Vancouver BC Snapshots Part 3: Granville Island and Misc

The bustling Granville Island Market is a popular stop for us whenever we are up in Vancouver.
Mary at the Market
The view from a park near Yaletown. The sky was a brilliant pinkish orange from the smoke haze in the air.
Another favorite stop in Vancouver is a dessert cafe called “Death by Chocolate.” They feature [...]

Vancouver BC Snapshots Part 2: Grouse Mountain

This set features Grouse Mountain, one of the many beautiful peaks just beyond the northern edge of Vancouver. Getting there from downtown Vancouver is only a 15 minute drive, and then a 10 minute gondola ride up to the summit. If you are more adventurous, you can hike the 4000 feet up on the ‘Grouse [...]

I swear they’d lost the game…

Today, after spreading some bark dust and before a grocery shopping trip, I tuned in to watch the Ducks (my alma mater) play Oklahoma. It was a good game, until the final 4-5 minutes or so when Oklahoma took a 10 point lead. Mildly disgusted, I turned the TV off thinking it was over.
After returning [...]

Vancouver BC Snapshots Part 1

As my faithful reader, you know from a few posts back that Mary and I spent Labor Day in Vancouver, B.C. Here’s a few snapshots:
I called a few days ahead of our arrival and had a dozen roses waiting for Mary when we got to our room, in honor of her birthday on September 5.
The [...]

September 11

It has become cliche to begin any discussion about 9/11 by saying “It started out like any other day..”, but the truth is, for me it did.
I awoke that day, in the confines of my small bachelor pad apartment in SW Portland. As I did every morning after getting up, I switched on CNN Headline [...]

Techn ical Failures

For the past month, I’ve had two PCs. My desktop, which I built a couple years ago, and my laptop, which I purchased about a month ago.
For some inexplicable reason, my desktop crapped out on me the other night. I was sure it was my video card, but after swapping in a new one, the [...]

Delayed Blogging: Vancouver, BC

My live blogging experiment isn’t going so well. I was too tired last night to blog. oh well. Now we are back at home, relaxing from a 6 hour drive.
My last few trips to Vancouver B.C. have been whirlwind affairs. I usually go up with my fun group of friends, but we all usually have [...]

Live blogging: Vancouver BC

(I am treating Mary to a weekend in beautiful, Vancouver, B.C., while I wont document everything that happens, I’m going to try my hand at blogging the day. That is, if my laptop behaves..)
Saturday, Sept 2, 2006

We started out about 7:30 this morning and were greeted by another sunny, gorgeous day.
By 10am, we’ve been passed [...]