Donation Pie

Mmmm, pie!??! Last night Suede and I donated blood again. Blood donation 23 for me! It was a little more time consuming this time due to our recent travels to Mexico (and the accompanying vaccination we got). In the end we got through, donated our blood, then moved on to the cookie table where the volunteers were serving pie! I had never seen this before but some of the local businesses sometimes donate food for the donaters. The volunteer told us how the Subway close by once donated sub sandwiches all night long. Very cool.

After our recuperation period, we went out for dinner to Yoshi Sushi.

Oak Memory

Sunday the photo club met in Oak Bay for our shoot. It took me a few minutes to get into shooting, but once I got on a roll, I ended up with some great shots. I practiced a new handheld technique to try and get better, more in focus pitures. On most digital cameras there ia a high speed mode. I shot using that most of the day, and certainly noticed that of the sequence shots I took, some were more in focus than others. Some even dramatically so! Very cool. Downside is that it chews up the memory on the card. Ah well, time to buy a bigger card?

The rest of my pics are here.

Restaurant Pictures

This past weekend some of Suede’s family visited with us. As I mentioned in a previous post Friday we went out to our favorite restaurant, and as usual, it didn’t dissappoint. Well, I quite enjoyed my meal, but Suede and her step-mom were less than ecstatic about their dinner.

Saturday Suede, her step-mom, and I took Yoshi to Matheson Lake and did that jaunt in what seemed like record time. I still found time to take some pictures of the colored leaves. Yoshi of course loved the romp in the woods. The neat thing about that walk, like so many surrounding Victoria, is that you don’t see anyone else there. When we got to the parking lot there were no other vehicles, and when we were finished, there was one other vehicle there. Very nice considering it is about a 15-20 minute drive from our home.

After the walk, we stopped for some food at My Chosen Cafe, then headed home to get cleaned up. Lovely start to the day.

Commenting Approval

I’ve had to disable anonymous commenting for a bit. I was getting large amounts of spam comments, and it was taking me forever to delete them from the approval queue. All you Acno’s types will have to login or register now.

I may return to anonymous commenting in a week or so and see what happens, but for now you will have to login or register to leave a comment.

Hour Version

Well, I just spent the last hour or so doing some site upgrades. First I upgraded my Gallery version to it’s latest.

Then I spent a lot more time upgrading my version of Drupal to 4.5.0 There are some cool things about this new version, but once again I need to redo my theme. That is alway a pain in the ass. I think I got everything else upgraded and working again though. If I missed something, just shoot me an email.

Support Home

Aaaah. Long week at work. Thankfully I got a lot done this week despite working out bugs with support coming from India (12.5 hour time difference makes for difficulties in transferring information).

So now I sit here at my desk relaxing a little, enjoying a beer :guzzle:

Yum.

Must go home soon. Suede and I are heading out to our favorite restaurant for dinner with her Dad and step-mom.

Last Halloween

Last Halloween post for this year. These were the Jack O Lanterns that Suede and I carved. Mine is the top one, and Suede’s is the cat.

Trick Sparklers

Halloween was quite fun this year. Suede and I joined the children of some friends for trick or treating. It is an annual tradition for Suede to join them, and I have gone a couple times now. It is very fun, and the kids usually have some great costumes.

After the candy trek, we went and set off some fireworks and played with sparklers. Lots of fun.

Pics are here.

Favorite Screeching

Halloween is Yoshi’s least favorite time of year. He really gets freaked out by the firecrackers screeching and exploding. One just went off outside, and Yoshi came running up to me, and crawled under the desk, and is laying at my feet right now. He seems to seek out enclosed areas for comfort.

Last night, when we went out, we brought Yoshi with us, but he stayed in the truck while we went trick or treating with friends’ kids. He was a little scared, and was shaking when we got back to the truck, but he wasn’t frantic. In fact, he was laying down the whole time.

Thankfully Halloween is over, so the noises should end pretty soon now. This will make Yoshi happy.

Crispness Pointer

I love this time of year. I like the crispness in the morning air, the changing colors, the darkness for sleeping.

I love walking amongst the leaves hearing them crunch beneath me.

Fall is a season of change, and sometimes I find that invigorating.

The above pictues were taken at Elk Lake last weekend when Suede, Yoshi and I took a walk in the park. It was a nice walk that we used o kill the time before a vet appointment for Yoshi. Nearing the end of the walk we met another, younger, pointer whose owner was playing fetch. We joined in and played for a bit. The interesting thing about this other pointer was that she was almost all brown. Very sleek looking when a solid color. The other owner though Yoshi was very handsome too.

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