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nospam@example.com (Stephane Theroux) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:28:43 -0500

Wow. It's been almost a year since my last entry to my blog. I've gone from Tribe.net to Facebook and have left both of them behind. Tribe just sort of faded away from my attention and, after the initial novelty wore off, I couldn't find much use for Facebook beyond playing some Scrabulous. I'd rather spend more time developing this site.

A few things have changed since my last entry: I've moved off the little rock of Saturna Island and moved to the big rock of Vancouver Island. Victoria to be precise. I've got a new job much like my old job. I spend my working days (or should that be nights) as a bread baker at Bond Bond's Bakery in downtown Victoria. The hours are almost nocturnal (shifts start at 3:30am) but the pay is better. My girlfriend Jessica and I have also moved in together into a nice little apartment across from a little park. We're slowly making it a home, with a balcony full of flowers, but neither of us is much of a decorator.

On the business front, I'm nearing completion on a redesign on my flagship site, classicreader.com, and beginning development on a new site to generate more income from my tiny dotcom. My long-range plan is to rely more on revenue from my own business and less on the day job, eventually working only part-time in the real world.

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nospam@example.com (Stephane Theroux) — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:50:00 -0500

Gooby.ca is my repository of personal projects and other mental detritus that occasionally falls onto my lap. It provides an outlet for my thoughts and activities, such as hiking and photography, as well as providing a medium for communicating with my widely-scattered friends and family. I also needed a venue to do all these things without intermingling them with my commercial web sites (when those get overhauled, the personal stuff often accidentally gets /dev/nulled.)

My name is Stephane Theroux and I currently hail from Victoria, British Columbia. "Gooby" is a nickname I picked up while living on Saturna Island. The story behind it is quite boring, sufficing to say that it involved some undercooked chocolate cake.

After a long period of procrastination, I finally got to work and designed this site instead of leaving it mostly barren. Getting the Skyline Trail Journal online was the motivation to get started and I carried over the design to the entire site. More trip journals will hopefully be added in the near future to document other trips and activities.

The photo on the right is of the sandy cliffs at Saint's Rest beach in Saint John, New Brunswick, taken while hiking the Sheldon Point & Taylor Island nature trails on November 27, 2004. This show of colour was made possible by rains we've recently had, soaking the clay in the sandy cliffs (the darker areas are clay) and a light of a unique quality that lasted about 5 minutes (you can see the shade creeping in from the left).

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