Favourites: Pike Place Market: started in 1907, it’s considered one of the oldest, continuous running farmer’s markets in North America. It’s about 9 acres and I know we only managed to scratch the surface. It was only a hop skip and a jump (uphill) from our hotel on the waterfront, so we went back often,…
Category: Odds & Sods
Portland: top picks
I’m working my way through about 6Gs of photos from our trip to Portland and Seattle. Looking at them helps me forget about the travel woes and think back on what I really loved about both cities. Favourites: McMenamin’s Kennedy School: a historic, converted elementary school that opened in 1915 and held classes until 1975….
Air Canada and YVR, YOU SUCK.
I’m finally home from the great expedition to Portland and Seattle, via Vancouver, and feeling partially human again after being up nearly 33 hours straight, surviving a 10 hour flight delay and losing my luggage. I apologize first for the crappy quality photos but all I had to document the insanity was my Blackberry, because…
Hello from Portland! Land of Great Beer!
After several fairly minor flight delays we arrived in Portland, minus one piece of luggage and seriously pissed off at YVR airport and Air Canada. Apparently Vancouver’s airport is the worst in the world for losing luggage. Not only did Chris lose nearly all his clothes, he’s also missing his ski boots and all his…
Zeus’s lederhosen
Okay, so I mentioned a few posts back that Zeus has had some of his own health problems, which started a couple weeks before Spud, one of our two cats, had to be put down. Zeus is a Saint Bernard over 11 years old (miraculous in and of itself), so of course whenever something significant…
Wish I may, wish I might
Got my new 6-point star-effect filter in the mail today (from Hong Kong! I ordered it on eBay on December 15… ironically I’m still waiting for a package of photos which are part of a Christmas present that I ordered on December 12, from a 20 minute drive away. Screw you Canada Post). I was…
It’s a sad day
I’m very saddened to share with you that my kitty Spud passed away this afternoon, quite suddenly. Chris and I came home from work early because of the snow storm, around mid-afternoon, and after being home about an hour or so, we realized that we hadn’t seen the cats yet. I found Spud down in…
A little self-analysis: why I create
I’m a total CBC podcast junkie. I have at least a dozen or so programs that I subscribe and listen to weekly. I love thoughtful talk radio and my workplace isn’t really conducive to listening to the radio, so I try to keep up with my favourite shows this way. Recently I was listening to…
Little dog in a big dog world
Last night we dogsat Bondi, a roughly 7 or 8 (I think) year old Boston Terrier. We were supposed to have him most of the week because our friends’ baby was supposed to have surgery, but the little man has a chest cold and it wasn’t to be. So the little bat-eared dude went home…
Trading up for a better model
It’s official – I am the proud new owner of a Bachelor of Fine Arts. I actually graduated back in 2000 but at that time, my alma mater, the Ontario College of Art & Design, was offering diplomas. In 2002, they became degree granting, and in 2006 I embarked on the path to an upgrade….