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My fear of heights!

Well I’m on my way to Victoria, BC for the BC Tourism Industry Conference, which I can thank the Fort St. John Tourism Board for recommending me and the City of Fort St. John for paying the trip, but as the plane was taking off out of Fort St. John I thought about my fears.

Airplane Wing Tip Over Peace Region

As much as I hate to admit it, I have this weird fear of heights while still attached to the ground. No I’m not talking about your average ladder, I talking more about 90 story buildings in Chicago or the Tram in Jasper. Don’t ask me how I developed this fear and believe you me, I hate it. I think this fear is ridiculous. I know I’m perfectly safe and that many people a day go up and down buildings and trams, but for some reason I just can’t handle it. I don’t let my fear stop me, but I am hesitant. I know I just need to over come it by doing it more often, so I will. What I find interesting is how I am the total opposite when it comes to flying. I love it.

When we took off out of Fort St. John earlier today, I thought nothing of it. I was practically trying to stick my head out the window to see the city below me. There was no hesitation for me to jump on the plane and take off. I find this doubly interesting because in the last 4 months 2 (of many) people that I have had a previous encounters with have died to in plane crashes. I think about them and the others who lost there lives and I morn for them and their family, but it hasn’t stopped me from flying, nor enjoying it.

So as I sit here and type this, flying in the plane 30,000ft above the ground, and I compare the two. I have a fear of heights while still attached to the ground, but yet I have not heard of anyone dying this way, beside the obvious. Then I have my love for flying and complete comfort about it, but know that 2 or more people I have known have died from accidents. When I lay it out in words it still doesn’t make sense, but I thought I would share it.

I often try to explore ideas as to why I have these fears. Is it possibly because I building or tram can fly, they were never meant to be in the air. Am I overly relaxed about flying because in the back of my mind I know that planes were engineered to defy gravity?

One day I will understand this odd fear, but tell me, do you have any fears that you can’t explain?

My mind is in Yellowknife

Many times I have thought about what to say when I sat down to write these thoughts. I’m not one to show a lot of emotion, but a person can only take so much bad news in a short period of time.

The North is my home and always will be, no one will ever be able to take that away from me. So many things make it my home, the land, the industry and the people. No matter who you are in Yellowknife, chances are you have been effected by the series of accidents that have happened over the last two months.

I have the utmost respect for those pilots who fly the northern skies. I look up to them. Since the age of 7 years old I have been flying in bush planes, I loved it. It was like nothing else. To be able to fly in a small aircraft while circling around a herd of caribou or musk-ox is a surreal experience, one that I would never trade. I suppose that is why it hurts to hear the news of these accidents, while i was flying around the north I don’t remember any major accidents like these ones. It seems like something isn’t right and I can’t figure it out.

It is tough to talk about these accidents, because I haven’t lost anyone that is extremely close to me, but have known those who have. They are good people, people I look up to, I just can’t bare to think how tough these times are for them. My thoughts and prayers are with them.

Yellowknife is a great place, no matter the what happens this community comes together and is strong. Those who we have lost will never be forgotten, they will inspire us.

The worst part for me is not being there and sharing the memories. Just like Dorothy says “There is no place like home” no matter the situation.

So as I mentioned in the first line I wasn’t sure how to write this, I’m still not really sure how to feel. I hope I was able to layout my thoughts. I also hope those who were affected, by any of the accidents, know that they have an entire community behind them and then all of us expats.

In Memory (2011)

 

John Goodman on Community is Awesome

I became a fan of the TV Show Community in June when a friend showed it to me on Netflix. I have also been a fan of John Goodman since the Flinstones and Rosanne.

Now the two have come together in EPICNESS. I love this trailer and I think I’m going to love his character.

Watch it and tell me how good it is!

So Steve Jobs has resigned

As pathetic as it may sound, when I first read that Steve Jobs had resigned yesterday afternoon I was taken aback. This all the tragic news this past week has possessed, I thought I was reading Steve’s last words (kind of like Jack Layton), but alas it was just a resignation letter. I was still taken back though.

I don’t follow the day to day workings of Apple so I’m sure with Tim Cooke at the helm it will all be fine, but there was still a nagging feeling in me that thought, if Steve Jobs leaves Apple will follow apart. And, yes, I know this sounds rather pathetic and I’m sure it makes me look like much more of a fanboy, but the way Apple was presented sometimes made it seems like Steve watched over everything.

What will happen in the next decade with Apple, will it become a big clunky company like Microsoft or will stay on top with it sleek looking, easy to use products. Time will only tell.

Steve Jobs Resigns