| | Cancun Mexico | PermaLink - Mar 9, 2006
I´ve been in mexico for approximately 5 days now. I ran into my mate Josh first thing in the aeropeurto going through Customs. Customs was heaps of hassle, but luckily i made it through the stop light without getting searched. After haggling over some tickets on a shuttle to our hotel we arrived at Club Carrousel. Our room took over an hour to get ready. Pretty average. They put us on the front side of the hotel facing the road, in this super ghetto room. Pictures. Yep.. just yesterday we were moved to another room on the backside because the plumbing was broken. Josh. shh. Cancun has been as I expected, and it´s all been quite rushed. Food is two and half stars worth. I think I broke my toe or something playing pick up soccer the other day. what was i doing playing soccer, with my stomach. good question.. ecafes and running out of time Al - I´m running out of sunscreen. I´ll see you at the airport | | I do not know the exact reasons | PermaLink - Mar 3, 2006
In the most random of ways, I started this day. If you've been following at all, you've probably already calculated out the dates, and are realizing just at this moment that I will be heading to Cancun tomorrow morning. I woke up earlier then usual today, which is giving me one of my first opportunities to journal about events that happen in the morning hours. Despite my strength online this morning, I failed at my first attempt, and as a result I will be putting $10 in the L Jar when I get back to Canada. I've had this happen a few times now: After a shower, or cleaning my ears or something of the sort, I will wind up losing partial hearing in one or both of my ears. Today is definitely the worst it's ever been. I would say that my left ear is hearing about 35% and my right ear 75%. I'm actually having a really hard time hearing people, and have had my fair share of frights walking around town. One thing that I'm finding really unusual about this, is that generally when you your hearing is weak, you talk louder as to over compensate for not being able to hear yourself talk. I've been the opposite, and have had to repeat myself 3 or 4 times to people. Despite these hassles, it's actually been comforting to be blocked out from alot of the noise in our world. Melissa Etheridge last night was actually quite choice. We arrived about 20 mins before the show was meant to start. I was wondering what was going on because the stadium was empty. It would have been embarrassing for Melissa to come out and have only a few hundred people in the stands. Come to think about it, embarrassing for those few hundred people as well. At show start though, their was a number of rodeo events. Calgary stampede and Cochrane didn't make me feel wet behind the ears with the rodeo, but it was the first time in my life that I'd actually seen with my naked eyes bull riding, calf scrambles and the like. I was stunned to see some of it. I cannot wrap my head around people riding those crazy two ton bulls. It must be extremely hard on the back/neck,etc., let alone the guy that we saw get stepped on. I can't say I was into it, although their was a cute girl doing handstands on a horse at the end. During the Rodeo the stadium did fill, and Melissa came on. She has Roxette style hair at the moment, as she lost it all with breast cancer. She played a couple of her biggest songs right of the go, and then she did a quick tribute to Sheryl Crow. Sheryl Crow's breast cancer was caught early enough, and she is recovering really well(just in case your curious). She isn't even going to lose her hair. She then played a couple more of her songs; before saying: "In case anyone is unsure: I'm not Sheryl Crow!". She then started to play a few of Sheryl Crow's biggest songs. Covers. It was brilliant! If you asked Al, he would wager that she might have even covered them better then Sheryl did the originals. Talented that Etheridge. It's a good thing her show ended when it did, because my leg was starting to get heavy, and I was going to have to ask her to get off of it soon. I haven't read a novel since I read "Lovelock", and that was more than 5 years ago. I'm reading "The perfect mile". It's hard for me to say whether it's the book that I'm into or whether it's the relaxing bronzing in the backyard by the now running waterfall. There has been a fair share of white jokes going around, especially with Cancun coming up. Al, has been reminding me to check the baggage limits with the airline, because all of the sunscreen that I'm going to need. I'd say I'm holding a respectable amount