Random Fusion

Sometimes I hate the city I live it. Sometimes I hate the people who live in it. This morning I hate a handful of people who live in this city.

Early, early this morning, while walking home with Shauna from our usual late dinner at Humpty's with our friends, I was assulted by a native teenager. I guess this kid could have been any race, but he just happened to be a native kid. The kid ran can out of a small park and ran into me very hard and in the process broke my sunglasses. As soon as he ran into me he began demanding out money and yelling at us. He backed up and made as though to fight us. Both Shauna and I didnt want any trouble so we backed up, apologized and made to leave. He yelled at us some more and began demanding our money, our stuff and smokes. We managed to get past him and that was when he hit me in the face. It was a lazy right hand to the cheek and all it really did was make my face sore, but it still was unpleasent.

After hitting me, his two other friends ran out of the park yelling as well wanting to know what was going on and what the trouble was. We were surrounded at one point and it was not a whole lot of fun. The guy grabbed my baseball cap and sunglasses and tried...

I would give anything right now to have a weapon with me then. I would give anything right now for the chance to have been able to hurt them. The hat was only $15 and the sunglesses were cheap pieces of shit, but this incident did something to me and I dont like it. I can tell you honestly, if I had had a knife on me or a small bat or something else to defend myself with, I would have. I am having fantasies right now about going back to that area with my my large bowie knife and a hammer and look for the guy who hit me. I want to hurt him. I want him to be scared. I want him to worry. I want him to have to think about finding a new street to walk down. I want him to think about how he was unable to defend himself.

I want him to hurt. I want him to be in pain. I want him to bleed and cry and be afraid.

This has done nothing for my beliefs that A)This city needs a god damn curfew. B)This country needs to toughen its pussy youth criminal code up something serious. C)That native kids in the inner city and other areas of the downtown, need to be watched more. The police need to show their face there more. D) That should you seriously hurt someone who is trying to mug or rob you, the mugger gets jail time and you get a congratulations.

This city could use some vigilanty justice. I dont mean a Batman type person. But some normal people, out on the street with baseball bats and pips and socks full of pennies, who beat up the folks who make it unsafe to walk down a nice street at night.

Should I ever run into the fuck who hit me alone one day when I happen to be either with friends or carrying a large heavy blunt object, I will have no second thoughts about beating him up. None whatsoever. I would like to see him crying and bleeding at my feet.

The police are coming by tonight with mug books for us to look at (they came by early in the morning after the assult to take a statement from me). In the unlikely circumstance that I find the kid in the book and that they capture him and that he still happens to have my hat and sunglasses. I doubt that he will get into any serious punishment. This country's criminal code and justice system is a joke and is a disgrace for minors. This is a country where a 12 year old can steal a car, drive it and crash it into another car, almost killing the people inside, and get away with a stern talking to from the police.

Torture should still be allowed.

Bleeding and crying at my feet would be very nice.

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Another hot day in the city.

I am melting as I write this.

I need another fan or even two or a hundred.

That would be nice.

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The heat here lately has been terrible and combined with high levels of humidity, it feels like it's ten degrees hotter then it actually is.

Doing anything in the heat is an effort. Eating, sleeping and even writing in a blog is an effort. You sweat while watching tv or even breathing. Our apartment offers no help either. We have no air conditioning and we are on the top floor of our building and heat rising, we get all the lovely warmth from downstairs. I have found some relief sitting in the bathtub and soaking in a tub full of cold water, but thats only helpful for as long as I am in the tub.

The cats are fun and loving and are DRIVING ME INSANE! Well not really, but the cats seem to be partially nuts or something. They are either running around the apartment like chickens with their heads cut off or they are comatose out in the hallway.

Well the sweat running down my back is telling me its time for another dip in the tub.

Later peoples.

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Brand new look and layout and so far I am loving it. I would like to add some stuff to the far right side as its seeming a little empty.

More to come later.

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Well as you can plainly see, the blog has taken on a new look. I had the previous version going now for about half a year (I think) and it was time for me to find something new. The look isn't quite complete as it should have a picture in the background, but I haven't gotten around to putting it in yet. Some links need to be put back in place (after I test them of course) and some other goodies need to be placed back into the blog, when all of THAT is finally done, then I can look reorganizing again. Heh.

I am going to forgo the Fringe post for another day or so yet, I need to go over the little bits and pieces I collected over the time of the Fringe to remind me of the excellent time I had. For the time being, I'll write about Vancouver.

Vancouver is a great city and I love going there as often as I am able to. So, I didn't complain too much when I was asked by my previous job to go there to finnish up something that I was working on when I left. In a nutshell, what I was there to do was meet with people and interview them for a position within the company that had hired my boss.

