RAIN

If you’re curious about what the weather is going to be like in Vancouver for the next week or so, read this special weather statement. If you can’t be bothered, I’ll sum it up for you. It’s going to rain for about seven straight days. It’s also going to windy on some days.

A whole week of wet, cloudy, and grey skies. This is the stuff David Duchovny complained about when he lived here.

CURIOUS

I’ve had my phone for nearly four years now. My Nexus 5 is easily the best phone I’ve ever had. The combination of price, size, computing power, and durability has made this one of the best values for anything I’ve spent my money on.

I’m curious though as how much longer I can use this phone. The only thing about it that bothers me currently is that it has this frustrating habit of losing the wifi connection and then switching to cellular data, then connecting to wifi again less than a second later. It wouldn’t be so bad if this was seamless transition but when my phone loses its wifi connection, it takes up to 30 seconds to realize it has no connection and that it needs to switch to cellular data. During those 30 seconds or so, my phone has no data connection so all apps that require data just get into a failure state. If I’m in the middle of a download or refreshing a page, post, or thread, all of that gets interrupted. It’s very frustrating.

I’m not sure what the root cause of this is. For my phone, the wifi antenna is actually part of the back cover. I’ve actually replaced this cover quite recently but the problem persists. Sometimes the disconnections happen once a day or less. For the last several days, it disconnects every two minutes it seems.

Is this the thing that finally forces me to get a new phone?

ALIEN COVENANT

I watched Alien Covenant tonight. It was not as bad as I expected but it still not a very good movie. Most of the characters in the movie make the worst decisions possible. Unfortunately this movie franchise seems to have lost its way. I blame this on Ridley Scott.

HARD WATER

After spending three days in Calgary, I came home with really dry and itchy skin. The hard water in the city did a real number on my skin. For a comparison, Calgary has a rating of 165 ppm of CaCO3  while Vancouver has less than 3 ppm. The dissolved minerals in the water can leave soap residue on your skin which dries it out.

While my skin returns to normal, I’ve been moisturizing more as I once again bathe my genitals in the soft and nourishing mountain-sourced waters of the west coast.

I HAVE RETURNED

I returned home to Vancouver this early evening. When I woke up this morning in Calgary, it had snowed overnight and a blanket of white misery covered the entire city. In fact, it was still snowing lightly and the snow was blowing sideways. When I was on my way to the airport, I saw two separate vehicles that had slid off to the side of the road. My Uber driver said he saw lots of accidents in the morning when conditions were even worse.

When I did get to the airport finally, I arrived only to find that my flight was delayed forty minutes. It wasn’t the best day to travel if you were in Calgary. I was pleased to land back home in sunshine though.