I've been away.

Hi all, (3 of you who read this :)

Wednesday and its raining outside.. a balmy 14c and I'm sitting here with the fans blowing, love it.

Well I'm not sure if you know but last week I had some surgery, a Left Inguinal Herniography - Laproscopic. It went well can't say anything really too bad and a nice perk is that I get a few weeks off work. Everything went well and I'm moving around now although Jenn is on my case if I try to make her dinner or tidy up... This is what being a king is like right?

I thought I'd dust off this little blog of mine to see if I want to keep it going, I think the main problem is as I sit here surrounded by high speed internet and cool technology I just don't have that much to write about - which of course matches with the army of bloggers out there.

I did manage to stumble onto a few very cool links these days, for example Google has released a new update to Google Earth and the Picasa Web Albums. I have been playing around with both and they are fantastic.

I've already used them to post a couple of photo albums online which you can see here.

I really need find my camera and put some batteries in it. Exactly 1 week ago I was in a boat with my Grandad fishing up at Campbell Lake and we landed a couple nice 2lb rainbows. Of all the days recently its definately been a highlight.

Hmm.. what else is new - Not a whole lot but my buddy over in england just released his newest slackware distro MyahOS 2.1SE which is really quite great, go check it out.

Oh heres a little something to keep you occupied, 4 Second Fury heh, its a great little flash game, I finished it in 117 seconds... I'm sure you can roll me in it.

Well that was quick and dirty, I'll pick this up shortly.

Oh there was a long post in here that I really let things fly on, the comments I got back were generally ' wow thats depressing ' etc. Dad called and asked me to remove the picture of him and his long ago girlfriend who aparently went off to join the army. Its too bad dad, I think its a great picture.

If you need a laugh at work

Check out this website - Erics conveys an emotion

Simply one of the funniest things I've seen on the net in awhile.

Interesting Internet Tidbits of the Day

So I figure for all 3 of you who are reading this I would float around the net for you and show a few links of the day that I have been checking out.

So far, the top 5

1: Titanic: Two The Surface - Coming this summer, don't miss it!
2: A switchers guide to leaving Windows.
3: Playing Divx movies on your XBOX 360 Howto.
4: Fantastic DVD/Divx player deal.
5: Tweak your XP to load the Kernel into Ram.

Sent the dog out to get some links

Tweaking portable Firefox
Elenas adventures in wolf country
Polyphasic sleep experiment ends
Mac Mini Media Center Project
Portable VLC Mediaplayer released 

The life of a cat.

Relationships, Who needs em.

So its late here. I'm watching some commercial about tag body spray on the tv. A guy is walking down the street and all these women are chasing him and smelling him. Is that all it really takes? The Tag marketing department would have us think so.

In reality just within the last year 4 of my good friends have seperated from their long term relationships. Only one of them was voluntary, meaning she left him. But why is it this way? Why do people stay within these relationships that just arn't working? The way I see it, there are nearly 6.2 Billion people on this planet, if its not working - move on. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and simply move on. Are you sure you're with the right person? Are you SURE there is not a better more perfect fit out there for you? If you're not happy, and you're constantly bickering over the most basic, simple things I have to tell you, in my experience its simply not worth the trouble.

Why you ask? Well its just going to get worse, and worse and worse, and suddenly something has to give. Why let it go that far? Are you really focussed on saving a broken relationship that you cannot let go? It doesn't work, just make a clean break, remember the good times together and move on.

There is someone out there who is perfect for you, maybe not on your street, in your town or in your own country. Just keep an eye out, for the perfect person you want to spend the rest of your life with will fall into your lap.

Life is just too short to bicker. As a friend of mine, one who's recently moving onwards to better things has just messaged me " ...well, the most important relationship you can have is with yourself " - I believe that.

The empty campsite.

Hyas Lake B.C.

Welcome to British Columbia, heres a nice little place that I'll be spending my summers at. Once I get here I'll have to be surgically removed in order to go back to work. I plan on being here as much as possible, so for all the friends out there who are reading this, you're welcome to come and join me. Any takers?


Peace.......

So while I figure this out........

I might as well start off by running through a bit of history, who I am, where I came from, where I might be going..

Lets go all the way back..

I don't think my parents ever liked each other very much, I have exactly one photo of them together and they're about as far from each other in the photo as is possible. And there I am, sitting in the middle of the beach in Campbell River, B.C. playing with rocks.

When I was about 5 I think they finally had enough of each other and decided to pack it in. Well, I don't think my mom informed my dad of her decision as one day my sister and I were scooped from school and heading south towards the border.

Dad managed to find me by tracing the credit card bills she was ringing up, I'm not quite sure what happened during the 3 years we were all ' on the run ' as it were, but when I turned 8 my dad turned up to get me.

I stayed with my dad until I was 15, during this time he met someone in Calgary, and after several years of hiding information from her they got married. The children of course started to show shortly after. From this I have 2 younger sisters and a younger brother, 3 kids, - plus me, as you can imagine the house was getting kind of full.

When I was 15, actually on my 15th birthday my mom discovered where I was. She showed up at exactly the right time. Keep in mind I hadn't seen her for about 7 years but she was always on my mind. Your mom isn't something that you forget easily right? So with 3 kids in the house, a dad who worked all the time, boredom of school and a step mother who I didn't get along with as I say, mom came along at the right time.

Mom had found me, the story goes she convinced the Calgary school board to let her know where I was, and I was brought into the principals office where we met.

3 months later, I told my dad I made a decision to leave, that I was going to move to Whiterock. He made no effort to stop me, instead he watched me pack, and drove me to the Via Rail station where I boarded a train, and a day later Alberta was a memory.

My dad is great, don't get me wrong at all, I know very little about him and I havn't really seen him very much in the last 18 years but he's still going and as strong as ever. I've noticed in writing and talking to him that we're almost the same person. Our personalities are nearly one and the same, I have his strengths and weaknesses, we write the same, we talk the same, we're both storytellers, neither of us have a very strong sense of family.

This man, my dad, who I don't even really know all that well, He is me.

Well here I am.

Hey all,

I fought this for a long time, but I think its time I put a little peice of myself onto the internet. I'm on here almost all day long everyday anyways so why not carve out a little peice of it for myself? I know there are oh, what.. something in the order of 1/2 million blogs already? All I can hope for then is to be lost in the fog somewhere.

This little peice of nothing I have here will soon be a place I can host up some photos. A few shots around Kamloops and B.C. and maybe just a small insight into what I do on a daily basis. This blog is going to be open, I've never had a journal before, so expect a no holds barred bit of weekly information.