• Back to the grind. Very different than our weekend! Here’s a short video teaser about #geocaching in Gold Country http://bit.ly/Kwou #
• Sweltering ride in. Grateful for A/C in office. #
• You guys don’t remember Bixby and Me? Great Canadiana! http://is.gd/1GQSY #showyourage @bluefur @cathybrowne #
• .@kj_mclean Well, I’m glad *someone* remembers that show. “It’s Bixby and Me, we live in a tree…” #
• 4:30 pm. Just *now* I’m able to do some real work. Crap, needs to be done by tomorrow. Good thing I planned on staying late… #
• Ah-hah! Another one (@rtousi) remembers Bixby and Me. Maybe it was just an East Coast thing? #
• Just blocked 16 ‘%s%d4’ % (name, randomFourDigitNumber) followers. Seriously if your username is NAME1234, I’ll block you. #FunWithPython #
• Celebration of Light fireworks tonight in Vancouver over English Bay (Canada is showing tonight). High tide is at 8pm. Plan accordingly. #
• RT @mynameiskate: Nice video response from Taylor Guitars about Dave Carroll & his guitar http://tr.im/tzEI (via @jgombita & @Terry_Foster ) #
• Fireworks over English Bay. The tree between us and it gets more and more in the way. #
• One cat hiding under the bed, one on my lap completely unfazed at the #CelebrationOfLight fireworks. #CatsAreMysterious #
• Ah, the post-fireworks sounds: RCMP helos circling, angry boat horns in False Creek, sirens on ambulances heading to VGH. #BestPlaceOnEarth #
• Uncontent with merely crawling around, Q has taken to standing on his own … about 8 months before his brother did #
• Well, maybe that’s a bit unfair to A. Call it 6 motnths #
• Or 6 months even #
• Hey you old skool kids: Remember Kennedy Approach for the C=64? You can play it in Windows! http://is.gd/1IZL0 Serious time vampire! #
• Today’s morning music? @StevenPage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival: http://bit.ly/ATk6c #
• RT @bcbusiness: Finance Minister Colin Hansen announces BC sales tax to be harmonized with federal GST. #
• What’s the difference between GST and HST? Other than the provincial surcharge, nothing. http://bit.ly/cwKXy #
• BC HST announcement includes list of “point-of-sale rebates” on fuel, books, kid’s clothes + supplies. Hmm, so any net change for consumers? #
• RT @capsuspbridge: Win 2 Day Passes worth $60! RT “Capilano Suspension Bridge made me do this to win” until 2 pm PST #
• There are now 7 different operating systems on my workstation #HowDidPeopleWorkBeforeVirtualization #
• RT @AP11_SPACECRAFT: SPLASHDOWN! #40YearOldTweets #
• OK Haligonians, my wife and I will be in NS for the last 2 wks of Aug + will be celebrating our 9th anniv’sry. What to do? Any good theatre? #
• Gargh. @twitter purges spam accounts and already I have 6x NAME+4digit spammers following me. Give. It. Up. #
• Off to the #Blogher09 pity party (Vancouver). Come join us at Spanish Banks West! #
• Today I find myself agreeing with @buzzbishop: The echo chamber is in full effect #blogathon #blogher09 #NotEnoughFilters #BackOnMonday #
• Thunder showers in Greater Vancouver. Not what you want to hear when the fire risk is extreme. #
• Thunderstorms, so rare for Vancouver, are getting more intense. Time to start thinking about unplugging sensitive equipment. #
• Ho-lee! Lightning filling the sky here. Time to shut everything down. Later tweeps! #
• RT @alexishinde: The lightning is so dramatic that people on the beach [for tonight’s fireworks] are cheering for each strike. #
• BIG white “cloud” coming from Cypress or behind. Hope that’s not the smoke that it looks like :o #
• Gwen is on the balcony watching the lightning. Aidan is in the dining room, doing same. I guess we’re going to let him watch the fireworks! #
• Geocaching the Gold Trail, Day 1(video) Part I: http://is.gd/1NCZ8 Part II: http://is.gd/1ND1c #
• Checked video rendering, it was on frame 36878. I wanted to POKE it to 11 … #ObscureGeekReference #

Here’s Day 1 in videologue of our trip to Gold Country:

Day 2 will come later…

