Yeah, that's vancouver

Been raining all week, haven't had much chance to practice my unicycling or do much else interesting. Just been working, trying to keep dry, etc.

Sweaty

So I rode my unicycle to the train this morning. Worked out fairly well, though I ended up pretty sweaty by the time I got to work.

It didn't end up going much faster, since I had to get off and walk half the time to keep myself from sweating buckets. I think I'll stick to walking until I get my unicycling skill built up a bit more to the point where it's not such an effort to ride it.

I sure wish I could take my bike on the train, it'd be so much easier.

Fun with Youtube

So out of curiosity, I decided to poke around Youtube to see what other people are doing with their unicycles. I quickly discovered they're doing quite amazing things.

I followed a few links around, and eventually came upon some people doing crazy things on bmx bikes as well.

Then I found a video that was a bit of a change of pace.

Yeah, times have changed. What ever happened to those 5-spoke plastic wheels?

The one-wheeled wonder

So I'm progressing well with my unicycling. This evening I practiced for about an hour, and finally mastered the technique of getting on the unicycle without having to hold onto anything (including the unicycle).

My skill at basic riding is also progressing well, but I'm not very good at directional control yet. I still have to figure out how that works, and then practice it up.

Once that's figured out, I should be ready to ride all the way to the train station every morning, and all the way back every night!

And me without my marshmallows

I passed a rather large fire on the way home from work today. A condo complex was ablaze on the corner of Brunette and Casey, just a few blocks from where I'm staying.

The police had the whole street closed off, there were a couple of busses parked to give the residents somewhere to sit, and there was a whole fleet of fire trucks who were fighting the blaze since mid afternoon well into this evening.

They had also shut off the power to that block, but luckily we're on a different circuit here.

Other than that, the walk home was quite nice and uneventful today. A bank of clouds rolled in just in time to scrub off the heat of the day, so it was quite pleasant out by the time I left work. This is a welcome change from the sweat-a-thons earlier this week.

Oh the sweet airyness

So today at work the fellow who works across from me, Boris, finally got sick of his Aeron chair being a bit too floppy in the reclining function. So, he scrounged around the office and found a broken Humanscale chair and, with a bit of blunt persuasion, managed to coax it back into working order.

Not being one to let a perfectly good chair go to waste, I was quick to trade out my faux-leather board room style chair for the Aeron. After a little tweaing, I managed to get it nice and comfy, and just locked the reclining function as I usually do with my chairs.

So now I have a fancy Aeron chair to keep my butt from getting sweaty as I slave away in the data mines, digging for code.

I feel so dot-com.

Congratulations, Tyler and Angela

Just got an email this morning from Tyler:

We're so incredibly happy to announce the birth of our beautiful Baby Girl, Erica Christine Gunn at 12:44pm on Sunday. She weighed in at 6lb, 5 1/2 oz.

Congratulations!