A Collection of Daily Wisdom by Dennis Sylvester Hurd since September 2003.

The nights are cool but during the day it sure seems as if ...
... summer's still here!

Labels: weather

Yesterday when home, tried to switch on the computer and ... nothing happened. It had run 24/7 for two and a half weeks. I had to cart the beast to my computer shop and the technician replaced the power supply for free.

When I got home the elevators were not working. I'd never seen that in 5 years of living in this building! I carried the case up 10+2 floors and was sweaty enough to take a shower as soon as I got in!

Labels: complaints, computers, Hardware

Shot back 3A to the Crow Highway through Princeton and past Manning Provincial Park. Got to New Westminster at 3:00 pm. The trip was about 1230 km (760 miles).

Labels: British Columbia, Okanagan, road trip

Travelled down the Okanagan Valley via 97B. Slept in Penticton.

Labels: British Columbia, driving, Okanagan, road trip

Followed Route 1 rather than paying the toll to Kamloops. That route is more interesting and we enjoyed watching the forest turn to semi-desert. Slept in Sicamous. (The hamster ran on its wheel though.)

Labels: British Columbia, Okanagan, pets, road trip

It's past time for a short road trip. Jay has a few days off this week too, so we'll go away for a bit. We've not spent very much time in the Thompson-Okanagan region. It's around 500 km (310 miles) to Salmon Arm.

Labels: British Columbia, driving, Okanagan, road trip, travel planning

I was searching for the latitude and longitude of New Westminster for GeoURL. My apartment is approximately 49.211 N and 122.91 W. During the search the following interesting weather page showed up. It must be a guy who lives uptown with a weather station as a hobby. How great to be able to put the -- New Westminster Weather -- stats online!

Labels: New Westminster (Page 1)

Rather than taking pictures of it, I should be swimming in it. The pool in our building is often empty and my doctor would be very pleased if I were to do a bit more activity.

Labels: weight loss

I had fogotten that the 55th Annual Emmy Awards were tonight! On the west coast they start at 5:00 and that's good.

Labels: movies

Here's a song because I've been experimenting with Windows Media Encoder. I saved the link below in .wma format. Unlike the original, I've tried to encode this song so that it can be played over various connection speeds. If you have enough bandwidth it should play at 128K. Even if you have a modem connection on the other side of the globe, you should be able to hear something.

Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is [LINK REMOVED]

If you have extra time, could you please give this a try? Maybe the encoding only works from an enabled server. I'd especially like to hear back from someone with a less than optimal connection. You can fill out the web form at the right or write a comment to the email address found there.

Thank you.

Labels: music

From a balcony picture earlier in the month (September 8th), one could see the New Westminster Quay. Parked near the market is a casino riverboat which seldom leaves the dock nowadays.

Labels: balcony, Quay