Tuesday, March 17, 2009

23. Bike to SFU and back.

With Holly and Sophie on the Island visiting grandparents, and work not overly crunchy, I found myself with my usual Tuesday off with nothing to do. "Why not go on a 46 km bike trip up to SFU and back?" I thought to myself. (The answer: sore legs, but I didn't think of that until I got back, luckily.)

I made a Google map of my trip. Let's see if this works. Click here for the map, and check out all the wonderful points of interest along the way.



For some reason, I decided to do this on a day where I had already played hockey in the morning. I figured hockey would be a good warm-up, and didn't think of the whole "expending all my energy" thing. Anyway, it worked out okay. And hey! It's one more thing off my list...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Pie is good

79. Make a pie for someone else.
The "someone else" turned out to be Janet, who conveniently had a birthday at the same time as I was wanting to eat pie. Of course, "wanting to eat pie" is a kind of default state for me, but regardless, I decided to make her a pie rather than go buy one at Aphrodite's Pie Shop. (Holy cow, good pies there...) I hadn't made a pie for quite a while, and I don't bake too often, but it seemed to turn out pretty well.



Janet didn't gag on it in front of my face, anyway. Kristi did mention that she was "interested" in trying my pie, and someone made a joke about accidentally dropping it on the people waiting for the bus outside, but I'm assuming they're all full of beans, and my pie was delectable. Sophie tried to claim it for herself (by poking it), and even went so far as to try to deflect suspicion, and accused Janet of "poking my pie".



78. Make a pie for myself.
I figured that the mess of making two pies wouldn't be appreciably bigger than the mess of making one pie, so I bought twice the ingredients and made one for myself too. Hooray for pie!



Bonus update:
34. Beat a computer/video game made before 1990.
I haven't done this yet, but have decided that the game I'm going to try to play and beat will be King's Quest III: To Heir is Human. I loved this game as a kid, and it remains one of my all-time favourites. Haven't played it in a while, though - looking forward to it!