Beach weather

First of all, thanks for everyone's kind words in the previous entry. It's important to know that I'm not alone in this - both in a way that someone cares, but also in a way that other people are or have been going trough the same thing. I think Outi's suggestion of getting a Canadian to have a look at my resume would be a good thing - one of Dragon's friends promised to do that some time ago but nothing ever came from that (either). Maybe I could ask someone at the yoga studio.

In other news, Vancouver is experiencing a wonderful heat wave. Today was very nice, I walked downtown to do some shopping - I got Dragon the Revenge of the Sith Visual Dictionary he asked for. I went to Chapters, the bookshop on Robson, and it's weird - this must be the only place in the world right now where Star Wars books and other merchandise is hidden in the lower corner of the childrens section. They didn't have the other book I was looking for - Richard Morgan's latest Woken Furies, so I had to go to the other Chapters store on Broadway and Granville. Not that I'm complaining, today was the perfect weather for being out and about.

Tomorrow and Friday should be even hotter, they are predicting temperatures closer to 30 C. Then it's too hot to do anything, so I'm heading for the beach. I still haven't got a new bikini, but the old one will do for now - what I do have thought is a new must gadget for the beach... Yes, I have finally joined the iPod generation and gotten myself an iPod Shuffle. I know lot of people don't see the point of iPod Shuffle - but for me it's perfect. I have my iTunes on suffle all the time anyway, and if I had 20 GB of music with me all the time I could never figure out what I want to hear. But Shuffle does for me what I want: it picks some random songs, and for me 150 songs or so is more than enough for one go.

So far, I'm absolutely loving it, and I only took it for a spin while going to the yoga class. It's tiny, it's light, it's pretty and the sound quality is pretty damn good. When I was younger I couldn't take a step without my walkman, I had to have it everywhere. At some point I stopped listening to music so much, and I didn't need to have it on 24 hours a day - but walking to yoga class today while listening to Barenaked Ladies and George Michael and Tori Amos brought it all back. Yep, loving it.

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