Travels – Page 17

Feb 17 2011

REVIEW: First time at Diner on 93rd

After a long day of work, I found myself sitting in a room filled with families, seniors and rig workers all looking for a good meal. This was the first time I had gone to Diner on 93rd. I would actually say that it isn’t a diner, but isn’t quite fancy dining.

I often wondered if it would be a replacement for Uptown Grill, but I don’t think that is the case. Diner on 93rd definitely caters to the families and the groups for quick family meal. Prices range from $10-$20, Which is reasonable for a restaurant in Fort St. John. The menu wasn’t the biggest although it did seem to have the selection. There were things like pork tenderloin, shepherds pie, burgers and fries, steak and a small selection of pasta.

The menu being smaller than most left me actually stumped as to what I was going to order. I ended up deciding to go with the chicken linguine. Once we’d ordered which didn’t take very long, as the restaurant wasn’t that busy at that time, it only took about 15 min. for our meals to arrive. So let’s get into this chicken linguine.

Chicken Alfredo

They say chicken linguine, I say chicken Alfredo, either way it’s the same dish. I often find it’s really hard to make the chicken in the chicken linguini not so bland, it seems that the Diner on 93rd has the same dilemma, or maybe that’s just me. The meal is something that I could definitely cook myself, and I have before. I’m fairly certain that the creamy sauce or Alfredo sauce was just bought from the grocery store. I also found it slightly watery, which made eating it a slight challenge as I tend to get my meal everywhere. The garlic toast on the other hand was a little odd. The garlic toast was soggy and very thin. It was only garlic on one side and I don’t think it was actually toasted. Overall though I did enjoy the meal and was happy to not have to cook it myself.

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For meal that was only $15, especially for supper was quite good. I don’t know how often I will return, but I do know I will be back at some point. They tell me the location used to be a Joey’s Seafood, which really shows when you’re inside the restaurant. It is a very similar atmosphere as well as food selection.

If you want a quick and relatively cheap meal for supper I suggest you go check out Diner 93rd. When you do leave me a comment, right here below.

Feb 10 2011

Facebook Deals are in Fort St John

Normally I wouldn’t write about anything technical here on KyleWith.com, I would leave all that on WithMedia.ca, but since this is pertaining to Fort St John, I thought what the heck.

I happened to be Checking-in on Facebook Place this evening when I noticed a little ticket. The ticket was for a Deal that was at Petron Communications, a local business here in FSJ, but also a Telus dealer. If you remember from a blog post I wrote on the Motion Media Blog I wasn’t sure if any of Facebook’s introductory Deals would be in the North. Turns out I was wrong.

So if you have an iPhone already, I’m assuming either a 3Gs or a 4, you can go to Petron, check-in on Facebook Places and get another iPhone 3Gs for free when you sign a 3 year contract.

Feb 03 2011

UPDATE: Fire in the Apartment

Well this is interesting. 12:20am on Thursday I wake up to a fire alarm going off in my apartment. Time to evacuate.

I’m sitting in my truck, on my computer, waiting to see what is going on.

UPDATE: Okay Time for the whole story, since it is 1 AM in the morning now. This evening I decided to stay at work, and finish projects I was doing. This wasn’t totally unusual, but I haven’t done in a while. I didn’t actually arrive at home until about 11 o’clock. At which point I wanted to do a little more work and watch couple videos, while falling asleep. So then comes 12:20 AM, where I’m half asleep.

I see flashing, if there is one thing I am sensitive to it is light, and I start to wake up. as I start to wake up, thank you the noise. It is the noise of an annoying fire alarm. At first I don’t take it seriously, I sit up, I think about it, and I realize I can hear other people moving outside. That’s when I jumped up and put on a shirt, and pants. And I think, by the way I’m being a really bad example for this, should I take my computer? Well of course, so I quickly grabbed my computer bag which already had my computer in and left the building. First thing I do, jump in the truck and jumped onto twitter.

In about 15 min. 2 fire trucks, fire rescue vehicle, three RCMP and one ambulance were on scene. People were wandering around everywhere wondering what was going on. I sat my truck, blogging and twittering.

Eventually after 20 min. of watching the firefighters go up and down the stairs and through apartments they let everyone go back in. As I was walking back in, I asked one of the firefighters what it was. Turns out someone forgot they were cooking stove and it was a cooking fire. I would like to stress the point that it was 12 midnight, when most are either ready for bed or are at work.

So thanks to some other people in this apartment, I’m now going to be extra tired tomorrow. Good night.

UPDATE 2: According to EnergeticCity.ca the alarm was triggered by someone who forgot about their hot dogs on the stove.

Jan 21 2011

Edmonton Streets

I’m in Edmonton, I think that is clear. I’m in Edmonton while it is suffering a freak snow storm. Which I can handle, I do after all live in Fort St John, what amazes me is the craziness of the streets with snow.

There are two contributing factors to this statement. One is the fact that Edmonton roads and city planning is wack. There isn’t much sense there. You miss a turn, bam, you ended up on the other side of the river and can’t figure out how to get back to where you came from. Very frustrating, but livable… The second is the weather. Edmonton gets some wacked weather. Fort example this evening it was snowing like crazy and was only -2 which was making the snow wet and heavy.

So combining a confusing road system and heavy wet snow gets you a big mess. No traffic lanes, no common sense. By no fault of the City road crews if we hadn’t of been in a truck we would have gotten stick quickly on some of the side streets.

Tell me, are Edmonton roads a problem for you?

Jan 21 2011

Selling and Sold

Today was a morning of buying and an afternoon of sales.

Ikea was the morning where we spent our share and walked out with a Table, desks and bee hive lamps, I’ll explain later.

In the afternoon we demoed a printer.. with a sales man of all sales man. But I should hold my tounge, because the guys was nice and I believe honest.

Whyte Ave was the chosen dinner place at a great little place where I got my hands on a delicious burger and french onion soup.