We rung in the New Year in style at House of Jazz in Montreal (great choice Marcia!). Here are some photos, they are shrunk for the bandwidth reasons, but if you want the originals, drop me a line.
There are more excellent pictures in Marcia’s album that capture the atmosphere marvellously. Here is a sample:
Chris got me a custom made Bob the Angry Flower drawing for xmass. The author, Stephen Notley, was pleased with his work so he decided to include it in his regular lineup.
We’re all set to start building the basement. We’re going to take official measurements tomorrow. We also just found out that we have to get a building permit from the city. We need to submit a detailed drawing and specification for what we’re doing. I hope this is for our own safety and not just bureaucratic silliness. Now we actually have to make official drawings. I would not design software without doing this so, though I was shocked at this at first, I think it will be a good experience.
If you’ll notice, I’ve updated the tree picture in yesterday’s post. I like the tree this year. I haven’t been happy with my tree designs for a while now. This one, though not perfect, has some promise.
The four cards that HAD to ship to Korea by Friday finally passed the FIST test and I was off the hook. Then I handed in my project and was off the hook some more. I’ve spent the rest of the day catching up with facets of my job and life that were on the back burner. After work I went to get a xmass tree but was disappointed with the selection. I finally made off with a 20$ wreath that is more funerally then xmassy but that’s what I get for paying too much attention to my school and work and not enough to holidays. I’ll go see if I can find some wreath decorations.
* The Smiths
Since we live on a corner, our driveway is not only full of snow from regular winter snowing activities, but also from snow trucks shovelling snow onto our driveway while turning. Most of the time this annoys me but today I don’t mind. I’ve been cooped up in the house for the week (semester actually) programming. Today I took a day off work, but went to a meeting because I was giving a presentation. When I came back I decided to shovel the driveway since the weather was nice and I needed some exercise. An hour and a half later I am finally in front of my computer all worked out and ready to go. Yay snow!
