Punching through the time barrier

I feel like I never have time for a proper post. I feel as though I might post more frequently if I didn't have to go to blogger to do it. (Like, if anyone accepted the patches for GNOME Blog to support atom posting...) Regardless, I have recently done a few of these things:

• Celebrated a vegetarian Thanksgiving. Sour stew, stupendous stuffing, and a plump pumpkin pie were the order of the day.
• Celebrated a birthday party. Played StepMania (think DDR) whose contestants included a pleasant mother of 3 grown children. Shared stories. Ate food. Left after transit stopped.
• Constructed a chocolate on chocolate trifle for the above.
• Created a working, GUI-based version of GenderGuesser.
• Started learning GIT for the above to work.
• Learning Hiragana (largely for the purpose of exercising GenderGuesser.)
• Watch the anime Akira Kurasawa's Samurai 7. It's very good. Received good Rogers service from Calvin. He's really impressed my girlfriend.
• Resumed Kendo. It's quite different the second time around.
• Started reading 1984. I don't enjoy reading it very much.
• Got stomach sick for just under a week. (This started with the resumption of Kendo and then ended with Thanksgiving.)
• Have gotten a regular head cold. I credit my girlfriend for the acquisition :D
• Rented Paprika (which I haven't watched yet) from the best video store I have found in Vancouver so far: Dunbar Video PlusNightwatch Video. I like them more than videomatica. Their selection didn't seem populist, and the proprietor even ordered the Return to Oz for me :)
• Discovered that Tim Tams have reached Critical Mass out in Vancouver. They're Everywhere.
• Played tennis three times in the last three (?) weeks.
• Received the best restaurant service yet in Vancouver from the Old Spaghetti Factory in Gastown. A pleasant fellow, perhaps named Kevin(?) served in the converted street car we had been seated in by an intelligent hostess. Kevin(?) was always prompt and helpful and considerate and HAPPY. Nice work -> nice tip ^_^
• Paid off private credit; now onto public! (That is, student loans versus credit cards and bank lines of credit.)
• In a failed attempt to associate with coworkers, we ended up in a book store where I found a Very Good Thing: 1066 And All That. It is to be gifted to someone who has not yet enjoyed it. Tee-hee. My girlfriend managed to digest during a slow work day. I'm jealous :D

There, that seems a fairly comprehensive itinerary of the more recent things. Too bad it's a list shallow on insight, but if you're reading this, maybe it's worth something.