As every year I visited my family back in Halifax this winter. I had a very enjoyable Christmas, so far we had one LAN party over at my friend Jon's place (Wes & Josh showed up as well). There shall be one more before I leave.
Yesterday I saw Dan, one of my High school friends again. He had been teaching English in Taipei (Taiwan) for the last two years, and will go back for another. After that he is planning to do his Masters in Fine Arts at UBC. When he was telling me this I pointed out that he should imediatly proceed to get an apartment for himself and his girlfriend at St Johns College, since that is the best place to live while going to school at UBC. He is also an awesome DM, so I hope all you D&Ders back at SJC will get to meet him.
On a totally different note I would like to point out AbeBooks to everyone who may need to purchase text books anytime soon. I acquired the text for my course next semester there, and for an excellent price too. I will report back later on what i think of the place when the book arrives.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Back East for Christmas
As every year I visited my family back in Halifax this winter. I had a very enjoyable Christmas, so far we had one LAN party over at my friend Jon's place (Wes & Josh showed up as well). There shall be one more before I leave.
Yesterday I saw Dan, one of my High school friends again. He had been teaching English in Taipei (Taiwan) for the last two years, and will go back for another. After that he is planning to do his Masters in Fine Arts at UBC. When he was telling me this I pointed out that he should imediatly proceed to get an apartment for himself and his girlfriend at St Johns College, since that is the best place to live while going to school at UBC. He is also an awesome DM, so I hope all you D&Ders back at SJC will get to meet him.
On a totally different note I would like to point out AbeBooks to everyone who may need to purchase text books anytime soon. I acquired the text for my course next semester there, and for an excellent price too. I will report back later on what i think of the place when the book arrives.
Yesterday I saw Dan, one of my High school friends again. He had been teaching English in Taipei (Taiwan) for the last two years, and will go back for another. After that he is planning to do his Masters in Fine Arts at UBC. When he was telling me this I pointed out that he should imediatly proceed to get an apartment for himself and his girlfriend at St Johns College, since that is the best place to live while going to school at UBC. He is also an awesome DM, so I hope all you D&Ders back at SJC will get to meet him.
On a totally different note I would like to point out AbeBooks to everyone who may need to purchase text books anytime soon. I acquired the text for my course next semester there, and for an excellent price too. I will report back later on what i think of the place when the book arrives.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Let's just pick up from here
Since the west coast *usually* is much warmer than the east coast of Canada it's quite possible to sail here the entire winter though. With that attitude, ignoring the fact that the current climate seems to have tried to show us that all this rotational invariance business is bollox, I met up with my firend Ian and went out sailing today. We were on duty with the race committee, meaning we had to set the course and record the results of the races. This I thought would make a great excuse to have some beers and watch people sailing about, however we also double as the rescue boat crew. After some deliberation we came to the conclusion that some people would have issues with a couple of drunks operating the only rescue boat at our disposal.
Talking about beer: Like some breweries the Vancouver island brewery makes a seasonal beer. It's called the Herminator, and supposedly one of the best beers in the world. Well with that kind of claim I had to try out this ice bock. Prepared for disappointment (after all they say that the fake Budweiser they sell here is the king of beers) I was very pleasantly surprised. Especially since I felt quite drunk after having a few, at which point I realized that it had a friendly 9.5% alcohol volume. Tasty and good for getting drunk! I am so bringing a case to the lan party next weekend.
Talking about beer: Like some breweries the Vancouver island brewery makes a seasonal beer. It's called the Herminator, and supposedly one of the best beers in the world. Well with that kind of claim I had to try out this ice bock. Prepared for disappointment (after all they say that the fake Budweiser they sell here is the king of beers) I was very pleasantly surprised. Especially since I felt quite drunk after having a few, at which point I realized that it had a friendly 9.5% alcohol volume. Tasty and good for getting drunk! I am so bringing a case to the lan party next weekend.
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