Miscellaneous weekend items
Seeing as this weekend is potentially the lightest one in a long time [yes, while some people use their weekends to recover from their weeks, I often use my weeks to recover from my weekends! - although that's not entirely accurate - sometimes my weeks are just as busy as the weekends], I figured I’d throw in a few comments (ramblings if you might) entirely just for the fun of it. A lot of them are personal, so feel free to skip 
- I’ve missed almost a week worth of RSS feeds (too busy doing a LOT of work) so if I haven’t commented on your blog, it’s nothing to do with you and everything to do with the fact that I’ve been running around like a headless chicken
- Third Tuesday is this coming Tuesday and Jeff Young is going to talk about intellectual property law, so you SHOULD come, particularly if you’re interested in Bill C-61 and how that can potentially affect YOU.
- FraserValley WordCamp is coming up this coming Wednesday and I’m speaking there. Gary from BlueFur is still looking for a snack sponsor, and if you know of anyone or can suggest/direct me towards whom to talk, that’d be awesome. I am also contacting people from the different restaurants I’ve reviewed to see if they can sponsor snacks.
- The Underwear Affair (Running for a Cancer Cure) is happening TODAY, and Gillian is taking part in it. So, please consider sponsoring her, and/or encouraging her along the way. It takes a lot of courage to run in your underwear, and this is for a worthy cause.
- I’ve decided that for my Blogathon 2008 I’m going to try and do a 50/50 with the BC Cancer Agency and a diabetes-oriented organization in BC, (e.g. my sponsors can either have a choice of where their money goes or let me decide, and if I have a say, I’ll redirect 50% to cancer research and 50% to diabetes research). My Grandmom and my Aunt passed away from cancer and my GrandDad succumbed to the debilitating effects of diabetes. Therefore, I have a stake in both. Please consider donating. None of the donations will go through me, all of them will go through the online donations page of the respective foundations.
- I know that this is very short notice, but I think the next Vancouver Bloggers Meetup will take place towards the end of July. I was informed by Meetup that we haven’t had a REAL meetup in a while, so I’m going to go full steam ahead and schedule one.
- I’ve got two bar reviews, one restaurant review and a few posts lined up for next week. And of course, discussions on water and recycling and other environmental issues.
- Overall, while this has been a great week, I am exhausted (this is in no small part a reflection of a need to take care of myself). Time for the hummingbird to slow down.
Have a nice weekend, everyone!
Related posts:
- World Diabetes Day – November 14th, 2008
- Weekend blues, ups and downs
- Action-packed weekend but no energy to recap it :-(
- Weekend roundup
- Tired from the weekend
That Blogathan thing, if I didn’t work Saturdays (and if I had more readers), I would have liked to do something for my favourite little animal rescue group. (Small Animal Rescue of BC, if you want to adopt a rabbit, hamster, guinea pig, etc. – please don’t go the pet shop route!)
Anyhow, I have really been intrigued since I read about it on Rebecca’s blog last year. Do you blog every half hour? Do you do a new blogpost each time? Does it have to be about the charity?
Hi Maktaaq,
Yes you blog every 30 mins for 24 hours straight, which is about 48 posts… but you can guest post for me if you want
hehe I can share some of the proceeds to the SMARBC.
Re: blogathon…
I’ll be commenting, and hopefully fueling your mind with enough controversial stuff.. i’m sure more than a few things will come to mind.
Whadayathink?
i gotta reconsider the name, but i’ve started, and can then migrate my stuff over once i’ve decided. thu! yaay.