of color from the last few days; but that depends largely on who I'm standing next to. Al left this morning for Oklahoma City where he is attending a black tie dinner with Hugh Heffner, and my mom. Without guidance for dinner tonight, I started walking down Westhiemer. Un-decisive with myself, I kept walking, and next thing I find myself in the middle of town. You would have seen me looking over my shoulder every couple minutes, as I started feeling a little bit dodgy because of my hearing. Random that, but I decided not to make a big deal about it, and I strolled on: to Farago's. I was hoping for the interesting waitress, whose name I forgot; instead I sat at the bar, and enjoyed a jerk pizza and a couple Stella's, while watching some football (and if you didn't grace New Zealand in 99, or have a talk with Haley tonight - I'm talking about Soccer). Leaving Farrago's, with a full stomach and a fair walk ahead of me, I was happy to have Stella tagging along. After a 'brief' stop at the Aloha Modeling studio, I continued on home, and am now in the midst of laundry and the rest of the preparations for tomorrow. I have yet to tell you about my visit to Nasa, and the last day of house shopping among others, but. It's getting late and I still have to find my leopard skin thong, and pack my bag. - I'm kidding about the Aloha stop, and that concludes the thoughts of the day from the younger one. | | Destination Mexico | PermaLink - Mar 2, 2006
Increasingly Readable journals that follow a decreasingly readable lifestyle. Then TapestryCalgary decides to launch this blog, and rather then being behind the scenes, like usual, I'm completely exposed on the front side. I love it. The blog part. Actually maybe even the exposed part.? If you are looking for a detailed and now readable explanation of the last few days of my life in Houston, Texas, you have, without any doubt, come to the right place. I could tell you about things like water pumps, Home Depot, and accidents, but instead I'm going to move right along to the meals that I've polished in the last 36 hours. Each night, has proved to be equally interesting. I'm not sure whether it's just the people I'm with, or Texas in general, but eating dinner at 8-9pm is not unusual. When you work nights and sleep in until noon, this is a big bonus, especially when your host is generous and will bend until sometimes as late as midnight. Now that gives a new meaning to flexibility, and often times finding a restaurant open at midnight requires extreme flexibility. That sounds an awful lot like Monday night, when we went to a random greek diner. Actually to tell you the truth I'm not sure whether it was Monday or Saturday, but it was a day that ended in "day". Ricies. Now I only made myself present for a few years in the 80's but apparently there was a saturday night live skit, involving a greek diner, and involving "cheeseburger, cheeseburger", and "No Substitutions". Actually it was probably 90's, but: If you missed the 80's as I did, and don't remember much of the 90's as I do, you might, still have found it funny had you been their and had a chance to read the menu. Yeah, really funny, Ryan you monkey. The last couple of days have been very settling has far as adjusting to the Texan lifestyle, or rather that of Al Amado; but none the less good. Waking up at noon or so, I find myself eating a bowl of cereal with some strawberries, and checking email and stats,etc. If the whether is nice I'm oustide bronzing while reading "The perfect mile". My dad was right about that book, it is bawling. and then it is shower, and time for lunch, nearing about 3-3:30. If clouds have their apperance well then I do more email and stats, until it's shower and lunch time all the same. After lunch is typically errands and touring, maybe even some more work, until dinner makes an appearance at 8 or 9. I normally have a pretty good say at lunch, but Al's priority seating at dinner is hard to compete with. A few restaurants that have been more than generous with accomodating canadians for dinner are: La Griglia, Hugo's, Farrago's and even Mo Mong. After dinner is normally something like Zimm's, and then back to Howard street. Work until about 3, no less than 9 hrs of sleep, and it starts again. Today in the afternoon I did some running around with Al for Water Pumps to fix that "maintenance free" waterfall in his backyard. It wasn't quite as exciting as the Audi A3 & A4 testdriving that we did yesterday; And neither of those were as exciting as me test driving the Mini Cooper S tonight after dinner. Test Drive.. So that's what