Kamehameha III

Kona, Hawaii. Such a beautiful place to be. Sitting on my patio listening to the first Jack's Mannequin album, thinking on how well it goes with the ocean atmosphere. Life is good. Today is a day of relaxing after a 15 hour day yesterday with many hikes up waterfalls and to volcanoes it is a good day to just watch the storm creep in from Hilo. It's amazing on how such a small island can have such diverse climates depending on weather you are east or west, south to north. No idea what to write. Being near a lava spill into the ocean, hearing the waves crash against the island edge and seeing the stars light up like never before. Such a great moment. Always push on even when others turn back. You never know what you might discover about yourself and where you are headed.

High tides and further spirits.

It's hard to learn until you lose. Regardless of what it is, sports, life, love. To realize that you cannot go back. That person is never coming around. The sun has set and the past is settled. Regrets can kill. In this over connected digital world does anyone still want privacy? The new mechanisms for raising children, the death of somewhere, the birth of someone. Making everything public to anyone at anytime. It's a wonder that anyone maintains some sort of sanity. Where are minds were once filled with clandestine thoughts now we are programmed to be concerned with people who would of normally fallen out of our lives. At what point do you release your grip and let go of this struggling world. Releasing the digital world and starting back in the analog glory days.

step 1. Remove all networking devices from phone.

Step 2. Realize the irony of keeping a blog

Montego Bay

So I probably should be writing more considering I have been in school for the last 7 weeks however I just did not have the writing vibes. Only 5 more days in Grande Prairie then I am on the road to Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Montego Bay, Fox Creek, Kelowna and Revelstoke only to end up back in Grande Prairie for Jan 3rd. One more session of school up in Grande Prairie, then good bye. Ideally its back to Kelowna and working up north in ft mac. Oh and maybe a little Hawaii trip with my family in March too. Jumping back to present tense for a second though. I have been trying to gain weight, eating more than I usually do and its not easy. New supplements as well have turned my night life into hell. Apparently my body needs to adjust to the amount of creatine in it? Not that my night life has been exciting before, nor will it be exciting if I figure out what is causing this. In any case in the time I have written my last blog I have attempted to date and failed miserably, Its just not easy living up here. Maybe one day I will be able to get out there and have a normal lifestyle. Experience the 51% of females I can assume make up part of the 7 billion people we have on this earth. For now though, I am just as comfortable alone as I have ever been. Its how it is and always has been. Of course when I say alone I mean a sufficient amount of friends to get by with. They keep me level and always let me know there is love out there coming my way. Despite my lack of being able to express myself it is always appreciate.



Anyways I need to go understand electricity...

In Death and Life

If you value life never waste time, for time is what life is made up of. I read this the other day and could not agree more. So many things in this world I take for granted when in reality I should just appreciate them more. The human body is the greatest thing to appreciate, without it you would be lost but with it you can become all powerful. Yet some people still believe that filling it fill of toxins and not keeping it in top shape is the best way to live their life. What benefit is there to ruining the only body you will ever have. I guarantee that anyone who purchases a fancy sports car goes out of their way to give it he proper maintenance and fuel it requires. Why then, does the body that you are given, not get the same attention? Afterall it was your body that allowed you to work enough to get this sports car. It was your body that allows you to get to the fast food place and eat junk food. Without it you would be nothing, with it your potential is unlimited.

Think about it

This is northern electrician worker 1452 signing out

And when the sun breaks...

And on my last day off the sun comes out! How beautiful. I cannot understand how customer service skills still evade some companies. If a repair on a vehicle is estimated to take two hours and it takes 4 times as long as quoted and there was not any complications, it just doesn't make sense. If something is going to take longer than quoted please call and inform the person waiting for the vehicle. Also despite what you may believe when someone leaves you a message asking you to return their call you should return that call. /endrant

Hale storm? Maelstrom?

Oh how depressing my writing is sometimes. Despite what I may write I am not at all in a sour/foul/depressed state. There is no other place in this world I need to be right now than where I am, otherwise I would not be here. Every action and choice I make is my own conscience decision. Nothing in this life just happens. Somehow, at some state, you are aware of what you are doing. There is no sense playing the victim, I just write to write. Sure sometimes I think back to my training days in Kelowna, the good times working at lululemon with some amazing girls and guys, I remember the joy and entertainment that was limitless. However, I know that the future holds much much more of this, and I am aware that the options in Kelowna are limited. With knowing this and after a couple setbacks I made the decision to move up here, I also made the decision to get out of sales and training. I also made the decision to travel and work and live the life that I live. I write so that others may understand the options available. That despite how rundown you may feel, or how "stuck" you are, you aren't. Nothing in this world can hold you down if you don't want it to. Friends will always be friends and family will always be family. A friend lost was never a friend had.

Anyways as I write this I am drinking a beer in the dark enjoying the storm, listening to "at the birds foot (vocal)" by Dallas Green (City & Color... get it?) I suggest you do the same...


This is July 8th, at the wake of the storm

Right above it

As I sit in the broken down apartment Billy and I are renting presently I can't help but appreciate more and more. Making the decision not to get internet, have cable and to continue to live in a place that daily gets worse and worse it really makes you open your eyes. Before this apartment I would take clean water for granted, now I appreciate my water when it is slightly brown, odourless and clear. Being in complete contact with everyone all the time was just the norm, now I am thrilled if a 5 minute call doesn't drop or fade in and out. Between the pealing paint, holes in walls, bugs showing up in unwanted spots and knives that were pre "hotted" I get more and more excited for my time in not only Grande Prairie but Kelowna as well. I could not miss longboarding to the beach, watching movies, doing yoga, or any recreational activity that is not work. Now all I have is this computer and the gym to keep me sane. There truly is nothing better then spending time with people who you can just be around. Nothing has to be said or done and people don't even have to move and you can just appreciate their presence. Or they can ask you to do ridiculous things with less than a moments pause for you to agree to whatever idea they just came up with.

The things I miss…


And each and every time I return to these places and hang out with those people it makes it harder and harder to return to "Vegas". Its all for the dollar. Its all for my future. This future where I build relationships over technology and not over good old fashion coffee dates, or walks along the beach. This dollar seems like it loses its worth every time I write. To sacrifice so much for a number, a digital increment that all in all means nothing. It will do nothing for me, yet I feel as if I must complete this journey… questing to finish my "five year". The countdown to better things in life.

Another endlessly sunny evening, sometime in June, from somewhere north of where I want my life to be.