Boo.....

.....YAH!!!

What changes?

As of Monday, 5th May 2008, I will be an employee of the Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver, located right in the heart of Vancouver at Burrard & Robson streets.

I am excited and nervous, but very much looking forward to it. The Sutton is where all the celebrities stay when they are in town filming for their next big mega-smash hit movie, although not being one to be star-struck I do not expect this to be a distraction. I wouldn't mind meeting Cameron Diaz, though. Easy on the eyes, that one.

One new band a day keeps the boredom away!

One of my goals for this coming summer is to see two bands I've never seen live per month. Officially I would like this to start in May, but last week I saw a band called WHY? that I'd never seen before. It was good, but not great. I'm not sure who the next band will be, but possibly Ladytron when they come to Vancouver in May.

There are changes in the midst, is all I have to say. Changes in the midst...

Happy birthday!

Just wanted to wish my Pop a happy 60th birthday! Thanks for crying like a baby when I showed up! Oh, and thanks for all the booze and good times over the weekend. You're the best!

As the Kool-Aid man says...

.....Oh Yeah!

What a vacation. I love being on vacation, I really do. I much prefer it than not being on vacation. Just the whole action of being on vacation is so much better than not being on vacation. Plus it's more fun!

Amazing snowboarding, great snow... Awesome seeing some of the friends that I met last year, and meeting new ones. I had a perfect holiday!

I'm back in Vancouver now, and looking forward to my next vacation... whenever that may be.

Vacationville!

After a busy February month at work, and a couple busy weeks following, I'm on VACATION!

WOOP WOOP!!

I'm off tomorrrow on a snowboarding road trip back to Rossland and Red Mountain, which is going to be pretty much crazy awesome. I'm hoping to meet up with a few friends that are still around, meet some new people, ride some sick gnar-gnar (really? I just said that?), and have some grand ol' times. After all, isn't that what vacations are all about? Yeah, that's right.

I've been lazy about updating this blog, but with a little determination and focus, I'm hoping to turn around that streak and get back on top of things. A little encouragement anyone?

Wooooooooooord up.

*Snort, Snot, Snig, COUGH!*

I'm having a sick day today because, well, I'm sick. I started feeling crappy a couple nights ago. Must be from all the hot chicks I've been making out with lately....

Ahh, gotta love self-depricating humour, no?

But seriously folks, I'm sick and looking for sympathy. Let the clouds of sorrow open up and rain down upon me!

Hey world, what's been going on? How about that Heath Ledger dying? Kind of sucks, he was a good actor, and seemed to be one of those all around swell dudes. Shame about his 2 year old daughter not being able to grow up and know her father...

I got a new phone. Same number, new phone. I had sent in my old phone to be fixed, as it was having problems. Many, MANY weeks later I got a phone call saying that it was going to cost too much money to fix, so the company I got my insurance through was going to give me a good chunk of change towards a new one. So that's that story...

The weather here in Vancouver has been absolutely stunning lately. Sunny, beautiful, bright. However, it's a bit different if you're looking for fresh snow. The skiing and snowboarding has been, well, not so nice, and as a result I haven't been out for a couple weeks. Hmm. However, my roommate Dave wants to buy my board from me, which would force me to get a new board, which would get me excited to hit the hills regardless of conditions. There's another story...

Today I had a great day. Full to the brim, if you will. I went to the bank, I joined the local gym, I cleaned the entire house, I organized a couple closets, and I went for dinner with a friend I haven't seen in a while. There are many stories there...

I wish I was a better storyteller.

Another one bites the dust!

Welcome to 2008, the year so great they ended it with an "8"!

Ouch, sorry about that.

So it's the new year, I hope everyone had a great holiday, filled with relaxing moments, familial entertainment, and many, MANY drunken nights of debauched debauchery! Hell, isn't that what the holidays are for? Yeah, I thought so.

As for myself, well, my wrist had sufficiently healed enough to go "shred some gnar" (read: snowboard) a few times, had a few adult beverages, ate some delicious food, and did a good deal of relaxing. Thanks to all my loved ones for your thoughts and beautiful gifts over the season. You are all amazing people and I truly appreciate it.

I'm back at work now, but I've got the upcoming weekend off and then I'm up in Whistlah! for a job overnight on Monday, so that should be good. Nice to get away, especially when you get paid to do so! HA!

Welcome to the new year, y'all!

Happy Holidays.....

......you sick bastards!

Rival Gallery is open for business.

Follow the link to the right, or check out www.rivalgallery.com. There is a pretty good show on there right now, and it's a great site centered on up-and-coming Canadian photographers. You won't regret it!

