I suppose I haven't updated in a little while. Joel and I are on vacation in Cape Breton visiting his parents and grandmother. We've been here since early Tuesday morning, technically speaking. It should have been late Monday night, as we were supposed to arrive before midnight, but Air Canada is operated by morons and they delayed our final flight ( Read more... )

'A' Channel showed up for Doug's funeral and Joel was able to e-mail it to me today, so I uploaded it to youtube. It's nice, and our pastor has a good little word about him and you can even see Joel briefly (at 0:35, right next to the girl, who is his friend Shauna (I finally met her for the first time last week and love her)).

So here it is:

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So my new friend, Kelly told me about this awesome website -- marinetraffic.com. It shows all the ships that are broadcasting AIS all over the world. On Friday for awhile I was able to track the Whitehorse and Edmonton (but the Brandon had their AIS turned off, which really makes sense, considering they are military ships anyway ( Read more... )

I went for another walk today. I didn't have a whole lot to do today except send in (hopefully) the last document that Citizenship and Immigration needs, so I went to the mailbox on the corner and then continued on my walk. I brought my camera just in case I might see something interesting even though I didn't expect much, considering the overcast ( Read more... )

There's nothing better on a hot summer day than getting misted by a mountain waterfall in Paradise. In fact, it was Paradise River.

I should have posted this yesterday . . .

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Well I ended up finding things to do for Canada Day. It wasn't terribly exciting though, at least not until night. I decided to walk downtown and the HMCS Nanaimo was there. I think that was actually down in Seattle when Joel's ship was there. It was open for tours and I was bored so I figured I may as well get a tour of it. Of course, that was a ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow (or "today" by the time most of you read this, probably) is my first official Canada Day. What should I do ( Read more... )

Today I went to Costco to see if they had any bookcases in the store that I had seen online, but they didn't. however, I was pleased to find that there was a Home Depot right nearby, so I decided to check there as well, and found TWO bookcases that would be great, one of which was on sale for only $20 (I think the original price was $90+). Even ( Read more... )