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I am officially on vacation - and enjoying lots of offline family time. This year Santa brought my son a PlayStation 3 and we cleared out a spot in our little townhouse now known as "The PS3 Lounge."

Warm weather means going outside to share food and good times. That means not a lot of time to be inside blogging. Here in this photo is Dave Dawson playing music with our neighbour friends at our housing co-op in East Vancouver. We share a lot of meals outside during the season of good...

Update: July 24, 2010. For current information to plan your trip to the beach, check out the Beach Water Quality Report from Vancouver Coastal Health. Original post on July 2, 2010: Well… at least we can still make sandcastles. That’s the positive spin we put on the situation when we arrived at Trout Lake...

Check out the vintage “Trout Lake Community Centre” sign – and see the building in the background? It was built in 1964 and will soon be gone. The original community centre is being replaced by a new building. Today I started trying to imagine what the new one will be like, so I emailed...

I’m sitting on a loveseat in the lounge of The Dry Spot indoor skatepark using their wireless connection. This is my second day coming here, and today we brought my son’s pal. They are super excited and impressed to meet the owner of The Dry Spot, Ben Chibber, who also owns Monke Skateboards. Now...

At first it seemed like a bad idea to buy darts for my son. Visions of darts stuck in the flooring, the drywall, and human flesh frightened me. But he really wanted them, and promised to be safe. He Googled “Vancouver BC dart store” and found Billiards Plus in south east Vancouver. Oh why...