Your semi-annual Global Hermit report

Where does the time go?

I'm nearly finished another shoot week at The Lab With Leo Laporte -- our fourth month of taping! It's been a lot of work, but it's also been a lot of fun despite technical and logistical hurdles along the way.

Thankfully we found a great apartment fairly quickly -- it's right near the railroad tracks (about 30 feet from our front door!) so it's a bit noisy sometimes, but it's a fantastic view otherwise:

It's now also a short drive to a lot of great scenery, so now that our car has finally arrived in Vancouver, we'll be starting a series of short little jaunts around the area to see new sights (and undoubtedly to take photos). The first major car ride was to Ikea in Coquitlam to replace some furniture we had to leave behind, but there was also a side-trip to Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, where we confirmed that Battlestar Galactica's planet Caprica set was right here on earth: