Home Sick

I have been doing so well lately with pushing forward with my California life. Then Wham!, I get a bunch of photos from my uncle and find myself overcome with missing where I spend my first 25 years. I haven't been back in 3 years and it might be time soon. I normally miss the people, and still do, but now I also miss the city itself.

the hills,

the paths we travelled on as kids,

the rivers and lakes we explored for fun,

the woods where we spent countless hours messing around, building make-shift log cabins, drinking anything alcoholic and basically removing ourselves from the adult world to find our own lives.

These days are gone I know, but the places are still there. I envy those that didn't have to move for their careers. I wonder if the feelings ever get strong enough to make them think of these things and return to those special places for some quiet time.






Where I once worked in my early teens filleting and packaging cod fish.













The real foggy city. St. John's, Newfoundland. I've had my fair share of fog. It can get so bad you can't drive at all. Serious. I remember not being able to see my hand in front of my face it gets that bad.











Icebergs! As if it wasn't cold enough. These can stick around until June time if they are large enough. Puts a bit of a damper on the summer temps.

Envy...

How dare this person!




If there was a computer and a carbon bike in the background then I would be officially made redundant. With all the people in this world, I bet there is someone so exactly like yourself that it would scare you silly. I get spooked when I see that some one's hand writing is indistinguishable from mine. What you might thing of as being original might not be at all.

Time to Blog again

Forgive me Father for I have sinned. It has been over 4 months since my last blog post. I have been overwhelmed with life's mundane tasks and lost my way. I have emerged a new man, armed with a plan for our backyard, a date for our wedding, a rebuilt and working scooter, and some new power in my legs if the cycling gods deem me worthy this year.

My life has been slightly chaotic but somewhat organized. Like planting a seed, things take time to grow and slowly I am seeing the fruits of my labor. Work is demanding but satisfying, cycling is time consuming but intoxicating and delicious, home life is down right pleasurable. I'm at a point where I wouldn't want to be younger or older, just content where I am.

More to come later as I will have to get back into blogging a little bit at a time. My fiancee (I like saying that) returns home from some fast and successful racing with her Cheerwine mates in Australia/New Zealand. An incredible 2nd in GC for Leigh Hobson and also the QOM honors. BamBam will be ready to tear it up with the M35 boys again soon.

In the meantime here is a pointer to my latest web effort. I consider myself somewhat of a web shop-lifter. The beauty about html is that when you see something you like you can just take it without anyone knowing. The wedding site is a collection of features from many existing web sites with a flair of my own creativity thrown in for kicks. Enjoy...

Wedding Site