Back online

After having my own webpage for a year I figured "What the hell, this is pointless"

Firstly, it was quite a bit of work that I didn't have time for amongst real paying work and having fun. Secondly, writing for that website was never as fun as it had been for this blogpage.

So with that, I'm back. :D

The End

Well I've finally gotten my new website up and running, and to that effect, I'm going to shelf this one into the inactive category.

The new one takes something more of a professional flare on things, and is more aimed at showcasing things than allowing itself to be a venting ground.

So with that, that's it :)

P.S. You can see the new site here. CLICK! :)

We Did IT

We did it! We have a new place to live!

It's been a pretty huge little while and now, all the stress with relocation (save the act itself) is finally over and done with.

In something that I've always been envious of, J's incredible ability to interview flawlessly carried her from the start of a job hunt to an incredible renewable energy job in the heart of Calgary in the span of 10 days.

Left hanging with my mouth open in envy, we entered into negotiations to retire Bachelor C. 

5 days later, in something of a fluke, but masterfully executed "refresh" of craigslist at 11:30pm, the perfect house listing showed up. We scrambled, J and Myself to e-mail the landlord.

By 4pm the next day we had a beautiful condo in one of the most coveted places in Calgary to live. Our e-mail of request was sent a mere 3 minutes after the posting had first appeared to the viscous housing market that is C-town.

The stress of doing all of this ground work has suddenly been replaced with an unbelievable sense of awe and shock. Everything actually came together. All of my contingency planning and worrying about "what if" this or that didn't shape up is suddenly gone.

I actually feel like a tremendous weight has been lifted from my shoulders.

Now to actually move.

:D

I've been home one day and I'm beginning to feel as if I'm working at the CF call center. 

Every call I take is from my "relocation experts" or my moving company at my destination, or their local affiliate, or the concerige at my apartment, or the furniture store, or the real estate agents, or....

you get the idea.

I made a couple of calls when I returned, and perhaps erroneously mentioned that I was ready to start planning moving. Now suddenly there is a surge of momentum pushing and pulling, vying for spots on my calendar. I'm moving on this date, getting inspected here, packing on this date...

I'm not even in the same province as all this stuff anymore. Now I'm booking plane tickets and aiding the search for a landing zone in calgary.

Christ... the change of pace from vacation is certainly unwelcome.

At least it is happening here at home. :)

Vacation is over!

It's sad but it's true. Summer is here and I'm not really in the shape I'd want to be in, however I'm a graduate.  Today was my first full day home and luckily (and strangely) it was absolutely gorgeous. So I figured why not go for a run.

I just signed up for the legendary Tely 10 road race. This is my first time and with that thought fresh in my mind (that I wanted to avoid complete and utter embarrassment) I pushed myself today on a run.

You can imagine my shock and dismay when I got home and googled it up. 4.5 miles.

Not bad for a first time. now the time, 45 minutes wasn't anything to brag about, but the fact that I outran my dogs the entire was was something to feel good about.

Time to go stretch... the stiffness is already setting in.

There's a problem.

I've gone ahead and made a tremendous investment, one that puts me at the very frontier of what I'm capable of. Unfortunately, after the initial excitement faded, the reality of things rushed in to fill the space.

The group which I have invested with is great, except for one, small, yet bold exception... and you see, it's one of these things where I've been "Trying to sleep on it." But, I've been waking up feeling worse about it.

As a result, my disdain has been slowing growing, becoming ever harder to keep contained.

I'd be lying if I said I haven't been considering an all out withdrawal from the entire thing. I suppose, "good ol' " me would have done that, not really caring about anything other than himself and his closet friends.

But then again, very few things/people/ideas bother me to the very core like this particular disagreement.

Maybe I'll nap on it this afternoon.
Either way, I suppose I should buckle up, it is definately going to be a bumpy ride.

*F--k Sh-T pi**!!!

I'm sitting in my home office blankly staring at a pile of journal articles I need to read so I can start in on my 20% biomechanical engineering term paper.

But as you can imagine, "Stent design for arterioplasty" is about as fun to right about as it is to read/talk about.

So in the midst of procrastinating, I happened to glance up from my game of desk top tower defense and out the window.

It took a second for it to set in. At first I thought it was a huge fire at the oil refinery across the harbor... then I thought it was mars? but that was impossible, it was massive. A blimp maybe? nope. The moon, for whatever astronomical reason hung low and huge in the ski with a color I've never seen before, it was a deep dark blood red.

I ran through the house trying to find a camera. After 5 minutes of bumbling around, I managed to find a point-and shoot olympus, but as one can imagine it's not all that well suited to night photography. It took 10 or so shots to get this one... and unfortunately it's the best one I have. The image stabilization just couldn't facilitate a longer exposure and I don't have a tripod.

either way, pretty cool

One of the side effects of my ambitious plan for the next couple of years is that Holidays away (far away) from home are going to be more common.

Easter away from home, friends and family sucks. I can't really imagine what Christmas is going to be like. I suppose in the future I'll have the comfort that I won't be busy with school work, I'll just be an infeasible distance away to travel for the weekend.

At least on the bright side, I still woke up this morning to an Easter Egg hunt and warm, beautiful smiles. It helps to take the edge off the fact that I need to head to the library now.

All in all, from what started off as a weekend with me being homesick has sort of blossomed into one of the better long weekends I've had in a really long time :)

Here's to the tradition of keeping good friday night free from memory.