Daily Activities

Yesterday was sunny and warm. Today is windy and rain. So we’re going fishing in Sooke. Back from fishing. Shawn was supposed to pick me up, then we’d meet Mark at the Colwood Timmy’s. But Shawn went to a kegger night before. His straight forward, 5am email: Can not drive . Cannot go . So…

I’ve never taken the #14 bus further than downtown, when in fact, for $2, you can take it across the freakin’ province. By the time I got to the birthday party in View West—er Vic Royal—or is it Esquimalt?—I was ready to chuck my dinner down the stairs of the double-decker, so motion sick was…

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Recovering from the Best Potluck Party of 2004, I spent my Saturday with two friends flying kites (a kite boarding trainer and a regular two-line control one) and competing for the top score in Powerball: Preparing the Kite Board trainer after fixing one of its many string snaps, a consequence of bad knots, beginner control…

Completed the annual move-the-girlfriend-to-North-Van this weekend: two car loads from Victoria and one U-Haul truck from storage. It’s actually a lot easier to move someone out of a storage cubicle than in. And her new two-bedroom basement suite in Upper Lonsdale is pretty sweet: new fridge and stove, very spacious, good lighting, lots of windows,…

After a nice ride around the waterfront this evening I was watering my landlady’s plants (she’s gone to a “fabric arts” fair on some Gulf Island for a few days). So as I’m watering these young geraniums or whatever, still hanging in some plastic support bag, this insect, or so I thought, comes leaping out…

A few weeks ago the Girlfriend took me on a surprise outing to the All Fun Recreation Park in Millstream, just outside Victoria. I used to ride/drive by this place, nestled in an active gravel pit, on the way to mountain biking, before the new subdivision and golf course put an end to it (the…

The Girlfriend’s car is eating through an exorbitant amount of gas these days. Even taking into account this summer’s price hike at the pumps, the little red ’86 Mazda 323 seems to have sucked up at least three $40 refills in the last 1000 kms. I remarked the car probably has an eating disorder, or…

View of Canadian Sea Cadets firing the gun during the annual Ceremony of the Flags on the BC Leg. lawns. The audience was warned to cover the ears of babies and pets during the booms.

With the first overcast (with polution?) sky in almost two weeks, the sun was red last night.

Peaches, 1991-2004.

Moms with home. Pilings in foreground, foundation exposed, basement studs, then first floor wall with kitchen windows and deck door. Foundation and pilings to be completely buried, and will have (the pilings) posts going up another story to support the first-floor deck. Second floor and roof not built yet. My hands, I now realize, could…

Including taxes/fees, a flight from Victoria to Kelowna on Saturday morning cost me $78 and took 50 minutes (pictured: my view from seat 14A). The bus cost more and takes, well, 12 times as long. So it was straight from the plane to the Moms and her car. We bought two door knobs, some gloves…

There’s those awkward moments, when mingling at parties, which are to be expected and tactfully diverted, yet will occasionally bubble over into all-out social miscarriages like a barroom brawl.

An ever-expanding list of work, recreation and other things I’m gonna find time for.

To fill some gaps between posts as I prepare some more comprehensive writings, some things I’ve been up to lately.

After a year without it, the lightbulb in the Sears Kenmore Coldspot fridge has been replaced. Its original lightbulb was removed to replace the one in the lavalamp. And so now when you open the fridge door, instead of murky darkness, everything is illuminated and you get the feeling you forgot to turn the light…

A gel-like, green substance was growing from the pothole in my left palm yesterday, which prompted the girlfriend to take clinical action. I was obliged to see my doctor, who hadn’t attended to me since my last bout of road rash like four years ago. After a little local anaesthetic, some iodine-brush scrubbing of the…

…not black. Because I was hit by one today on my bike and didn’t see it coming. Well, I could have paid more attention. In fact, I was actually preparing to dodge a nice friendly yellow speed bump in the Family Foods parking lot (McKenzie at Cedar Hill) when an ninja stealth assassin black speed…

I have a sort of four-tiered, multi-staged blister on my left big toe. Fascinating. I formed a blister a couple days ago playing squash, and then that blister got a blister, and this second-level blister got its own blister until the whole triple-decker came loose today, like pooled layers of velum, revealing some very red-with-blood,…

As a side note to my Bubba Ho-tep entry, as I was riding home this evening I noticed about 20 wire coat hangers clinking and hopping in the middle of the road under my tires as I powered up Cedar Hill X right across from that new senior home. And I bought a new shirt…

Just completed attending the $20 ($5 for actual grads) UVic 2004 Graduation Party, theme: It’s a Jungle Out There. Seeing as I didn’t go to the 2003 party when I actually finished school, and the fact a friend invited me along tonight, and that I’ve been feeling overly corralled in my bachelor first-floor suite for…

It is 21 C outside, very little wind, very sunny and I went for one of the sweetest waterfront rides I’ve done in a while. Everything felt faster, smelled fresher, looked cleaner. All-Star and I did a hot lap in Bastion Square, coffee on the sidewalk at Il Torrefazione, watching the new flux of tourists.…

Got another flat – or as the Brits would say “a bloody puncture” – on the Gardin today, my fourth in half as many months. That’s way up from my like 0.5 flats/year average over the last decade. I’m certainly not fatter or something. It’s really a combination of less-than-steller replacement tires – which I…

I just poured boiling water over my thumb! Pretty much by accident. See I bought this 500 g little tub of Canada No.1 White Unpasturized Liquid Honey and I hate it when sticky food stuffs leak, like syrup bottles or 2-litre Cokes, and dribble down the outside of their walls and form tar pits of…