Skication because January is Cheap Skiing Month

Well since I am unemployed, bored, and still have money in the bank, I have decided to head over to the mighty rocky mountains and start skiing. I started circling mountains thinking that I would hit every mountain in British Columbia. I started planning my first loop of about 14 days (as I have a wedding to go to on the 15 of January) involving 6 mountains, 2000km's, and a lot of energy. I found some specials online and I quickly sent my credit card number flying across the province snatching up those deals I couldn't pass up. I found a lot of deal in January for ski and stay for the price of the lift ticket. My current list for the first 2 weeks are:
-Revelstoke Mountain Resort, 1 day
-Silverstar Mountain, 2 days
-Big White Resort, 2 days
-Sun Peaks, 2 days
-Whistler (maybe)
-Marmot Basin, 2 days

I am also working on second trip starting the 17 of January running to the 28 (which is when I need to be back in Edmonton for a concert) involving Panarama, Fernie, Kicking Horse, Castle Mountain, lake Louise and Apex Mountains. I will update this blog every time I finish skiing a mountain, so keep an eye on this blog.

I will put up a blog about each mountain after I ski it.

The 3 Month Report

Well I meant to do this a little over 2 months ago, but well I've been kind of busy these last 3 months working, farming, moving into my own place, catching up with old friends, and several thousand other things. So now I will finally get something up even though I am even busier than I was last month. But I somehow managed to sit down for a few minutes and my mind fell into a zone in between complete exhaustion and a feeling of contempt. It was in this zone that my mind stumbled into a blogging format and thus I sit in front of you now. First I should mention my work, I am actually enjoying my job way better than my last one, I love being in the field, and most importantly I love working with my new boss. To put this bluntly, he isn't an asshole, there is no better way to put it. Other than that work has been steady, busy, and well, good. Thus it has been one of the many reasons why I haven't been blogging a whole lot, when I am busy and not pissed off I don't really blog. Anouther reason I haven't been blogging is I have been out of the house a lot, it was during one of these nights that I ran up to Edmonton to take part in the Edmonton Fringe, a night of laughter, joy wild entertainment and live theater that left me smiling the entire drive home. It was at the tail end of the drive, shortly after 1:30 in the morning, that a thick fog rolled in around me. It was then when I was nearing exhaustion, still in a state of euphoria that the issues that had been clogging my mind came clear as I passed through the fog. I stopped on the deserted road to view into the mist, only me a world outside covered in fog, and a clear mind.

Hopefully my next blog will be sooner than 3 months, but i promise nothing, fall harvest is fast approaching and spare time and I seem to be having a long distance relationship right now.

My New Office

Well I have now been back on the continent for over a month and a half now and this blog is extremely happy I am back, because now it get's the attention that it's world surfing brother has gotten for the last 7 months, not that blogs can be jealous or anything. This time back home has been rather confusing as that the time I had while traveling was wonderful and rather hard to beat. I changed and was fully extracted from under the cloud that shadowed me when I was working at my last job. I am glad to be out of there. For the last month I have been back at home on the farm helping with spring seeding and then at the end of May I walked into the office of a surveying company that started up in my home town. I was hired and for the past 3 weeks I have been working for them. I like working here more (so far) than up in the city for my last job. I like my new boss way more to, as he is way more flexible to. This should help greatly when it comes time to take time off for farming, or my next trip, though this one might be a bit shorter. I have kind of settled back into my old ways, but I have been able to maintain some of the new characteristics that I stumbled across while dancing down under. It is still strange though being home after so long, kind of like coming back to an old memory and finding nothing has changed but the eyes that view it. Anyway I am blogging today because it is kind of a quiet day in the office, I am setting up the new computer (long boring story that had me on the phone for an entire hour, and talking to people in Canada, America, and then finally India before telling me I was boned. Ii decided to call it a day and went to go looking for a stiff drink. Today I finally fixed the problem and worked on finishing installing all the other crap that needs to go on here, and I couldn't resist sending a blog from my new office laptop. By the way my new office

and my other part of the job.

Well that is all for now, the future will tell what this job will do, but until then I will keep you posted.

Last Day

Well all last days should be epic, you should remember them well, and more importantly you should make everyone that you leave behind remember you as well, preferably in the good sense. Currently I am stuck as to what I should do. I am currently removing everything from my computer that I want, and I have to go through google earth as well, that might take a while. I have a couple of magazines to read as well as some leftover clean up to do, that will take me about 1/2 an hour. There is something strange about your last day, and I think what makes this day so strange is that I know that it is over, I have energy like I have never had before, I am happy. Happy enough that I might sing Waltzing Matilda in front of the secretary, that would leave a lasting memory that is for sure.

Well that is it for this blog for now, if you need to find me you can do so here

Or here: http://theofficeblog-awayfromtheoffice.blogspot.com/

Days Left:

What am I doing right now : singing Waltzing Matilda

Titleless

Well today the 2 day count down began, and ended. It is kind of strange, knowing that you have less than 16 hours left to spend in your office. Only 16 hours of work to do, most of which will be spent cleaning out your junk adorning your office, and tidying up, organizing your office and wiping the hard drive of your computer of anything that should not be left beind. Well, with 1 day left to go, I think there is only one thing left to say.

Well This is just about it.

Days Left: 1

Smelly feet and hot women

Today I had my last doctors appointment, it was to get a second pair of orthodics for my shoes. But today was special, for the second time I was seen by the doctor and her rather young and good looking student. I met the student the first day she was there and I just found out that I was her first patient she ever saw, I do feel special today. Well we started talking about stuff and my new trip to Australia. She became rather envious and mentioned her trip to Europe last year. It was interesting what she said though about her favorite country, she loved Austria the most because it felt like home. The strange thing is, my favorite country was also Austria, because of that exact same reason. I was about to make an attempt on hitting on her, when I came back to where I was. She was currently very close to my bare feet and at that exact instant I also became painfully aware of the fact that I have foot odor. I am not sure if anyone has ever tried to hit on someone while they are playing with your smelly feet, but I decided not to be the first to try. Though sadly now I wish I had nothing ventured nothing gained. Ah well.

Days Left 2

Oh Pedal Power, How I Will Miss You

So this morning I woke up this morning missing my travel companion, after abandoning him at my brothers last night. That is right, I dropped my bicycle off at my brothers place for the next 6 months. Yes, that bike and I go way back, to the days when I was a kid and bike was hanging in my dad's shop unused and abandoned. I rescued it from it's place of sorrow, and after some oil, labor, and new tires we went for our first ride. It was wonderful, we cruised over hills, through the fields of barley, wheat, canola and hay. It was all great, until I realized I didn't tighten the nut on the front wheel. Of course I won't bore you with the details of those exact circumstances of the before mentioned realization. For example I won't mention how the wheel came off after I hit a little bump, or how the forks on the front dug into the ground and came to a sudden and absolute stop. I will remain silent about how I became airborne, and most definitely won't discuss the extravagant landing. Needless to say I limped home bike in tow. It was upon my arrival in Edmonton that the bike became my best travel partner. Every day that I went to work it came with me, though my car did not like this, but at 14 buck a day to park down town I could afford the pedal power. We covered many a happy mile together, and many an unhappy one to, but we did it together. So for our last time I took him out on the town, literally, from Yellowhead to Whyte ave we did rome, me drunk, and him steering, and that may have been why we ran into that hedge just past 118th ave. But it was a wonderful ride, through the Legislature grounds and across the high level bridge, all the lights of the city twinkling in the cool night air. For a last ride it was a wonderful run, one both of us will cherish.

I will miss you old friend, you were my wheels, and I your engine.
Days Left:3
Missing my bike