I look back at 2007 as one of the best years of my life. I hope to say the same in 365 days and wish the same for you dear reader.
I have many desires and plans for this coming year, but instead of talking about it I will make efforts to be a man of action... stay tuned.
My significant enabler and I moved to beautiful Vancouver British Columbia and so far things have been going well. After a couple of weeks with camping chairs and an air mattress, our worldlies have arrived and we are setting our new lair up just right.
Pictures to follow soon...
In no particular order...
I visited Vancouver B.C. a couple of weeks ago and my mind is still there + Bought a MIDI keyboard (the piano kind), someday I'll play 'Round Midnight + I have over 500 channels and DVR yet can't find anything interesting on TV + OC Transpo buses are still filled with bloody savages during rush hour periods + Facebook has pulled me in, it's like college dorm message boards + I'm tired now, time for bed.
As per my usual online journaling M.O., I start a new log then have a brief active period before completely losing interest or ideas for things to write about and have a long dry spell. It's been that way since back in the mid-90's when I first discovered HTML and started writing my first pages in a shell account on my ISP's web server. It's funny because those web pages were responsible for getting me my first job in the tech. industry, so I'm surprised I still turn my back on it so often.
This time, it is likely due to my recent changes in habit. I've gone from spending my days at work then nights staring at my laptop to spending my days at work and my nights holding a guitar. I tend to go through phases of intense electronic interfacing then neo-Luddite unplugging. So far though it's making me happier than I have been recently. Something about making noise always has.
It's quite amazing to me how doing what you are not comfortable with soon makes you comfortable. A great weekend with friends is being had, jamming, gaming, substance-abuse and watching all sort of weird and wonderful things on a wide-screen projector.
Life is getting better.
I am not going to crack open a sixer of long, drawn out diatribe lager on the many things that irritate me about public transportation, mostly because I am a major fan of it and the system I ride regularly. However the one thing that consistently grinds my gears are the incorrigible assholes who insist on blocking the middle and rear doorways of buses packed to capacity as people try to get on or off at stops. It's nothing more than apathy and entitlement in my mind.
Instead of people able to flow off the bus creating space before new passengers fill said space, these human pylons stand with that disconnected, off-in-space look on their faces as people struggle to push past them getting on and off. This causes people around them to have to move in ways not often completely platonic in order to create enough space for people to move past them, all the while, the bus is stopped longer slowing everyone down.
The solution to this dear reader is simple and something I practice myself...
STEP OFF THE FREAKING BUS TO LET PEOPLE OFF, THEN STEP BACK ON WITH THE NEXT ROUND OF PASSENGERS!!!
It's not rocket surgery, nor does it require more than two steps and the willingness to find a new place to sit or stand when getting back on the bus. There is the added benefit if you are someone who might want to try practicing courtesy in that you can also hold the doors open while people get off the bus after you have stepped off. But I suppose that kind of selfless act is lost these days.
It's inconsiderate, lazy and just plain stupid and I wish the transit security would yank people guilty of this act off the bus and make them get back on again to symbolically beat it into their skulls. They sure don't have problems removing passengers for not paying, so why not for making other people's commutes more difficult?