• Had to fight the 1000s of cyclists xing the newly-claimed Burrard St bridge while riding into UBC today. I kid, I kid… #BurrardBikeLanes #
• The true test of the #BurrardBikeLanes will be the afternoon rush. Hopefully the typical light summer flow won’t cause any troubles. #
• RT @GPSFix GSAK Garmin Ore/ Colo export macro adds support for geocache sub-icons, fixes earthcache icon issue + more http://tiny.cc/aiglQ #
• Uh-oh. At work with summer man-cold … and just used the last Kleenex. Crap. #
• Huge power outage in Vancouver right now, mostly in Fairview… #
• Not on BC Hydro website, but #vancouverblackout seems to encompass King Ed to seawall, Cambie to Burrard #
• BC Hydro has map showing 30000 customers w/o power, Fairview, Kits, Shaughnessy http://is.gd/1xwLt #vancouverblackout #
• And just like that, Fairview has power. I guess the #bikepolypse isn’t here yet. #vancouverblackout #
• mt #
• Yeah, you heard me. mt. Funny how Tweetdeck didn’t generate a manifest. #MultitaskingTooMuch #
• My wife just totally went out and busted the asses of the guys smoking up outside our (and Q’s) bedroom #
• RT @CrunchyCarpets: water broke at midnite…..wish us luck! [Awesome! About time! Good luck and be well!] #
• RT @johnbiehler I can almost understand why they still use IE6…but it’s time to upgrade when you have staff [younger] than your browser #
• RT @sret: Great Tweets of Science: hilarious! http://is.gd/1yLgD (via @phdcomics). [ROTFL. Well, not literally, but you get the idea] #
• ! @CrunchyCarpets @Arcane_Bimmer Congratulations on the new arrival! That’s a big little girl! in reply to CrunchyCarpets #
• Good god, no wonder it’s so hard to be progressive in this city. Compensation for businesses near the Burrard St bridge? Grow up! #
• Just watched @pennjillette + @mrteller’s Bullsh!t on video game violence. I hate it when anyone makes kids cry. It was a predictable result. #
• In other news, the cat just emerged from behind the fireplace screen. Sneezing. Good thing 1) she’s black and 2) there was no fire. #DumbCat #
• RT @earnestgirl: Piglets4Peace – hey Bill Nye @thescienceguy is on Twitter! #
• Congrats to @buzzbishop and Jen for the newest expected addition to their family! #
• BC geocachers planning on going to GWVIII — any thoughts about hotels? #
• RT @WestJet: In true WestJet fashion, here’s our take http://kl.am/1qEK [This is awesome, I’m surprised other airlines haven’t done this] #
• Hey @tweetdeck, I’ve noticed that when I post something, Tweetdeck will often overlook some incoming Tweets that came at the same time! #
• Well, goll-ee, they might just get the Space Shuttle lanuched today! Watch it live on NASA TV: http://is.gd/1A8ZJ #
• Shuttle launch will be in about 18 minutes, no weather concerns today, everything is “Green for Go!” #
• RT @kdmurray: Twitter’s super-secret “password”. — http://bit.ly/qeivQ [:FACEPALM:] #
• Just sent a truckload of bits (lol) down to FreeGeek. Hopefully they’re more useful to them than us! #
• RT @LeftCoastMama: Attention Blogher Non-attendees: Pity Party Details: http://bit.ly/nDfuW #
• Un-freaking-believable! Remember my bitching about Rogers? Got my unadjusted bill today with overdue charge. Rogers just lost a customer. #
• I mean, call me a liar and make me promises you don’t keep? Doesn’t sound like you value me as a customer, #rogers #
• Related: iPhone envy has evapourated. No way I’d give that much money to Rogers. #RogersDoesntCare #
• Watching Fraggle Rock with my boys. I suspect I might be enjoying it more than them, tho… @zipca rocks! #
• Nah, I take it back, they’re both completely captivated by the Fraggles. #RIPJimHenson #
• RT @WestJet: We took the video down. Hey, we’ve snapped the odd guitar string ourselves so it didn’t seem fair to poke fun. [Boo!] #
• RT @dbarefoot: Oldest woman to give birth (at 66) dies (at 69), leaving twins behind: http://bit.ly/7mpmJ [*This* is why it was stupid!] #
• Huh. That *is* curiously strong. #
• RT @gnb: @AnthonyFloyd I actually made a custom CSS file for Safari to hide comments on cbc.ca. [That’s *awesome*] #
