Looking at the calendar this morning I was amazed… Truly amazed.
I’ve been blogging (or, sharing my life in a digital capacity — It wasn’t called blogging then) for EIGHT YEARS, as of today. September 30, 1997 was an interesting day. I remember thinking that evening that it would be really great to be [...]

EWW YUCK! What happened to our weather that I could actually boast about for the last several months? Today was horrific — Sheet rain for most of the day, and quite honestly, it seemed like it was dusk for the entire day… So DARK!

Welcome to Fall, folks. It’s here, and it’s here [...]

Last night was awesome! I’m really glad I took a little time out for myself, and went off to The Rugby Club to meet up with Dayment, MJ, Nelson, and Miranda! It was really nice to meet Miranda for the first time, I’m glad she came out! — Like Dayment, and MJ before [...]

I’m having a fabulous day! Fabulous!!! I didn’t even care this afternoon when it started pouring down with rain during my walk to the Driver Services Office to get my new driver’s license (that’s going to be one laughable photo I’ll be carrying around in my purse for another couple of years: Yikes!)… [...]

During a recent conversation with MJ on blogging, we discussed how blog entries can be taken out of context, and how I wished people weren’t so worried about writing and editing, and re-editing their blog entries, essentially filtering out any human emotion they may be having at the moment, thus avoiding any potential mis-understanding a [...]

Man, was it ever cold coming home tonight on the Black Beast, and I was only riding for about 10 minutes! Even with wearing my new warmer riding jacket (well, new to me) it was darn nipply out there. I’m actually having ‘plug-in’ envy for all those that can actually heat their gear [...]

Catching up on everything after basically being out of commission for three weeks is taxing my free time! My apologies to anyone I’ve missed returning an email to — I haven’t forgotten about you!
Trying to find balance, I’ve been mixing a small amount of social in with an abundance of work — Like tomorrow [...]

I PASSED! There was only one area that the examiner guy (we’ll call him ‘power-hungry assessment boy’) could knock me for, and it was lame! I was in 3rd gear going 80km/hr on the highway, and the guy had to freaking call his supervisor because he wanted to fail me for that!! [...]

Today’s the big day! I’m taking an extended lunch break this afternoon to do my road test! I ended up deciding to rent one of the BCSC bikes, because my gong-show weekend did not include picking up my speedometer cable to fix the speedo nor installing the missing horn on the Black Beast. [...]

I am going back to bed. Because I was worrying about work last night, I didn’t actually get to sleep until nearly 3, after finally closing my file down at 2:30am. I’m zonked. I could definitely use another hour of sleep, and then I’ll need this full day to get this project [...]

Some of my clients actually read this blog. Let’s hope they just skip over this little entry on a Saturday afternoon!
Crap — Today is not a terribly focussed day for me. I have LOADS of projects for my ‘outside’ clients which I’ve been able to stave off for a week while my health [...]

It’s official! I love living alone, but hate the lack of interaction with others when doing so. Perhaps it’s leftovers of three weeks being very sick, and being at home alone during most of that time, but it has to change. I’ve decided…
I hate coming home to an empty townhouse.
I really dislike [...]

I called up ICBC today to see when I could get my road test booked for my Class 6, because surprise, surprise… Their online booking system wasn’t working. When I finally got through, the woman kindly told me that I’d have to wait until (drum roll please!) late NOVEMBER! Uh, hello, we get [...]

Just a quick post to say I woke up this morning feeling faaaabulooous! Heheh! I’m getting better health-wise, and things in my life are going swimmingly well. I’m loving life, kids!
I’m off for a ride to Squamish right after work, and then catching up with friends to watch the season premiere of [...]

My brother married his sweetheart of over four years on Sunday! It was a really sweet wedding, and the bride and groom giggled their way through the ceremony — That’s the way those two are with each other. The reception was about the right size… I’m guessing about 65 people, and the hall [...]

I’m intrigued by a show I saw for the first time tonight, “The Perfect Date” which has some minor parallels to the whole ‘arranged marriage’ philosophy:
“This is the show that gives your friends and family the chance to show that when it comes to your love life, they know best. Each show starts with a [...]

I own a beautiful Ibanez acoustic guitar. It’s very pretty. It lives in Vern’s livingroom, though. Why? Well, for one, I don’t know how to play even a chord for starters. Vern wanted to learn how to play, so he asked to borrow it… That was a year ago! [...]

I made it to Squamish on the Black Beast last night, and I didn’t even kill myself. Mind you, I was in good hands with Jason and Donna, who had me sandwiched in up and back — Just in case, you know, I fell… At least one of them would be running me over [...]

Jason and I headed back to where it all went horribly wrong a few months ago tonight… And this time, I conquered the Whytecliff Park ride without any major problems!

Here’s a photo Jason attempted to take of my horrible helmet head at Whytecliff… How about no?

Here’s an updated photo of my Black Beast in all [...]

Yesterday, Donna and I went to spring the Black Beast from my mechanic in Richmond, where she’d been waiting nearly a week ready to go… Unfortunately, I was just too sick to pick her up before then. Halleluja for a bike that functions the way it is supposed to! The exorcism must have [...]