Life Photos, Snowboarding, and other stuff.
Just after I started writing this blog I got a call
fro the New Westminster police to tell me that my
truck had been recovered, a week to the day since
it was stolen from in front of my building. There
is some damage but it looks like I will be getting
it back. It remains to be seen how long that will
take and what condition it will be in. Of course my
sled is gone. I'm going to have to eat that loss
and it completely sucks. If anybody is looking at a
really good deal on a 2007 skidoo summit 600,
please take a close look at the VIN and give me a
call or drop me a line.
I shot a couple things over the weekend including the Showdown over the City and was going to show some photos but I suddenly don't care that much. Instead I'll show you this:
Life magazine is allowing bloggers and non-commercial web folks to use images from their archives free of charge, a very interesting move.
I shot a couple things over the weekend including the Showdown over the City and was going to show some photos but I suddenly don't care that much. Instead I'll show you this:
Life magazine is allowing bloggers and non-commercial web folks to use images from their archives free of charge, a very interesting move.
Comments
tough week
One of the weird things about theft is the
unforeseen consequences that go along with it. My
truck and snowmobile were stolen from the front of
my building this week. This in itself was
devastating but pile on top of it the fact that I
was on my way to shoot for a job that I really need
to finish, and as result, I missed the best day of
the week. That's not the end of the world, but it
stings and puts me even further behind on an
increasingly huge workload.
I lost that whole day. I lost half a day dealing with ICBC and police. I have lost my ability to get to and from my work at a time when I desperately need to be mobile. But worst of all is the fact that I am mad and disheartened and I have no ability to be creative when I am angry.
I tend to portray myself as a pretty happy guy on this blog. For the most part that is true, but I am a reformed cynical punk rocker angry kid mad at the world, and that guy is lurking just below the surface at all times. When he gets out, I tend to not be very fun to be around. He was knocking on the door with a crowbar this week begging me to come out and play.
I took a few days off from blogging because I didn't want to vent here, and I'm glad I did. There have been a couple of really generous people who have offered to help and that has been a little bright spot in a dark week. I have about six weeks left in the season and I feel like I am at square one. I've been trying to be a better person in the last few years and to have this shit come down just days after raising a bunch of money for my favourite cause is one of those things that makes you scratch your head.
I lost that whole day. I lost half a day dealing with ICBC and police. I have lost my ability to get to and from my work at a time when I desperately need to be mobile. But worst of all is the fact that I am mad and disheartened and I have no ability to be creative when I am angry.
I tend to portray myself as a pretty happy guy on this blog. For the most part that is true, but I am a reformed cynical punk rocker angry kid mad at the world, and that guy is lurking just below the surface at all times. When he gets out, I tend to not be very fun to be around. He was knocking on the door with a crowbar this week begging me to come out and play.
I took a few days off from blogging because I didn't want to vent here, and I'm glad I did. There have been a couple of really generous people who have offered to help and that has been a little bright spot in a dark week. I have about six weeks left in the season and I feel like I am at square one. I've been trying to be a better person in the last few years and to have this shit come down just days after raising a bunch of money for my favourite cause is one of those things that makes you scratch your head.