Flickr Photos...

Merry Christmas everyone! As some of you may know, I keep a photo section on my own personal website ( http://www.steveleenow.net/steve/life/index.htm ), but I have to edit photos for placement to my site, and fiddle with HTML coding for each individual addition which takes forever and a day.

So I've opted to put my photos from now on at flickr, a Yahoo! affiliated website that allows me to host my photographs and also allows for users to provide interactive feedback. It will also free up webspace on my own personal website for eventually hosting more home movies / videos. I decided to use it because, well, frankly, it's the same site that Matthew Good uses and it seems to work for him.

You can visit the site here... I've added a lot already:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveleenow/sets/

Including photo-sets of our dogs Kikko & Angel, my 2006 Christmas decorating and much more. More to follow in the days and weeks to come (including old art type shots, cityscape shots, shots of my work at the KSA and much more)! I'd add more now but it's upsetting my Mom how I'm just sitting here at my computer without helping to prepare for Christmas dinner tonight.

Cheers,

- Steve

what a storm!

Living where I do, in Coal Harbour in downtown Vancouver, BC --- I had a front row seat for tonight's storm that hit Vancouver. I was up late as I couldn't sleep due to my fight with a viral infection that I have - but I had drifted off for awhile. At around 3am though, I was awakened by the harsh wind that was beating our building.

Luckily my Mom had moved in a lot of our pots, close to the building on our deck - as the wind was whipping around the corner of our building at an unbelievable rate. You could see the water of the bay moving violently - it was so harsh that there were no whitecaps, the water just moved with a very violent ripple effect. It was eerie.

Even the chandelier in our dining room was swaying side to side.

Eerie indeed.

What I thought was lightening was actually power generators exploding. Looking at the north shore, it's like someone took a cloth and wiped out specific areas of lights - leaving patches of darkness in the wake of the wipe.

Luckily, I don't have to go to work today, due to my infection. The skytrain is down, the traffic is nuts. My only major complaint is the rather poor coverage the storm is getting on TV. Turning on the TV, a number of Seattle stations were broadcasting at 4am. None of the Canadian equivalents were broadcasting until after 5:30am.

Luckily CampusKiss NW AM 980 was going strong. They had cut from the regular "Best of Bill Good" that plays at 4am and they were taking live calls with people talking about how the storm was affecting their area.

So crazy.

I just made myself some porridge, and some hot tea, to soothe my throat. The wind has now died down and I'll work on my website a bit before getting some more sleep.

- Steve

an interesting thing...

Found this on a visit to: http://srg4.livejournal.com and was enticed to participate. we can all learn something about each other.

and I want to know 28 things about you... but if you feel uncomfy with number 18 I understand (especially if you're one of my guy friends - I probably won't be asking any of my guy friends out, at least not in that way. I guess it has so many connotations - you think "Asking out" wow that must be romantic. But it's cool to ask a guy out to a movie or something - as a friend, right? So I'll put away the insecurities now, and watch as probably no one responds cause I never update my blog and I don't think anyone reads it).

1. Your Middle Name: 2. Age: 3. Single or Taken: 4. Favorite Movie: 5. Favorite Song: 6. Favorite Band/Artist: 7. Dirty or Clean: 8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:

HERE COMES THE FUN ... ... ...

1. Do we know each other outside of LJ? 2. Whats your philosophy on life? 3. Would you have my back in a fight? 4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? 5. What is your favorite memory of us? 6. Would you give me a kidney? 7. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: 8. Would you take care of me when I'm sick? 9. Can we get together and make a cake? 10. Have you heard any rumors of me lately? 11. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me? 12. Do you think I'm a good person? 13. Would you drive across country with me? 14. Do you think I'm attractive? 15. If you could change anything about me, would you? 16. What do you wear to sleep? 17. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out? 18. Would you go on a date with me if I asked you? 19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? 20. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?