Well...not exactly everything in sight! I had partners in crime this time around. We had gathered at a friend's bar to celebrate her birthday and there was plenty of food...really! An order of "gyoza" (aka: pot stickers) came in from a loc…

So...the continuation to this saga is that I shot the messenger (LOL). Oh well. I received a reply from a person at AssociaBC advising me that someone on strata council had jumped to the conclusion that I had a new tenant...and convinced e…

I wasn't going to write about this but...I'm a bit short on topics to talk about. I'll keep it as short as possible: I received an email from a person working for AssociaBC advising me that was guilty of renting out my apartment without ha…

A couple of things I wanted to mention here recently but forgot about...so a little bit of catching up.... My student with whom I have our Buddhist topics lessons with mentioned that he had gone to see a movie recently. He went on to say t…

After a virturally snowless winter last year, I've been looking forward to a return to more "normal" levels of snow this year. It seems for at least a short while those hopes have been fulfilled. The weather forecast for this week calls fo…

One point brought up by the teacher of the EFL/ESL training course I took was a list of topics to avoid in class; religion and politics are the ones I recall though I suspect there was one more. That rule went out the window a while ago wi…

Last Saturday I visited one of my watering holes which I don't frequent too often. The place wasn't too busy and the two groups of about four or five people each emptied out of the place not long after I arrived. I took a place at the bar …

...Or something to that effect. It's a line I saw in an article about a person who got fired for stating they planned to perform at an anti-mask rally. Whatever. I just shook my head in disbelief after reading that. The contrast between wh…

There once was a coin laundromat on a northbound road out of the city centre which eventually feeds into Route 13. The place had a name which definitely wouldn't have passed muster back home in North America, "Whitopia", a somewhat obvious…