arrived in barcelona today, and so far it�s been pretty easy to get around with my rudimentary grasp of spanish, although i’m not familiar with catalunyan…
had some transportation glitches along the way, notably in toronto on the way to london, then the tube gates shutting in front of my eyes upon arrival at heathrow, then [...]

I’ve been in absentia here for nearly a week, but rest assured, I am still alive. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say, or that I haven’t done anything… it’s actually completely the opposite, only there just aren’t enough hours in a day to, ehm, write about the day!
I pulled a couple of [...]

Maribeth and Megan’s original due date was March 25, I think, so they’re pretty much at regular newborn weight right now, although Maribeth is still smaller than Megan. Maybe that will always be while they’re still babies, and Maribeth will catch up eventually, I don’t know. They’re identical twins, but I can tell them apart [...]

I’ve been watching the Canon A80 on e-Bay for months now. It’s dropped down in price, so today I figured I’d better hurry up and get it, since I’ve only got a week left before I leave and far too much to do. I’ve scoped out the A80, and even walked into Inter-Pro Photo to [...]

I was talking to my colleague yesterday about my trip, and realized I’m going to be in 11 different airports on this trip:
VancouverTorontoLondon-HeathrowBirminghamBarcelona-GironaMalagaEast MidlandsLiverpoolParisDinardLondon-Stansted
Heathrow, then Vancouver again. I think this might be the record for a single trip. I thought last year there were more, but there was a lot of overlanding, in cars. I [...]

from a friend of a friend’s site

Time to get crackin’… I haven’t booked any accommodation in Spain yet.
I now have two Virgin train tickets from London to Wolverhampton… the second one in case I miss the first train. My insurance–ha! ha! If you’ve heard the London stories, you’ll know why.
I’m going to take regional buses in Spain, and take my chances–no [...]

Eliza had two passes to the Vancouver Auto Show, so we headed over to BC Place yesterday afternoon after I picked up the rest of the display items from the Granville Optical window, and lunch at Hon’s on Robson.

I got a phone call yesterday morning from Cheryl, saying that they decided since it was a nice day that they would take all the kids to the beach, the twins included!
Oy vey, what an operation: getting 3 small children and two newborns all packed up and ready for the beach. Then there are all [...]

You need RealPlayer for this, by the way.
Rick Mercer’s rant on why Canada should annex the Caribbean Islands Turks & Caicos.
There’s been some talk of this for a while now. Canadians argue that we need a holiday destination to escape the Great White North, but frankly, this is hogwash–what do we need to annex these [...]