February 2003
February 26
They said there was a chance of snow overnight, but none so far!
It would have been nice for a little bit.
I'm getting prepared for the coming moving around. Penny, my current roommate
and the manager for the building can finally move into the manager's suite!
Sandra will be moving in on March 1st! There will be a number of things that
will have to get done, though my part is relatively modest. I've arranged
to have Hydro put into my name and Sandra is getting Cable into hers. I've
made arrangements for getting a few things from Mom and Dad's. My microwave
for one and a newer bed. I'm going to give Sandra my old bed as it is in
better condition than her current bed which she doesn't plan on moving. I'm
sure there are other things that will come up along the lines of getting
a shower curtain as the current one is Penny's. Then there will be things
like arranging Sandra's stuff into cupboards and seeing if there are any
changes to that between us. I'm not sure how much hassle there will be separating
our pots pans and dishes. For the most part we have been using our own, but
there are some I might not be sure about as Mom gave me some stuff as I moved
in and I wasn't necessarily involved in unpacking them. I think I might enjoy
hanging some of my posters and pictures in the living room that have been
hiding in my closet. I think things will go smoothly.
I went to Everitt on Saturday with
Vancouver
Paranormal. (the link may be changing) It went interestingly with only
a slight hiccup at the border and a misunderstanding as to whether we were
to be spending the night down there. There was an interesting house in Everitt
that we looked at. It is supposed to be highly active with things that go
bump in the night. We joined up with
AGHOST
a ghost hunting group out of Seattle Tacoma. (link to come)
I'm doing a rewrite of one of the Murder Mystery Dinner scripts for
Port Moody Station Museum.
It will involve replacing the BCPP Detective with a Seedy Newspaper Reporter.
I have to get that finished soon for the Murder Mystery will be happing on
March 8th and we'll need some scripts for rehersal. I hope that we can get
the cast together in time.
I've decided to pick up my harmonica and actually make an attempt at learning
to play it. One hitch, my Hero Harmonica is a tremalto which is substantially
different from your pedestrian 10 hole diatonic harmonica. Virtually all
the sites on instruction for playing harmonica are for diatonic ones and
are a bit chauvinistic about the trematlto ones. So I guess I'm on my own.
I am having some luck, but I bet things might be going smoother if I had
some instruction. Still there is a feeling of accomplishiment with doing
it on my own. I want to play medieval and rennasance tunes rather than jazz
or such. I wonder what harmonica sounds like along with recorder. It might
go well.
Anyhow enough for now!
Take Care!
Darrell
February 17
Still much more busy-ness happening for me. A good thing, though
I'm feeling like I'm pushing a few things perhaps too far health wise.
I did it! I actually did the dirty deed and shaved my beard and moustache!
I grew them for a lark just before Halloween and actually had not planned
on even keeping them until Christmas. But I got so many nice complements
on them that I kept them longer than I planned. It was interesting how it
seemed that I was even treated a bit differently by people because of the
change in appearance the beard led to. Perhaps soon I'll get my hair cut
to a more conservative length. Either that or I'll have to learn how to take
care of long hair. I know that rubber bands are bad for holding it into a
pony tail and I'm at a loss for trying to braid it myself.
March 1st and the changes of roommates is coming quickly. Time to get the
details like switching Hydro into my name and getting Cable into my new
roommate's name have to get done. I think things will go smoothly.
ADSL
I also have ADSL High Speed Internet from Telus! It is great and very useful
to me. I plan on doing more web page design in the near future including
ones for some musicians in exchange for credit on their pages and some publicity.
The ADSL will be helpful for that. I also hope to continue doing computer
graphics and the high speed will make it viable to transfer images to the
printer's. With a little luck things might work out to actually earning
the money to pay for the high speed link.
Port Moody Station Museum
I'm happy to be getting more actively involved in the Port Moody Station
Museum and the Port Moody Heritage Society once more. I've started a Yahoo!
Group for the Museum that will be informative and hopefully useful to the
Museum and anyone interested in the Museum and Port Moody. It is called
the
"Port Moody
Station Museum" Yahoo! Group, or
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/pmstation/
. The Group has a message base that is tied to an Email List that members
of the Group belong to. There messages can be passed on to all members.
I also have a calendar there which has museum events listed that will send
out reminders and notices to people in advance and on the days of the events.
It works well, but now there is a need of members for the Group to make
it most useful.
