Bleeding Numb-skull(jaw the be exact)

Still no Internet at the new place so here I am on my laptop at The End cafe on Commercial Drive just a block away from the Broadway Skytrain station sipping on a soy chai llatte that honestly has a bitter after taste(cost me $5 :cussing: ). Last few weeks have been interesting and eventful to say the least. The couple my parents sold their home to recently had a tragedy occur in their family resulting in the husband passing away while on the skytrain due to a weak heart. The one good thing that came out of that was the fact that the life insurance company paid off what was remaining on the townhouses mortgage and covered funeral costs. I took his daughter Elisabeth who is going to UBC to a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show last saturday to help get her mind off her father(Not a great movie for the purpose intended but I feel we had fun regardless). Next day was the Sun Run which I had been training for for a while by jogging through Invergarry park getting in a bit of interval training. Made 47 minutes on the 10k run which is shitty in comparison to Tanner's 43 minutes. During the work week last week both my supervisors left due to personal reasons putting myself in charge of a fifteen person crew. Surprisingly it was an extremely slack week of connecting up the odd dishwasher or oven then just sitting back in the trailer taking inventory or the odd delivery(sometimes just chatting on MSN but if I'm ever confronted about it I'll just denie). I also have another girl coming onto my finishing crew starting Monday making it three female Electricians now, the most I've ever worked with on a construction site. I'm told shes quite a looker but rather psycho. I'll decide that for myself I suppose. Another person that I was not expecting who started working with me is Jessica Martins father Mark who I had not recognized but he seemed to remember me. He's a drywall er now and he still teases me the way he did when I lived down the block shouting the occasional gay joke down the corridor or his usual saying when he's pissed off "I'm gunna open up a can of creamed corn on your ass boy!".

Yesterday I got four of my wisdom teeth removed at the Surrey Central Dental Clinic which gave me a fair amount of pre-anxiety but when I was in the procedure I was pretty calm. Took about an hour for the oral surgery to be complete. First three teeth came out pretty quick but the last one took a while and came out with a crunching sound. Soon as the numbness applied wore off I spent the next six hours bleeding with drool from my mouth and in pain from the last tooth taken out. Been eating baby food, pudding, Campbell's soup & Tylenol three's since. Hoping I'll be back to normal for work tomorrow. Now I have a slight idea of how Adrian felt while he was in the hospital(How I long for solid food!). Attending my second wedding this year on April 27th so I've got to get my tux drycleaned again today. Thats all that comes to mind as far as updates go so Ciao!.

Random Entry

Just finished the bulk of the move to the new house in Surrey today. While seperating my laundry into two categories in preparation for cleaning today( whites with whites, blacks with black's) I realized that I have way too much black clothing. Going to have to add some color to my wardrobe for the upxoming summer(if it ever comes along. Yesterday there was a mix of sunshine, hail, rain & snow..end of days?).
I've been frequenting alot of cafés lately to steal internet(until I get wireless internet at the new pad) and think i've found one to settle into. There is a diverse multitude of geeks from different backgrounds in formal technical schooling and work to chat with here. Currently the place has some sort of medieval theme going on which is why I'm here typing on my laptop while a bunch of nerds dressed in medieval clothing are dancing the "Parvane" around me. Eventually once I become more aquainted with the regular's here I may join in on the activities and hope to jeebust that nobody I know from highschool/college recogizes me.
I'm no good at these blogs...I just digress too often and can't organize my paragraphs properly. I should be heading home now its 9PM and I've got work tommorow. Plenty of money... limited amount of time to enjoy it. A real contrast to my situation prior to working 60 hours per week.

Busy Month

This month of April will be extremely hectic for me. First part of the month me parents will be moving from the old townhouse(two bedrooms-1500 sq ft) at 137^th & 103rd into the new house they bought at 135th & 109^{th ave}(four bedrooms-1900 sq ft-I think) in Surrey. Just gave the old man four grand as upfront payment of rent for the year to help with the financing of a new home. Second event on my suddenly busy schedule will be my Cousin Lisa's wedding to her fiancee Michael. It's been a while since I've been to a wedding and after watching “Wedding Crashers” a while back, I'm actually looking forward to it. Cousin Lisa and her brother Kevin recently bought some big expensive & very inefficient stucco East Indian built homes. Hope they don't go bankrupt in the process the way my parents had years back cause it may be a grind after those Olympics are over. Every ones wondering when that recessions going to hit putting the economy in a slump and that hot real estate market on much needed plateau. Third item, I've got to get my wisdom teeth removed since they have been bothering me so I will be getting that done all at once(4 molars) on a Saturday Morning under dad's medical benefits. Last big thing that I know of for the month of April is my drivers test which I really do not want to fail again. The first time I took it I barely had any driving experience and had no prior professional lessons. I've had a lot more time in the drivers seat recently and pay a whopping $50/hr to a former rock star turned driving instructor to show me the ropes on those potentially dangerous roads. I'm too old not to have a drivers licence!!!!!!!

BTW:

• -I booked at BCIT for 2 years in advance for my third and fourth years of school during the winter season(I really do not want to work another winter outdoors Russian Accent BRRRR! Very Cold!). Cost me $400 for the booking and will cost a lot more when I actually pay the tuition.

• -Found out that if I were not to attend school and work the full year, I would make more money than my father, approx $50,000+ CDN based on the YTD. Not something I want to reveal to co-workers. I'm still sort of dissatisfied with my life though so I know I'll never be “happy” working my job on salary no matter how much I earn. All in all I think I'm doing pretty well career wise and financially.

• - Starting to read a lot again, mostly the classics(currently “Anna Karenina” by Tolstoy) and some books recommended by friends (such as “Eleanor Rigby by Douglas” Coupland-One of my new fav authors).

EP!C

I recently attended an environmentalist convention two Fridays ago known as EP!C which had been held at the Vancouver Trade Center(also known as The Pan Pacific Hotel). Upon arrival I was pleased to see an enormous trade show with hordes of energy conserving hippies hungry for information. There were many stands and demo's that did not interest me concerning sustainability(yoga, fashion/clothing, vegan diets, etc..) so I tended to be biased towards the electrical energy conservation themed side of the building(hybrid/electric cars, solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal heating systems, re-used recycled energy efficient building materials). I pretty much visited every stand they had in the facility, made a presence at a global warming seminar and just skytrained it back to Surrey afterwards. All in all, I think it was worth my $10 since it had gotten me motivated to start working on getting some experience in the installation of renewable electrical equipment.

BTW I GOT A NEW LAPTOP! Can I get a woot woot? No? Anyone? It's actually used(bought off craigslist.com- Great Site!) but it works splendidly & I've had no problems with it thus far. IBM Thinkpad- paid $300CDN came with adapter, wireless card, & mouse. General Specs 1.6 GHz, 40 gig HD, 14.1” screen, 2.5 metric kilograms & a battery life of roughly 1 hour. Not too shabby if I do say so myself!