Owee.

Last night I got so excited about the snow that my housemates and I built a snow side down or twelve-or-so front steps and rode down it on our snowboards. I managed to break my wrist as a result...

...but MAN! was it ever worth it!

White fluff.

There is snow on the ground in Vancouver, and it has been snowing all day! Welcome back, Winter!!

Back in Van

Hey y'all.

I'm back in Vancouver now after a nice, busy trip home. During my time home I went to see Neil Young perform live at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. I would definitely include it in my top 5 concerts of all time, and possibly go as far as saying top 3. Possibly.

Another highlight from my trip was having to check my toothpaste that I had planned on bringing on the plane with me to, oddly enough, brush my teeth.

It's good to be back in Vancouver, though, despite the rain. Plus I need to get back to work so that I can afford to live.

Zzzz...

I have one more day of work (tomorrow) and I have already logged nearly fifty hours this week. With tomorrow's hours I will definitely be pushing towards the sixty hour mark. This has two huge run-off effects: First and foremost, I will have an excellent paycheque. This is good because I am taking a week off to go home and visit my family and see Neil Young live and in charge in Detroit Rock City. The second effect is that it is making me extremely tired. Today I purchased a medium cinammon dolce latte with an extra shot of espresso from Starbucks. I never go to Satanbucks if I can avoid it, but I was so tired I had to cave in.

One more weekend of hell and it's vacation time.

It's always go, go go!

I'm off to Whistler today, after just being there over the weekend. It's for work, but I always consider it a pleasure to go. Being in the mountains and fresh air, with the arrival of the winter snowboarding season around the corner, make it a beautiful atmosphere to be in. This coming weekend I have to go to Victoria for work, and again the following weekend.

It's a hard life, the jet-setting of a tent & event rental company employee...

This is what I look like when I'm drunk.

The daily dose.

Hi there. Remember me? I was given crap by my mother last night for not updating my weblog as often as I used to all those years ago, so I'm updating with some not-so-interesting-news for her benefit. Here goes:

We've been "interviewing" potential new roommates at my house as one of our current roomies is, sadly, moving back to her native New Zealand. It's been quite the process, and we've had an outstanding number and range of contestants email us. For example, we've had about 110-odd individuals apply in response to out advertisement, of which we've had approximately 15 come in for "getting to know you" chats. Of those 15 or so, one was an ex-writer for Rolling Stone magazine who's published more than two books, one person who works for eBay deleting auctions that are deemed "unworthy or against eBay policy", one person who owns a house that he doesn't want to live in (but he's going to keep the house, of course), and a whole raft of others. We've narrowed it down to three people, and will more than likely be making a decision by the end of the week.

Yesterday I started work at 4pm and didn't finish until 11.15pm.

This coming weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving, and my housemates and about twenty others have rented a chalet (pronounced "shall-ay"), in Whistler and will be having a good ol' fashioned drunken weekend away. One of my roommates is going to arrange for us to do something called the "Whistler Zip-Line", which is basically a thin wire stretched between two trees that you fly down attached by nothing more than another thin wire. Should be excitingly life threatening!

Today I am finally doing some laundry that I have been putting off because I've been so busy these past weeks. I am also planning on going for a coffee at Granville Island and reading my book, as well as doing some research on:

a) building a website for myself to showcase my photography
b) continuing education classes
c) flights home to see Neil Young in Detroit with my baby brother (oh, and visit the folks!)

Have a happy day!

From four wheels to two...

Well howdy y'all!

Good news on the transportation front: I have sold my truck! I've been quietly trying to sell it for a little while now, not really putting too much effort into it, but someone has finally decided to take it off my hands. This means, of course, that I can now reduce my carbon footprint and INCREASE my "good times" footprint and invest in a scooter! In celebration of this I went scooter shopping yesterday and am pretty sure I found the one that suits me. I won't jinx anything yet by posting a photo, but I'm sure that it'll be coming shortly...

Instead, I will post a photo of my newest tattoo, which gets me one step closer to finishing my sleeve. The mountains are the latest addition. The next sitting is early November, where the background mountains are due to be shaded, but this is definitely something that I'm taking my time with, so I don't mind the wait. Besides, it helps in paying off the Visa-man!

The Science Of Sleep.

See this movie. It's weird, beautiful, will blow your mind, make you sad, confuse you, scare you, make you wish you weren't watching it, make you want to watch it again....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354899/

A second summer is going on in Vancouver right now, with temperatures expected to top 28celcius tomorrow. Abso-bloody-lutely fantastic! Break out the sunscreen!