The High speed link will also make it easier to do some work with the museum.
Files can now be quickly transferred between my system and the museum's
so I can work both at home and at the museum. I hope to take over maintaining
the Museum's actual Web Site. My own Virtual Museum Project for the Port
Moody Station Museum will also be facilitated with the ADSL.
Computer Upgrades and Hardware
The simple Polaroid Digital camera I now have also will come in handy with
these projects. It will be simple for me to take the pictures that will
be included on web sites and in computer graphic work. Soon I will also
have my computer upgraded enough to be able to use things like a CD reWriter.
There are a number of projects that will be more possible. I will be able
for instance to archive past work I've done for people onto CDs so that I
will have them on file, but not have them taking up valuable hard drive space.
Gaming
I am organizing to have my Fantasy Role Playing Game (FRPG) in
the world of Verden starting with in person gaming once more starting in
March after Sandra moves in. It has been a long time since the last regular
gaming. I'm not sure yet how frequent it will be, but I hope to hold the
in person games at my place at least twice a month or alternating weeks.
Weekly gaming, I'm not certain of yet.
I'm also getting the online FRPG Verden Campaign running again on a monthly
basis. The next game sometime in February or March. I am aiming for a monthly
game for that.
I am planning on a new campaign for the in person gaming and using the
Havne Arctic campaign for the online game. I am not sure yet of the original
in person campaign which included the search for the Golden Cloth/Blanket
relic.
More news to come, and likely in a separate gaming journal.
The Usual Suspects Theatre Group
I'm looking to start up a Theatre Group based out of the Port Moody Station
Museum. My plan is to gather interested parties together regularly at the
museum to put together and rehearse scripts for future Murder Mystery Dinners
at the museum and perhaps other projects. I'd like to see the group meeting
twice a month. At the meetings past Murder Mystery Scripts could be acted
out and rehearsed, as well as putting together new ones. I would also like
to invite people to teach some skills that would prove useful. For example
inviting someone who could give some instruction in voice projection to
teach some vocal exercises that could be practised at future meetings. Another
example would be some training for physical acting like choreographed fight
scenes, or how to fall or die safely. To start with things would be aimed
towards producing future Murder Mystery Dinners for the Museum. Later perhaps
other projects could be taken on.
My goal would be to gather together around a dozen folk that could be called
on to help put on the Murder Mystery Dinners. The production would probably
involve the nuts and bolts of putting on a production including publicity
for the events and arranging for caterers and whatever else is needed. The
whole Theatre Group would have to be done on a shoestring budget with no
cost to the Museum other than being able to use the Museum as a place to
meet. The Museum might also provide an entity if needed for to add legitimacy
when inviting someone to speak to the group.
I plan on calling the group, "The Usual Suspects Theatre Group" after that
commonly used phrase in the movies, "Gather up the usual suspects."
"The Usual Suspects" will include Museum Members and Volunteers from the
Port Moody Station Museum who have taken part in the Murder Mystery Dinners
to date, if only as alumni, and anyone wishing to become a member. This
would become the core group from which could be drawn cast and crew for
the Murder Mystery Dinners.
I've talked things over with the Curator Jim Millar who seems positive
about the idea. Now I am trying to work out some of the details in advance
of publicizing the Theatre Group. Little things like when to meet and how
often. One consideration to do with the Group and with putting on Murder
Mystery Dinners is that of negative publicity. It is not good to advertise
a Dinner and then have to cancel it regardless of the reason why. But I
hope that having the actual group meeting regularly and the resources that
should come from it will lead to successful Events to come.
More information on "The Usual Subjects" to come!
Vancouver and Lower Mainland Paranormal
Vancouver and Lower Mainland Paranormal is interesting. I've gone out
twice now with them and the results of the investigations have been tantalizing.
They have even included me in their banner. Of course the picture was from
before I lost the beard. LOL There is actually a newer banner but I had problems
accessing it on the web site. My own computer is choking on the music file
on the page. I figure I have something to contribute to their organization.
I rather like the photo of myself in their banner. I look so intriguing!
Well, enough for tonight, 'til next time!
Take Care! TTFN
Darrell
February 1
January 31 and February 1 were very busy for me.
The most important news, I would imagine is that I solved my upcoming
problem of needing a new roommate come March 1! (Now I just have to deal
with that body sized trunk I have in the store room.)
Perhaps I shouldn't be composing this while watching "Cold Squad" on
Television.
