Captain Coke Bottle

Canada (well at least Vancouver) has turned dark and
rainy over the last few weeks. Dark, dark, dark and only 5pm, and it's
just going to get darker until Christmas. I don't really mind it, it's
just different. Monday was the first night since daylight saving was
turned off and it happened to be halloween, so the ride home was with
crazy traffic in the dark with the constant firecracker background
noise. Seemed a little chaotic.

Charlene and I are doing well, though both of us seem busy helping out with what ever. We haven't really started any real wedding planning, though we have picked a date - April 22, the week after Easter, so if anyone is in vancouver that weekend.... At this stage we're just throwing around ideas of how we'd like it, and making sure it's not a painful experience. It's exciting. We've been to a local jewellery studio thing to get engagement/wedding rings designed and made up.
Hopefully they'll be all done in another week. It's a long drawn out
process but they will be good.

Works good, though I'm still not sure whether it will turn full time or
not. Sounds promising from several sources but until I sign a bit paper
I won't count on it. We had fund raising event all last week.
Different events each day during the lunch hour. One of the events was
a junk yards war with the basic criteria to cost under $50 and complete
five events. A 3m sprint, jump and hit a golf ball (high jump), long
jump, throwing event (a shuttle cock), and an endurance event (who's
vehicle could go furthest). There were three teams and I was in charge
of the yellow team. Somehow we had a clean sweep, even being the
cheapest vehicle. We mastered the pressurised soft drink bottle rocket
idea with a bicycle valve in a rubber cork held in place with the lid.
Just undo the lid and when the thread let goes, she goes. Most the
events had about 5-10PSI, but for the endurance I pumped it up to 120PSI
while wearing face shield and leather gloves. Crowd response was good.
My criteria before the event was keep it simple since I value my
time, and get good crowd response. So winning everything was an added
bonus. Someone came up at the start of the week when I'd been voted Junk yard wars leader and said the performance could make or break me, no pressure... now I go by thename Captain Coke Bottle (well one person has called me that).

There's a few photos attached from the last month... cake decorating has been a highlight. Enjoy.