I left really early Thursday morning and was flying west by 7am. Now, I am not a morning person by any means and I usually hate getting up before the sun, but when the reason for getting up is traveling and more specifically flying somewhere, I have no trouble getting up and being ready to go. By 7am on Thursday morning I was sitting in a window seat on WestJet flight something something something and I was heading west. I love flying and I love all the stuff that goes along with it, like turbulence. I love turbulence. The up and down and even, if you are lucky, side to side motions are the coolest and I can say that I got my wish as we were flying out that morning. I think I was the only person on the plane who was smiling as the plane went into roller coaster mode. After about 10 minutes or so of that things evened out and the rest of the one hour flight to Calgary went off without a hitch.

We got to Calgary for a short lay over early and so the plane actually was at the hanger for about 45 minutes, which gave those of us who were going on to Vancouver a good 20 minutes to roam the airport. One thing I can say about the Calgary airport is that they have put the right amount of little shops inside security. The little shops they have there allow you to purchase books or coffee or candy or drinks if you want to. I bought a Tom Clancy novel and went back to the plane. In hindsight, what I should have gotten a drink as well. Getting back on the plane was a breeze and before I knew it the flight was off to Vancouver.

Flying over the mountains is always cool and this time was no exception. When you drive through the mountains you get a sense of their overall size, but not their true size. You don't get a sense of far they go. Flying over the Rockies you can see how far north and how far south they go and they do go a long, long way. The flight to Vancouver was uneventful and was over almost before it began. The airport in Vancouver (and rightly so, its a big city) is huge. It took me about five to ten minutes to walk out of security alone. The airport is really nice and well organized and it didn't take me too long to find my way out.

Now, for some strange reason, the person who had arranged my flight to Vancouver and the hotel arrangements, had got me to Vancouver a full three hours before I could possibly check into my hotel room. So, getting to the hotel fast wasn't a priority. I went out to the doors outside the domestic arrivals and departures gate and had a look around. Now at this point, had I done some research about public transit and where my hotel was, I could have saved myself about $20. I saw a van pull away that had my hotel's name on it and thought ok, well, another twenty minutes or so and it will come back and I can take it to my hotel. Nope. I had to call the hotel from a special services phone they had inside. The woman who answered said the van would be back in about 15 minutes and would pick me up. The time passed slowly and when the van came back, he almost drove away without picking me up. I get inside and we pull away. I am a little wary about everything so I say, "So you take people to blah and blah hotels?" and the guy says no. The hotel where I am staying, while the same brand of hotel, it doesn't do airport pick up. But the guy keeps driving away from the freaking airport! So I say to him, well then what the hell am I supposed to do? He recommends a cab and takes me to the hotel near the airport.

The cab ride to my hotel? Cost me $30 and took 45 minutes.

The hotel I was staying at was pretty nice and the room I had was ok for a traveler (I wouldn't really choose to stay there if I could help it). The area the hotel was in was a business area, so there wasn't a whole lot around. There was a subway, a McDonald's and a sky train station. I have to say, the Sky Train station near the hotel, saved everything. Because of that station, I was able to head into Vancouver a couple of times and putter around the downtown.

I was in the Vancouver area from Thursday morning till Monday afternoon. I got to go into Vancouver twice and look around. I didn't really get to see much new stuff since I had was on foot, had limited time and limited resources. I had wanted to go to Stanley Park and the Aquarium again, but couldn't get there. I had wanted to look around the downtown a little more then I had the last time I was there, but couldn't. I had wanted to maybe go whale watching (something I have always wanted to do, but couldn't) but I couldn't find the cash or the time to do that. So what I did do was go to the Pacific Center and Virgin Records a couple of times. Both places are very cool and I wish we could get a Virgin Megastore here in Winnipeg.

The weekend of interviews went off without a hitch and when it was all over, I met with the person who would be hiring one of the people I met with. He was a nice enough guy, not much older then me and seemed very dedicated to his job. I hope that he manages to find the person he is looking for.

Monday evening saw me flying out of Vancouver. The flights out were nice enough, a little crowded, but all right.

I got home about ten minutes early and that was enough to make sure that I didn't have to wait twenty minutes for a bus home. I got home to find my new kittens playing in the living room and Shauna smiling very happily down at them.

It was very nice to get home.

All in all it was a good trip and the wind up stuff is just finnishing up now. I should be hearing soon who they are going to be hiring.

The End.

Peace

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New look.

New Feel.

Long post comming soon.

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Post coming soon.

I should have written a couple lengthy posts already about the Fringe and my trip to Vancouver, but illness is keeping me bedridden.

Cough cough.

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Very short post today.

I am out in Vancouver this weekend.

I cant believe how homesick I've gotten and how much I miss Shauna.

We should be getting kittens soon! Yay.

I have no idea how we will afford them, but hopefully we can.

Peace

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Small post today.

Fringe is over and I am completely bagged. I need at least a couple more days of doing nothing (yet I seem to be doing house cleaning and dishes today) to kind of get back to normal.

My birthday has come and gone and I am 28 now. I dont feel that much older and to be honest I was worrying about more then how I would pass my birthday on the 29th.

Keep your eyes on the page over the next month. I am going to try and do a big change up.

Peace

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