parents – The Dave

Teenage Mutant Ninja Peaches

Dave — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:18:42 +0000

I’d like to thank my parents for these peaches:

The trip to Kelowna

Dave — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:24:47 +0000

Well the trip didn’t quite go as originally planned. The original theory was that I’d do a frantic clean up of the old place after the movers left, then fly out just in time to have our stuff arrive.

As it turned out, our truck had another load after us which was being dropped off in Vernon, a town just on the Calgary side of Kelowna, so despite getting picked up on Monday as planned, our stuff won’t be here until Sunday morning.

On the plus side, the movers do deliver on Sunday, and at no extra charge, so at least we don’t have to take time off work.

Also luckily enough, instead of flying out, I was able to hitch a ride with my parents who happened to be driving more or less through Kelowna (or at least that was one possible route), so it not only saved me the airfare, but we also brought the cats out, saving the cats the stress of a flight.

The trip was good, Bear spent most of his time cowering in fear, but then his previous trips have more often then not ended up at the vet and cost him a body part, so he has good reason to be scared of road trips. He settled in though as well as could be expected, and once we got him into the apartment he found a nice corner to hide in and there he stays, at least unless there is food, in which case he does sneak out for a snack.

As for Maxx and Snoopy, Maxx loved traveling, parked himself above my dad and was more or less a perfect little angel, or at least as close as he gets. Snoopy was naturally more trouble, he was rather insistent that he wanted to get into the cab and distract the driver, but we kept him otherwise occupied, generally in the back of the motorhome.

All in all, a good trip. Stuff arrives tomorrow, yay!

I have a great dad!

Dave — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:33:47 +0000

I’ve been having some kidney pain on and off for the last couple of weeks, and although I’m mostly feeling better, I’m still not able to pick up anything too heavy.

A couple weeks ago I ordered a 1U Dell server to become a colocated VoIP server, more about that in a future post once I have it up and running. The server arrived last week and has been sitting on my floor while I got it up and running. So I get the server ready, but not having transportation, nor am I feeling up to carrying the ~20kg/40lbs box down to the post office, and so my dad drives across the city to take care of it for me.

So yeah, thanks dad, it’s appreciated!

Add two girls, shake vigorously

Dave — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:33:05 +0000

This morning my dad and I packed up the motorhome and moved to a new site. We got a great site the first couple days, but it was reserved for the weekend, so we took a less ideal, but still rather nice site. Traded the crazy squirrels for crows, a poor exchange in my opinion.

As if on cue my mom arrived just as we started unpacking at the new site, and Lori arrived a bit later, bringing our tent. Lori and I will be tenting across the road from my parents’ motorhome in Bow Valley Campground.

My mom isn’t as aggressive a hiker, and we tend to stop to admire nature a little more, so it will be a nice change from the previous hike, which was a bit more then I’d have planned for a first hike of the year for someone as out of shape as myself, but it was a ton of fun.

Night of the living dead

Dave — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:58:48 +0000

The time is 11:52pm, do you know where your children are?

In my parents’ case, at least one is standing in line at Walmart. Yay. Not nearly as busy as it might have been earlier today, but still busy — To Walmart’s credit, they’ve managed to borrow enough people from the seventh circle of hell to keep the checkouts open (sixth circle of hell, as it turns out)

Traditionally Walmart was only open 24 hours a day around Christmas, but it sounds like some locations are going 24/7 permanently… I’m not sure if that’s good or bad, or just a sign of a lot of damned people getting jobs at Walmart these days.