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New Movember stache photo to follow at the end of this post, I think.

Gonna go all point-formy on y’all tonight, forgive me.

• It is currently 1c here in Vancouver (34f, for our non-metric readers), which means tomorrow’s downhill 40km/h might include ice.  I think I’ll take my “alternate route,” which will mean stopping at every red light down the hill (assuming I can stop), which would be annoying, but much better than being run over by a dozen cars before they even NOTICE I’d lost my bike out from under me.
• New Podcast is up.  Come and get it.
• I gave blood yesterday, which was fine.  It took longer than usual ’cause they couldn’t find my vein on my left arm.  Rather, they could find it by poking and prodding, but not by actually sticking a needle in my arm.  The right side?  Darn near popped the bag before they could get me unhooked again.  Hooray (?) for blood pressure.  (Mine was fine for a guy who’d just braved ten blocks cycling in rush hour traffic).
• The lady across from me while I was giving blood just about fainted.  It was weird to watch.  She was a very pale blondish lady, who reminded me a little of Julia Stiles minus the gigantor cranium.  I noticed that she’d seemed a little nervous coming in (there’s usually a lot of near-giddy chatter, and she was almost silent), but she had asked for a blanket and didn’t get one, and seemed a little freaked out.  I asked the nurse attending me if maybe the lady across could get a blanket, ’cause she seemed uncomfortable, and the nurse followed my gaze, and just about jumped out of her chair, calling in the “tank” or something similar sounding.
• Got everything all fixed at the bank today.  The RRSP from EA via GWL is now inbound to TD, OK?  Mechelle at Davie & Burrard TDCanadaTrust was everything Saturday’s experience wasn’t.  I still don’t know how it all works, but was totally confident that now everyone else can figure out how to make it go.
• During a conversation with someone tonight, I was totally twigged to go find the old video laser disc games.  Dragon’s Lair, Astron Belt, MACH3, and even Cliff Hanger.  Been forever since I’ve even thought about those kinds of games.

And now, on to Movember news: because I’m going to keep growing this thing until either I hit the $100 mark, or the end of the month (it’s pretty close now, frankly, either way), here’s another photo of my incredibly bad 26-day-old moustache.

Ready?

Camera Flash at Point Blank Causes My Forehead to Expand

Yeah, so you think that’s bad?  Check the ZOOM.

You can't handle the mo.

Alsoplus, if you’d like to donate a few bucks online to the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada in honour of my horrifying moustache, please click this link to donate on my behalf, or send a cheque (it’s like a check, but Canadian) to

Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada

Attn: Movember
145 Front Street East
Suite 306
Toronto Ontario M5A 1E3

G’nite folks.

And if that was just too much, may I suggest you visit the Recombobulation Area?