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being in victoria is weird. i woke up in my bed this morning to wonder if the last two weeks have been a dream. for the first time since i left, i woke up in sunlight .. and everything is the way i left it when i was last here.
except i have mail. and a cheque. woooo!!
it is time to download pictures from the past week. i took some of my favorite shots last night and the night before.
btw, i apologize for the jpeg artifacting in that album and all the other ones too. i’m going to have to change the settings on the import in the gallery app. click on an image twice to see the extra big version of each picture. it looks better.
if you are one of my co-workers and are looking for bchydro photos .. i’m posting those too, just not yet. 🙂
it appears that i’m flying up to Whitehorse with anastasia feb 11th and then driving down to Atland to talk to a town about being powersmart. this is good. i love flying and haven’t flown in many moons. my 3 readers who have been reading this blog since i started blogging will understand the significance of this.
next wednesday i am going up to mt. washington to go skiing for the second time ever in my life. oh booooyeeee!

woohoo!! happy birthday angie! yaaay!!

i was going to post the lyrics to bjork’s “possibly maybe,” but after reading them, i don’t think i like them all that much. i thought they were more subtle but perhaps it is just that i don’t understand what she’s actually singing all the time.. still a good song though.
speaking of good music, the new massive attack album that is due out in february is boss. the last track is soooooo good. it’s darker than usual but it’s a pleasure to listen to, without a doubt.
and speaking of albums, i hear the new hybrid album is circulating. it’s too bad that the promo deal between hybrid and my radio show never really worked out properly .. i got all of their stuff, but it could have been more solid, quicker .. all of those things. then again, hybrid said their album was going to come out a year and a half ago .. it seems that there were several loose ends or something. there has definitely been enough time between the albums. to say i am looking forward to this one is a serious case of understatement.
today was the first Real Day of bagging bulbs in The Second Secret Location. we packed a lot .. probably about 2000 of them. that is a lot, however it’s barely a dent in what we have to do.. somewhere around 120,000 or so. i have never worked in an assembly line quite like the one today though .. so much energy — it was lots of fun. having a ghetto blaster on pretty loud kept things going at a furious pace and it was definitely satisfying after doing office work all week.
big ups to the p.a.f. massive!
i am phasing in and out of sleepiness here. i think it’s time to leave work and go home to eat and whatnot. tonight i may go rock climbing and i may also end up in the rock city area. the two are not related.

after counting and moving about 10,000 lightbulbs today, i went to speakers corner to have a little fun on camera. it was fun! i wont say what for .. but it wouldn’t be hard to guess. 🙂
i saw james bond last night with emily and matt. i can’t say the movie was quality, but it was definitely entertaining. it was cheesy in the austin powers way, however it was not supposed to be a comedy in the same way. just .. yeah. it’s a renter. hehehe.

so i pressed some button on my alarm clock that isn’t snooze. i slept until 8:02 a.m. and i am supposed to start at 8 a.m.. agh. not a great way to start the day.. ended up having a good day overall though. i spent a good portion of the day writing a tutorial on image transfer and used the faux word “disk-ette-ette” lots. haha.
i don’t feel very talkative today. not sure why.
using the StrongBad voice for a character in a play is fun.
i just noticed that i exported all the images for this week at 100 quality for jpeg compression. oops.

this is my first return to nanaimo.
when i say “i’m going home,” remind me to qualify that statement with “i’m going home( to nanaimo)” or “i’m going home( to victoria)”. yeah.
so, i’m in nanaimo now watching the mess in victoria on the new VI. the host of this show is advocating the premier staying in power in british columbia. and she has some guy in a red turtleneck with her to support her position. sitting across the circular table from them is moe sihota.
the host (pia shandell) said she felt a little sardonic and amused looking at the comments of some of the people asking for gordon campbell to resign. pia has displayed a shameful disposition the entire show. this is disgusting. there is no integrity in this situation. there is no way i can say that i trust gordon campbell after this. how can you? he was sober before he had the drinks. he made the decision, soberly, to have the drinks. did his car appear out of nowhere and demand to be driven?
i don’t think so. this is so simple. his supporters are going to dwindle and become embarassed, although some remain so proud that they can’t even admit the gravity of the situation. this is the problem where the accused is also the judge and the jury. there is no statute which would remove a premier for something like this. gordon campbell is clearly drunk still, only now with power.
there are so many things to say about this. he says he was not smiling in his mug shots. the cbc story shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was. his remorse may be real, but it was definitely scripted.
when the media asked him about previous occassions of driving under the influence and if any existed, he said “not to the best of my knowledge.” this answer is unsatisfactory. i want a “yes” or a “no” to a close ended question. do not modify it. it is black and white. in british columbia, it is a criminal offence to drink and drive. if he admits that he has done so before, that would mean he wasn’t eligible to lead the liberal party.
christie clark, the deputy premier tried to diffuse the situation by mentioning something about it being a vacation. you hear that kids? it’s okay to do stupid [bleep] on vacation! oh happy day..
this is so sad. i am embarassed to be living in a province where the premier can do things like this. he isn’t even eligible to apply for the job i have right now.

gary collins says that it’s a personal issue and has nothing to do with his job as premier. i would agree, except there’s no way in hell that being premier has nothing to do with decision making. this is all about poor decision making. make the connection, gary. i’m worried about him.
pia shandell, christie clark and gary collins are all of the train of thought that if they turn their head on this issue, all will be good. that is neglectful. we have no way to have confidence in our “honourable” premier.
i do not condemn him as a person. he just isn’t suitable for the title of his job. that is all.

i’m back from nanaimo … it was the last day of training. training week was good. i have met 30 new interesting people in the last four days.
rad!
that’s pretty much all i have to say. i’m pretty tired from staying up late at night almost every night of the week and getting up early each morning for work.
i seem to like whats on late at night much better than the daytime. showcase shows weird movies, cbc does too, knightrider is on, conan o’brien is on, etc. that’s enough to keep me awake.
in any case, i better stop it because i can’t function that well in the day time without my sleep.

woooooo!
tonight i went to watch the canucks game at Piper’s Pub with emily, dave, holly, andrew, kelly and cynthia. and we won!@#$^&*(~ i mean, they won. go team!
anyways, my proton radio featured artist set was on today and apparently there were over 400 listeners. dude. that is zope. i hope everyone liked it .. i worked really hard on it! i’ll be posting it for download soon (it’s 246 megs @ a 192k mp3) .. don’t worry, it’ll be hosted off of lefty.ca’s phat pipes. 8)
in other news.. i took a bunch more pictures today .. i’m not sure how good they are, but some of them should be interesting, i reckon.
i have been pondering a few things lately. and in that pondering, i have decided .. nothing at all.
i need more time to obfuscate priorities.
when was the last time you spent half an hour with a two year old that was trying to convince you that she was a scary dragon? i wasn’t scared.
really.

on wednesday, january the 8th, i am proton radio’s featured artist. the first featured artist of 2003.
tune in for my 3 hour featured artist mix tomorrow.
i will knock your socks off.
www.protonradio.com