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April 22 2023!!
Apr. 22nd, 2023 11:52 pmso we went to Vancouver for a trip so Shain could see her family. Her sister lives there, her sister's son lives there with his wife and their new baby, and Shain's brother came up from California because his daughter's school was doing a thing in Seattle, and he rented a car and drove down there, saw his daughter just long enough to embarrass her in front of her friends, and then picked up his son at the airport and drove him back to Vancover. We were along on that trip and ate at a Taco Time by the Green River. You know, the one the Green River Killer is named after.
It was a great trip, we stayed with the nephew and the new baby and the new baby is cheerful and generally pleasant. Vancouver seems to have swelled somewhat since I was there last. I mean, it's a big city, always felt like that, but today it feels larger, more scaled up, re-sized somehow. Maybe the Olympics will do that to a town.
Everybody has pretty much given up masking everywhere, with a few exceptions. We masked on the plane along with a very few of our fellow passengers. The Japanese consignment shop in Vancouver had a mask policy in place and the proprietor was enforcing it, too. Some great stuff in that shop.
We saw Shain's friend Teri and my pal Jesse and we did some shopping and a lot of eating. When we went down to Seattle the weather was beautiful blue skies, just right for eating a grilled salmon sandwich on the deck at Pike Place watching the crowds lining up to get into the first Starbucks. The next day it started raining and never really quit for that long, but hey, it's the PNW.
Got right back and replaced the tire that caught some sort of Batman-dart style metal object the day before we left, and did a couple of days at work. Now I'm on my prep day before my colonoscopy tomorrow, which in practical terms means I don't get to ingest anything that isn't a clear liquid, and a lot of those clear liquids are designed to keep me close to the washroom until tomorrow. This is a routine thing for guys my age, in fact I should have had it done a few years ago. But, you know, COVID.
Anyway it's nice to have a day at home where I can work on any one of the fifteen projects I have suspended in air as I tinker with them bit by bit. We're about a month out from Anime North and I'm nowhere near ready. Wheeee!
It was a great trip, we stayed with the nephew and the new baby and the new baby is cheerful and generally pleasant. Vancouver seems to have swelled somewhat since I was there last. I mean, it's a big city, always felt like that, but today it feels larger, more scaled up, re-sized somehow. Maybe the Olympics will do that to a town.
Everybody has pretty much given up masking everywhere, with a few exceptions. We masked on the plane along with a very few of our fellow passengers. The Japanese consignment shop in Vancouver had a mask policy in place and the proprietor was enforcing it, too. Some great stuff in that shop.
We saw Shain's friend Teri and my pal Jesse and we did some shopping and a lot of eating. When we went down to Seattle the weather was beautiful blue skies, just right for eating a grilled salmon sandwich on the deck at Pike Place watching the crowds lining up to get into the first Starbucks. The next day it started raining and never really quit for that long, but hey, it's the PNW.
Got right back and replaced the tire that caught some sort of Batman-dart style metal object the day before we left, and did a couple of days at work. Now I'm on my prep day before my colonoscopy tomorrow, which in practical terms means I don't get to ingest anything that isn't a clear liquid, and a lot of those clear liquids are designed to keep me close to the washroom until tomorrow. This is a routine thing for guys my age, in fact I should have had it done a few years ago. But, you know, COVID.
Anyway it's nice to have a day at home where I can work on any one of the fifteen projects I have suspended in air as I tinker with them bit by bit. We're about a month out from Anime North and I'm nowhere near ready. Wheeee!
