dazzling orange orb damaging the retinæ
Today was a fairly good day. Again, I saw an atmospheric phenomenon which I had never before encountered; however, this time it was during the day. While walking downtown, Laura, Alleah, Barbara & I were able to look directly at the sun! It was enlarged, a dullish orange, and none too bright in the hazy sky. We thought it was due to smog from Vancouver, and Alleah proclaimed the Apocalypse (to quote Dogma, "This is not a drill, this is the Apocalypse!"). I was apprised by Meagan that it was probably from the Chilko Lake fire (though I can only find information pertaining to a 2003 fire on-line).
Mandarin was good, worked more on learning to write characters... it helps me understand what's going on SO MUCH, compared to talking & writing romanized sounds down. Pinyin (拼音) is much better, IMHO, than older systems of romanization, but only useful in typing and text-messaging in chinese (otherwise you'd need a keyboard with thousands of keys!). Afterwards, I went to Zed's but he wasn't home so I headed to Alleah's.
Laura arrived just as I did, and Barbara was there shortly afterwards. Geoff didn't come; Alleah said he was cleaning his house or something. We hung out, talked, and played with baby Nicholas, as well as Sherayna's other children. Dinner was an excellent spaghetti with meat sauce. Afterwards, we went down to Zed's house, and he was home at that time. Our plan was to go down to the Cambie and listen to 'Last to Leave' & 'Lady Esther' from the restaurant, but Zed said it had closed already.
That plan negated, we began hanging out @ Zed's house. Some girl was there making dinner with him, so we all chatted and played with the super-cute kitten. He was kind enough to give us some hot noodle stirfry gratis, and didn't seem to mind that we'd just dropped in. After dinner #2, we went downtown to some sort of event where people were drumming, stilt-walking, and hula-hooping. Laura, Alleah, Zed & I circle-sang in the gazebo for a while.
At the end I saw some guys hacking, and joined them. I'm a bit out of practise and was unable to impress, but they were pretty good. Most wore sandals, and the hack was ridiculously small. I got eliminated early in snipe, and then dropped Alleah & Laura off at their respective houses. The collective is going boating tomorrow so I'll probably clean my van & stuff.
People should check out "Shades of Grey," a Brad & Kevin single. The C major song was a bad recording though, we've done it better many times.
Total Googlewhacks to date: 40
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i was wondering what "memetic" meant, and was wondering if you could enlighten me
actually, Gord (Gator's dad) said that the haze was from the Bella Coola fire, but then my mom said that it was from that fire that Meagan said, so I dunno.
Ama', you can look up the definition of "meme" at wikipedia.org. It requires plenty of reading though, so you might not want to do it if you're feeling fried in the brain.
Okay so basically the fire's up by kind of by Bella Coola and the wind is carrying all the smoke down here, but the smoke is staying high up in the atmosphere so we can't smell it. I'm not sure of the exact location of the fire, but it's basically north and on the mainland in a valley that opens up onto the Strait of Georgia. I was wrong, sue me. :P
Hey Dobson! How's life treating you? Go to Geoffs on Saturday ( afternoon ) and we will hang out!
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