But seriously, Penny, my current roommate took over being manager for
the building, Villa Leah Apartment, last July and has been waiting for
the Manager's suite to be vacated so she could move in. Well that is happening
for March 1st and I had to find another roommate. I've asked around a bit
since last November and my good friend Tim told me that his ex-wife, and
also a long time friend of mine could use a roommate. Sandra and I chatted
a while. We hadn't really seen each other recently and she agreed to move
into to Penny's old room. I think it will work out.
One interesting thing is that Sandra used to be a part of a long term
Gaming Campaign I had over 10 years ago that had been running for about
10 years. I have wanted to get my Fantasy Hero campaign going again, but
needed a few more players. Sandra is interested in playing. John also has
been interested in continuing with gaming. Three is a possible fourth person,
Cassy, a roommate of Tim's has also showed interest. We could use another
player or two, but this is a start. probably gaming can start in March,
soon after Sandra moves in. It is an interesting mix. I have gamed with
both John and Sandra. In fact though it was in different groups and at different
times the games had lasted around 10 years each. But although I have gamed
with John and Sandra for up to 10 years each, they have never gamed together.
Cassy has played a few FRPGs, but she still considers herself a "newbie".
Perhaps from time to time we might entice Regan to join us for a game or
so. I still haven't decided if the game will go on every week or whether
it will be alternating weeks or something else. For sure I want to game at
least once a month, but I find that as a goal once a month tends to end up
nunce a month. So, I think perhaps aiming for at least on alternating weekends
might be the best bet.
I have become involved with the
Vancouver and Lower Mainland
Paranormal Society. It is an interesting group who investigate the paranormal
and in particular ghosts and hauntings. Tomorrow I shall have a chance
to observe an investigation first hand. It should prove interesting. I'll
let you know how things turn out.
Monday should be a busy one, perhaps I am even double booked. I shall
have to doublecheck things Sunday. First off, I believe that
Toby Beaulieu's Russian CD will
be shipped off to Russia on Monday. I know Toby wants to have a party to
see the conclusion of this part of the project. I figure the party will be
during the day, but have to doublecheck that.
Another development with the Russian CD. It came to the attention of Toby
that many of the people he worked with on the CD in Siberia do not have access
to CD players. Wanting the music to be available to more people, Toby is
going to also put the music onto cassette tapes. I'm going to be using some
of the artwork from the CD case to create artwork for the cassette case.
Monday evening El Cocal will again be hosting the
Carnival Band. It will be their
30th performance at El Cocal (2 1/2 years?).
CBC's "ZED Television" will be there. I am
thinking of going if I can get transportation and if the Russian CD event
isn't happening that same evening.
Wednesday will bring an event in the evening. I've been organizing a
meet for the
"British Columbia
Friends" Yahoo! Group at Jake's Crossing Pub for their Wings Night
on the 5th of February. We are looking at 8:30pm for a meeting time there.
I wonder how crowded it will be at the Pub and how many members will show
up? I have two other people who have said they'd be there. Even with only
the three of us I'll count it as a success.
Anyhow, enough for now!
Take Care!
Darrell
January 2003
January 22
The CD of Russian music is ready! I have a copy now
complete with the cover! It looks nice, though the cover seems a bit miss
cut. It will be shipping out to Russia soon and there's going to be a bit
of a party to see the shipment off. The music is very nice. I had only heard
excerpts before. I'll try to bring the CD with me to any gathering I get
to. That should be sometime next December.
But still I'd like to share some of the music. Not sure how much the
CD will cost. There are a certain amount that will be sold in Canada.
For those who don't know it, I've changed my appearance somewhat as
of last Halloween. I grew a beard which I'm still sporting. Here are before
and after pictures:
I'm still just keeping the beard on a day-to-day basis. I still like
the clean shaven look and just am not sure how talented my attempts at
trimmng the beard would be using scissors. I used to have a nice "trim"
setting on an electric raser that made it straight forward. I have gotten
some nice complements on the beard though or I'd have shaved it off weeks
ago. But it does itch sometimes.
My spirits are pretty good, though a little down about being sick with
a fever and infection. I wonder if lower Port Moody will get any snow
this season?
Take Care!
