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A Good Few Days

This will be a record year on many fronts. I just hope I have enough energy to keep up with the pace of life.

I went in to my friends engineering office for orientation late last week. My job is to fill in for another engineer in his firm who will be gone on vacation. So while I sit there in front of the computer staring at architectural drawings of a very expensive house behind the chinese consulate on granville street, I get a chance to go out with my friend for a site inspection of another house currently being built from the ground up. The owner wants to do everything himself so the process is slow with a very small crew.

Here the forms are almost ready for concrete to be poured.

This house will have a basement in the hills of North Vancouver.

The ground has been dug up and we are there to inspect the surrounding ground stability to provide a temporary permit so other crews can come in and work on the house.

After work on Friday, I went out for some food at Central on Denman street downtown. They had on special pitchers of marguaritas which two of my friends had.

A live band performed playing some cool jazz tunes. Afterwards, we went wandering around Granville and Davies and came across the smoke shop. Only two of us in our group of four smokes regularly. And I am not one of them but these bongo things are easy. They come in many flavours and you don't cough when you inhale a lungful of this stuff. Apparently the water at the bottom filters out the addictive nicotine.

Here my two friends sit with the shopkeeper as he explains to us what we are smoking.

Oh my god! I'm smoking!

Saturday I watched Pirates of the Carribean with some other friends before my german friend and I took off to go to the White party! Rules were that you had to wear white and, if you are a guy, you bring a bottle of tequila or malibu if you are a woman. The music was blasting, the open bar was operating on the patio and you could play twisters in the backyard shed on the hardwood floor inside. A couch was provided for people to sit and view the game from inside the shed along with coloured lights for ambiance.

Shirts aren't so white as my camera phone is unable to provide the proper metering. Spin those records Mr. DJ!

Everyone was given a name tag to wear and with the crowd the way they were, there was very few name tags which were 'normal'. My german friend learned a few new words that evening.

It was all good until the cops showed up. Those pesky neighbours. It turns out having only a few of your close neighbours on the invite list isn't enough. You need to get them all. The loud music stopped and a laptop and a smaller system was fired up inside the twister shed. And just as we thought things would wind down, my friend and I met some other new people and ended up being one of the last ones to go. Strange how things always turn out as I ended up driving two other people home.

Sunday I had another bbq at the beach. My stainless steel hibachi-like contraption gets alot of enquiries from other beachgoers. It's been the best sixty bucks I've spent all year. This will be the seventh bbq this summer already. The thursday free beach volleyball sessions we've been having will end this week. Next week we are back in a new league and I've fielded a slightly different team losing some players to other summer activities. Sunday volleyball is still going good as the weather has continued to bring warm rays to our courts.

*Note: New pics have been added to the July 4th Canada Day entry.

Posted by LeanPorkLei at July 18, 2006 01:00 AM | TrackBack