Jenobi's World

Vancouver is a busy place right now. There are so many events happening at once, the city can hardly contain itself. The HSBC Celebration of Light , Pride Week , The Police and Fireman Games , and the endless heat wave to make us all a little sweaty. Everyone is trying their best to not perspire while having fun in the sun. At work we have been busy for a week, breaking sales records and heat records all the same. The kitchen there is taking casualties daily as the heatwave is tripled in front of the fires cooking all the food for the locals and Pride goers. With the Fireworks and Pride festivities combined tomorrow night, and a busy sunny brunch to boot, we all will be running off our feet. If you're out and about, send out some positive thoughts our way as we will need it!!!! Follow this blog -->

Vancouver is known for its temperate climate and greenery. Vancouver is also known for it's long stints of rain, thus creating a false idea that we all have umbrellas surgically attached to us to protect us from the elements. Well, this past week has been anything but temperate. Apparently we are se tting a heatwave record with 6 days or so of unseasonably high temperature values couples with even more unseas onably high humidity levels. This is the 4th day in a row it has been above 30c and the humidex reading suggests that it feels like 36 or above. I wouldn't normally start my blogging, after almost a year off, with this topic, but it obviously has some affect to me directly as I work in a restaurant kitchen. This choice in careers, well not really a choice but a "falling into", brings up the old saying - "If you can't take the heat, get outta the kitc hen". Well, I doubt this saying began during an outrageous heat wave. If it is 30c outside and fee...