President again

At the last meeting of ApplesBC (the Vancouver Macintosh User Group), we had our AGM. At the AGM the existing Executive resigns and is either voted back in or new members are voted in in their place(s).

As President for the 2007 / 2008 season, I decided to resign as such and to volunteer for the position of Webmaster instead. But we already had a webmaster.

So today we had our first Executive meeting for this season. As past President, and since nobody else had volunteered for President, I had to attend. I had given a lot of thought to what I’d like to do for the club. I learned that I enjoy running the meetings and although I wanted input into the website I didn’t really want to be the guy that did all the work. So I had decided that as long as our current webmaster was willing to work with me and take direction from me, that I would return as President for the next year.

This morning at the meeting, I presented this thought and it was unanimously accepted amongst the Executive.

So I’m President again. Some would say I am a sucker for punishment and sometimes I would agree. But I really want to keep this club going and I felt that while nobody else volunteered for the Presidential position and given that I actually enjoy some of the duties of President and given that there are new Executive members that are going to take some of the load off me, I am happy with my decision and the decision of the Executive.

More later.

Upcoming 'cultural' events

Well, some would call it culture.

I'm going to see Sarah Silverman at the end of March. Then The Cure in late May then Rush in later May.

Never had so many events going on at the same time.

Of course my Credit Card is feeling the strain, tickets are not cheap. Neither is going away for a long weekend though I guess.

Been a huge Cure fan for a long, long time. I'll almost be the oldest person there, but I so don't care. I've seen them 4 times now I think? And each one has been better than the last.

I've seen Rush a couple of times too. The last time was in Vancouver when they put on a 3 hour show! It was fantastic. And I've not seen Sarah Silverman before, but I'm such a fan of hers. I think her type of humour is what we need right now. We need people to stop taking themselves so seriously and being easily offended. I'm not advocating racism, but I am advocating a sense of humour which involves the ability to laugh at ourselves.

More later.

Big White Ski Resort

I took a few friends to Big White Ski Resort last weekend.

We had a great time skiing and snowboarding and sampling the many different food and beverage offerings. We sampled many more beverage offerings than food of course.

One of the highlights of the weekend though was seeing my friend Paul perform with his band The Hip Replacements. As you might gather, they are a Tragically Hip cover band and played all our favourites. They were playing at Rakkels on the Ridge, a popular ski bar at Big White on both Friday and Saturday nights.

We went and watched them on both nights as we had so much fun.

Anyway, here are some pictures from my Flickr page.

More later.