Smoking Hot Summer Day Perfect For Greek Food!

It’s Monday in Vancouver and it’s nice and hot. We take the sun when we can because it’s not always here to enjoy (last week was dull and gray). Today dinner will consist of Greek food: Greek salad, chicken Souvlaki, Tzatziki sauce and Pita bread. My wife is a great cook, she can print up any recipe from the web and have it taste awesome on the first try.  Dinner will be ready shortly, I can’t wait.. Mmmm. And if we go out for Greek food , we go to Stephos down on Davie Street in downtown Vancouver. Stephos has the biggest portions and a very cheap price. This is my favorite Greek restaurant in the city of Vancouver by far. Dinner’s ready…………..

My little cuties chilling in the pool in the backyard

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And here is the dinner I just ate, yummy!

chicken-souvlaki

chicken Souvlaki

greek salad

Greek salad (forgot the orange border on this pic, damn!)

greek-style-potatoes

organic potatoes from my Dad’s garden

pita-bread

pita bread bought from Superstore

wild-rice

wild rice

greek-dinner

and there you have it Greek dinner from the Italians………..

Next Weeks Goals & Gay Pride Day Parade In Vancouver

Today we are going to check out Vancouver Pride Day Parade, even though it’s not something I consider a family event it has all the factors a parade would have from, crazy costumes, balloons and clowns (hopefully they’re clothed!). But not a family parade as some people tend to describe it as. In any case it’s a fun day, me along with 350,000 other Vancouverites thought so as well. Happy Pride!

Next weeks to do list:

  • trim the fat off of my PPC (pay per click) ad campaigns too save money on clicks
  • build more campaigns to expand on the current niche I am promoting
  • find more P campaigns to use
  • work on my landing pages to bring the bounce rate down
  • write some more articles for my sites
  • find new niches, for more $$

Some pics from the Gay Pride Parade in Vancouver 2008:

Man in heels at Gay Pride Parade Vancouver 2008

Wild costume with high heels and ballerina skirt, how cute!

Gay pride Parade Vancouver 2008

Pride float

Wild costumes at Gay Pride Vancouver 2008

Wild costumes all over

Gay Pride Vancouver

Someone forget their bras?!

Gay Pride Float Vancouver 2008

Gay Pride Float Vancouver 2008

Gay Pride Parade Vancouver

Gay Pride Float Vancouver 2008

Flamboyant costumes at Pride Parade Vancouver 2008

Flamboyant Pride Fellow With Red Wings!

Creepy looking shadow lady with big boobs

Shadow lady with balloon boobs

Temperature Manipulation For Profit

Holy sh*t, this coffee shop is blazing hot. One day it’s smoking hot, the next day the air conditioning makes it soo cold that icicles form on my eyebrows.  I talked to Habib (the owner)and he just laughs? Maybe he doesn’t understand what I am saying? It’s damn Hot in here Habib!!

I was thinking that maybe there is a method to this madness. One day he wants to sell cold drinks so he blasts the heat, then he runs out of cold drinks and wants to sell mad amounts of coffee so he cranks the hell out of the air conditioning. Not a bad idea right? Right now I’m sweating, tomorrow I’ll bring my sweater. Even Mr. Colsone (the dude in front of me at the coffee shop) has been b*tching about the fluctuation in temperature.

Ooops tomorrow is Saturday, no worky worky tomorrow. I will be back on Monday and the game will start all over again. Oh the joys of using free wireless internet from a coffee shop. I had to buy a San Pellegrino Limonata to cool off. This is almost as bad as the gas giants raising prices to insane levels. The consumer is forced to adapt once again. Or MAYBE I should stop bitching and go find another place to steal wireless internet from, the cheap weasel that I am….

Struggle In Vancouver Or Retire In Las Vegas?

Since I have already posted about virtual real estate online , let me show you prices of real estate in Las Vegas compared to “Rain City” (Vancouver).  Both cities have a population  between 1.5 – 2 million people. Weather is night and day. Today in Vancouver it’s 17°C and Las Vegas clocks in at 35°C. So they are twice as hot as us.

In the reverse aspect we are double the price of real estate in Las Vegas. Let’s take a look at Craigslist and compare…

Las Vegas home built in 2006, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms selling price? $139,000! Try and buy the same place in Vancouver and expect to pay $750,000. Las Vegas has some amazing deals right now because of the drop in real estate prices. You can barely even buy a used condo in Abbotsford for $135,000. Where woud you rather live in a 1 bedroom apartment in Abbotsford or a 2 year old house in Las Vegas?

Personally I am little scared to buy out of town just because of what happened to me in Winnipeg. That being said I may call Ozzie Jurock’s office as he is offering condos in Las Vegas along with property managers in place to take care of everything for you. Ozzie is a real estate genius and everything he touches turns to gold. If HE is buying there the you know it’s worth a closer look, sometimes he writes about different areas but if he isn’t buying a place there himself then I wouldn’t either. Winnipeg he has talked about , but he hasn’t bought there. That was my mistake, I bought there. When he recommended Prince George, he bought 17 townhouses himself and sold them for a profit. I bought 2 and sold them for a profit. I have learned this, it’s smarter to follow what people DO, not what they SAY. Actions speak louder than words..

CV,
reporting from Starbucks

Making Money Buying Online Real Estate?

I don’t link to other articles online unless they are worth it. Shoemoney had a blog post about how people have made money selling “virtual real estate” (not websites). Basically you can buy real estate such as virtual islands in videos games. One dude bought a virtual island for $26,000. I don’t completely understand the concept because I was never into gaming. I thought time was better spent learning how to build websites and how to make money online, maybe I was wrong?

It’s insane how people make money online and this is just another avenue. This is something I would never do, I can’t stand videos games.  I’m still a bit old school when it comes to computers, I got into them when I was 29 years old, so I wasn’t brought up with them. I’m 37 now so it’s to late to get started in the gaming thing, not that I even want to. Ha ha.

If find it interesting that people actually make money off of playing video games, it’s nuts. Check out the blog post here

CV

reporting from Starbucks