Darrell
January 12
Wow, my last entry was January 6th, less than a week ago,
but it feels like weeks ago that was still working on Toby's CD
case. Well, that is now completed and I hope printed by now and ready to
go onto Music CDs that will be sold across Russian and some in Canada as
well. It is a very neat feeling that some Graphic design of mine and some
artwork too will be seen by so many people so far away. Since a painting
of mine is included in the CD cover, does that mean I've actually sold
a painting? I mean part of the money I was paid includes the painting of
it.
As a painter I'm still really just a baby, but perhaps one graduating
from standing while holding onto things to taking steps away from handholds.
Perhaps I'll always be at this stage, but even so I enjoy painting and
surprise myself often with how well some things turn out. I guess I'll always
learn something new with each painting that I do.
Hopefully soon I will have my virtual gallery up so that people can
see some of my paintings, drawings, and similar stuff. I have made an
important breakthrough on my virtual gallery design that is a great improvement
on my Mark I version. It builds on the work of that version, but is much
less clunky and leaves less of the design to chance when converting to
differing screen sizes. I am looking for a simple straight forward way
to define the size of a window being opened by link that targets a new
blank window. I want to be able to have the web surfer click on a link and
have a less than full screen browser window open up with the appropriate
snippet of information. If anyone has some ideas,
drop me a
line.
It can be a bit sad to wish a friend "Bon Voyage" after far too short
a visit. But it is moderated by the fact that she is doing something she
really wants to do and is doing it with her husband who is an excellent
guy! "Bon Voyage" Sam! I miss you already, but with the internet the World
just isn't as big as it was. I only wish I could afford to give the odd
phone call to you. I'm also quite envious of my friends who have and will
be visiting you in Osaka.
Later today I'm going to my Sister's to celebrate my Father's Birthday
and my Parent's Anniversary. It is nice to get together with family too!
I'm pretty lucky.
I was hooked up to a doohickey the other night to monitor my heartrate
and blood oxygen level while I slept. It was a box about the size of a
VHS videocassette in a nylon case with a thing to clamp over the tip of
a finger. It was interesting to watch the changing pulse rates going from
sitting and reading to lying down and relaxing and also what it read when
I would wake up in the night. Still I wonder at the changes in my pulse rate
between sleep, relaxing, reading, sitting up, and walking. My relaxed rate
when waking was around 55. Lying back relaxing before falling asleep it
was 60, sitting up 70-75, and moving around the apartment without undo haste,
around 100. I'm a heavey guy so perhaps a rate of 100 for moderate activity
isn't that out of the ordinary. After all I pack around at least a hundred
pounds of extra weight. Consider the difference between walking to the kitchen
for a glass of water and doing so with over 100 pounds strapped to your back.
I also noted that my pulse rate would drop back down very quickly. A matter
of less than half a minute from 100 down to 70. I believe that's a sign
of a healthy heart. Still... I wonder if 55 is a bit on the slow side. I
should mention it to the Doctor when I see him next as I am on a few medicines
that can have a side effect of slowing ones heart rate. When I was younger,
and down at the weight I've dropped down to now, my heart rate was a steady
60 if I were just sitting watching TV or reading. I've also lost nearly
100 pounds so I'm actually at the weight I was at when I was 18 or 19. (that
is very nice)
And now for the weather!
Well no, it's not snowing. We just finished a long string of Sunny
if chilly days with brilliant blue daytime skies and frost on the ground
at night. Now it is much milder, but a gentle misty rain has settled in with
the accompanying grey skies.
Anyhow, that's it for now!
I wish my friends a safe, comfortable trip home! (And remember when
they try to figure out your seats and start making offers, keep an ear
out for words like: strut; pylon; fairing; alleron, nacelle, and just say
no even if the word does sound interesting. Aisle and Window -- Good
Wing and Crossmember -- Bad.
Take Care!
Darrell
January 06
Hi!
I haven't done much today, having a fever is a real energy damper.
I did have an inspiration yesterday though on a problem I was dealing
with for Toby's "With the Eyes of the Heart" CD case.
With the Eyes of the Heart, Russian CD:
The case graphics I designed were designed around a Jewel Case with
a back page and then a small booklet for the front of the case. Originally
I had two square images and a doubled square image. One piece was intended
for the cover that would show on the outside with the CD case closed, one
piece would be the page visible behind the cover when the case was opened.
These two would form the front and back cover for the simple four page folded
booklet.