they call it these days. Either way, thanks Karen, your car is bawling, and you can feel free to let me drive it anytime you want. I'm still looking forward to Al and I test driving the SLK when I return from Cancun. "Unpractical" - whoever invented that word is going to be rich off royalties by the end of my stay. Al ran into some terribly, and from what I can think of unavoidable bad luck tonight while I was sorting out how to get that Cooper S into reverse. Their will be some phone calls made tomorrow,etc. but at the end of the day, actually the start of the next day, their is heaps of worse things that can happen in this world. Journaling right now reminds me of journaling in Panama, after making a quick swap with the other for Cosmos. Then there is Californication, and the fact that it is actually cool at 1:52 in the am. I'm hugely into it. That is: the winters in Houston. They're going to be all the rage in Canada in a few years, you're just being a little bit slow to catch onto it. The last journal I did talked about the Sheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge ordeal, so I won't break into it, other then to say that it is tomorrow. After some home shopping, in South-Katy(The best rated school district in Houston - (just in case your thinking about raising a family in Houston)), Al and I with guest from Panama,etc will be enjoying the overally friendly crowd at her concert. Thankfully I'm not a female, I'm going to leave my Guess jeans at home, and put some thought into why the whole gay phenomenon is increasing present in the south. I had my run-ins with the whole scene in High School, especially track, but here rather than concealed with ear tickling, people are more than open about it. - jokes Sure be open about it, it's a free country, right? - Guess what kind of jeans I was wearing. Ricies - Just keep your bloody eyes fixed somewhere else than what is, yes, cut off the bias. Symbiosis, the noun, strikes as the word of the day for several meanings. Symbiosis, "the interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both. A mutually beneficial relationship between different people or groups." - It's great. You know it, I know it, your Aunt Edna knows it. Thursday, now 2:04 in the am, and I'm within 3 days of Cancun. Here just give me a second while I try to get a hold of Nolan to spell Random. You know it, I know it, ricies. But what was meant to be a few day bus trip into the mexican interior quickly turned into a week at an all inclusive mexican resort. My arm hurts from being twisted so hard. Meeting my mate Josh in Cancun might seem like the typical thing to do, but given the wife and kid behind, I am caught off-gaurd. Then you realize that I'm talking about him, and not me, and you're still off guard. Wives and kids, I love it Josh. Mo Mong loves it. Melissa Etheridge Love it. OK. ok, now we're getting carried away. Save it. Last night I watched the movie "Philadelphia" with Tom Hanks, Antonio Banderas and Denzel Washington(Al, do you think you could work something for court-side Lakers tickets?). If you haven't seen it, I might recommend it, or you could just google a movie review and catch the story: But, because Philadelphia is a pain to spell, I'll give you my summary/review: Tom Hanks is gay, and gets HIV from his partner Banderas. When Hanks, fired from his job because of the virus, hires Washington(Denzel not George), as a lawyer to represent him, the movie follows the trial. Considering it was filmed in 1993, it's not a bad movies. I felt some scenes were way overshot, like Tom Hanks' Opera solo to an offguard Denzel Washington. but. If you like court/law/trial movies it's a plus. If you like gay rights/HIV movies it's a plus. If you like good acting, or watching big stars act gay - it's a plus. Off course if you dislike any of the previous it's vice-versa. You decide for yourself. After a marathon, that desicion you're left to make reaches at about my bedtime. I jump on it, and it's finished. - Ryan | | Extensions | PermaLink - Feb 24, 2006
February 23
As I diligently finish off some work in the early hours of the morning, I'm hit with, and suddenly it all makes sense. And is about time as well.
The last few days have been really relaxing. I've been getting a good feel for Houston, Enjoying more great meals, and even the increasing temperature.
Last night before one of my friends told me he was going to be in Cancun for a week in Early March, and that his trip plans got messed up, and wanted me to meet him. A week in Cancun really isn't my thing, but because he was counting on me...
