I've been in Vancouver for the past week or so. The weather has been great for the most part and I've just been staying active and catching up with friends. I caught the Wimbledon men's tennis final on Sunday morning -- what an epic match! I'm going to miss tennis while I'm away.

I seem to have picked the busiest time of the year to take off on vacation from work. Things are hectic now as we are faced with hard deadlines in August for our two most high profile applications. We've brought in a couple of former co-op students to help lighten the workload a bit so there are going to be five of us youngsters working together this summer which should be fun. I leave in two days so I'm just scrambling now to tie up loose ends and delegate my work to other people. I get the sense that some people are going into panic mode already so it should be interesting to see how chaotic things are when I get back.