Maybe it won’t be as bad as I think, but I know it will.
lyrics found here
Ooops, he did it again!
Last night sometime Yoshi got downstairs and ate the remaining cat food! That dawg. Again this morning his water dish was empty, and he wasn’t interested in his food. What to do? I think we may try putting the cats food on top of the freezer and keeping the bag inside a cupboard.
:nono: Bad yoshi!
Wednesday the photography club met up in Market Square for our latest shoot. It was quite fun, especially when one of the members stuck her head through an open window and asked a music instructor if she could take a couple pictures of the instructor and the student!
It would appear Yoshi wandered downstairs and helped himself to some ocean fish and rice cat food! No wonder he was thirsty and not wanting his own food.
After the nap I got up and went down stairs. I saw a tag on the front door and realized it was the UPS dude. Dang I missed him! I retrieved the tag and sat on the couch. I then noticed that the tag said the package was left by the front door! Yay!
I ran to the door and sure enough hidden behind a flower pot was a small brown box. I tore into it (carefully), and extracted my shiny new Half Jacket XLJ’s from Oakley Canada. These are replacements for my broken Zeros which had been discontinued. Mmmmm, I love Oakleys. They are soo comfortable and have excellent optics. I am sure these will have a long lifetime with me.
I hate being sick. I have been cooped up at home since Tuesday and I hate it. Yeuck! My cold is improving though. I actually went to work for a couple hours today to finish off some stuff I had kicking around. We are close to a deadline, so I hated having some code checked out, ut not complete.
I am home again though to rest though. Almost time for a nap.
I picked up Mike and gang, then bombed out to the ferry. By 9:45 were were on the Seymour Parkway on our way to meet up with some MTBR regulars that I know. I was looking forward to meeting up with PatT and Gregg (Mellow Yellow) who both had come up from Washington state. Other Vancouverites included Tim (rotr no more), JimC, CraigH, and Trevor (006_007).
We headed on up to CBC and prepared for battle.
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We lef the truxk and headed down to CBC for some real fun. Woops, I think someone spilled their grease gun on CBC. It was very slick, and soon the Victoria crew was heard letting air out of their tires. Wow, I couldn’t get over how slippery everything was. It was a weird feeling to be slithering over rocks, and down ladder bridges. Quickly though I got in a groove and started to feel some flow down the trail.
We found some small hits, and some log rides.
On the first run we ended up taking CBC, then Corkscrew to Pingu, then Pangor and down to the parking lot. Loads of fun. While in the parking lot JimC discovered that his shiny bullit needs some new Dual Crown forks, and a new front wheel. Here he is trying them out.
The Victoria crew headed up for a second run and decided to skip CBC. This time around we hit Corkscrew, Pingu, then Boogeyman. We were faster down the trail this time, and it was a lot of fun.
Nearing the bottom, on the double track back to the vehicles, I flatted my front. It was pretty silly, and I am not sure how I did it. After retrieving the my truck from the top I drove the remainder of the Victoria Crew for one last run, while I headed down to get some coffee and a snack.
In all it was a great day. Lots of good riding, and it was good to ride with the Vancouver crew again. I can’t believe how long it had been since I had ridden with PatT and Mellow. Thanks a bunch guys.
The ferry trip home was fun, and there was a great sunset.
It somehow seemed fitting that I spent all my sunlight hours travelling. I left home on the dark, and arrived back home in the dark.
Yesterday this was taken to a whole new level. Behind VMI is the office for the Airporter. They sometimes use the curb in front of VMI to park.
As I was leaving work on Friday, an Airporter bus pulls up and blocks the driveway, just as I approached it. The driver saw me, but ignored me anyway. He stopped and got out to talk to three of his colleagues. I couldn’t believe he was doing this.
I sat there a couple minutes hoping he would jump back in and take off, but no, the three of them stood there talking, writing on their clipboards and just ignoring me.
I was starting to get very mad. I honked and asked them to move the bus. One of them turned to me and said “go around”. I replied I couldn’t because I can’t see the street. They continued talking. I didn’t feel I could safely pull out onto the street at rush hour, and turn left. Oak St is very busy at that time of day, and where the bus was parked blocked me from seeing a large portion of the oncoming traffic.
I was furious. Some of the passengers were looking at me, then talking, and I really wished I could hear what they were saying. The Airporter drivers swapped a couple passengers from one bus to another, and finally after 10 minutes or so, a driver got into the bus, then left.
I was shaking I was so mad. I was forced to sit there because they were inconsiderate enough to block the driveway of a building that they are not a tenant in. For that I not only revoke their drivers licences, I also revoke their business licence.
I will be calling the police today and see if I can lodge a complaint. It was quite ridiculous.
The stylus and the software are easy to acquire. The cradle is a different story. I wandered up to Staples. What a find! They had a cradle that would work, and it was only $5. I snapped that up, rushed back to Future Shock and bought the PDA.
I was so proud of myself. I got home last night, dropped some batteries in, and was prepared to be amazed.
Amazed I was. The PDA didn’t work! The digitizer was messed up and wasn’t accepting any input at all. :grr:
I tired resetting it, I tried the hard reset. Nothing worked. In the end I had to return the PDA to Future Shock.
It took a long time to work my way through their system, but I insisted they give my money back, and not push me off to their 1-800 number. Anyway, I still need to return the cradle.
Happy Birthday to Yoshi! He turned 5 today. Thanks to Sue for reminding me.