First thing when I got up this morning I went online and started making plans and looking into flights/hotels,etc. Al must have come home about 2-3 times, and I was still sitting there with an empty stomach, trying to figure out which flight to book. I'm not sure if Al could see that I was frustrated, or just that he wanted to go out, but he hopped on some travel sites, and 10mins later I had the best fare I'd seen, and my ticket booked.
I'll be travelling March 4-11 in Cancun, which means that I've changed me return ticket to Canada until the 16th. If your my mom and this is how you're finding out, sorry; You could have answered those texts. Which means that I'll be in Houston to see Sheryl Crow before Cancun, and back in time to see Hillary Duff at the Houston Rodeo. Don't be too gelous, you can always surf on over to hilaryduff.com, and get involved in some of the excitement. You can even great deals on Duff Stuff while you're there.
February 24
I've been ricied before, but wasting 2 hours of the day, when I got the date wrong for the meeting with the realtor was high on the list. Aaron Robson, who is attending Rice, was racing in a conference 5k today. The race was at the University of Houston, which has a very nice and interesting campus. We watched the women's 5k before Aaron's, and then stayed to watch the Men's and Women's 800m' semi-finals. Aaron ran a nice evenly paced race, and was in good position with two laps to go. Unfortunately he recieved the wrong information from an official, and started his finishing kick, thinking he only had a lap to go. His last lap was blazing, and would have made any canadian proud, except for the fact that he missed out on a lap of the race. Obviously gutted after the race, knowing that it was both his mistake and that of the officials. I would have given him less slack had it been at 800m's, but 5km indoors is 25 laps, so to miss out on one. That's not so bad?
The men's and women's 8's were as expected. UTEP dominated the rounds, and to my surprise, I overheard the announcer say, and "Nagazina making a move on the back stretch". That sounds an awful lot like Dawn Nagazina from close to home, who is going to school in TULSA. Just like Aaron I tried to make conversation with her afterwards, but she couldn't be stuffed either. Pegs not say hi next time.
February 25
Despite how excited I was to see Sheryl Crow in Houston, apparently I'm not going to. Breast Cancer has had a hold of her, and she just underwent surgery a few days ago. Melissa Etheridge is going to be filling her shoes at the concert. She's no Sheryl Crow, but it is Cancer Ryan, so; not so bad. As if Sheryl cancelling on me wasn't enough; 2 days in a row now for my Spanish lessons. That Monkey. Sorry, Not you Jackson.
Other Apointments.
Two days in a row would have been a bit much, so I called the appointment right with the realtor. In Fact it was bawling. The desicion has already been made. We went around to a few different places. I even cashed in on some of the real estate lingo.
After the showings Al and I stopped for lunch at a soup & salad buffet. Not a bad feed. The afternoon involved lounging, and then there was dinner at "Thai Sticks". I'm in mind those dishes that I had were just prep for meeting up with Josh in Cancun. 6 Days now. Excitement, and then; The End. | | Closing off a week | PermaLink - Feb 20, 2006
Today I ate lunch at a Viatnamese Noodle House called Jenni's. The curry was great, and would give Pho a great run for his money. Now apparently Madonna eats at Jenni's; I asked Jenni if she could tell Madonna to put her legs away the next time that she is in. I frequently eat at Pho.
After lunch Al took me over to a few bus stations to look into gettting to Mexico. Mexico is going to be to Houston what Bocas was to Panama; last minute planning is going to be present - not sure about the roommate this time around though.
Downtown Houston is decent. I'm going to argue and say that for the size of our city,etc that our downtown district is heaps nicer, and maybe even that you'll find the Calgary skyline picking Houston up after school. It's a major project here right now, to re-vitalize the downtown sector, and to attract people into the area. The Houston Toyota Center is an example of a major entertainment venue that recently opened in downtown Houston. I mention it because if you follow basketball at all, the NBA all-star game was held at the Toyota Center last night.