The First hurdle was that the artwork was too busy to put the song
list on and still have it legible. My first thougth was to fade out one
of the pieces of artwork and put the song titles and a short piece of
text on it. But, that would not do justice to the faded artwork. I decided
to do that for the back of the case if I would also have that same graphic
repeated on the inside unfaded. I finally decided on making the booklet
a six page acordion folded thing. I also added at the request of Toby, another
page, an image of a lighthouse with a space for the title or text.
Version 1
Folded the page with the guitar became the cover page, the lighthouse
the page that faced into the case. (the page on the left when you open
the CD case) When you take the booklet out of the front of the case and
open it, you would see the page with the star with the photogaraphs in it.
Open it all the way up and you'd see the map of Russia on the left and
the faded version of the star on the right with the text for the CD cover
on it. The back of the case would hold an image with the guitar graphic faded
and without the title, but with the song titles and text repeated on it.
I thought it turned out well, but Toby wasn't happy with how busy
the backgrounds to the text were and I also found out there was another
double width graphic. I had to ponder some changes to incorporate the new
graphic, which obiviously was intended to have the titles and text incorporated
on it and also to avoid duplication of images and the text. It took a while
and I considered keeping the 6 page format, but with the new graphic being
two paged it just didn't seem to work without one of the double pages
half showing when the booklet was folded. I pondered going to an 8 page
format, but that would mean two additional pages. Toby wanted the lighthouse
graphic for the back page as well.
So feeling tired and with a growing fever I did what many creative
people do in such a circumstance. I slept on it. I woke up at 4am and
thought for a few minutes, then a solution came to me. I had the 6 pages
set up so that the two outside pages would fold in to the centre. If instead
it was folded in a zig-zag accoridian sort of way it would allow for a
single page graphic and a double page graphic on each side with the two
single panes only, showing when the booklet was folded.
Version 2
When folded the two single panels would show as the front cover and
inside cover with the two double folded inside. I haven't quite formated
the case back yet with the lighthouse graphic. But it is the graphic that
will be the back cover. Maybe I can include a diagram to show what I mean
about the folding. In any case it works! I shall be finished by sometime
in the morning and then the job of creating files the Printer can use starts.
From what I gather from a new friend in Chicago in the music industry
that means saving the graphics as Adobe "psd" files. I use Paint Shop Pro
(psp) rather than Adobe Photoshop (psd) because PSP includes more vector
tools and features that I find very helpful. Also I have a slightly older
version of Adobe Photoshop which doesn't have all the features. I do wish
I had a copy of Adobe Illustrator though and a copy of the full Adobe Photoshop.
It was sure good fortune that I ran into Royce. He's a member of my "Photos
for Figure Drawing" Group on Yahoo and with his experiance with the recording
industry was able to confirm and guide me with the format requirements
printers have.
Thanks Royce!
Other Stuff:
I haven't done alot of painting the past day or so, but I have done
some pretty domestic type things that needed doing. I also altered the
base for my dolphin sculpture so that now it can stand upright without leaning
on anything.
I'm re-reading Lord of the Rings as I mentioned on my previous
journal page and recalled having a better
map than is in the books somewhere. I have some Tolkien art cards and
I knew one of the 6" x 8.5" cards had a map of Middle Earth on it. I found
that with little problems and the map indeed was better than the one in
the paperback book. But I know I have a better one. Perhaps, I thought,
it was in one of the 3 Lord of the Rings Calendars I have. I found two
of the calendars in my collection of calendars, but neither had the map.
There is a third calendar that I can't find. It is from the Animated version
by Bashki(?). Somehow it hasn't yet reached my calendar collection yet.
That must be where I had the map. I wonder if there isn't a nice Adobe
pdf version somewhere on the net? I have found some of the best maps online
stored in that format.
BTW, the Art Cards I have are quite interesting. I have two sets
of the 8 card series. "Tolkien Cards The Hobbit Series one" and "Tolkien
Cards The Lord of the Rings". An interesting feature of the cards is that
a number are prints of Tolkien's actual artwork. It is interesting to see
his view on things, though I do realize that if I were to show my own drawings
from my own stories and such, they might give mistaken ideas due to
my own inaccuracies with pencil and paper. We can't necessarily draw what
we see in our mind's eye. I wonder how many other series of these cards
there were...
Well that's it for this entry!
TTFN!
Darrell
January 02
Hello and once more "
Happy New Year!!!"
It was great to see so many friends New Year's Eve! Thanks to Ron
and Lori for hosting the Vladmas Party! on the 31st!
