So, I'm back home in Ottawa, after 6 days in Vancouver.
It's a nice, compact city (where we were, anyway - in the West End, near the water), with good cycle lanes (and more hills than Ottawa), lots of nice restaurants (we had Italian, Kenyan, Japanese and Ukrainian). It's more expensive than here, especially to buy housing.
I was working at the convention centre there, which is plush, modern, and generally a good place to have an exhibition - from my point of view.
The nicest bit, actually, was leaving - taking the skytrain (which is mostly underground) out to the airport I could see rivers, and huge amounts of lumber floating. Then on the aeroplane flying home, the view of the city, the mountains, and then the abrupt end as the mountains became the prairies were all amazing. The mountains - snow capped, as far as the eye could see for a long time - were beautiful. I was listening to and half watching "This Movie is Broken" and really enjoying the music at the time.
Ottawa seems very bland in comparison. Is the concrete somehow more concretey? Or is it just.. the sea, the beautiful sea?
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
11,000 days
I am a little over 11,000 days old.
Quite what this milestone means I don't know. This morning I woke up in a city on the other side of the planet from the one I was born in, cycled to work in the early morning light, and drank a gooood cup of coffee.
I'm sitting at registration for an exhibition, looking at banks of printers and PCs, badge stock and shiny metal. People are making connections, making deals. There are thousands of other souls nearby.
The seagulls tidy up the streets, but also mess them up. Seaplanes come and go from the harbour.
What is life?
Quite what this milestone means I don't know. This morning I woke up in a city on the other side of the planet from the one I was born in, cycled to work in the early morning light, and drank a gooood cup of coffee.
I'm sitting at registration for an exhibition, looking at banks of printers and PCs, badge stock and shiny metal. People are making connections, making deals. There are thousands of other souls nearby.
The seagulls tidy up the streets, but also mess them up. Seaplanes come and go from the harbour.
What is life?
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Dave's World
Dave's World is very simple.
If I'm tired I sleep, if I'm awake I lie in bed warm and cosy then get up.
If I'm hungry, I eat, if I'm not engrossed in something else. If I get really hungry, then I eat.
I think about things a lot, and try to do things that make sense. I want chickens not because chickens are cool (though, they are), but because they fertilise the soil and lay beautiful eggs.
If life were simple, would it be no fun?
If I'm tired I sleep, if I'm awake I lie in bed warm and cosy then get up.
If I'm hungry, I eat, if I'm not engrossed in something else. If I get really hungry, then I eat.
I think about things a lot, and try to do things that make sense. I want chickens not because chickens are cool (though, they are), but because they fertilise the soil and lay beautiful eggs.
If life were simple, would it be no fun?
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