The Vancouver Sun decided recently they want me to pay to read it online. If you view more than 15 articles in a month you have to subscribe. I thought that since they have 50% or more of the page as ads, well that’s enough.
In comes Firefox and their Porn-At-Work Mode. Also known as private browsing. It doesn’t save any info on your computer, any history or cookies so your boss can’t look it up and see you spent the day watching kitten videos. Or sex kittens.

(By the way, there’s lots of other ways to track you having spent 6 hours at work looking at interviews with Twilight stars).

Anyway, without this tracking data, the Vancouver Sun doesn’t get to count how many articles you read. Or maybe you’re just embarrassed to be seen reading it.

After 3 years married to herself we went all out to celebrate. Out to Five Doors Down on Marine Drive where we gorged ourselves on Tapatizers. I even went as far as to take photos of the food for you, my devoted fans.

What can I say? We were hungry and by the time I remembered to take a photo, well it was all gone.

On the plus side I can say Five Doors Down is worth a visit. Their onion rings can only be described as awesome, the terrine was devine, the beer cold, the fries excellent, the salad delicious and the desserts? Well the desserts were worth the week of exercise I’ll need to work them off.

I went sailing again last weekend with Dee and Arran. Arran I need to take sailing again for 2 reasons. 1 he knows how to sail which is always useful becuase I’m winging it. And 2 this is what he brings back from the galley when he goes to make snacks.

Take notes anyone who would like to come sailing round the Gulf Islands.

This is how the weather looked as I was heading to the boat. A bit of an early start. But an hour out the wind picked up nicely to sail on and the sun stayed out.

Dee was on the helm most of the weekend. Which was great since I spent most of it lying in the sun sleeping. We did end up searching the Saltspring Island market Saturday morning for hats. Lots of sun. Really. Lots.

Now I’m home for a few weeks. I think anyway. The weathers meant to be really nice this weekend and it it continues for the month I might just have to make use of it.

I’m a fan of good design. I’m not talking the nice colour scheme and matching collars and cuffs which is all fine and dandy, but functionality gets me going. I’d get hard in an Ikea kitchen. So when I see something that is this functional I like it. OK, I might not have had dirty thoughts about this one but this was just such a good idea I’m surprised no one thought of it earlier.

Yes, it’s a power socket in a hotel room safe. So you can leave your cell (or in this case a tablet, it was plenty big enough) in there and charge it. Brilliant.

This was in a hotel room in the Hyatt in Philadelphia. For those that care.

I’ve found my new buger place. It’s Fiamma Burger in Bellingham. We ended up here last week and the burgers are awesome. (Yes, we were in the States so I can say awesome. And totally dude). But then there are the sides. The garlic fries. Take some great fries, cover them in garlic butter and sprinkle, ok snowstorm down, parmesan cheese and I think there was parsley somewhere for your health. Really, potatoes, garlic and parsley count as 3 veg, right?

It may not be good for my waistline / health / arteries / heart / liver / brain but damn it tasted good. We’ll be going back.

For the Canada Day long weekend I went sailing so time to bore you with my slideshow.

Starting off in the rain

Flags flying for Canada Day

Rafting the 4 boats in Winter Cove

Cooking lamb at the Saturna Lamb BBQ

The dinner

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It’s going to be a busy week.

Sunday – fly to Vegas

Tuesday – drive to the Grand Canyon

Thursday – fly home after multiple board games, reading by the pool, catching up with friends, and other stuff that stays in Vegas.

Friday – go pack a boat, mainly full of beer but maybe other stuff like food, lifevests and a GPS.

Saturday – go cruising around the Gulf Islands for the long weekend.

Latte art courtesy of Chris after Andrea cooked a huge dinner. And a shout out to Urs for the Martha-Strawberry-Shortcakes.

It’s taken a while but my work website (yes work, that place I spend most of my waking and sleeping hours). You can find out about Tekbusters Managed Services and Online Backup and it’s the place for computer repair.

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