Shut up and take my money! I hope Cala will still be around in 5-7 years (and available in Canada by then) when we need to replace our hot water heater, this looks amazing. youtu.be/N-gSE_eHKHg?...

ICBC is months behind processing medical evaluations b/c of Uber. When you turn 80 & requested to do a driving retest you can't book it until they process the fax from your doctor, but you're supposed to stop driving immediately. You're stuck for months, because of fucking Uber clogging the system.

Went to grab socks out of the dryer, found a pair of eyes staring back at me.

There's a reason I don't keep nacho chips and spinach dip in the house, I have no self control. Damn you Costco for having it on sale. In related news, I don't know if anyone ever noticed, that has been my usual contribution at parties for a good 20 years, for obvious reasons.

Clip'n'Climb is really trying to maximize revenue, if you booked a two hour birthday party before you'd get the party room the full time, so you could setup/store things while the kids climb. Now you only get the room the second hour as the parties rotate through. A lot more chaotic, feels cheap.

We are trying to find a company that can excavate about a 4' high pile of gravel that is holding up a smsll concrete slab, then add supports to the slab so all the gravel can be removed. If the gravel pile is removed first, the slab slides down and our back stairs collapse.

A large chunk of the children's schoolyard was repaved in asphalt over spring break rather than the concrete it was before. I assumed that's because it's faster and cheaper, but what about the long-term heat island effective all this extra black surface. Too much is done fast and cheap these days.

Had to fill out a medical form for younger child's field trip, most of the information on there the school already has. And I had to fill out two identical forms because of two trips. Why. It's 20-fucking-26, this is what modern IT systems are for.

Fucker, "I'm important, I'm going to park in the bike rack." Now I can't lock my bike up. I had to make sure that license plate was niiiice and visible. #vancouver

Memorials are interesting, you always learn a different side of the person and their life, people who loved them, from how you knew and perceived them. We have all these slices of our lives that rarely across, until your memorial.

I'm ironing my pants before heading out, I can't remember the last time I wore ironed pants, a decade?

I feel like there's more mosquitoes in Vancouver these days. I never remember mosquitoes being a problem when I was a kid, that was just something you had to deal with up the valley, never in Vancouver.

I will accept warm eggs if it means joining the EU.

Mission accomplished, I moved about 3 yd of gravel this week, most of it twice. It nearly killed me. But I ran out of time, I could have done another half yard if I had another day or two.

The more we learn about modern warfare, the future isn't stealth fighters, it's swarms of drones. Your fighters will be used to intercept drones or other easily trackable things, so going for more of the cheaper, more resilient option becomes a no-brainer. Gripens over F-35s becomes an easy choice.

A colleague had Notebooklm create a two-person banter type podcast explaining our internal points system with the target audience being our product managers. This is fucking amazing and I am laughing way too hard listening to it. The banter between the two voices is real. 🤣

Unshaven, hair a mess, ripped jeans because I was shoveling gravel, yeah I'm hanging out at the community center looking like a bit of a transient.

I am almost tempted to do what I did for the federal Liberal leadership race, and temporarily join the Cons to try and vote for the least crazy and vomit inducing choice in their provincial leadership contest.

Electric ferry to Bowen and the Sunshine Coast, great. The proposed dock location, horrible. That's an enormous walk from most transit, especially rapid transit. And a lot of it is completely unsheltered. We don't like integrated transit in this city do we, between this,& stations with one entrance.

Where do I find day labourers in this country? 😂 I suddenly need a bunch of gravel moved in the next day or two. Otherwise I'm going to have to move it a longer distance in a few weeks.

For fuck's sake, because Eby keeps caving every time there's a bit of pressure from the regressives in this province he's looking weak and a fucking Conservative government is looking more likely. Snap out of it, have some guts and stand up for what's right.

I received an invitation from ppl who apparently don't know my political leanings to a private fundraiser for Iain Black at a multi-millionaire's residence. Umm no thank you, though doing quick reading out of curiosity he seems to be the least vomit inducing of the candidates. Still, bleh, fuck no.

