Well, shortest Evernote to date, maybe: It’s true. I sold it months ago, to a good home. Friend of the family with a son looking for a practice kit to take his chops to the next level. Lately though, I…

I’ve moved to a sports desert. Kind of knew that already since Vancouver is a one-sport town: hockey. Oh. Wait. Check that. Canucks hockey. But since cable providers have the major US networks, like NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox (who…

Evernote is kind of like my Neil Peart journal, it seems. I don’t jot things down in a physical journal anymore. I create notes in Evernote. So here are notes from the bus: So here I am, on the 25…

Noticing a trend yet? I’m a big Evernote fan. And while I’m stuck in the data roaming black hole, I’ve come to rely on it even more heavily. So here’s what I jotted down while waiting to board the flight…

Being tired, all the time, that is. Apparently it has something to do with weather and/or elevation and/or time change, but when people first move here they are tired all the time. I thought it was just the time change.…

So, I’m having kind of a bad day. It started waking up, again at 3:30am. I don’t know why, it just keeps happening. I thought my trek out to SMCYVR would have helped but apparently not. Guess I need to…

I’m from Chicago, so I have pre-programmed skepticism about weather. Today, Environment Canada, under which the Weather Office falls, issued an Arctic Overflow Warning for Metro Vancouver. I’m still trying to figure out “Lower Mainland,” but suffice to say, “Metro…

Whew. My first weekend in Vancouver was uneventful, which is actually OK. My brain had a chance to relax, unwind and space out. Seems as if it could do with some more relaxing, unwinding and spacing out but, alas, it…

Apparently I haven’t adjusted to the time change yet. I woke up at 3am again today and, as pretty every Friday for the past three years, my first thought was “Yay! It’s Family Pizza Night!” Except I won’t be there.…