So my life has flipped upside down lately… well not lately…
but it sure as hell feels like it!!!
After my last post a lot has changed. Separated from my wife… yup. Big surprise for me too. I am not here to rant or vent so there will be none of that. But it is sad you know. almost 8 years with someone and then nothing. It is amazing how much you reflect on something after it is said and done. The fun times shared and the laughs and the tears and the anger and frustration. It all seems almost meaningless now. I mean, not the good bits, the fights over everything and nothing. The stupid fights that really shouldn’t have been fights at all. It all seems kinda pointless when you look back on it.
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GP
Shout out to the homies!
Just a short note to say that I am still here. Work is wrapping up within the next few weeks, I will be heading home to my wife and fish… though apparently there are a few less fish than there were before. Maybe its now time for a gerbil or hamster or guinea pig or something. I like the idea of a little dude running around for me to play with. I will name him Mortimer.
Shout out to the fresh crew!
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GP
Work and life…
I have been working in my old home town now for the last few months. It is sort of ironic actually - my wife and I moved to Vancouver last year and after 10 months, I have been sent back to Edmonton for 6 months to work on a construction job.
I love this type of work, I am outside all the time, I am not stuck in front of my computer all day long, I find that I learn so much more working in the field than I do working in the office.
The only thing that really sucks is that I only get to see my wife every two to three weeks. That totally sucks! I only hope that this does not start to have an adverse effect on the two of us. We are a happy couple with no major issues between us, it really shouldn’t be that much of an issue. It just is a little sad for me, I miss my wife, we have a really great thing going and I don’t want to screw it up. We are pretty much joined at the hip when we are not working and to have been spending so much time apart lately - it feels like something is missing in my life… my wife.
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GP
What the hell are we doing?
Burnaby Oil Spill Story and Video.
So, last week a high pressure oil pipeline in Burnaby, BC was hit by a utility contractor. Hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil were spewed into the streets and over peoples houses.
This event illustrates the need for all of us to make a more diligent effort to eliminate, not reduce but eliminate our dependence on oil and its byproducts.
How many times must we witness tragedies like this? The Exxon Valdez spill back in 1989, the spill at Lake Wabamun in Alberta last year, countless other tanker spills that occur every year. How many times must we do this to ourselves before someone finally clues in to the fact that we are just killing ourselves and the environment we live in?
I can only hope that because this spill has hit a little closer to home - literally - for people that there will be more pressure to make some sort of changes.
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GP
Somone poked me on Facebook…
OK I submit!! Facebook your grasp is too strong! Your ability to connect me to people from my past whom otherwise I would likely never see again is much to tempting for this nerdling.
Seriously… whats up with this Facebook thing? It’s like “oh I see that so and so wrote me a message… maybe I should log on and write something on thier wall!” Honestly, if anyonw had managed to package heroin and sell it on the net this facebook thing must come a close second.
I actually have to stop myself from logging on. Does that make me pathetic? Probably. Meh… what are ya gonna do.
Stop poking me, my cyber ribs are hurting.
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GP