A waste of bits and bandwidth

There are a few reasons which spring to mind: (a) I’ve moved to .com and haven’t really said anything on .ca and (b) the content is less than compelling. I’ll leave it for you to sort out which is applicable to your situation.

So I hooked up with Biff for a coffee as we are prone to do on a Sunday afternoon. We’re sitting there, drinking coffee and smoking when this guy walks by and is looking at me. My first thought was to get up and break his nose because that’s what people do when you look at them in Vancouver. It was only the fact that he was carrying a baby and sorta looked familiar that kept me in my seat. Meanwhile Biff is blathering on about something when said dude and a woman walk up to us.

Holy… it’s the Dayments! How cool! They were with some friends from Seattle but we had a nice chat with them and got caught up, in a manner of speaking. I have to say, Ever is the cutest little girl…

I’ve come across a couple of sites that are something that this site isn’t; unique and interesting. The first one is straight forward: [tag]bestofyoutube.com[/tag] This website was created during the summer of 2006 to make it easier for people around the world to view the most popular and best clips of YouTube. Pretty cool and they offer a video podcast. Nice.

The second one is harder to define: [tag]Justin.tv[/tag] Dude has affixed a camera to his head and wears it 24/7. Streaming. “Justin wears the camera 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even in the bathroom. Even on a date.” Somehow I don’t think he needs to worry about the date thing…

Parting thought – The only way you are getting some of my change is if your sign reads:

“Entire family killed by ninjas — need money for karate lessons”

Well, it’s been two weeks since I got back and lots has been going on. The jetlag seemed a bit worse this time but I assume that was me thinking that I knew how to handle it. Wrong.

Went to a party at the Shnewt’s last weekend and while small, the company was excellent. Odd how life just picks up as normal. I’ve been getting pics from some friends in Korea so it’s worth clicking through to have a look. MiHwa and Mia went to the studio to look at the proofs and they picked out 30. Still gonna be three months though…

Luckily, our consultant was snapping pictures the whole time and last night she gave us access to her FTP site to download the ones she took. They came out pretty well and I’ve posted a handful. Korean dad is going to pick up the pictures and video from the ceremony but I have no idea when I’ll get those…

Had a great start to the weekend. Our crazy IT guy left work on Friday because he is moving to Japan. He based this decision entirely on a three week vacation last summer which makes no sense at all. Hell, I love Seoul too; I sleep in everyday, go out and see the sites and then go get drunk every night. Nice life but it’s not reality.

In any event, a bunch of my partners in crime went out for drinks with the PFY in order to send him off on the right foot. As luck would have it, I was also to be having drinks with the gang from my old company. Needless to say I drank two beers far too fast and was off to Gastown.

Had a good time there too. I can’t believe it was two years ago that I was there and only stayed for four or five months. Made some good friends which is what matters.

So anyway, there you are. A meaningless post but aren’t they all? I’m really just padding my February stats.

Well, we’re done. We got back home from GwangJu last night and everything was perfect. The weather was really nice; sunny and very warm. As luck would have it, the brutal cold snap broke just before we left Seoul on Saturday morning.

The ceremony was great even though I had a lot to try and remember as far as the bowing and all. I had a helper, Mr. Cho, who stayed with me the whole time and translated for me. I only screwed up once which isn’t too bad. There was a goose, though it was wooden, but no horse. We wore huge robes which kinda defeated the whole HanBok thing for the ceremony.

We had around 70 people show up for the wedding and they joined us for lunch after. It’s all a bit of a blur now but I can’t wait to see the pictures and video. I was taken to my room abruptly and didn’t have time to give anyone my camera but there were lots of pics taken.

We had a great lunch with everyone and then retired to Mom and Dads for dinner. At dinner they took great pleasure in watching my reaction to eating live octopus. It actually doesn’t have much taste at all but I can do without the visual, thank you. I politely declined trying the ink-filled head. Of course by then, I was half corked so I probably could tried it without much effect. Little known fact; if you cut up an octopus, the suckers still grab onto the plate…

As with the last trip, we raced of to the airport and got on the plane with minutes to spare. By the time we landed in Seoul, we were bagged. We grabbed the train and a pizza on the way home. It had to have been the best pizza either of us have had in a long time.

Had a lot of people to talk to talk to on the phone today. We managed to grab some lunch, play some pool and then grab some groceries for tomorrow morning. Wednesday, we’re off to Tokyo!

Hope that work is going well for all of you. (Sorry Biff…) We’re meeting Mia for dinner in 20 minutes and I intend to suck back much SuJu. Happy Monday

Well, it’s official. At least in Korea; MiHwa and I are married. We spent yesterday running around like headless chickens in an attempt to get all the documents certified. BTW, should you ever try to submit a document to the Korean registry, get it translated to Korean. I guess they don’t dig English… I also learned that no matter where you are, government workers are all the same. Indifferent drones.

We left downtown for MyeongDong where we did dome shopping and saw a movie before grabbing a bite for dinner.

Anyway, the wife is at work today, so I’m doing the Biff thing; did the dishes, cleaned up a little and did some laundry. MiHwa told me that they are testing the fire alarms today so I wouldn’t be surprised. As often happens, she left out the more important details.

I’m standing in my underwear doing the dishes when the doorbell rings. I looked at the front door LCD and no one is there, so I stick my head out the door only to see a worker walking down the hall. Now he did say something to me but oddly I didn’t understand him so I went back to my dishes. 2 minutes later, the door opens and some other guy walks right in, says something to me and begins to test the smoke detector. There I am in my underwear, doing the dishes with iTunes pounding away. Him: *Korean – roughly translated to ‘nice boxers’* Me: Hey

There was an uneasy silence as I kept doing the dishes and he kept testing the smoke detector. It was probably for the best… What do you say? Mental note, lock the damn door.

Well, I’m off to COEX.

Wedding expenses; ugh. The wife and I have been sharing a document to track everything that we need to pay for, plan etc. I had the brilliant idea that a spreadsheet work work better so I decided to create one and share it with her, yada, yada, yada…

Now I’ve always considered myself fairly handy with finances and all. I track shit. I keep my receipts. I total it and manipulate it in multiple spreadsheets. I put it into categories figuring that someday I’ll do something with all my data.

I spent over three hours Saturday trying to get the number to reconcile properly resulting in a near total loss of brain function. The problem being that MiHwa has paid several deposits meaning she obviously owes less for some things than me. Other things she has paid for outright. I figured it might have been wrong of me to ‘overlook’ that and just split everything 50/50, hence my descent into spreadsheet hell. I think I finally have it right. She says it looks good but I dunno how closely she looked at it. I wonder if she’d notice a sundry MacBook item…

Today it was DimSum with the usual suspects. Sweet feathery moses, that stuff doesn’t sit well with me. I like it and all but I feel like crap afterward and today was no different. I ate over 9 hours ago and I honestly don’t feel that digestion has started. I even walked home in an attempt to speed up the process but no luck.

On the other hand, I really didn’t need to do anything for dinner…