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Like pretty much everyone else in Vancouver today, I’m a walking zombie. Why, you ask? It’s very simple – because I stayed up until almost 1 in the morning waiting for the Canucks to finally beat the Stars in game one of their playoff series!! Since I was at a free movie last night, I […]
Yup, I’m back in the land of vegetables, mild weather and hockey teams that kick ass! A more detailed blog posting of my adventures in Cowtown will be forthcoming*, but for now suffice it to say that my view of the mountains from my office window is just as stunning, and my job just as […]
Yesterday, we went to the Badlands. They were wickedly cool. They also have the richest museum EVER! Here is a picture of the Albertasaurus: Like most Albertans, it’s a carnivore and kind of an a-hole. This one is of another dinosaur, I think it’s called a Vancouversaurus. It’s a tree hugger.
Since every Calgarian that we have asked, “hey, what’s good to do around here?” has told us (a) “you should come here during Stampede in July!”, or (b) “um, leave Calgary”, we decided to take them up on option (b) and spent the last two days in the mountains. We visited a number of places, […]
Every last one of them looks exactly like this. Especially the women.
So, yesterday I was supposed to have a teleconference for work*. After re-confirming 16 times that Pacific Time is one hour behind Mountain Time, not after it**, and sorting out the whole issue that Justin doesn’t actually have a landline (i.e., borrowing his cell phone instead and being very apologetic for using up all his […]
Start of our second full day in Calgary. Yes, we start our day at 11:35 am – do you have a problem with that? Actually, we’ve been up for a little while, feeding our Facebook addictions* and drinking tea and eating brekkie. Oh ya, so Calgary has totally turned me into an environment-destroying monster. Yesterday […]
We our now in Calgary! I’m typing this on stolen wireless – there are about 15 unsecured wireless networks that I can detected in the friend’s place where we are staying! Go “default”! When Sarah and I got to the airport, we were both pretty hungry, but the Timmy Ho’s before you pass security didn’t […]
In a few hours, Dave B. will be defending his Master’s thesis. Go Dave B! Everyone send him positive thoughts about snow geese at 12:30 p.m. Pacific, k?