Author Archives: davin

A good friend of mine once said that if you’re good enough at what you do, people start doing your marketing for you. Certainly that is true in the case of the Vancouver Canucks. Their regular season was full of hard work, gelling, out-skilling and out-working their opponents. Their game has consisted of their own […]

I haven’t used my Technics 1200 MKIIIs in quite a while. Not more than a handful of times since I moved back to Victoria. A few factors have been involved: Shopping for vinyl had gotten expensive long ago Shopping for vinyl I liked had become impossible except online Living in a wooden framed building meant […]

As the Times Colonist duly noted, Alzu’s has closed it’s doors for good. For better or worse, I knew what Alzu’s was. It was a 24 hour restaurant on Bay Street. Lets get one thing out of the way to begin with: Alzu’s was not fine dining. Are we good with that? Let’s proceed. Victoria’s […]

Botanical Beach is located in Juan De Fuca Provincial Park on Vancouver Island, really close to Port Renfrew. Port Renfrew is one of the first places I remember going camping with my family, and I remember buying some really terrible Gatorade Gum while I was there – it was called “Gator Gum” and I discovered […]

I’ve had a great year – from career, to school, to family, and friends, 2010 was a banner year in almost every regard. I became clearer about what I want out of life, what I can actually get, and I challenged myself on both my assumptions about life around me, and also life inside of […]