Some Assembly Required

If you're looking for an elevator, I know where you can find one cheap. 

MOVE IN PROGRESS

Man, I'm glad he put that sign there, because otherwise I would have assumed someone didn't want their 5 spools of brand new elevator cable any more.

Family Growth, Even Without Room

If you haven't played The best geeky board game of all time, don't start.  This was the first of 5 games played in as many days.  We should have stopped.  We could not. 

suggestive-aggressive?

I think this one counts as aggressive-aggressive.

Fail?

I think this home owner asked the city for this special handicapped parking zone so their wheelchair-ridden family member could have easy access to their home.  Via 9 steep concrete steps.  What?

But what's 8 months with half an elevator between friends?

I guess that light you can see in that empty elevator shaft means they'll finally fix our second elevator.

I'm glad we live by the vintage car diner on 99th, rather than the pimped-out car convenience store on Whyte.  At least ours makes sense.   

You my friend..........[glasses]................... are getting rusty

You should play CSI: River Valley some time.  Your mixed-media art projects will start to get pretty awesome.

No distracting internet here

I think I am beginning to love my little computer.  

Sasuga Trev

I should have known that when I bought this computer from Trev I'd be getting more than I bargained for.

Good Lord

Hey, um, is this for real?  Because it seems too good to be true.  Are you going?  I think I have to.

Both of us are Nauseated

I thought nothing could get me interested in blogging again, until I saw this disgustilicious looking Betazoid.

Mores

It was somehow less embarrasing for me to take pictures of strangers' legs on the street without asking than it would have been for me to tell them that I needed a picture of their dog for my girlfriend.

btw, this barley wine is un-drinkably terrible

Mom's visit wasn't all spent looking at things, though.  We managed to squeeze in some Dilts family staples, namely, recycling and fancy beer. 

Momscapades

Mom came to visit Edmonton, hooray!  It turns out we spend a lot of time looking at plants, which makes sense in this mini-conservatory: 




... but is a little more unusual at the West Edmonton Mall:... and at the waterpark at West Edmonton Mall:We didn't just look at plants, though.  We also looked at fake plants:Oh, and roller coasters:Yodas:Tropical Fishes:And submarines:

Mastery

Tatiana's mastery of linguistics is now official.