{"id":550,"date":"2008-12-31T18:18:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T02:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2009-02-12T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T23:45:10","slug":"2008-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/550","title":{"rendered":"2008 In Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life<\/h3>\n

This year has been pretty big. Naturally following up with lots of events from last year<\/a>, these are some quick memories. My nephew, Rayden, was born on Feb 12th, six weeks early! This caused the father (my brother) to be indisposed for my dad’s (2nd) marriage on Feb 14th. I got bumped up to best man (but didn’t have to do much) and had a rather empty hotel room to myself in Vegas. I attended<\/a> the Open Web Vancouver conference. I went to Whistler mountain for the first time<\/a> in years<\/em> and plan on going again soon. I went on a fantastic road trip<\/a> down the west coast of the United States, something I will never<\/em> forget. I slacked off most of the summer but managed to do quite a bit of rollerblading<\/a> and outdoor activity<\/del> hanging out with Kurt (visiting from Brazil). My brother, now a father, married<\/a> the mother of his child on August 3rd. I was best man at this wedding, as well – with more responsibilities, but they were well received and totally worth it. Our beloved cat, Sky, met an early and terribly unfortunate end<\/a>. We had our first encounter with bed bugs who are now the sworn enemy of our household. Vancouver, a city that sometimes doesn’t get snow all year, had its whitest Christmas ever<\/em><\/a> with 60cm (2 ft) of snow! Perhaps we should have seen snow in April<\/a> as a sign….?<\/p>\n

That reminds me: Happy Holidays for 2008! Guess I was a little late on that… Here are some pictures of our insane weather in Vancouver.<\/p>\n