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Out of Yellowknife Vacation – Day 2,3,4

Well I better get on this as I have already let you down with my daily posts of my “eventful” trip.

If you follow me on twitter @the_bushman is will already have a good idea as to what I have been up to in the last couple days but let me fill the rest of you in.

My second day in Edmonton was much like the first. I was up early because I can no longer sleep for more than 6 hours at a time, so I came online until 11am. At that time my friends came and picked me up from my hotel and we grabbed bunch on our way back to the West Edmonton Mall. At the mall I got a new laptop/camera backpack that I quite like, as well I got to go in the Apple store and take in all the nice things that can be found there. I was told I looked completely out of place in the store as I was the only person with a plaid jacket and country look. There is another one of those moments where I feel out of place in this world.

After visiting a couple other stores around town we went to a $3.50 movie theatre and watched Marley and Me. A movie about the life of a untamed dog and his owners. Leaving the movie at about 6pm we decided it was definitely time for supper. Swiss Chalet was decided upon and off we went to find one. Once finding a rather busy one, I was able to enjoy a nice rack of robs with a garlic loaf. Eating that meal was an evening event of its own so when we were finished at the restaurant we all retired to our hotels for a good night sleep before our trek back to BC the next morning.

The Next Morning: Day 3,

Monday was ultimately uneventful except out flat tire while we were trying to leave Edmonton. The flat delayed us almost 2 hour but no matter we were getting out of there one way or another. After the 6.5 hour drive through places like Whitecourt, Valleyview, Grande Prairie, Beaver Lodge, and Dawson Creek we finally arrived at the House just off the highway here in BC. As it wasn’t that late a movie was put on but I was again way to tired and crashed.

Day 4,

After a breakfast of eggs, bacon and potatoes we headed in to Dawson Creek to go grocery shopping as it was direly needed. While heading in to town we quickly stopped by a wee bit of property with a cabin on it 10 minutes out of town that was for sale. A smile comes across my face as my imagination runs wild of the possibilities. Oh one can dream.

That concludes the last 3 days.

I am looking forward to tonights meal of Butcher Block steaks and potatoes.

Owner of Paper Mill & Youtube

Okay you know how I sometimes go on and on about how great Google is and how I think it could be one of the best things for the Internet. Yeah! Well I found one of its flaws this morning. Ads!

As you may know Google bought Youtube, which is all part of their giant plan of owning the Internet ( evil laugh ) I am guessing. No I’m joking, but if you look at what they own they’re doing pretty darn good.

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Note* Little off topic but Google just bought a paper mill in Finland. What you say a paper mill in the digital world. Why would they want that. Well the paper company had gone out of business early in 2008 after operating for 53 year. (wonder if Google will ever go out of business, wouldn’t that be funny) Google spokes people say that they have plan to build a new data center on the property as well as give some of the land back to the town which it is located in.

What I’m getting at here is lately I have taken up watching more videos on Youtube, lets just say working nights can bore some. While I have been watching Youtube something started to really bother me, it was the Google Ads that would pop up WHILE the video is playing. That drove me nuts, it would cut off a 3rd of the video screen size. Not only that but it would do what an ad is suppose to do, draw my attention to it rather than the video. That is what I don’t like. I realize people are putting up their videos for free and it does cost to run the site but could we please just stick to the ads on the right hand side above the user info? I think something better could be worked out so that Youtube could raise a little more money. For example look at what Yahoo(Soon to be purchased by Google, in my dreams) did with Flickr. They allowed users to upload so many photos a day or month and limited your from adding more sets(albums) unless you bought a pro package and then you had unlimited everything. All it cost was a Whopping $20.00, whipty freakin do! Unless you take tons of photos you don’t need the pro package, which should be the same for Youtube. Average or everyday users can have a free accounts but with basic limits and then for more frequent users pay a small one time fee. I’m sure there would be a small up roar but in the long run I think it would be worth it. No?

Let me know what you think?