 We stopped in at a really interesting shop, that sold alot of art, and just plain random stuff. That is where I ran into the Jesus Magnets and buttons, along with some other funny stuff, that some people might find questionable so I won't post; (instead I'll bring it back for you as a gift)
My Spanish lesson went well. My teacher, Brigette, is an industrial engineer. She moved from Ecuador 5 years ago, and works for Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift here in Houston. Make sure to keep that in mind the next time you are shopping for a Forklift. Chances are I could score you a deal. (you can thank me later). It's a good thing that the lesson didn't take place in a parkade tonight, otherwise you would have to call me Nolan. We went to a spanish restaurant; my stomach has been interested in learning spanish as well. It was more tex-mex style spanish, if I know enough to make the distinction. It was not bad though; the name is Mi Luna Tapas, in "Rice Village", just in case you're interested the next time that you're in Houston..
If you've considered seeing the new Harrison Ford movie, Firewall, don't. I'll save you the time - It's a bad action flick, and Harrison Ford isn't even cute. If you've already seen it, sorry I wish I could help you get your 90 minutes back.
I'm been moseying around on the local Houston MLS system the last few days. Is Houston going to be the new Panama? It's inevitable that I'm going to see another 3brdm+ house with a swimming pool in my price range, so it might just be.
Tomorrow just arrived and time is closing quickly for Body Worlds and Sheryl Crow. I should run; I still have a bachelor party planner and a real estate agent to contact. Before though; In case you enjoyed the other Jesus button:
There is alot of political jokes here. Recently involving Cheney, but Bush is involved in his fair share.
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Early afternoon today, I went to a political fundraising event for Chris Bell a Democrat running for Texas Governor. Although I felt slightly out of place, I enjoyed myself. Chris Bell is in second place by a fair margin at the last polls, to the current governor Rick Perry. Apparently there is heaps of people that don't like Perry, so the polls could swing in Bell's favor if they speak up. The fundraiser is meant to fuel the campaign for a last good push. Bell gave a speech as well as a Senator that was visiting, whose name is slipping my mind. There were alot of good thoughts from both of them as well as fun at Dick Cheney's expense. Unfortunately I didn't have my video camera for this event, as it would have been interesting to show.
To sum up the rest of the day: Gumbo, Spanish lesson planning, and video editing.
Now, for that video...
The videos are included in the right panel. The events are described in detail on this page, and I am also going to assume that when you see me in front of the Alamo that you will know what is going on, so I won't bother spending time with more explanations. | | El sexto día | PermaLink - Feb 19, 2006
We've coined random few times here, but Saturday definitely iced the top. When I was sleeping I forgot about the morning and joined the day in the afternoon. I met up with Aaron Robson who is attending Rice University. Coincidence that in a city the size of Houston, I am within walking distance of the Rice Campus. Aaron and I spun yawns, and I'm going to watch him race Conference this weekend. Hassle and I ran into eachother in the afternoon when I was trying to edit some video. Don't worry, neither of us were hurt too badly. As a result though I actually lost a bunch of video clips from the last few days of travelling. There is alot worse things that can happen in life. There is a good sized cold front working through Texas right now, and with the added moisture in the air it starts to get pretty nipply pretty quick. It is nothing like the -32 I saw that hit Edmonton a few days back, but still damn cold. I am without complaints as it is winter, and the next few days are going to bring 26 degrees. Dinner reservations at an Italian Restaurant. The restaurant was packed, and I'm not sure if that is any excuse for how loud everyone was talking. Great meal. And then the lounge creeps up. We met up with more friends of Al's, from triathlon training. Alot of nice people, and even a fellow Canadian from Calgary. Canadians were summed as having tiny ears, and looking like Movie stars. Mike, looked similar to ralph fiennes, and I apparently look like an actor from A beautiful mind, (not Russel Crowe). I'm not too sure about the acting bit, but tiny ears sounds alright. You know those situations where someone is talking with someone else, and you catch their attention? They are then paying attention to you, and not to whoever is talking to them. Well there was a short hispanic girl talking to a guy that had his back to me. I looked over and noticed that she was extremely bored in her conversation. After a few really funny smiles, and hand motions, I quickly changed into spandex and saved the day with an interuption. We had a really good talk. I still haven't figured out what to call people from Ecuador, but that is where she if from; Ecuadorian? A breif geography lesson, some confusion with Guatemala, and I was well on my way to French and Spanish Lessons. We were meant to get something to eat after(that appetite of mine...) with a few of her friends, but that didn't work out, and the night reached an end. One is in Texas, one in Soeul, two in Edmonton and the journey continues. | | La Cinq Jour | PermaLink - Feb 17, 2006
