Hola from Cabo! I’ve been doing my best to learn spanish while i’m here.. having a semester in it does help me understand i must say, but the majority of the people here speak english very well so it’s not a necessity. Bad part is that it just means that everyone here is expecting us tourists, so everything is just as baller.

On a tangent: did you notice “hello” sounds really similar in a lot of languages? Para examplo (i have no clue if thats even how you say example in spanish): “Hola” means hello, but swap the ”a” and “o” and its “Halo” and pronounce it chinesey, you get “ha-low”, which sounds like “hello” which is awkwardly similar to “nay-ho” for fobbers out there.

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My thoughts go out to your family and friends. I only knew you briefly, good sir, and it’s a shame I didn’t get a chance to to know you well. Your friends loved you a lot and will carry your memory on.

put your junk in the box. Step two.. yeah.. i’ll stop there.

In a matter of about 30 days, I’ve gone from living at home, to living abroad, and much closer to work. Obviously, I’m liking it. I’m still not fully moved out.. in fact, I’m not even 80% moved out yet but I’m taking my time. Living out costs so much money, and I instantaneously feel the cash burn. I used to not even think twice about leaving the lights on in my room when I’d go out to grab something from the kitchen, but now, the first thing I do is think.. oh shit, maybe I should turn that off. Haha, it’s strange. I finally understand why everyone got there undies in a jumble over things like that.

Anyway, it’s been a full week as of tonight, and so far, I’m glad I’ve got a roomie. Hopefully all works out this next 6-8 months and we both won’t feel the need to sneak into each other’s rooms at night and bash the other’s face in with a rock.

To buy a tv, or not to buy a tv. That is the question.

August TODO:

• Find a new gym/pool
• Get cable tv
• Learn to cook chinese food
• Lose 10 mexican lbs
• Seduce an animal and eat it.

I’ve just gone and had the worst few weeks ever it seems. I was on a bit of a life-rush the weeks prior to all this where things were not going well, but it was nothing to complain about because other parts of my life were good and it balanced out.

These last few weeks, I guess I had it too good for too long because my life was like this river: seemingly pleasant on the surface but what you don’t see unless you were there to experience it in all its fury, is that it’s a strong maherfackin river. The mouth of this thing is something that would devour your babies, crush villages of 6 week old puppies and possibly sleep with your wife and/or husband then write you an email about it complete with video attachments. Gawd.

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About a month ago, I heard that a former classmate of mine had passed and today, more bad news. I feel sympathy for his family and friends, but I never thought about it past that really. The fact is, I don’t feel it’s all that appropriate for someone outside the circle to be expressing anything beyond that. I remember in the past, when someone passed away, you always will have the annoying mega-sympathizers that will cry and moan on and on about what a great person X was and how they will be missed dearly.

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Alright, I’ve been moaned at for the last few days to update. I don’t know when this turned into a competition, but fine. I’ll play.

What I haven’t had time to do is to pick pictures from the Stanley Park day yet, so that’ll be on the back burner till Thursday at the earliest. Some of you may not think it, but it does take a while to do that “post production” stuff I love so much to my photos. Given, it’s not really all that crazy most of the time, but when an exposure I like is too blurry, too under exposed or too _____… I can’t help but try to save it. Sometimes it doesn’t work.

Yeah, yada, yeah.. “Shoot in RAW!” you say. “Bite me,” says I.

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These types of weekends have sort of become my life, and I’m totally digging it.

It’s not exactly a wardrobe, but “that’ll do pig, that’ll do.”

May Long was only a few weeks ago, and as “eventful” as that weekend was, I still managed to have myself a good ol’ time with the help of some good peeps. One thing I’ve never done in the past decade and a half I’ve been here on the west coast is drive outside the city. I like to drive, so sometimes I’ll just hop in the car, put on some music and go on my little route that’ll start around dusk in Surrey, and end with me driving through downtown Vancouver at night. I like the bright lights against the dark backdrop. (read: shiny things make me happy and if that makes me a crow, then so be it. I’m a crow.)

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I wish I had answers to some of my questions.
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I know I’ve been extremely quiet here and that’s probably due to the on going stress I’m accruing in my life. Work seems to be affected by how my social life is turning out. Ever since day 1, I’ve had a crazy insecurity that’s probably sabotaged more than one relationship, though, when I confess what I’m feeling, I always get a myriad of responses ranging from “I never knew” to “I could tell.”

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