It didn't start off that bad. A whiff of smoke in the air isn't uncommon in this area this time of year. My first thought was 'damn, this is going to make running suck.' A little later I looked out the window and noticed that I could actually see the smoke - not just the ubiquitous has when a forest fire's leavings drift through Kelowna, but the ( Read more... )

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Because a meme (although really I doubt that's the proper term for these anymore... random survey, maybe?) is as good a way to relax for 5 minutes as any. Fun side note: I became an amateur plumber today! Having a wife starting up a care home is like getting your own house, only without all that annoying equity crap. For now though:

( Highschool meme )

So as I mentioned earlier, the weekend began by prying myself out of bed at 3 AM Friday morning, then prying a much more zombie-ish wife - who had only gotten home 3.5 hours earlier - out of bed to haul things to the car and drive 6 hours to Tacoma for my grandmother's funeral. Well, more like 7 hours and change, what with the danger of running ( Read more... )

So Heather and I planned to go down to Washington for my cousin's wedding this weekend. Unfortunately, my grandmother - who's had Alzheimer's for 13 years and been incommunicado and bedridden in hospice for the last 5 - took a turn for the worse and died early on the morning of November 1st. Her funeral is tomorrow morning, but my wife works ( Read more... )

I was pretty much taking it for granted since the economic crisis hit, but it's still thrilling to see it come to pass. If ABC and CNN are accurate so far (200 and 194 electoral votes for Obama respectively) the west coast and Hawaii - which are pretty much sure things (to illustrate this, I'm watching a Washington station, and at a rally for the ( Read more... )

So thanks to this damned road closure, it seems everything's hitting us at once. I spent yesterday driving muddy mountain tracks for 4 hours in an effort to go see some apartments - actually basement suites. The first one was nice, but it'd be much smaller than what we have now for more money. I don't think we have much of a choice though, we need ( Read more... )

So, a little background for those who don't know... I live in Penticton and work in Kelowna... the towns are about 65 km apart along the same lake in a high-desert-valley-type environment. Well, because Vancouver is hosting the winter Olympics in 2010, the province has a bunch of cash to spend, and as part of that their doing a road-widening ( Read more... )

It's the occasional video like this that make me sad McCain will likely never be president. Don't get me wrong, I think Obama - or Clinton, had she won the nomination - will be a much better one, especially in the current political climate and against the challenges the next President will face. That said, I don't think McCain would do badly... his ( Read more... )

Forget the future, I weep for the present. I have no idea if that's true, but given some of the students and parents my mom has worked with over the years, I can believe it.