Day one behind

Note to self: while jet-lagged, even if you feel cold-ish and ill, under no circumstances is it a good idea to take a nap.

Ahem. Day one behind us, and I'm already left home alone as Dragon has gone to a meeting with some games industry people. We went for a longish walk yesterday to check out downtown, but I didn't have enough warm clothes on, so we had to turn back sooner than we had planned.

Vancouver seems to be a strange mixture of new and old (and when I say old, I don't mean English old, I mean like 50 year old) - there can be a small wooden house two meters away from a glassy sky scraper. There is nature everywhere - big trees and bushes growing up right next to apartment buildings, and there are lot of water features that reflect the trees and sky from the glass buildings. Architecture is a mixture of very Scandinavian looking houses with a touch of American Deep South which is perplexing (but we saw this in Toronto area too).

Almost immediately when we came home, Janne texted me to ask if we wanted to go out exploring - I was frozen to the bone at that point and wanted nothing else than to curl up under the covers with a book, but Dragon over-enthustiastically wanted to go for another run. Rest of my evening was then spent on the sofa reading and watching TV (I'm still trying to decipher which channels are American and which are Canadian - we certainly get some US channels like UPN and Spike)... and yes, it seemed like a good idea to take a little nap while waiting for Dragon to call.

Today's mission: find and buy a good LCD monitor.

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