• 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

2010: It’s going to be a great winter

Environment Canada has been freaking me out a little with all their too hot to snow forecasts. So in an act of desperation for some good news, I did a search and found the Farmers Almanac.
Apparently the Farmers Almanac has an 80 – 85% accuracy rating on long range forecasts and they predict snow and [...]

I have a new goal in life

I might wait until I’m about to die anyway, I figure you can do this when you’re old right?

Blog Suggestions

Sometimes I run out of ideas of things to put on here. Usually it is time that holds me back, but sometimes I need suggestions. This was suggested by Ryan:

Power Ballads

I don’t know what it is about them, but for some reason power ballads just make me want to yell and scream like a teenage girl at a Beyonce concert, or sing at the top of my lungs like an old lady at a Celine Dion concert.
Apparently I am not alone. I was just listening [...]

Michael and Hobbes

I tend try to get my friends to do stuff that I want them to do. I guess that is selfish to an extent, but really it’s because I enjoy them and I think they would enjoy the stuff I do, so my intentions are good.
Still, I sometimes wonder if this is what it’s like [...]

Eating Healthy

For a while now Kirsty and I have realised we eat pretty much the same foods over and over. We go to the supermarket and buy the same foods most weeks then prepare some variety of dinner with what we have bought. After we got back from Europe we were inspired and starting getting a [...]

Summer brilliance

They say a conversation has gone bad when you are reduced to discussing the weather, is that also true for a blog?
When we first moved to Vancouver we were told that it rains for 9 months of the year and the other 3 are nice. Well there is an element of truth to that, it [...]

I like waterslides

O.k. so I don’t see how this can possibly be real, but it’s still cool!

Fireworks

So there were these fireworks the other day, some from South Africa and some from God.
Every year 4 countries compete in these fireworks championships just of the beach in Vancouver. They are consistently amazing and on Saturday night South Africa put on a spectacular display which included some new things and just blowing up everything [...]

This is driving