We forgot something yesterday, why drive all the way back down there.

I'm really enjoying borrowing my wife's Tern. A good Sunday morning. And I'm also feeling a lot more relaxed about locking it, sitting here staring straight at it, front wheel locked, nowhere anyone could take it quickly, this feels safe.

Just went to Polonia Sausage House for the first time, been meaning to for years, everything looked good but they're also very eastern European sassy. "I'm looking for something similar to pancetta." Tersely, "I don't know what that is," and walks away.

I haven't googled it yet, I bet something exists, I need to find a bike bubble tea holder for multiple bubble tees.

There are days I feel like we're less dealing with Nazis in this regime but instead Spaceballs.

The number of Churu commercials I get on YouTube these days, what are our cats watching while we're asleep?

Hey, remember when PP was part of a Harper government that wooed David Emerson to cross the floor? Did he object back then and say Emerson should go back for a new mandate? Hell, he voted again bill C-306 in 2012 that would have forced a by-election for floor crossing.

AI is making me lazy. I have jira and GitHub integrations to opencode. A security ticket was assigned to me, I asked AI to read the ticket, analyze the code, and apply any fix. Then make a PR and comment back on the ticket, and close it. I didn't even have to leave the terminal. This is crazy.

Okay Canada needs to push for Rutte to be ousted from NATO leadership, this sucking up to the orange turd needs to stop.

We just spent $2000 on summer camps for the children and we don't even have the whole summer covered yet. Who said having children was a good idea again?

Now I wish I had made tacos for dinner tonight.

You know what's funny/not funny, I remember 25 yrs ago publicly saying getting off oil would diminish the power of some of the worst autocrats around the world. I remember saying when the US empire starts to fall they will start lashing out like a child having a tantrum. This reality is depressing.

I love this! I have everyone on my team, including my manager, referring to the AI coding agent as their "bff." "I'm going to have my BFF investigate this for me." "My BFF is working on a fix right now."

I have definitely gone full vibe coding. I'll check what it wrote, but half my time is just waiting for the LLM to write the code.

I'm trying to pick something up in Victoria Hill, holy crap parking sucks around here. I almost called @stickers66.bsky.social to see if he has guest parking.

The problem is most Americans don't understand the concept of war crimes, and I bet a lot don't agree there are any legal limitations in war. Too many movies where they're allowed to blow up whatever they want with zero consequences.

This is why the real oil shock hasn't even happened yet, and why a certain orange turd is so desperate to appear to have solved the problem before the magic date when the ships stop arriving. youtube.com/shorts/Jf3rH...

Is the opposition out volunteering in the community, as this man does on almost every day of his life, or are they at home complaining on the internet as usual.

@stickers66.bsky.social Happy Birthday, take the day off to celebrate.

The attitude from this model is worse than my children, "The broken tests are not related to my changes." I don't care, young man, fix them.

This is the sort of thing that really pisses me off with the City of Vancouver. I understand the goal trying to do, make a nice protected bike lane on the approach to King Ed. But it means the bus has no way to jump the traffic, it's going to get delayed, slowing service, making it less attractive.

This launch, this is the sort of thing humanity should be doing rather than this bullshit of further enriching billionaires, starting pointless wars, and manipulating society through social media.

Two cats aggressively cuddling me all night. It's hard being the hottest person in the house.

In hindsight I don't think it's a good thing my team is so happy I'm back from vacation, it means I didn't document things well enough and empower them enough to get things done while I was gone. That's a failure on my part.

Collection is growing faster than I'm drinking it.

What the hell, Canada? Why can't we drop our bags at the main station like everyone else?

Albatross are terrifyingly large, I had no clue.

I had never heard of this Taiwanese whiskey but apparently it is award-winning. I'm bringing home a bottle. But wow they're confident in themselves, it's pricey.