Message in a Bucket (2.3 MBs)
Surrey, BC - Aug 17, 2004
This was a videoclip I made last August that I selected randomly from my hard drive to turn into a movie. I haven’t made a movie clip in months, and I had this sudden urge to play with iMovie. (Oh, and of course it had [...]

Winter sunset by AviatorDave
A lovely photo David took yesterday. In eight days, I’ll be back in Pennsylvania.
(It’s warmed up considerably here in Vancouver. The unusual cold spell we’ve been having has broken and the snow is gone, replaced by rivers of rain.)

Meggy on the runMegan and Maribeth, nearly 1
I was over at Allan and Cheryl’s place for the evening, helping my dad and stepmum babysit the five kidlets. I hadn’t seen them for a couple of weeks due to illnesses, so when I came through the door, I was mobbed by the older three. The babies [...]

Regular queuing at Stepho’s
Click on this weblink and see what it looks like in front of Stepho’s Greek restaurant on Davie St. — on a regular basis.
I don’t get it. It’s a Greek restaurant, surrounded by other Greek restaurants that are just as good, if not better (at moussaka, anyway, my benchmark). It’s not [...]

Shoppers Drug Mart Optimum Points Donation Program
I was at Shoppers Drug Mart earlier tonight, and when I was at the counter there was a sign that said points could be donated online to charity. As of January 12, more than $677,000 was raised this way for the Canadian Red Cross Tsunami Relief Fund!
I’ve always wondered [...]

new MoMAWolcott Hotel
I finally booked my flight to New York last night — I leave January 27, in two weeks. I still have a lot to do, but at least I’ve got a date to work around. I wanted to hang out in the city, so David decided to take Friday the 28th off. I’m [...]

Canada Place
This is the closest I’ve ever felt to winter in Vancouver — there’s been snow on the ground for more than 24 hours! This time, it’s been hanging around for 6 days!
It first snowed on the 6th, and that day I was thinking it snowed around the same time last January as well. I [...]

I’ve been working on fixing my archives for what seems like forever now, but I feel like I’m making some progress — I’m nearly at the end of 2003 (I’m working backwards). It’s EXCRUCIATING. I’ve tried to compile a list of what I’ve been doing:
- re-uploading old photos to Hello, copying the code and pasting [...]

The wedding venues are booked and deposits have been paid. I’m glad we’re sticking with our original ideas, much like the wedding and engagement rings, because it goes along with our historical themes. The rings were designed in an Art Nouveau style, and I wanted to have the wedding and receptions in heritage houses. We’ll [...]

In my flight research of the past day, I’ve noticed that January is my typical month to blitz my list of travel sites. As in years past, I look to April for my Great Escape — that precious term break between Winter and Summer semesters at university. Most people search for flights in January to [...]