Day 26
   
   5/23/01
   Mile 2513
   Calgary, AB
   
   This morning was gear repair and maintenance time.  I had some sewing
   repairs to do on the packs, where I had stuffed a bit too much in and
   a seam started ripping.  I carry a sewing needle inside a little
   container of dental floss for repairs such as this; it's a strong
   thread.
   
   I stopped a my favorite outdoor store, Mountain Equipment Co-op, to
   pick up a few small items and see if anything sparked ideas.  Then got
   some AAA maps, and...went to work, just like the responsible citizen I
   am, of course.
   
   There was some Linux work that needed done at the Jason Geosystems
   office...so...darn, I did it again, working on a vacation.  But I
   didn't mind.  It was a change of pace, and it was just more efficient to do
   it while I was already here.  So I spent the rest of the day there,
   merrily punching away at the keyboard.  Later, I walked around town a bit,
   which is a lot of fun in Calgary.  It's a very athletic place - there
   are paths everywhere, and the rollerbladers, bikers, and joggers take full
   advantage of it, especially when the weather is as beautiful as today.
   There were a whole lotta sunburned people out getting their share of
   the sunshine, I chuckled to myself.  A fair amount of people bike to
   work here, since the city planners laid out sensible routes for it to make
   it easy (and also, parking is terribly expensive!).
   
   That night I went with Alana, another employee at the office,
   to a pub to catch one of the local bands playing.  Always sample the
   local color of the town you're in!  I met some of her friends in this
   northern town - I didn't have an English-Canadian dictionary to
   translate with, but Alana helped me along with the vocabulary, including the
   gratuitous "Ay" at the end of sentences.  A fun time was had by all,
   ay?

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