I misplaced one of my cameras a couple of days ago, but I found it last night in the most obvious of places – in the bathroom, tucked inside my right shoe, which was upside down on the rug. Clearly, I could have saved myself untold minutes of searching if I had just looked in the most blatant of places.

This morning I received not one but TWO warnings for non-moving violations. It seems that the City of North Vancouver had a little too much spare time on their hands some 8 months ago, and proactively put up signs up our street saying NO PARKING ON WEDNESDAYS BETWEEN 8 AND 10AM – STREET CLEANING. For the first few Wednesdays we all dutifully moved our cars to the other side of the street, but it soon became evident that the city had no actual plan to clean our street at all – we never saw a street cleaner (and believe me, I was home for a great many number of those Wednesdays). Eventually, everyone stopped moving their cars since the cleaners were never going to come.

Today I got two warning tickets (one on the Mazdabator, one on Oscar) saying I was in violation of that street sign. Turns out they’re actually starting to make good on their bylaw and are attempting to actually clean our streets, except by now we’re all tired of the wolf cry and never move our cars as requested. The tickets tell me I’m a bad, bad person and starting June 24th they’ll be handing out REAL tickets because they’re going to clean our streets for real, honest. I’m glad the tickets were just a warning, because I would have raised a mighty war cry upon the city if I had to pay for their months of lies. There would have been angry letters. Also, I’ve always wanted to stage a protest. I’ll earn that Lil’ Revolutionary Brownie badge yet!

Before dinner last night at the Eatery, I browsed through a used book store. Among the titles I picked up is “For Boys Only”, a book about puberty and sex written for boys in 1952. This should be completely awesome. An excerpt on the topic of the “right” and “wrong” way to go about sex:

But there is another way, that is called by the long name “promiscuity”, or better, immorality. Here two people, without either love or respect for each other and without any wish to bring children into the world have intercourse. This way is unlawful, dangerous, and terribly selfish.

It is unlawful because it is forbidden by God’s law and by the teachings of all religions. It is dangerous, because it frequently causes serious disease. And it is selfish, because in spite of precautions and so-called preventives, it so often brings into the world an innocent baby who has to go through life with the undeserved shame of being known as illegitimate, or a bastard.

1952 sounds awesome!

Time to do some QA. Sometimes, late at night, I worry that I’ve become THE MAN.