• The cat’s out of the bag, apparently: We will be in Halifax for the last 2 weeks of August. If *you’re* going to be there too, let us know! #
• RT @CanadaCool: Tmrrw 100+ planes will start flying single file 1 min apart B.C to N.S. to mark Cdn flight centennial http://bit.ly/3u7Xu1 #
• Twitter makes the world feel very small. Every once and a while I get a jolt though: Good-night @mugpie_guy (UK) but it’s only 4 PM! #
• Heading off to meet @cognoscento to arrange plans to take over the world. You’ve been warned. #
• Translink defeated my plan to get from UBC to downtown on time – broken bus! #
• Finished planting seeds of the hidden city into the brain of @cognoscento. Surely world domination follows! #
• RT @BreakingNews: An unknown person fired three shots from an air gun at the Tour de France, injuring three riders [Tusken Raiders?] #
• Wait, maybe it was Tuscany, not Tusken, Raiders shooting riders at Le Tour #tdf #
• I’m using TwitDiff to watch my quitters. What about you? http://bit.ly/19sm5F #
• Does anyone have any comments on using Vonage in Vancouver? Thumbs up? Thumbs down? #
• Wow, you early-adopters *are* all here, aren’t you! The number of ppl who’ve tried Vonage is much higher than I expected. #
• Geotourism done right in Gold Country: RT @Teddy2kk: http://twitpic.com/aougt – Look what came in the mail today :D #
• Planned out our weekend geocache tour through Gold Country: Merritt, Logan Lake, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Clinton, Lillooet and Lytton! #
• Heading to Merritt, made it as far as Abbotsford. Tim’s run. #
• Still in Merritt, 5 caches down, 7 more to get today! #
• We seem to be following @gearhedd1 and @grafinator all over the Nicola Valley! #
• http://twitpic.com/ati6p – Geocaching in Merritt #
• who knew getting acconodation in Cace Creek was going to be such a problem. Too bad we weren’t sure where we’d end up. #
• Ended the day at 10 Gold Country caches. Pretty good with 2 tots. No prob for 14 tmrrw! #
• The fact that it’s satellite radio does not lessen the hick factor one itoa. Yes, *you* blaring country music out of your truck at a motel. #
• No where near Kelowna but after tromping in the woods today and seeing all the Mountain Pine Beetle trees, I’m surprised more isn’t burning! #
• O.M.G. It’s 10:45 and the 4 yr old is *still* awake. Vacations are fun. #screwed #
• Finished logging caches from today. Friendly hicks shut off the tunes at 10pm, and party people behind us shut down 15 min ago. Time for zzz #
• Day 2 of caching in Gold Country begins! #
• Started the day off right: grabbed a cache right by restaurant. 13 to go! #
• http://twitpic.com/axi7p – Park and grab just outside Cache Creek. 18/24!! #
• http://twitpic.com/axq7v – Caching the Thompson River Canyon. Yowza! #
• http://twitpic.com/aysuz – A few hours ago in Lytton: 24! #
• We got our 24 Gold Country caches in 30 hours — with a 4 yr old and 8 mo old. What an awesome family adventure! #geocaching #
• Scraped the grime off the boys and put them to bed. Whew, need a break from the weekend! #
• And while you’re pooh-poohing our 24 Gold Country finds in 36 hours, consider that includes 1000+ km of driving too :p #geocaching #
• How did you spend your weekend? Here’s how we spent ours … http://bit.ly/Kwou
  #geocaching #

• Have you seen the roller-skating babies? http://is.gd/1paIv #TooCuteForWords #
• Oooh, slick TPOH lyric reference @alexishinde Downloaded their “Best Of” album (“When We Ruled”) just a week or two ago, most pleased. in reply to alexishinde #
• After being awake for hrs w/ Q, trying to get him to sleep, G tired of it + put him in bassinet so we could get sleep. He fell asleep immed. #
• Sometimes its the simple things that work best. Easy not to remember that at 3 am. #
• “I want a girl with a short skirt and a looooonnnngggg …. scarf!” I’ll never be able to hear that song again w/o hearing A’s version of it #
• RT @cyclaw From FP #netneutrality live blog: With today’s bandwidth costs it’s cheaper for Zip.ca to send DVDs in the mail than over the net #
