This crazy city

A short post today, as I have to go to bed so I can get up for the dreaded half-marathon. I haven't been jogging in three weeks, so don't expect miracles. In fact, don't expect me to finish! I shall post when I am able, if I live.

Have just got back from seeing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was good, but not as good as I hoped. In fact there were a couple of bits where I was fairly bored, although other bits were extremely funny. I should read the book, as it is apparently a lot better. On the way back from Surrey (40 mins away - had to meet Sunshine there) I was somewhat peeved to almost run into a dickhead reversing up the freeway merge lane. They'd obviously taken the westbound merge rather than the eastbound merge, and instead of driving the two miles up the freeway to the next exit and turning round, they decided to try and reverse the 100m or so back up the entry ramp. Causing a big near-pile-up in the process. People really can't drive here. Earlier in the day some bastard tried to take my front left wing off by driving onto the wrong side of the road to turn down a side street as I was coming out of another side street and turning left. And didn't even look over at us when we had a mental fit of horn blowing, swearing and hand gestures. I nearly ran into the side of his car just to give him something to think about, but (luckily I suppose) did the instinctive braking thing instead. I have to say I am surprised that my little car is still in one piece (touch wood).

This morning I watched the Kerrisdale carnival procession go through the streets, and it was pretty tame, except that because it was the start of the little league season all the kids were in the parade in their uniforms. It was scary to see how many teams there were. There must have been at least 15 kids in each team, and there were roughly 20 different teams, covering baseball, softball, curveball, swingball, balls I didn't even know existed. All sponsored by a different business in Kerrisdale, all with a different name, and all in a different uniform. It was quite a sight. Then I sat at the Health and Wellness fair for two hours trying to convince people to volunteer with our Emergency Social Services team, which was actually rather fun. And then Denise and I went to Red Onion and got big fat burgers (veggie). At least my last meal before running death was a good one......