Old friends

I acquired my very first laptop when I started university back in 2000. It was small thick toshiba, with a tiny screen, and it was, to be honest, pretty ugly. It had a cd-READER, no network cards whatsoever, and a 3.5" floppy. In other words, it was a computer that should have been dead long ago. But I loved it, and it's a little Toshiba - built for the long-term as it were. So with the help of one of my best-tech-friends, I got a hold of a very lite-running version of Ubuntu Linux, and installed it, and what do you know? The computer surfs the internet (wirelessly!) We're talking an 8.5 year old laptop that has now regained basic functionality. Does making green get better than that? Well...maybe, but...this is just so fun.

Coffee & Strawberries

It is snowing in B.C. Again, some more, it will not stop snowing in this province. I should be used to it, I should hush up, quiet down and let it lie. The truth is I don't hate snow, I don't hate winter. But this. Is QUITE enough, thankyouverymuch. Despite that, we ventured out into it, seeing as this is my one weekend-day-off this week, and I wanted to make the most of what I had. We drove through the snow with the guidance of Daisy, the kid's lovely new-present GPS.
We actually made our first visit to the SUP bookstore (every time we see it on our way to the Daiso we exclaim " 'sup bookstore?"), and discovered there really are craft books to look at (or books describing the use of a katana if you could care less about the construction of tiny furniture as in Em's case).
Daisy got use there, and she got us safely to the Bubble World that is quickly becoming my favourite for bubble tea - largely because they have a delectably perfect Strawberry Milk w/ Coffee Jelly - which is so much better than it might sound to someone who has never had Strawberry & Coffee together.

We ended our day by skating the parking lot to the T&T for snacks and miniatures. Em tried to lose her phone for the second time in that parking lot, and she's just back from retrieving it - someone called us and said they'd found it and she drove back through the snow that continues to fall to pick it up. We are now safely home, surrounded by the debris of our day, and ready for bed.