I went to the Flying Beaver for (breakfast/lunch/dinner) today. The weather was a bit chilly, but the sun was shining for the second day in a row, so I couldn’t waste it by hanging out in my hotel room. It’s about a 45 minute walk from my hotel, but Vancouver is astoundingly well set up for pedestrians. I had a sidewalk a comfortable distance from the road everywhere I went and there were crosswalks wherever I needed them. Even more astoundingly, drivers seemed generally used to pedestrians and properly yielded to me in crosswalks. Bicyclists in Vancouver are the biggest…
Since Jonah didn’t come and amuse me, I spent my day off in the pub. Literally. I had many Caesars and pints of harp. I thought Caesars were just Canuckian Bloody Mary’s, but apparently they’ve got sort of clam juice in them too. I had 3 of them before someone pointed this out to me, so obviously I don’t mind. It does explain the flavor that I couldn’t quite account for. It doesn’t taste like clams, though. I’ve never spent over 11 hours in a pub before, that’s got to be some sort of record. Rob, my sim partner from…
Jonah should be here to amuse me, but she elected to contract a viral infection from her employers. I decided I wanted to be not-sick more than I wanted to see her, I told her to stay home. Normally, I view my immune system as impenetrable, but I don’t think it’s worth the risk right now. I won’t be able to make matza ball soup for her from Canada, though. I woke up some time this afternoon, canceled my health insurance, showered, and caught up on my google reader feeds. I’ve gotten some good scrabble playing in, but consuming the…
The trick to E-Baying is to sell a bunch of stuff all at once. That way you won’t get discouraged when stuff doesn’t get a single bid, because you’ll be racking in so much money from officer club ashtrays. The exception to this, of course, is selling identical items. If two people want the same thing, they’ll both drive up the price, whereas if there are two items, they can each get one for themselves cheap. As a guy at the fur auction said, “All’s you need for an auction is feller with money and another with guts.” Michele’s been…