June 2007 Archives

It has been long since I last posted, and perhaps for good reason. It's been a weird month. My luck hasn't been running exactly strong the past few months, and so I naturally spend the last couple of weeks in convalescence. The picture above was taken a day or two before my surgery. But I haven't been back on my bike yet to revisit the scene. It shows just one of the dedicated pedestrian bridges in the city In any case, the weather has been beatific of late. Up until very recently, I have been enjoying my biking and running through Edmonton's park system. I am hoping to get back there again very soon.

One of the more enjoyable aspects to Edmonton's summers is that they usually do not get above 30° C, and they sport high amounts of daylight, at its peak, that means there are 17 solid hours of daylight here. That's really not half bad. We pay for that in December.

I have spent much more time than I would like this week fighting with the University's residence services. I must admit that I am tempted to start posting their names and photographs here for semi-public ridicule. Their office has been promising to review my account and make the necessary corrections (I have original documents for proof), but despite claiming that they'd have it squared away on Wednesday, it's the weekend and we've gotten nowhere. Not only that, but they have been sending people in here at a steady flow. I really need to figure out how to deadbolt the door. It's getting old. Two women wandered in today to catch me in my boxers unaware. Tomorrow or any day now expect them to move two more people into the empty bedrooms, and tthat's got me pretty edgy...

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Yes, it has been a rdiculously long time since I last posted, and I am going to try to get back in the habit for my faithful readers. Last week I was in Kannanaskis (south of Calgary) for a CRC chaplain's conference, where much to my dismay, I woke up the the picture you see above. And as luck would have it, white-water rafting is pretty much non-refundable. So I went white-water rafting on a day that was also more than appropriate for downhill skiing. It was a pretty sweet experience, and I have to say, the view down a mountain river (in this case, the Kannanaskis River), was stunning.

Of course, this week it's absolutely smoking hot up here, and unfortunately my apartment collects heat better than a well insulated attic. I am seriously considering hunting down a second hand windows air conditioner. That or a swamp cooler, it might be dry enough of here for one of those to work. In any case, as was the case last year, just a fan really isn't doing it for me.

And finally, for those of you living in the States, USPS is finally introducing a set of 15 stamps based on Star Wars. I am definitely picking up a set of those ;-).

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