Miscellania

Wow, I’m doing a remarkably bad job of this blogging thing. One post in two months makes it look like either nothing is happening, or I’m incredibly lazy. It’s definitely not the former; let’s see what’s happened in June and July:

– Visited Montreal for the first time, for the Canadian F1GP, which was a fantastic trip. Had some amazing food, walked around an beautiful new city, and of course watched the race and all the super-entertaining support events. An old man tried rather transparently to steal my camera through trickery, but it was done so badly that I didn’t really begrudge him the attempt. Best of all, I got some pictures that made me very pleased (you can see them on Flickr here). Not sure why taking a photo that doubtless hundreds of other people are taking makes me happier than almost anything else, but it does, so there you go.

– A vacation in Disneyworld and Universal in Orlando. I love theme parks in summer. We’ve been to DW quite a few times before so while we had a really good time on this trip, it wasn’t quite as magical as previous trips here (maybe I should have taken an iPad). I also deliberately de-emphasized photography over travelling light and just concentrating on having a good time. I think this worked pretty well, and I still ended up with some shots I liked. Haven’t actually worked anything up for public consumption or anything yet, due to the laziness mentioned above.

– Work held their annual summer day out, at Playland in Vancouver. The weather was spectacular and I was pretty weary of theme parks at this point so I just took the camera and avoided the rides (still making time of course for the holy “mini” duo – mini-golf and mini-donuts). I put a handful of shots on Flickr.

– Been BBQ’ing like crazy with the exceptional stretch of good weather; lots of burgers and brats, grilled asparagus and potatoes and so on. Haven’t done anything new in a while though. We made a sundried-tomato-pesto-stuffed pork tenderloin that was really good, but just a derivative of the olive-stuffed one I’ve been making. I need some new ideas!

– I’ve been obsessed with Minecraft for a couple of weeks now. It’s a wonderful sandbox where you can mine and build anything you like (as long as you like square blocks that is). It’s amazing how pure it is in its design, and is updated constantly. Everyone who plays games should at least try it out.

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