I came extremely close to burning my eyebrows off just now, but that is a story of the 5th day, and I still have the 3rd and 4th to polish. I'm only managing about 10-12 hours of sleep a night here, which has me a little bit worried. I've had a few talks with my host, Al, to see if there is anything we can do to make my bed more comfortable or something. An interesting Wednesday night involving Cosmos and interesting "wednesday night clientele". Houston/Texas is actually surprising me in heaps of ways. It's actually extremely gorgeous, (especially the places that I've been touring), there is heaps of history (especially lone stars), a nice array of great restaurants, and alot of talent. There is alot of great shopping, and for anyone who is an apple buff, or wannabe, I visited the Apple store ;) One thing that isn't striking me as a huge surpise, but that has really amazed me since I last saw it in L.A., is the complexity of the freeway interchanges.  Let's be honest, Alberta has some great things happening in the form of Clover Leafs, and that new Anthony Henday interchange is getting interesting on the South side of Edmonton, but; Things start getting really rediculous when you have free ways that are 10 lanes wide, that then has to interchange with 3 other free ways. I've probably taken heaps more video of this than I should have, but for some reason I can't get over the amount of "stuff" that is involved. I know that everything is bigger in texas, but the amount of Concrete and Pillars and that, is just over the top. Then again, a 10 lane wide free way that is being expanded, is a little bit over the top as well. Apparently the one interchange that I actually went through today in Houston, is the busiest in America. One of Al's friends is an engineer and has been employed for the last 5 years on that one interchange alone... Thursday was an extremely interesting day. I went around with Al, to a couple different voice-overs that he had scheduled for the day. To fill you in on that, I'm staying with a media talent, which is not something that I knew prior to my trip. Apparently Al felt like he had to keep his Hollywood identy under wraps. It is my understanding that during law school in California, he also attended a performing arts school. When he graduated, Law kept him too busy to get involved in any main-stream of full time acting, so his professor suggested that he get involved in voice-overs. In case your eyes are rolling, and you have no idea what is going on. A voice over is the "voice" that is implemented into a commercial either radio or television. I'll post a video/audio link up later that will give you a better idea; But if you're from Canada, I'm sure you will know "Christine & Mcgee", the two annoying wankers that do the advertisements for Sleep Country. Funny enough both Christine and Mcgee are in advertisements in Houston for another main matress chain, but thanks to someone that they left the rude skits behind in Canada. That is voice talent though, and voice-overs in a nutshell.  The first voice-over that I sat in on was for an election in Austin, and actually an ad that is running against the opposing party. The second one, was for the The Houston Museum of Natural Science, and for an extremely interesting display: "Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS" - Chances are that you might have heard of it: It's basically real people and I've been told a few times now, a horse as well, that are taken when they die and injected with a solution that allows the body to be preserved, leaving it completely visible. The skin is removed, which leaves an extremely interesting and even controversial look at the human body, along with some parts of human anatomy that you're not even interested in seeing, let alone with the skin removed.... This was an interesting voice-over to sit in on, and an exhibit that I plan on going to see next week. After that Last voice-over we drove to Austin, which is about 160 miles away. Austin is known for both being the state capital, and for the massive University of Texas. With approximately 60 thousand students, it is a major College town, and their is a vibrant nightlife to tag along with it. I would tag 6th Ave Austin, as 17th Ave Calgary times 3 on steroids. I was able to see the Government grounds both during the night and day, each which offer their own excitment; Both extremely pretty though. There was alot of random sights; I won't go into too much detail as I have some video, and legislature buildings aren't extremely new to anyone. After we accomplished Austin, on the 5th day we drove to Fredericksburg. "Fredericksburg is a city of beauty and charm". That sums it up, but to go into more detail; it is well kept showing both Texas history mixed with a major German Influence. A great feed at a German Brewery, and the journey continued to San Antonio.  