Current location:	Vancouver - Home of the future Stanley Cup Champs!
Current mood:	calm
Current music:	Real Sportfishing - Rogers Sportsnet

It's been a long time, we shouldn't have left you...without a dope beat to step to...
Good afternoon from the Pacific Northwest folks!

It had been a while since I updated this thing, so for those who still read this, here's the update:

Work is good. I have been there two months now and I can fully say that I have never been happier working for any other company than I am working for this one. It is good to get some kind of stability professionally and I feel that since I am now older I can appreciate it more.

With this stability however, comes a day that I have rued since I graduated high school: The ten-year reunion, where your life goes under a microscope for others in your class to compare themselves to simply because you RSVP'd and don't want to disappoint the former choir colleague who is organizing the event by blowing it off. Truth is though, even though I have had ups and downs (some good, some bad, some completely messed up), I feel like I haven't really accomplished anything.

Am I really any different than the 18-year old who graduated so many years ago?

I feel like, even though my world view has become more ruined and black than it was when I first started living in the "real world" due to the experiences I have had in my life thus far, I haven't really done anything that is unique or that has made me stand out.

Maybe I just need to write some of the comedy in my head down on paper...stuff like "Pimp My Wife" and "Newlyweds: Israeli and Palestinian" should at least see the light of day, even if it reveals the depravity of the author and is condemned by the rest of the world.

Am I the only one on the planet who thinks the idea of an old lady getting hit by a bus turning into the demonstration sport for the 2010 Winter Olympics is funny?

Anyway, enough of that. Hockey season has (sort of) started and the Canucks are 0-3 in the preseason, with our new goalie Roberto Luongo promptly earning two franchise records: fastest goal scored upon him in a preseason game (1:21 into the game by San Jose) and then the breaking of that record the next night (21 seconds into the game by Anaheim). The team is paying this guy close to 7 million and he can't make a save to save his life? Son of a...

Update three: I saw Peter Frampton recently in concert and I do recommend seeing his show if you get the chance. Hell of a guitarist and pretty funny too. Also seeing The Who in concert in October at GM Place. Maybe they will perform that song from CSI...or all three of them from the assorted shows. Truthfully, besides Roger Daltrey screaming, I want to see Peter Townshend play "Pinball Wizard" on an acoustic guitar, and then destroy the thing afterward. I would die a very happy man if I saw that.

Update four, I am back with my American girlfriend after a year and a half apart from her. I have my family back, and I have never been happier. Zachary (her son and the little man I have helped raise since he was six months old) even has developed his sense of humour and is funny as hell besides being the smartest almost 5 year old I've ever seen.

Hmmm...thinking about him...maybe I did pass something on.
Maybe I did accomplish something in my life thus far.

PS: My good friend Dan, who I have not spoken to in a long time (my fault completely) has a new girlfriend, Melanie. Apparently she is very pretty and I want to officially welcome her to "the group". Dan is our official record keeper, and no doubt you have heard some of the greatest stories of our group's history thus far. Melanie, welcome.

Edison is rappelling down a building in Vancouver and needs your support. Give generously and if you have already, thank you.

...and my old friend Carolina is apparently getting married. Congratulations to her and her future husband. I wish you both a long life together and pass along these words: Fall in love with each other over again every single day and never tire of each other. Intimacy is not just the physical, it is the emotional and the comfortable. Treasure the slow times for they are few and far between in this modern world, and last but not least always be each other's rock to hold on to when everything else has floated away in the ever-raging river that is this life.

Cheers.

Now I'm gonna stop writing because I am running out of things to say. Good night, good luck, and may your gods go with you.