Zoning

Oh well, it was too good to be true. Dragon is now well, but now I'm ill - only I've managed to get my own illness going. Although we went to be around two in the morning last night, I woke up before seven with a tummy ache.

So yes, I'm back on the couch, and I've spent the day watching Dead Zone marathon on Space: viewers have voted for ten of their favourite episodes. Dead Zone is a series I've always wanted to see more of - although it's based quite faithfully on Stephen King's characters and the original 1983 movie, it's been created by Michael Piller (the good one of the two producers) and I think it stands together very well. It's one of those "very simple idea" storylines: there's this guy who can see the future when he touches people or objects, and first you think that there's very little to go on. I mean, how many times can Johnny actually save people's lives and when does it become repetitive and boring? Quite a few, it seems - quality of writing on the show is very high and the bigger story arc keeps the interest up. Still - I think ten episodes on one day and the original mover was probably overkill.

Yesterday was nice, with just the two of us.

When we were coming back from a very succesful shopping trip we had the intention to pick up a bottle of bubbly, but to our shock there was a twenty meter queue outside the liquor store - I've never seen anything like that before and hey, I come from Finland! Canada happens to be one of those silly countries where you can't buy booze from anywhere else than specialised stores - in UK I loved the fact that supermarkets where really these one stop shops where you could pick up everything you needed.

So we opted for a bottle of non-alcholic apple and cranberry cider to carry the year over. The evening was quiet (if you don't count the fact that there were fire engines buzzing around the block) - I was reading my book and Dragon was playing his game. When the year was about to change we went to the balcony: the view was amazing despite the clouds and lack of major fireworks, but the most amazing thing was the soundscape. Normally we don't get much noise up here - West End is very peaceful, and we're high up. But when it was couple of minutes to midnight, this sound started: cars honking, people shouting and blowing horns, and it kept coming louder and louder when time approached midnight, but there were no people anywhere. The sound must have come from West Van and Kits over the water and from downtown. Truly surreal.

On other news, I'm getting really annoyed with Easily.co.uk, my web host. No reply yet to my quota problem that prevents me from writing anything to the disk... So you'll read this whenever. I'm looking around for alternatives as we speak - any recommendations would be welcome, I've heard lot of good about DreamHost.