Refreshing, Isn’t It?

July 29, 2007 by bcrdukes.

Over the past few weeks, I was priviliged to do some travelling for work. More specifically, to Vancouver Island. I haven’t been there in a while and it was nice to be back again. The lineup at the ferry terminal, the ferry ride, the food onboard, loud annoying children to getting on to the Island. The overall experience was refreshing especially being able to smell the fresh West Coast air. So clean and crisp. Can’t get that quality of air anywhere else, especially in that dump of a city, Toronto.

I checked in at the Chateau Victoria in the heart of Downtown Victoria. Nice hotel and suite the company got me. Not to mention, waterfront hotel, baby! I had a good time overnight at the hotel. Nobody pissed me off and I had a nice view and lots of personal space to myself. On top of that, the bar/lounge upstairs wasn’t too bad. I had a nice Caeser with some tasty tapas which were very good for the price I paid. Breakfast in the morning, however, was a different story. My waitress had the worst of manners and couldn’t even say thanks or bye to me while looking at me in the eyes. Rip off. She should get a job in a bunker counting the weapons of mass desctruction. Stupid bitch.

Regardless of my negative experience with the waitress, I made my way up the Trans-Canada Highway up to Nanaimo where I had a site to audit and commission. That one site pissed me off because I wasted so much time trying to get the fucking thing to work accordingly however, realized only later on, the thing was fUx0r3d. Argh! But whatever, I made my way back into Nanaimo to visit Desire at her new tattoo parlour. I made an appointment with her for the 17th of August for a new hot chick on my right arm. I can’t wait. She’s going to be a real cutie.

Good Friends = Good Times
I recently had the honour of organizing and inviting my friends to a small dinner get-together at the Italian Tomato restaurant in Richmond. Not everybody I had invited showed up, however, they had valid reasons which is fine. I have no real problem with that so it’s cool in my books. Anyways, we had to wait slightly for about 15 minutes. Not a big deal. AJ was the first to be there but I felt bad because I was late myself for 7:30. I didn’t want to make him wait so that wasn’t good on my part, but regardless, we all arrived in time for dinner with a short wait.

This time, new to the group, was AJ and Bien. AJ, whom I’ve known forever, decided to come out to one of our functions and Bien, whom I don’t really know very well, managed to come out. I invited her out only because I knew she had been coming out with us on a regular basis so may as well bring somebody new into the group. Anyways, we had all ordered our drinks, appies and entrees. The food took a little while to come out but I learned that they make everything from scratch including the sauce and noodles. The food came out two by two and we all dug in. Boy, the food was good! Fresh pasta and sauce really hit the spot and their soup was kick-ass. The portions were enourmous but good, unlike Antons, ugh! POS pasta FTL! Nonetheless, the night ended well and everybody had a good time and were satisfied. Really, when you have good friends, you have good times - hands down.

And Jourdan, I’m not mad at you and I’m pretty sure I never was. I’m not sure what made you think I was mad at you. And no, it wasn’t because you sent the postcards to the wrong address. I’ve just been really busy with work lately. Send me an e-mail. We should get together with Can soon. I saw him just recently.

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