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Well, Foo is back today. I dropped mom off at the ferry at like 11 this morning, then didn't do too much. Peanut butter toast for breakfast. Went uptown with my dad, got 'rents' bikes serviced. Chicken caesar salad at Romeo's, sundaes at Costco. Drums was good, though Gregg took all my cymbals to use in recording trance music in Vancouver tomorrow.

It's frickin hot today. I bought more wankinators at Walmart, but I'll overheat if I use them. Right now it's 29 degrees upstairs; too much for me. A giant slice of pizza for dinner in air-conditioned Costco was good too. Afterwards we watched "Bourne Supremacy" with Pam & Bill. It was a pretty good movie, I thought--certainly beat the hell out of searching for googlewhacks. Brad spent most of the day with Amay, and is going away for a while soon, but Laura's last day of AA was today.

Hopefully there will be an exciting social gathering at Geoff's soon though. This weekend he is hypocritically going on a road trip to go drinking in Tofino (I do not approve... I wish I could go on road trips). All I can really look forward to tomorrow is volunteering downtown (in the heat) and maybe seeing Copacabana. Or bathtubs and live music downtown. Maybe I will retreat to the basement and begin translating my Chinese Book of Mormon word by word, à la mode "The Last Samurai." It might be mega-tedious, but I bet my command of the language, and all-important literacy, would improve significantly.

Speaking of which, I'm looking forward to my upcoming Rotary International Youth Exchange more and more. Just as Foo came back happy from "The hardest thing [he'd] ever done" (a 17-day mountaineering expedition), I like a good challenge to motivate me every once in a while. The imminent threat of being immersed in a foreign language and culture does that quite nicely, and I actually do some studying now and again. Gregg is raising the bar with "heel-up only" bass drum technique, which makes everything significantly harder as I've been playing heel-down. If it weren't so hot, I would even do some bodybuilding. I plan to have a lot of fun starting August 20th, and actually start trying.

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