San Antonio has interested me ever since I saw that film with Billy Bob Thornton, I believe it's called "The Alamo" or something like that. Not a bad movie, but the history interests me more than Davy Crockett, so I was pretty interested to see the actual Alamo. We got into San Antonio early afternoon, and after was a marathon looking for a parking spot, we prevailed, and proceeded the grounds of the Alamo. In the centre of a very well built up/convention city center, the Alamo holds it charm, both with it's grounds and historic buildings. My batteries ran out nearing the end of the shoot, but I still managed to capture the Alamo and most of it's beauty... The drive back to Houston was a little on the slow side, and with the cold front that has been sneaking it's way down from Canada, the weather was in the low 40's, and alot of rain snuck in. Dinner was at a Osaka, a japenese restaurant a few blocks from residence. A very nice Japanese restaurant, but the Madonna that they picked for +loud background music, some how didn't seem fitting with the rest of the atmosphere. I polished a huge amount of raw fish, and almost feel like I've found my appetite. My 'incident' in the summer, quickly turned into an actual 'real' pain, that brought me to an MRI a couple of weeks ago, and now I actually have a real appointment to see surgeon, so things are quickly progressing. Progressive thoughts, more like agressive, are running through my minds, and something will be made of them in 2006. - Ryan | | Defining Transition | PermaLink - Feb 11, 2006
I woke up today in time for 11:11. Rather than make a big deal about it, I made my wish, heading outside for some late morning journalling by the waterfall; It was a beautiful day. Interupting Bono, the Wifi gave out and I went back inside. This is my second morning in Houston, which means there is 21 days just waiting to get polished. Apparently Saint Valentine has been up to mischief in the Ukraine. He managed to get to Houston, and I'm sure he was with you as well. Happy Valentines. As the world continually evolves; more rampant and exaggerated does our perception of that change. That perception becomes both defining of us as individuals, and of our community as a whole. It cannot be seen with our eyes, but is visible in our hearts. It is corresponding with something greater, which without a doubt the greatest conspiracy of our time. It controls are actions and our minds, and surprisingly constantly leads us to a place of opportunity. The strength to overcome this is within reach, but we can't grab it because we are too busy holding onto ourselves. We hold onto ourselves as opportunists, and are blinded in a great deception that shades us and those travelling among us from the true destination of destruction. With every deception a defeat is suffered and the end draws near. Our feet grab hold of uncertain ground and it becomes increasingly civil as we proceed to make the wrong desicion, the desicion of sides, that was ultimately decided the moment we arrived. Even if that desicion means you're to lose, take hold of the time entrusted to you and give it a good fight. In each attempted pursuit seed is layed for great opportunity; that lies without failure. | | Where and Why | PermaLink - Jan 31, 2006
Where are you going, and what are you driving. Is that a sleeping bag and flashlight? Binoculars, and temporary liscenses, and yeah I spent a couple of days lurking around. There was zero discovery, although Josie did make mates. 57 Inches of screen real estate, Daily walks, slurpee runs, auto detailing, gen 3 josie, and then. sleeps, and then. MRI and then, MRI results, and then BAMM. Porfolio is finished. I'd talk more about it, but you've already heard too much. I went from no vehicles last month, to two this month, and hopefully by the time this month gets going, I'll be left with none again. I have a ticket booked to Houston leaving on the 13th of February. I haven't decided yet whether to make the trip business or pleasure, but it does span comfortably over Valentine's Day. That Honda. Reminds me of something. It's parked out front. Which also reminds me of something. Talking about it, let alone telling the truth. Armour. Carhartts. |
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