Tonight I renewed this domain for another year. This site turns nine years old in four days. It's hard to believe anything related to the Internet can be almost a decade old.

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I'm still not really sure why Slacker and I agreed to have our photo taken while eating cold cuts. They were delicious by the way. You can see the rest of the photos here.

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As I referred to in a previous post I'm getting my Internet and HDTV service connected tomorrow. In fact, it's getting connected quite early, possibly as early as 8am. That means I gotta head off to my apartment now as I don't want to wake up even earlier to go there.

I hope everyone had a fun St. Paddy's Day!

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I can tell its spring break around town. How can I tell? There are kids everywhere where usually I don't see kids. At work today, I saw someone taking a mom and her two kids around the floor on a tour. They were looking at some stuff on the walls and then wandered into the 12th floor lounge area. Unfortunately, at the time Amy and I were both watching Joe make lime green Jello vodka shots on the counter. There were three large and empty vodka bottles on the counter as well. I don't think the kids noticed when they walked by but the mother may have. In our defense, we have a St. Paddy's day event planned so that's why Joe was making the shots.

On my way home, I saw another sign that it was indeed spring break. The bus driver of the bus I took had his daughter on his bus. She was sitting right at the front of the bus to his immediate right. She was about eight years old. They talked while he drove. I guess he couldn't find someone to look after her. I bet there's nothing more exciting than watching her Dad drive from downtown Vancouver to the outskirts of Coquitlam.

Where else will I see kids tomorrow?

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In my continuing education of all things house and home, I bought bed sheets for my new this weekend. I've bought sheets before. One spring while I was in grad school, I went on this wild adventure across the city looking for lavender sheets because I thought it my bed should reflect the new spring weather we were having. I wound up finding them at Zeller's in Burnaby.

Back then, I wasn't really paying attention to thread counts too much nor did I care much about what material the sheets were made of. This time I decided to do some research. Like for most things these days, I looked online for my bed sheet education. This page was somewhat useful in describing all things sheet-related.

In the end, I decided that while thread count wasn't everything, it certainly gave you a good idea how soft the sheets would be. I wound up purchasing a 500 thread count, Pima cotton set of sheets. You can seem them here. The Amazon price is about what I paid for mine at the Bay.

There's a slight sheen to the sheets which makes it look like it should be super soft to the touch, which it thankfully is. I'm almost afraid to put it in the wash for the first time as I fear it might come out feeling like a burlap sack.

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