Dark skies of July
Things have been getting busier lately. Since Yeji's arrived, we've been doing our best to organize our schedules but it's a bit tricky. I have to be at the office to get work done, which is also where the only high-speed internet computer we have is located. To make matters worse, the home computer also died over the weekend and will need to have it's OS reinstalled.
Besides that, we had a great trip to Halifax for Canada Day Weekend. We sort've almost caught the fireworks Thursday night. We had trouble seeing them beyond the crowd of people on the waterfront, but maybe more impressive was that we got a parking spot next to Perks! .. And that wasn't by showing up early either. We caught Spiderman 2 beforehand so it was about 9:30'ish that we got downtown.
Friday was my day to do some street hiking and check out some old haunts. We were staying with our friend Kim, so the two of them did a little shopping. I made my way through the Public Gardens and Point Pleasant Park. It was my first time to witness the damage of Hurricane Juan. Don't get angry, but I think that the Public Gradens actually look better. To compensate for the missing trees, it appears they've gone all out into landscaping. They look beautiful and serene.
Point Pleasant was a different story. The further in you travel, the more trees seem to be missing. At first, the open spaces seemed okay there too. They revealed a lot of landscape features that had been hidden as long as I remember. But it quickly became too much. A hundred yards in and it looks like Tunguska. A terrible loss.
Friday night we went to another movie, Farenheit 9/11. Apparently it was the number one movie in metro the weekend before-- yet it only opened on ONE screen (Oxford). This night they opened additional screens, including Bayer's Lake which is where we went. The lineups for Spiderman 2 and Farenheit 9/11 were indistinguishable and ubiquitous.
Saturday was a last minute shopping day, followed by glow-in-the-dark mini golf and then glow-in-the-dark bowling. Afterwards, we went to Ginger's on Barrington for drinks, met a couple of other friends, known electronically as Elfinhippie and Lilac, and had a swell time.
Now I'm back and it's a return to work. I really hope to announce something here shortly but I feel like I need secrecy if everything's going to come together. Suffice to say I've been buried in Photoshop and Pagemaker, and on the phone arranging quotes and timetables. More will follow...
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