May 10th, 2009
My condo is coming together. On Saturday night I was getting tired of constantly digging through boxes for stuff so I spent the entire evening setting stuff up. My under the stairs closet is finally cleaned up and the piece of junk Ikea shelving unit the previous tenant had left behind got pulled apart and thrown away. Once I’d swept up all the drywall dust I could finally hide some of my less-used things in there. Then I put up my second bookshelf and stocked it with all my software and business books (2 shelves of business related books! I should start a company or something).
This morning I set up my Yamaha electronic drumkit so I could finally get down to some practicing for our band again. Not that I did much today. Reilly phoned just as I’d finished setting up and we got together for a late brunch at the Alibi Room across the street. I love that place and it’s only half a block away now! He and Miranda have started fixing up their 1969 Beetle and it’s made me all envious of their cool car. I kinda miss having a car I can monkey with. Mind you, the Civic’s been a great vehicle. I’m not sure what I’ll go for when it finally dies. Hopefully that’s a few years off yet.
Back to Friday night when a whole swarm of us descended on Steamworks for Shan’s birthday. Good times at Steamworks. Aaron ran us through how STV works and I’m going to do a little more research on that before making a decision. I like the idea of proportional representation, but I’m not convinced that STV is the best way to go. Especially since there seems to be few people who really understand it. I need to do more reading tomorrow.
I spent Thursday evening at this ridiculously huge sports bar called Schanks in New Westminster. This place has 150 hi-def televisions on every corner of the bar so you can see the game on at least three screens even if you’ve fallen down drunk on the floor. The cheering from the mass inside didn’t help the poor Canucks who sat back in the third period trying to protect their 1 goal lead. Eventually Chicago was able to capitalize on a couple of mistakes and slam a puck in the net with 2 minutes left in the 3rd. In overtime they got one more past Luongo to win the game. I didn’t watch the game on Saturday and it sounded like the same ending which puts the Canucks on the ropes in this series. One more loss and it’ll be the end of hockey in Vancouver.
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Sounds like your place is coming together! I think it’s hilarious that you found my photos in the drawer of the unit I sold you. How random is that? Didn’t you use the drawer at your old place? ;)
See ya soon…