Patrick's Soapbox

As usual my life is mostly taken up with work. Which always makes me feel less like working on code at home, despite (as usual) having started a number of projects off. At least I've got everything in subversion now,...

Continue reading "Dang, it's nearly August"

I'm kind of tired of working out the number of days I've been here. Suffice to say it's been more than two months. Wowzer. You'd think I'd have done it all by now, nothing left to see and all that...

Continue reading "Dang, it's July"

The adventure continues, having now been in Canada for 8 weeks. Has it really been that long since I last got to listen to my favourite speakers in the entire world? Having been here a while it feels like home....

Continue reading "Day 56"

Wow. Where does the time go? It seems that a good two weeks has passed since I last put fingers to keys and tapped out a tale of my adventure in the northern hemisphere. How about I catch you up...

Continue reading "Day 46"

So it's been a little while since I posted with an update with regards to the ongoing adventure I'm finding myself on in this foreign land. I've been here 4 weeks. Holy cow. This also means I haven't actually been...

Continue reading "Day 31"

I'm very much against turning this here into something where I post an entry each day saying "I'm alive", which has the unfortunate consequence that for very many days you just don't see anything posted. I've seen a number of...

Continue reading "Day 17"

Well, hi again. Curious traveller Patrick reporting in from foreign soil. Monday saw an offer of a job interview, and also details for seeing a place to stay (on Tuesday, but we'll get to that shortly). I did manage to...

Continue reading "Day 5+6"

I was doing so well there for a couple of days, but now, just when you thought I'd given up again... I'm back! Hah! Take that internet. Well, I can't honestly recall much of Saturday. I rode my first bus,...

Continue reading "Day 3+4"

Well, if yesterday's post seemed a little... down, well, it reflected my views on the world I found myself in at that very time. I was tired and felt very alone. I don't know what stopped me from getting back...

Continue reading "Day 2: Actually Here"

Well I've made it here - at least in the sense that me, my bags, my jacket are all here. I've got my visa, without a great deal of whooha, except for huge waits at the airport. Plus I've checked...

Continue reading "Arrival in Vancouver"

It seems that despite not really realising I was heading off overseas I have done it. Well, insofar as that I've made it to San Francisco (oh god, 12 hour flights are eeevil), and have realised with somewhat more of...

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Sunday night I saw The Rolling Stones, live, in concert, with my very own eyes. When they shifted the stage out in the crowd, we were just 4 rows away. Wowser. They might look old (oh boy do they, at...

Continue reading "Excitement... kind of."