WHERE’S GAIL?
After a rough and tumble week of packing and moving, I finally got my sorry carcass on Air Canada Flight 548 to JFK on Thursday and vegged all the way to New York…
… literally: on a lark, I ordered a vegetarian meal so I could get served before the rest of coach class [...]

Winter. I’d postponed it for as long as I could. David wrote about it in his Multiply journal, so I knew what I was getting into:
Winter, finally
Here’s an entry Jan 7th about the ice storm in the Poconos:
The Perfect (Ice) Storm
Yesterday we went shopping for some warm clothes for me, since I don’t have [...]

[photo by Allan & Cheryl]
The five MJE’s as of Thursday. They’re moving Feb 1, hence the boxes in the background.

Hung out with Heather for the evening, which included:

some pre-dinner errand-running for me (post office and Staples)
Gyoza King
a pitstop at the revolving Cloud 9 restaurant atop the Landmark Hotel on Robson Street
Mondo Gelato
finishing off with a tour of her new house — which I’ll never see again since she’s going to Korea next month [...]

[photo by dotpolka]
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* Didn’t want to draw the pervs to this blog, ya know?

Vancouver Originally uploaded by thelastminute
On Flickr, I noticed a photo of False Creek at an angle I hadn’t seen before. If you click on it, you’ll see I’ve added a note marking my highrise.
I like the lighting on this shot, too. Go check out Duncan’s other photos.

Mamy’s Bar, Lake Lugano
I had dinner with my friend Vicky at Banana Leaf on Denman Street last night. Malaysian cuisine: all I can say is m-m-m-m-m-m….. we had roti, calamari with chili sauce, and I had a curry chicken. It brought me back to my time in Malaysia and eating at street vendors, [...]

Dine Out Vancouver 2005
It’s that time of year again, and I’ll be here for part of it. Yay! In the seasonal lull that is January-February, restaurants can participate in a fixed-price menu program that is promoted by Tourism Vancouver: 3 courses for either $15, $25, or $35. It’s the third year Vancouver has put it [...]

So as you may or may not know, I’m moving residence in a week to Pennsylvania. What this entails, besides the standard-issue moving malarkey, is that in preparation for this 4,000km transfer I’ve created all these little projects that — in aggregate — amount to a full-time flippin’ job!
The most excruciating one I did detail [...]

Too funny…
Fancy’s commentary on the Spanish Catholic Church endorsing condom usage.
Wanna see why I should never go into Marketing?
Go bookmark Fancy’s blog. She’s underappreciated up there in Edmonton.