Last night I had my first weekday shift at the Jericho Beach Hostel, in part because I wanted to do a shift with David from Prague, who’d been volunteering around 35 hours per week at the infodesk. He’s leaving tomorrow to return to Prague, and I wanted to have a chat before he took off. [...]

On Monday night, I hosted my first ‘Global Freeloader’ — Silvia from Munich, Germany. If I had been more with-it at that early hour yesterday morning, I would’ve taken a photo of her IN the apartment instead of just a tele-photo from my balcony as she was leaving for the airport! Anyway, we had a [...]

Here it is the day before I leave, and I finally get a hold of Scott Daniels, this guy who lives in San Francisco who offered me a place to stay. I managed to cancel the reservation at the HI-SF Downtown on Ellis Street, and kept it under the 24-hr notice.

Even more catch-up in store!!

OK, I’m a little behind… time for a bit of catching up. Why am I awake at 5:20am?? Because I was babysitting last night, and I was so tired by the time Allan & Cheryl came home, I decided to kip on the couch. That kip stretched out longer than I’d planned. I believe this [...]

I’m back in one piece from my weekend in Kamloops. What a riot!
Saturday, August 17:
I crashed and burned on the couch Friday night after a long day at the office in Sechelt. I didn’t even have the energy to make it to my bed. I wanted to get up early to get to Kamloops [...]

If you are waiting for a big download and in need of some amusement, check out amIright.com. It’s a database of misheard lyrics, and some of them are SO FUNNY… I know there are plenty of songs from the 80s that I sang along to as a kid, and had no idea what the lyrics [...]

Another late night — but not from work or school, just a taste of life from a year ago… saw the superb Mexican film Y Tu Mama Tambien at The Ridge, then food & bevs at DV8, followed by late-night coffee at the Blenz on Davie and Granville. I recognized one of the main actors, [...]

The guy with the 40-ft houseboat in San Francisco e-mailed me back earlier today, and he says that he has a friend coming to visit. He was very gracious about declining, though — the site says it’s customary for hosts not to reply when they don’t approve the request, for whatever reason, rather than say [...]

Yesterday was a blur!