memories of the salad bar in the Prince George restaurant from my youth) which reinvented itself as a classier, smaller chain. They had 69 restaurants at their peak ( Read more... )

Persephone_qd and TwitchyWitchy got all energized and whipped up a plan for the basement and made sure that they are on the same page. There was worry that they had drastically different designs in mind, but it became clear that they essentially had a similar and compatible vision. We will have a play space including a fourth bathroom and the suite will be a one bedroom, ( Read more... )

Saw two good-sized deer across the street from my house yesterday. They seemed mostly relaxed and were stopping traffic even though they weren't in the street.

Smokey has earned a new name..."Rocket".

Persephone_qd bought herself a 50cc scooter yesterday. It is a Saga Retro (not unlike this one... http://www.sagacanada.ca/retro-50cc-scooter-fe.asp), a few years old. We visited a guy in Surrey and she liked it enough to buy it for $900. She also took one low-speed tumble into ( Read more... )

Bought a new TV on the weekend from one of Persy's students who happens to work at Future Shop. It is a pretty sweet 1080p TV. It will play a .avi or mpeg directly from a USB drive, plus we can hook up our six laptops to it through HDMI ( Read more... )

Where's that darn Rapture!?! Did I sleep in and miss it? :D

I have a plastic tooth, a temporary crown while the proper one gets made. It felt very strange for the few minutes I was without that tooth. The new one gets installed in a week.

I am feeling very good about myself. I walked up the hill and got all the way to the entrance to Pinecone-Burke Provincial Park and back. That is a total of 8.15 km and a rise of 290m.

Next time - better shoes, water and a full cell battery for the GPS and tunes.

Here is my route.

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." -- Martin Luther King, Jr ( Read more... )