Apartment Hunting.

I left sunny White Rock to rainy Vancouver looking for apartments and condos in the west end. I followed up on some leads I found on craigslist.org but two of them were gone already and the remaining ones didn't return my calls after I had left messages. It wasn't a complete waste of time though because combing through the neighbourhood gave me a better sense of the neighbourhood. I also took notice of vacancy signs posted outside and took down numbers for me to inquire about.

I gave Karlo a surprise visit after making my rounds. His sister, Katherine, buzzed me in while he was still in the shower and when he came out and saw me sitting at the table, he nearly dropped the towel around his waist!

I was starving at this point, so I went to the McDonalds just around the block and chowed down two Quarter Pounder's to satisfy my hunger. After meeting up with Jamie and James around Lost Lagoon, we walked to the corner of Davie and Granville to a hole-in-the-wall sushi restaurant called "Excellent Sushi". With a name like that, it's hard to take them seriously, but what surprised me was that the 22 pieces of assorted rolls I had ordered which also came with a bowl of miso soup was only $4! FOUR BUCKS! Granted, it wasn't the best sushi I've had, but for a couple of twoonies, I couldn't complain. And it made me full.

Jamie and James followed me to Future Shop afterwards where I was going to pick up my bluetooth headset for my RAZR phone, but then there was another snag. According to the sales guy, Mike, I wasn't qualified for one as there was a slight discrepancy between "new activations" and "renewed activations". I went over this the last time I was at this Future Shop when they were all out of these headsets and I thought it had been dealt with. Now, I'm supposed to wait until Tuesday for the manager to give me a call about this matter as Mike was not in the position to give me the damn headset I should have got at the time of renewing my contract with TELUS and purchasing a RAZR V3c on the last day of February. I'm not going to put up with much more. I'll make a scene in the store if I don't get what I want.

Back at J & J's, we socialised some more about ways to defeat the system. James offered me a glass of Indian Pale Ale, Brewed in Esquimalt, BC. I've never had IPA before and found it to be a little bitter.

I met up with Alan outside the doors to the Odyssey before leaving town and gave him a big hug for I hadn't seen him in a while. I'm not sure if my eyes were deceiving me, but he looked a little more toned then the last time I saw him. Hmmmmm.....