Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Since most of the people I know in Kelowna are spending New Year’s Eve night at home, it’s a good thing I made plans weeks ago to fly to Vancouver today. I’ve got a party to go to tonight, whose title includes the words “orgy”, “drunken” and “Gastown”; and upon RSVPing to the event’s page [...]

I’m booking to take a week off mid-to-late February for vacation. This is something many of you do several times a year, and it’s no big deal. For me, however, it’s a momentous occasion, because the last time I successfully managed to both book, and take, a week-long vacation from work was October 2006. I [...]

Well, my birthday was good, if uneventful. Given that Friday was the work Christmas party (formal, with alcohol) I didn’t get much enthusiasm for the idea of celebrating my birthday too, so it went by largely ignored by the Kelowna masses. That’s okay, 32 is not exactly a milestone, and I’ve gotten used to being [...]

When I told a workmate that “if 40 is the new 20, then I’m 12″ he corrected me that really I’d be 16, since in order to keep the ratio you’d be dividing by 2 instead of subtracting 20. It’s too bad, because I liked the sound of 12 better. I was less miserable at [...]

I wish I had a photo to show you, but it’s probably for the best. I wouldn’t want you to feel sorry for me that I’m living in The Ghetto of Kelowna. I kept calling this area that, as a joke, except it happens to be true, making the joke far less funny. I just [...]