For those of you who have a special person to be with;

Happy Valentine's Day!

It's raining today. I have to go into town to pick up some proofs from a roll of
120 I dropped off last week for processing. I'll probably hook up with J. (my
photojournalist friend) and have coffee. I haven't seen him in a while.

Today was another beautiful day, too bad I had to work! I had the camera out with me again yesterday and I got some shots of the first flower of the year. Nature never ceases to impress me. Beautiful.

It was a nice day today--relatively sunny and warm--and it didn't rain. Work and business as usually (except about half our crew is off on sick leave). My favorite part of today was lunch break. We went to the Shadbolt Center at Deer lake. It's a beautiful area, Deer Lake, and there's lots of old heritage buildings scattered around there. For those of you that don't already know, The Shadbolt Center is named after the great Canadian international artist Jack Shadbolt.

I took the camera out on my lunch break and walked down to the lake. Everything looked amazing, because there was a thin level of fog that extended up beyond the trees, and the sun was shining through the mist. I wished I could just take the rest of the day off and stay at the lake taking photos. Sadly, I get only half and hour for my lunch break. I did get these shots though:









And here's Ceperly House (Burnaby's haunted art gallery).


T. came down to the lake with me and posed for some photos:


And T. got a shot of me too:


Later, after lunch, we had to go use the crane truck to pick up some logs from a big cedar tree that a contractor cut down. We have some really big trees here on the west coast, and this tree was no exception:













I finished the afternoon tea with a nice cookie bear that I purchased from the cafeteria at the Shadbolt Center.



He didn't taste as good as he looked. That little red heart candy of his got wedged in between my teeth. Oh well. I've had worse.

Right now I'm installing a new operating system in my file server computer. It's just an old P2 300, but it will make a good file server for the big guy. I'll probably put music files on there.

Ok, I'm off to bed soon.

-Gnite.

Feeling better today. I didn't really eat right today though--I had timbits this morning for breakfast and a small vegetarian pannini for lunch. I wasn't too hungry. Finally I am hungry tonight though, now that it's bed time.

I did yoga just before I had dinner. It made me sweat, but I think it really made me feel better afterward. Isn't yoga great?!

If the weather is good tomorrow, I'm going into the city with A. He wants to do some photography. I just have to pay some bills there, but if it's nice, I would like to take some photos, although sometimes I feel like I've take pictures of everything in Vancouver. I get bored of the same old views all the time.

Gnite

Not feeling very well today. Yuck. Several people at work are sick, coughing, sneezing and all the other unpleasant symptoms of cold or flu. It looks like I may have picked up some of their bugs. I've been trying to wash my hands as aften as possible, and not touch my face or rub my eyes over the past week or so, but there is only so much I can do as far as preventative measures are concerned. I've been stuck in trucks with sick people who sneeze and cough all over everything.

I've felt feverish all day today and most of last night. I'm going to get lots of sleep tonight though, so hopefully I will feel better tomorrow.

Yesterday, after work, I went for a bike ride up the SFU hill. I haven't done that since last fall, so it was rather difficult. The weather was great, it was sunny, but it was very cold going back down the mountain. I brought the G2 with me and shot some pictures when I arrived near the top:







On the way home I decided to visit my best friend L. for a cup of tea. I stayed for about an hour and then I went home.

Today the forestry department that I work for, had us plant a tree at a local school. It's part of the "Trees for Life" program (remember last September when I was covered the running event "Trees for Life Fun Run"? Well now we're planting the trees with the proceeds from that event.)

The weather wasn't that great, but the kids seemed to really enjoy the whole thing. It's gets them out of the class room, so it's all good!

L. was there (he works with me) and he shot these photos:

















After everything was done, the truck got stuck in the mud in a playing field, and so a tow truck was called to pull it free.

In other news, I went though computer hell last night. I was the victim of a hacker. I have no idea why anyone would want to hack into my computer, but it happened and it was difficult to fix. Everything is back in order now though.