As Vancouver gets ready for the Olympics to start, we are getting ready to get the f*ck out of here and spend 3 weeks down south in Las Vegas. From February 10 to March 5, I will be a “snowbird”, once again. I will be watching my home town (Vancouver), from an American perspective, it should be interesting. I hear the Terminator will be carrying the Olympic torch through Stanley park in the next day or so, can’t wait to see that. Right now the Olympic torch is in Surrey and will arrive in the city of Vancouver, three days from now. Tomorrow the torch will be in New West, then through Richmond, then through UBC and finally downtown Vancouver on February 12, 2010 for the opening ceremony.
It’s the “Pink Gangster”, sporting the velvet Puma track suit, before we go for drive downtown…
It’s a beautiful city, that is for sure (especially when it’s NOT raining…). Going down Oak Steet bridge from Broadway
Caught on Burrard & Georgia, this thing is HUGE. Awesome!!
There are hundreds of Olympic vehicles all over the place. It looks like General Motors is the official car manufacturer for the 2010 Olympics.
We sat in the Escalade and had our caffe lattes, while watching Canadian Pacific freight trains roll by on a Sunday afternoon.
A shot of the wheat pool on the Burrard inlet, just off of Powell Street in downtown Vancouver
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The return of the crazy Asian guy dancing on Lougheed Highway in Burnaby. I was waiting for my wife at VanCity on Lougheed in Burnaby and my son was sleeping in the back so I went for a quick drive so he stays sleeping ( he wakes up if we sit still in the SUV too long..)
And there he was like clock work on Lougheed Highway near the Cactus Club/Tim Hortons, the wild dancing Asian man. Not bad actually, he gets paid to clown around, what could be better than that? Cheers to you dancing Asian guy, you make my day every time I see you!! Awesome.
It’s 4:00ish am, and I woke up and can’t get back to sleep. I did a bit of work and now I am blogging. I have had this domain name for 10 years now, it started out for my web design business that no longer exists, and now it’s my digital scrap book. I’ve been blogging on this site since February 2008 (2 years already), and pretty much anything that has happened to me is written on my blog. IÂ have had blogs even before they were called blogs, back then they called it a “personal web site”.
The web is a crazy place, 20 years from now when I’m 60 years old will my YouTube videos still be up? Old pictures of my graffiti I did when I was younger? The Internet never forgets, even if you do. One thing I have thought about is that anything you put online may be there to haunt you many, many years from now. I definitely don’t have anything to hide, but it’s funny to think that even my kids can access everything about me when they can read and surf the web. They can see what I was thinking on February 12, 2008, pretty cool and scary. Just something to ponder I guess… NUFF SAID.
Onto other super important things, tonight is “date night”. Every Wednesday for the past month we do our own thing. We drop off the kids at my parents place and do something just the two of us. Tonight we are going to check out a move, either The Blind Side or When in Rome. Chick flicks cause the lady loves romantic comedies.
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Onto other things…
Probably the easiest way for us to get the kids to sleep is to drive around in the SUV. They usually konk out in about 10-20 minutes of driving. Basically my truck in one big baby stroller with pimped out rims. I probably know more driving routes in Vancouver than a cabbie, ugh.
As most times that I am in my truck I had my SD750 and I shot some interesting photos in the rain (below). I am no where near evening being called an amateur photographer but whatever, it’s fun to take photos of random BS, and it doesn’t cost me a penny (that’s the best part…).
taken through driver side window on a rainy Monday night…
Yesterday I had to take a trip out to Delta because my tenant had no power in her up and downstairs living room, as well as the downstairs bathroom. It seem like a wire broke or a mice got into the wall and chewed up one of the wires, resulting in the problem I just explained. Luckily my handyman Michael temporarily fixed it until he can come back and do a permanent repair job which should take about one hour.
Anyhoo I brought my camera along (like I always do…) to entertain myself and I snapped a few photos while driving over the Alex Fraser bridge….
this post was about as random and as all over the place as possible, whatever.
Back to work.
I was cleaning the files on my computer a few days ago, deleting files that I didn’t need to help speed up my computer and I came across a bunch of photos. These photos were taken during the construction of my home. It’s been 2004 since we built our house and I think it’s important to document all important parts of my life and have them on my blog so I can look back when I’m gray and old and see my life years before.
Anyways it’s interesting and cool for me to to see and document my own personal progression….
Enjoy the photos:
the first level is up…
view from backyard, garage form and house…
custom built 2900 square feet
putting up the tar paper…
contractor
stressing out…
the living room covered in paper to protect the hardwood floors…
in the front yard pouring the stamp concrete…
pouring the stamped concrete in the back yard…
and there you go, the end product minus some banana plants , railing and a few shrubs.
Also remember this:
Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and then wait…… My place cost me about $600,000 for the lot and to build it, now it’s worth $1,000,000! Try making $400,00 at your job!!
Buy real estate and wait.
Time to make some breakfast, I’m hungry. Ciao…
I am still around just not blogging much because I don’t have much to say right now….
Last week was wifeys birthday so we went out to Dix restaurant in downtown Vancouver. We actually met at Dix when it was a club called Johnny Loves, back in 1996. We went to Dix on our anniversary last year and she wanted to have her b day there, it’s a great place.
She invited friends and family and here are the pics of it.
a shot of ?
looks good right?
yummy, my favorite burgers and fries…
Happy 34th Birthday!
dinner is served…
me & wifey, tickle, tickle…