• RT @CapricaSeven: Headed to production office for my first day here in Vancouver with the amazing people who will actually make Caprica #
• Wow, disk access on my Ubuntu Jaunty Virtualbox host/Windows XP guest is much speedier under v3 than v2! #
• Power went out at least 3 times last night, unusual for us. Thanks for the printer in the bedroom for notifying us each time it came back on #
• ’cause, you know, we didn’t have enough sleep interruptions last night. #
• Came thru yesterday but it’s got attn today: Dave Carroll of NS band Sons of Maxwell strikes back at United Airlines http://is.gd/1rdQa #
• Here’s the LA Times’ take on the United Breaks Guitars thing http://is.gd/1rdVp (h/t @eastcoastgranpa yesterday!) #
• !@ColleenCoplick @QueenofSpain Now we know why the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air left Philly http://bit.ly/pWnvp #
• Don’t we have better things to worry about than our PM taking communion from (oh horror!) an RC priest? Not every molehill is a mountain. #
• The number of people who seem to think it’s the 7th of August is distressingly high #123456789 #
• I mean, let’s face it, the possibility of confusion exists. How about a logical system? Big->small: 2009-07-08 or small->big 08-07-2009. #
• I mean if we treated time the same way some ppl treat dates (and why not, it’s all time, right?) right now would be 45:12 … Just sayin’ :) #
• Tornado “special weather statement” issued for Ottawa (huh?!?) http://is.gd/1rujm #
• Windows, how I hate thee. How is it I can move a file I created but cannot copy it? “Permission denied” #vista #win7 #wtf #
• And even after setting the security permissions to “Everyone:Full control” it’s still not letting me *copy*. Grrr, argh. #Win7 #wtf #
• Multiple power outages last night corrupted our MythTV database so nothing was recorded today. Oh well. Easily fixed, plus backups on hand! #
• Q has learned how to pull himself up. These milestones are passing awfully quickly… #
• I know it’s hip to be counter-culture and all but the meme that public education is “no better than daycare” is both disappointing and wrong #
• I mean, what a serious slap in the face to public teachers. I’m looking at you @gregeh. Millions of kids excel based on public education. #
• “Meh, Scarlett, whatever.” #1stdraftmovielines #
• Attempting to offset the 3 glasses of @blackcloudwine pinot with chocolate cheese cake #
• RT @AlexMaine http://twitpic.com/9vtlt – Look at this. See how long it takes you to work out their stupid mistake. What a bunch of idiots. #
• Found Q pulling one of our cats long the floor by the tail. Impressively, the cat was not retaliating! (or *retailiating either!) #
• Hey East Coast geocachers (or those looking for an excuse to visit NS) check out http://maritimemega.ca/ NS mega event in July 2010! #
• Both boys are at the opthamologist’s right now. I wonder how that’s going… #
• Awesome! Carcassonne coming to the DS: http://is.gd/1tPKH #
• Receiving another box. This one only weight 300 lbs :o #
• Framed I tell you! Framed! I didn’t hide the diapers. #
• Stephen Quinn on CBC Radio: Vancouver garbage strike lasted 3 months; our mayor didn’t go on CNN… zing! #
• Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to wet pants. Wet pants lead to laundry. Laundry leads to suffering. #1stdraftmovielines #
• Mesa called Jar-Jar Binks. Mesa your humble servant. #1stdraftmovielines #
• Me: Aidan, what’s Quinlan getting into? Aidan (4 yrs old): Certain trouble! #
• http://twitpic.com/a29fv – Guess where we are! #
• http://twitpic.com/a2u2v – Aidan's hotel has shuttle service driven by a WIZARD! #
• Summer is truly here! The fan has been pulled from its hibernation and clouds of cat fur are gently wafting by. Seems it’s time to vacuum. #
• What a great band name! @alexishinde “Imp of the Perverse” in reply to alexishinde #
• Finally uploaded video from our Canada Day excursion to Granville Island http://bit.ly/8iNiO #
• RT @kevleviathan: Found my first geocache! [congrats! Hope it was fun!] #