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To Quote Maxwell Smart……Missed it by “THAT MUCH”
Well, no new truck for me. I went to the bank, got a bank draft for what i was willing to pay, and agreed that we would throw the 4Runner into the pot. And we ended at an $840 impasse. The salesman didn’t even think to bring up the $500 deposit we’d put down and ask to meet halfway…so we…
Read more »Yes, that about sums it up…..
It’s really hot…. too hot….whine, whine, whine…. A cute article in the Vancouver Sun today summed it up nicely… Hell hath no fury like 34 degrees in Vancouver By Shelley Fralic, Vancouver Sun columnist July 29, 2009 I have little in common with Marilyn Monroe (like, no kidding) except this. She once said, in that memorable film The Seven Year…
Read more »Is this my new baby?
I’ve been in the market for a new vehicle for some time now… just couldn’t really decide what. Truck…of course…. well, SUV more likely. I’ve loved my little 4runner for the past 18 years, but it’s on its last legs. I keep thinking maybe we should do the body and bring it back to life…. but we’ve sunk so much…
Read more »This is Obscene!
I didn’t think it could get worse, but you know what? It DID! It is currently (8:30 pm) 31C in the bedroom…. that is seriously obscene! It was 32C on the deck a half hour ago. There are no fans left in Vancouver, anywhere. Not that we need one, we have one…it just moves the hot humid air around a…
Read more »Automator Workflow for Birthday Reminders
NOTE: Upgrading to Snow Leopard broke the ability to perform this action as the option to save as a plugin is gone. If you are running Snow Leopard and want to do this, go to this blog post for instructions. I have been cleaning and organizing information on my Mac (shocking, I know) and I found that I wasn’t getting…
Read more »It’s too F*$!!(&$!! HOT!
OK, seriously, it’s 9pm and it ‘s 29.3 degrees on my deck…OUTSIDE!!!! This is not the desert…it’s Vancouver for Pete’s Sake! By the way…ever wonder who Pete was?
Read more »Too Hot to Handle!!!
OMG. Seriously. This is too much. I moved to the Coast 20 odd years ago because it was a temperate climate. OK, I moved here for other reasons…that was just a bonus… but it really doesn’t get hot in Vancouver….it’s not supposed to. This is a temperate rainforest afterall. Sure, we might see a day or two of 30 degrees…
Read more »Well THAT was Cool!
We are two nights into the Celebration of Light that Vancouver hosts each year and has hosted for 19 years now. Canada was last Wednesday and Saturday night was South Africa’s turn. We had pulled our boat into the tidal grid at BYC for the weekend to get the bottom painted, props replaced etc, and a friend invited us out…
Read more »Remembering Jack
Jack Hunter was a man I’ll never forget. He was one of a kind. Jack taught me how to tie a bowline, he taught me that I really, really wanted a Bruce anchor on our boat, and he showed me that the old salties could manage to get somewhere in the fog without all the fancy contraptions you’d find on…
Read more »Geotagging on the Mac
I’ve played around with this for a couple of years now, but I’ve only switched to the Mac in the last year and geotagging has been trying my patience ever since. I used to use Trips and Pics ont eh PC, but the software doesn’t run on the Mac OS. Of course a query to the software manufacturer merely resulted…
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