Short, random things. I am somewhat frazzled of late and can’t come up with much in the way of coherency. (For example, I really want to rant about why music “sharing” sucks, in light of stupid comments on Slashdot; but that will have to wait for another day.)

In the trip write up, I forgot to mention the cheese incident. Midweek, someone broke into our motel room, and stole all of my pocket change - and a block of cheese sitting in our fridge. They ignored: cans of Coors and bottles of Guinness; collection of my CDs; my cell phone; and all of our climbing and hiking equipment. I guess someone just really craved some Oregon cheddar and didn’t like our taste in beer. David was unduly upset at this incident, especially during subsequent cheeseless lunches out at the cliff.

I have a new camera: a Canon Powershot S400. The old Kodak felt like a brick particularly on this last trip, and the Canon is just so much better all around - way lighter, better battery life, and double the resolution too. Having no better inspiration (it has been drab in Seattle), I took a picture to illustrate my daily point of view.

Leon was back in Vancouver this past week, so I went up last weekend and we all went out for dinner at Sammy J. Peppers to watch the second Canucks playoff game. Sadly, dinner wasn’t very good. I will never allow friends to choose restaurants again based solely on the pulchritude of its waitstaff. And speaking of playoff hockey, I have of course been avidly watching the Canucks/Blues series; quite exciting hockey so far with Vancouver back from a 3-1 deficit to tie the series at three apiece. If they make it past the first round tomorrow in game seven, I will be happy.

I am actually attending the Finding Nemo wrap party. I had some silly unprincipled stand against going which is best left forgotten. With that happening on the 3rd, and my house move-in date on the 1st, and a whole lot of work going on (I gave myself an insane deadline for the most recent project), I have been - frazzled.