Tue May 2, 2006

Finally, after my previous host's customer support disappeared off the face of the Earth, the domain has been transferred and I've moved to a new hosting company. So far, everything seems much more reliable and user friendly. All areas of this website have been updated and I'm still trying to get more things to add. I've tried to make everything a little more graphic intense and visually entertaining. Many of the existing photos have been slightly compressed for quicker downloading speed while retaining image quality. Enjoy looking around.

Wed March 23, 2006

Updates are coming! Updates are coming! We have to tell the queen!...

Mon Jan 16, 2006

This is taken from a message I wrote someone regarding my current adventures. It's about a month late, but I figured this was a good place for it: There I was, gazing into the abyss of what appeared to be the 300th floor, and I'm called to a meeting. "Dear ladies and gentlemen, due to your continued success we are going to move your department to a centre opening in the Philippines, and send you all more difficult work." Now this came as quite a shock. I for one, was not prepared to give up my beloved department and coworkers. "By the way, there will be no more graveyard shift." Gasp! Could such a thing be done? How could anyone, standing there so nonchalant, declare such a profound statement in a single breath? For shame, I am reduced to my afternoon working, business casual dressed, daylight enduring, entry-level wage making former self. Suddenly, it was the weekend. How would one go about adjusting from graveyard to swing shift? I found myself floundering around, daylight to starlight, up at 9am one day, up at 5pm the next, never quite sure if it was AM or PM. Finally, due to an urgency presented by my mental calendar, I groggily scurried around town in hopes of completing my Christmas shopping once and for all! At least until next year. In the end, just about everything was purchased. It's remarkable the difficulty someone can have in locating a simple white scarf. Anyway, the point to this story is..... I still don't know what to get my grandparents for Christmas. Oh, and I got used to the schedule. I guess this isn't a very good ending -- maybe I didn't think this through quite enough. Meh.

Sat Dec 3, 2005

November is, I think, the singular most bizarre month I can recall. I have yet to decide how I feel about all the events that took place, but I'm somehow certain there's a purpose (as there's always been, from my perspective). Realizations made, things that needed be experienced, and doors that needed to be closed. I still worry, of course. Maybe life wouldn't mean that much if I didn't. Maybe it's better this way. I think I've started living. I can't help but feel the desire to know the answer to the great question: How will it all end? In regard to this website, I'm wondering about keeping an actual journal or blog. Would it be better to keep it handwritten in a book, and would putting it on the internet make it difficult to be personal?

Fri Nov 11, 2005

Well it's certainly been awhile--two moves and several months without internet. Spring and fall have come and gone. The trials and tribulations of roommatedom was quite a singular experience--not one that could ever be entirely reproduced. One by one, people set off to see the world, and the ones that remain, I find myself wanting to leave. Not entirely perhaps, but there's no comfort being around them, and I'm drawn to others who I find full of life. Something's changed over the last while. Things have begun breaking through, and I find myself beginning to do what I'd always wished I could. Halloween was wonderful in the end. Matthew Good came to town and put on a fantastic show along with the Ladies and Gentlemen, whom I had never heard and were a pleasant surprise. Oddly enough, his setlist consisted of mainly songs that I'd been dying to hear. Well done, Mr. Good. Well done. My favourite band around these parts has acquired me as their new keyboard player. It'll be good playing again. Stutterfly played at the last show. I had gone to mix and mingle, which was fairly successful, and the most miraculous thing happened. What happened? Well...I won't say. :P But in short, I've had the best week I can remember.