So I know that this is both cliché and a day late but I thought I would do a best of, worst of plan to do more of, list for 2007 mostly because I am not very exciting and not interested in working today. So let’s get started shall we.

Music

Best New to me band/artist discovered in 2007 – Well I would have to say that this is a hard one! I will have to say it’s a tossup between Tokyo Police Club and You Say Party We Say Die! (who are playing in Jan BTW) I will say You Say Party We Say Die as because …
Best New album of 2007 - …Tokyo Police Club’s Album A lesson in Crime truly rocked! Even if it’s not much of an album more of a seven song EP!
Best Show of 2007 - Well hands down I would have to say The Arcade Fire show at Deer Lake Park! The Arcade Fire didn’t really come up very often in my play list before this show. They were a good band but for some reason I really just couldn’t get into them! Then in a whirlwind of other great shows at Deer Lake Park that month Arcade Fire came along and showed them all how it was done!

Movies

Best movie - well considering that I haven’t really watched more than 5 movies this will be skewed. I would have to say Sarah Polly’s Movie Away From Her. Awesome movie that really sticks out in my mind!
Worst Movie – Well I haven’t watched a lot as I said and nothing is really sticking out in my mind as an obvious stinker, I will think about it and get back to you!

Camera/Photo

Top 5 Favorite blogged photos of 2007 - Well these aren’t necessarily the best photos that I have taken just the 5 best blogged ones!

Best photo shoot – Well I have to say that they are all great! I know that this is a copout answer but I and supreme dictator in these parts so that is what you get!

Best New Camera

• Film - hands down the Limited Edition Seagull TLR. This was a pretty camera that really surprised me with awesome photos.
• Polaroid - The SX70 has been the most entertaining, mostly because you are never really sure what you are going to get! Is is always a surprise!
• Digital - Well I only bought one camera so it wins by default! The Canon 5D Nice small camera (I decided against the battery pack) that is full frame and has wicked detail. I like it even if the colour is nowhere near as vibrant as our Mark II’s

Other stuff!

Wish I had done more of - Both photo wandering, and photo processing. I know that the second part sounds funny to those that know me being that my year was spent 96% in front of Photoshop and DPP but hear me out. I have about six to seven hundred gig of photos taken over the last few years that I haven’t even looked at not once! I have taken them and placed them neatly in folders on my computer, but I have never seen them not once!
Wish I had done less of - Fighting with computers! I lost probably the better part of a month this year fighting with computer issues. That a lot of time, and Microsoft I would like it back!
Silliest thing I bought this year - Well hands down that would be my kayak! Yup I am an owner of a 3000 dollar Kayak that I have used once! I bought it in the spring when I still had delusions that there was going o be time in our lives! Well that didn’t really go anywhere! This year for sure!
Best thing that I bought this year - Well Hands down Sassy Sally Scooterson! For sure that has provided me with the most joy one can have in 2600km’s.

So yesterday we had my first real Sally scare. NOT to worry there wasn’t and accident or anything (although the car’s track record isn’t so sparkly! We have been dangerously close to mowing down a few pedestrians in the last two weeks and we haven’t really even been driving it.) by scare I really mean Sally had what at the time seemed like a catastrophic failure on the lion’s gate bridge last night. So the story goes like this. Last night was sushi night at Zen Sushi on Marine in West Vancouver. The North shore crew including a couple of Calgaryians that qualify as honorary north shore crew members were meeting Miranda and I at the sushi place and we opted to scoot there mostly cause scooting kicks ass. It was also the first time that I had Sally over the Bridge since the CDI was done by Jiang Wayne, in fact I haven’t really had the opportunity to have sally on the open road since it was done.
I was overjoyed to learn that sally did over 60kph up the south side of the Lions Gate Bridge and the speedo was buried on the way down, which is until it felt it needed to stall. I coasted to the end of the bridge and pulled into a pull out. I tried to start it again but there was a loud clunking noise that comes from the engine area although truth be told with all the road noise going on around me, there could have been a caterwauling cat trapped in my seat and wouldn’t have known. Luckily the north shore crew were driving cars (ick) so I coasted to the tourist booth on marine and they meet miranda & I there. I then tried to start it again and it works! It fired right up!! OK….. I go to spin it around it the parking lot to see if it has power and it stops and won’t start again. OK …..there is a nasty burning smell that wafts in from what we presume is the scooter. Ok….. sounds (smells) broken….We best just go for dinner.
All throughout dinner I am wondering what could be wrong and based on what I know at this point I am sure that the engine has blown or something that was as equally devastating. Diner was good but all I could think about was Sally is dead I am going to be scooter less could I afford to fix her right away or would it be smarter to go for a new sally? Could I afford that?
After dinner Josh and I come back to where it was parked and prepare to tow using Josh’s ruckus and a hunk of rope! (which we were actually quite excited about) While we were hooking up I decide to try to start it once more, and what does it do? it starts up no problem and sits there happily idling! No burning smell no loud clunking! just happy idling, We played around some more till we discovered that it runs till you sit on it. We listened closely now that traffic noise is less and you can hear a snap when you sit on it just before it stalls. WTF……..
When we pulled the seat bucket out and looked with the lights off you could see a spark when weight was added to the bike!! Looking deeper we realized there was a broken wire the goes to the distributor and when the bike flexes with weight the wire would come loose and stall the bike. We repaired said wire and sally rocks on!!
The loud clunking noise and the burning smell really made us think that the engine was in serous trouble. Turned out the burning smell was a campfire and we are working on the hypothesis that the loud clunking noise was because the engine basically stopped at 75/80 km’s and coasted down the hill all in all Sally is a happy camper once again.. Big shot outs to Josh for helping me figure out wtf and Shan & Kimli/Ed for helping cart us around and junk!

Yup dropping her off at Jiang Wayne this morning to get the CDI upgrade done . She will be smokin fast i expect!!!

So it has been a busy 24 hours for me. Last night after our wedding was done Josh & I went for a midnight scoot. Took a few photos in the dark of night.

Rode a few trails and avoided getting caught up in a crazy ‘bush party’ in Stanley park.

This was Miranda when I told her how many photos we shot at our wedding! :)

Breakfast at the tomahawk this morning, followed by more aimless scooting.

This is so foreign to me

The White stripes rocked

Yup the blog to be nothing but photos of Sally for at least a Week!!!