Random Thoughts

One of my friends from back home sent me an email with a presentation that went along the lines of... you have a choice. You can choose to be unhappy or happy today. Or so it went. I woke up today and thought about it. I decided I would have a good time today. It was a sunny Monday, the weather was nice, I had done my research on beer over the weekend and was ready to stock the beer fridge at work etc. I get to work early and am bombarded by all sorts of requests from people relating to work. That gets to me and I get frustrated. I've been rather unhappy of late with my effort at work and my performance. All the extra stuff that came my way was just adding to it. I remembered the forward and thought about the good day bit. I took a walk and decided I would have a good day. So far, so good. I left at a reasonable time to get the beer fridge filled. I went to the store, got most of what I wanted and left in peace. Drove back to the office, went to park the car in the underground park...

I said in my earlier post that I had switched to Blogger beta. Since this has become more popular on account of the richer media available, a lot of blogs I follow have switched. I use the live bookmarks feature of Firefox to index and read the blogs... but sad to say, when I try to load the atom.xml file... I now get some crap from Yahoo!. I hate change. I embrace it willingly when I have to (as I do with beta software etc) but when something works the way I like it... I like it. If someone knows how to fix this so the live bookmarks work again in Firefox, do let me know.

I read this on Big Eves' MSN nickname thingie. It says: Girls are like domain names, all the good ones are taken . Sadly, it is true. And I am still trying to find that decent domain name. It has been a while since I have written anything on the old blog. I switched the Blogger beta today and finally got around to fiddling with some of the settings. So far, while I am not fully unsatisfied with the whole setup, there are still things in there that I am not so happy with. I had a pretty lame and tame weekend. I went to a farewell thing for a co-worker. That poor bastard is going to Amsterdam. Allegedly, he will be working hard there on setting things up. I shall believe it when I see it. Usually, he's a good source of entertainment and a decent source of camera fodder. But I must say that despite staying there till about midnight, I did not get any good photographs. I went downtown instead. But here are the ones I managed to take. Sadly, I don't have even one of his. My mo...

I am back to doing the grind again. I keep time when I do the grind. I can't find my watch. Who took my watch? If I ever find you... I will politely ask for it back. And I expect it back. Don't hold it for ransom. It is but a simple Timex. With tons of scratches. But it is _my_ watch. So, find it in your heart to return it to me. Then I can find out how long it takes me to climb the grind.

It is something of a tradition amongst the lads to go to the Oakanagan for a long-weekend in the Summer. I missed out on EVERY long weekend last year on account of being the new guy in my role. I was on call for all those long weekends. It just so happened to line up that way. This year, I travelled a lot more during the summer and so was n ot around when the lads went. I fully intended to make it to the Oakanagan at least once this Summer and so I decided to go the next long weekend I was in Vancouver. That weekend was Labour Day. So with the trusty bottle of sunscreen, the good old straw hat and the usual travel stuff, a trio of us embarked early on Saturday morning. We were aiming to go to the smaller of the towns on the shore of Lake Okanagan, Penticton. It was a really nice day . The roads were relatively clea r. We did not come across any major traffic related issues until w e got to close to Manning Park. There was a LOT of smoke in the area, probably because of the wild fire...