Zero Uploads

Hey, just wanted to write a post saying I'm still around and planning on resuming uploads soon. Checked the YouTube page today and realized I haven't uploaded anything since like...September 20. It's October 5 now. I completely forgot over the last week or so. Let me tell you what's been going on as far as I can remember.

Let's see...I quit my part time job. It was kind of a no-brainer as I only have one day off a week. I'm tired. I've been borderline sick for a week and a half cause I'm not resting enough to let my body recover. While I've enjoyed working there for the most part, I don't think that environment is for me. You have to work many hours to even have a chance at promotion, and even then you are competing with many other people across the city for those positions. At the same time, more hours aren't available as they'd rather just hire more part-timers and avoid full-timers whenever possible...probably for budget reasons. That or I'm just so used to other types of work that union work just baffles me. Regardless, I have some good stories from my three and a half months there. One of my favourites was the dude that walked up beside me, poked me on the shoulder and asked "are you real?" I told him "yeah," so he smiled and said "okay cool" and just wandered away. Took me about a minute to process that one.

Other than that bit of news, I've been working on some personal stuff, been sick, been recording and, oh yes, had to go to court as a witness. Oliver and I witnessed a bad car accident a couple months ago coming back from the new Mad Max movie. Dude decided to plead "not guilty" to reckless driving at first, but after the first hour and talking to the witnesses (i.e. me, Oliver and some other dude), he changed his plea to "guilty" and we could all go home. I get trying to get a better deal, but when you're going fast enough to nearly light your tires on fire and literally the only thing that saved you from rolling over and killing yourselves was a lamp post, I'd say that there was some speed involved. Either way, the guy is lucky to be alive. He was about one foot away from getting seriously hurt or killed. Anyhow, it was significantly better than my last visit to court as a witness. We'll leave it at that.

Started recording Planet Alcatraz. Yeah. It's...I...um...potatoes. Yes. Everything is potatoes and bad voice acting. It's really quite amazing. I am so confused. Meanwhile Mesk is just giggling in the background. Other than that, Shauna and I are starting SOMA today. I'll let you know how that goes. It's been a long time since we've played a genuinely scary game (for the right reasons), so this should be interesting.

White Trucks

White trucks and beaten up minivans are the source for most my woes on the road this past year. Well, perhaps trucks in general. Got run off the road yesterday by some idiot in a white pick-up because he didn't know how to turn properly. Turning onto a two lane road, he was turning right, I was turning left. I turned shortly after him, but for some reason he decided my lane was much better to turn into. So he turns and immediately drives into my lane, so I had to slam on the brakes and drive into the curb. He continues driving in my lane, and then takes off speeding AND THEN CHANGES BACK TO TURN RIGHT ANYWAY. Why? Cause he knew he nearly totalled my car and wanted to get out of there before I could get his plate (had he stayed left he would have been stopped by the light).

So yeah, there's a huge gash in my front wheel now. I can still drive on it for now as there is no air leaking, but it will need to be replaced asap or risk a blowout. So there's money out the window there. Then I learn my brother was rear-ended by a truck in the same car the day before. I was rear-ended by the minivan last year before I even had my full license...then we had to write off the other car because of another white truck in a parking lot. That and when we got the car serviced the mechanics FORGOT TO TIGHTEN THE FUEL LINE and it started leaking gas all over the damn place.

Incompetence everywhere. Calgary drivers suck.