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I started on Monday at Seaspan Ship Management in Vancouver. Seaspan is specialized in providing a full service for container liners. Seaspan owns the ships, takes care of maintenance and arranges crewing. The only thing the container liner has to do is directing the ships to where the cargo is.

I commute to the office by bus and seabus, they both take about 15 minutes. The seabus is nice, a 15 minute ride over the Burrard Inlet, the strech of water between North Van and downtown Vancouver.

The seaspan office is located right beside the Seabus terminal, very convenient. The office is at the 26th floor, the view over Vancouver is amazing!

The work is pretty interesting, since I'm the only IT'er I get to do everything.. exactly what I like!

Friday was especially nice, we visited a large containership and got a full tour! It's not everyday that I'm sitting at a PC very close to an eight cilinder with three turbo chargers, cylinders several meters in height and 83 centimers in diameter....developing 50.000 horsepower :-) We got a very extensive tour covering all the interesting places on the ship.. amazing to see. It's like a small industrial plant.

Now that there is some income again we decided to head for Ikea and get some chairs.. We still only had two chairs, so during diner one of us was always sitting on the ground :-) We also ran into a nice hallstand (kapstok). The Ikea is only 20 minutes away.

Other good news is that our container is apparently getting close. On Monday (for us tomorrow) we should hear more!

When I went out this morning I was very surprised to see something that we haven't seen here since we arrived.. RAIN.. We hope that it will turn to snow quickly :-)