The previous entry was made on the 30th of December so this is technically
the first entry of the New Year!
I'm not really into the "New Years' Resolution: thing, but Ron asked
me what my goals were for the coming year. That got me thinking.
Of late I've realized that I don't have any real long term or mid term goals
to speak of. So my very first goal is to consider what goals I have. I mean
I have some goals I've had for a very long time. I'd like to get
married and have children some day. I'd like to be comfortably off enough
financially to be saving for Retirement and consider the odd Vacation
Trip.
I'd like to do "really" start a career where I can help and or teach
people. As shy as I am, I do love people and being around people. One
of the things I love about giving tours of the museum is listening to the
people I'm showing around and finding some part of the displays that they
would find specially interesting. Normally I succeed and the feeling is
great. I have met so very many nice and interesting people over the past
number of years I've been involved with the museum. It is a bit of an ego
boost when you meet someone on the street who tells you they remember the
tour you gave them a year ago and how much they enjoyed it. I also enjoy
the opportunities I've had to teach and help people out in using their computers
and internet.
The past year I've also had the opportunity to help out a young
teenage boy. He is interested in electronic games and computer games
and at least for now an interest in game design as a future career. I've
been giving him some ideas on how to prepare for such a career. Things
like researching just what game designers do and how to find out what
employers in the industry want. I'm also trying to get him to look at
just what he sees that intrigues him about the industry. It seems he
is more interested in the creative aspect of game design than the nuts
and bolts of computer programming or the detail work in the art and graphics.
He's more interested in the story. I'm trying to get him to look at what
he likes about the story lines of the games he likes best rather than
copying other's work. It is gratifying work.
Of course some of that has to do with the past year or years. But
they do apply to future goals and figuring out what direction I want
to go.
A shorter term goal is to be able to take a trip out to Toronto
and meet my friend Nadya. It's around $200 for the round trip via Greyhound.
I could take a month and head out there possibly stopping off to visit
relatives in Calgary and around Winnipeg. My dream trip would be to fly
out to Toronto and take the train back with Nadya then she could fly back
to Toronto. It would be an interesting way to see Canada. One way to Toronto
by plane is about $200, but one way by train is, I believe over $1000.
So my goal at least for now is to try to take the Greyhound Trip to Toronto
some time before or just after my birthday in June.
Talking about Birthdays, I will be celebrating my 45th Birthday
on June 19th. I really would like to do some special things for that Birthday.
I'm not sure why, but it feels like a milestone Birthday to me. For sure
I'd like to have a special party with as many friends as possible there.
I would like to have some help with planning and getting the show on the
road. Maybe a party someplace special for family and friends and a few
special activities. It was a blast last June to rent that Voyageur Canoe
at Pitt Lake and paddle around for a day with 8 friends after Samantha
and Matthew's Wedding. Heh, I've always wanted a surprise party, but I
don't think I could stand the stress of thinking that people had forgotten
about my Birthday.
I have another goal to keep in touch with family and friends I tend
to loose touch with. I started last November and am having moderate success.
I'll be doing more work for Toby, though I don't know when, or how
much I might ever get from my invested time. There is always the experience
I'm gaining and skills I'm developing. It might lead to working the lighting
and sound for his future shows. I'm helping working on the story board
for a multimedia production.
I'm planning on doing more artwork in the coming year. It seems
the more painting I'm doing, the more I want to do.
I'm also going to keep up with my writing. I hope to get something
published over the next year. I'm hoping to volunteer more regularly
at the Museum this year and perhaps volunteering at a few other places
like Crime Watch and the Port Moody Centre for the Arts. I'd also like
to start volunteering at the Community Centre teaching Computer and Internet
Skills. That is alot of volunteering, but perhaps I'll accomplish only
some of it. That would be okay to me.
I have some other ideas too, but I'll wait for a later date to get
into them.
---- and now the weather. <grin>
It is so mild outside right now I'd almost call it warm. I went
out wearing my light summer jacket and felt that I'd have been perfectly
fine without it. It is only 10-12C out there, though there is some rain
and we are expecting a bit of a storm tonight. There are a number of more
storms coming behind it and the Weatherman said that likely each would
be a little warmer than the last. Not good for the local mountains.
I think that is all for this entry. More to come soon! Take
care!
Darrell
January 01
Happy New Year!
Preparing the New Journal Page!
