August 17, 2006
First winter purchase made
I made a steal of a purchase today. 06/07 Flow "The Pro" snowboard bindings, new for a cut down price of $200 cash.
As you can see, they're going to go awesomely with my new Prior board (still to be bought)
Cheeky link to get my new site indexed: Whistlerbase
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August 14, 2006
House hunting.
Since the landbaron PVG is not willing to shift on the rent by $150 we're going to flee his sweaty grip and find somewhere else. Currently he's after $1800 for a 2-bedroom apartment (which is very nice) but he seems to have grand illusions of it being the nicest apartment in the world, which it really isn't. Anyway I've had enough of him so hopefully we can find something similar for a more reasonable $1500, there's tonnes of property around at the moment.
Small bike ride yesterday, as my knee is still sore, and then chilled out beside the Hilton swimming pool. Work is busy as ever and Robyn comes next Thursday, about time I say.
Edit: Infact, you know what would be really nice. To hear something back from the laywer regarding the documents they received TWO WEEKS AGO. Lets get these rants up in the search engine with a few carefully placed links about Campbell Cohen Immigration Services and hopefully someone searching for a Canada Visa Campbell Cohen Review will stumble across them and save themselves some money. Maybe if he spent less time writing on his David Cohen Visa Services Blog he could give his staff a kick up the arse.
Wow. I just found this. Scroll down to London, it's literally staggering how long these applications take.
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August 6, 2006
Back in Business...
The lack of updates has been due to me moving the site to a new server and not being able to get it running again but here we are hooray!
Ok so my parents visited the last week, we initially went to Victoria which was no more pleasant than when I went in November in the pouring rain. Sure, the harbour is okay but there's literally nothing there except old people and mime acts, now if you were to integrate the two you'd be onto something... The drive up the island proved rather pleasant, indeed it's a shame we didn't have more time to explore but nevermind.
Next was Whistler which of course struck awe into my amazed folks. Actually I don't think they were too bothered except by the Mongolie Grill which is enough to make the most unimpressed of Sea-to-Sky consumers vocal. They got to see a bear right on the Blueberry trail which was pretty awesome for me and them. I dropped them off back in Vancouver Friday and managed to lose the car for about an hour. Don't ask.
Other news is a bit slim on the ground, work is busy, my teeth finally healed after 3-4 days of absolute soul destroying pain and blood, Robyn arrives on the 25th! I sent off my visa work application (for a years extension) and also got all my documents together to speed up my residency application, although the lawyer is being typically useless and hasn't got back to me, but that's a whole other rant saved for when I have the documents in my hands.
Sarah left me :-( :-( Very sad to see her go, we have a great friendship and I'm going to miss her loads. Ron has moved into the apartment as a long-term tennant, we haven't spoken much but he seems pretty cool, I'm fairly sure we're going to get on fine.
I'll throw a few pictures up that I found later.