• In Brief

    • Sigh, just about to ride home in the dark - daylight savings finishing is a bad thing. 4 days ago
    • I just found out that NZ was the first country that U2 got a number 1 single in. That makes me proud, and it was for "Pride" 1 week ago
    • U2 concert tonight, being opened by the Black Eyed Peas - should be a fun night! 1 week ago
    • Why do I never have my camera when I need it. Orange sun glowing of red leaves with a dark stormy background and me without a camera 2 weeks ago
    • I'm going to be home for 2 or 3 weeks in Feb, really excited about seeing my nephews 3 weeks ago
    • I am now legally a permanent resident of Canada - woo hoo 3 weeks ago
    • google maps street view is kinda creepy, i just looked at my parents house. I think there are some trees missing since i was there last 4 weeks ago
    • Going to see Pearl Jam and Ben Harper tonight - really quite excited!! 1 month ago
    • That's pre season, pre 1 month ago
    • Watching ore season hockey. Definately feeling like a season change is on the cards 1 month ago

Tofino – Just like home

This weekend just gone Simon and Vanessa invited us to join them for a long weekend in Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver island. We gratefully accepted and are glad we did. That place was so much like home I couldn’t decide if it was making me homesick or if it was so much [...]

Ten things

I’m a little mad at Dan right now, you see he “tagged” me in his blog and apparently that means i’m “it”, or it’s my turn or something stupid like that – it is a little bit too facebookish for my liking. However, the “tag” was to write 10 things that people may not know [...]

Unfortunate technology

About a week ago I installed iGoogle as my home page at work and at home. I’m not convinced yet that it is very good, I guess time will tell on that one.
One mistake I made though was installing the weather feature which can track more than one place at a time, so I set [...]

Senova Restaurant Review, great food, great bathrooms :-)

At work when people are talking about their weekends, most people that I talk to will have eaten out and had a fair amount to drink, then they sound amazed that I went snowboarding or mountain biking and wonder how we can afford it. Well we don’t eat out very often, it is the one area that [...]

Hanging out

Cheesy title I know, it always cracks me up that the names climbing gyms are usually puns or rip offs from movies that involve climbing, for example the vancouver gym is called Cliffhanger, the one that we we go to is called The Hang Out – I just decided to follow the trend.
This weekend we [...]