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I’m Hungry and Tired

Okay I don’t know where this one is coming from. The last 24 hours I haven’t done much, maybe some thinking? I’ve been awake for that long now and I think its getting to me, that and the lack of food in the last 10 hours. By the way I’m not eating out dated cheese strings and hot chocolate.

The thinking I have been doing, I don’t know what it is? Its hard to explain and I hope I am able to get the most of it across.  I like to help people with their problems. It is what I do at work and it seems I do it with my friends as well.  At work I deal with kids who have the temptation of Drug and Alcohol or are trying to start a new life and are struggling finding a job and a safe place to go, much more intense than anything a friend has thrown at me yet. The issues with my friends have mainly been relationship related or are about life, but we all come from good homes and have jobs that are stable. I like it and I believe I’m good at it (I hope, if not “I’m Sorry”) I can see the options and can weigh them out, find the worse case scenario and avoid it.

Now you may ask yourself, What has that got to do with anything? Truthfully, I have no clue. I just felt I needed to write it down. Obviously I am avoiding something myself……. My own issue… The fact that I don’t want anybody on the receiving end when I vent my own problems, rants, misery, or stress. Instead I’m just keeping it all bottled up! Stupid I know.  I’m not sure why, I just think I don’t want people to have to listen to me (I’m sure I’m going to get comments on this post) or I don’t want people to listen to me. I’m building my Wall. I watched the Survivor Finally on Sunday evening and one of the players Randy who was voted off said he best friend for the last 15 years was his dog. That’s partially why he was mean on the show, he has a wall and wont let anyone in. Sadly enough I think that is what part of me wants, not to be mean but to be alone with a dog. Off in the bush somewhere just the dog and I. I’m constantly dreaming about just leaving and not telling anyone, or shutting off all communication devices and closing out the world. Maybe it denial. I really need to follow up on this post! But Have to End it Here for Now.

There is to much Drama.

Teenagers seem to love drama. Whether it is just on TV or if it is in their own lives. I never realized how shows like The O.C., One Tree Hill, The Hills, Degrassi and other shows like that are just like a lot of teens lives. I have never really been apart of it and I don’t want to be. I don’t have much to say about this topic because I can’t get it in to writing. I think most of the stuff is just stupid so I can’t properly write about it, yet I have no problem writing about politics….

Here’s a couple things I have noticed, whether true or not, it what I have picked up on. Lying, I watched a situation blow up over of a lie that might not have even been said just made up to better one person. Now its almost like a gang war.  There are 2 sides and they continue to send rather unintelligent cluster of words to each other. They do not seem to be getting anywhere and are mad at each other and this is what destroys friendships half the time. It is unfortunate.

NEXT! is a situation with less, whats the word, anger? What do you do when you like your best friend? What do you do when you like your best friend again, meaning you got over it and now its back. Well Lets review……. You tell them, they don’t talk to you anymore in fear it is going to be awkward. What if you have done this and time has passed and you have become friends again and the feeling arises again. What do you do then? Because you know the out come, they’ll leave you as a friend, then your really screwed or You don’t tell them at all and go on being there friend and occasionally become depressed about the ordeal.  I’m directly related to this situation and don’t know what to make of it, I can normally come up with a solution, but I can, at least not yet.

I will write back again.

But do you see how in both situations it creates tension in friendships and nothing good can come from them in the present unless there is a civilized solution.

Think about it Huh!

It will work out

We are young and have a long road a head of us. Some of us have debt but we know that and we want to better ourselves. I realized that we can’t just live on the edge seat all the time we need to make sure we can support ourselves in the worst. Recently I have learned about not stressing, I know stress, its my specialty. Its my worst enemy and you must think, “but why, your only 18”. Well lets look at what stress me: I am only 18 but I am 18 and have almost been out of school for a year and have absolutely no idea what to do with my life and its been this way for the last 3 years. That’s not something I should stress about, I am young and I need to enjoy life before having to deal with its reality but I can’t. I want to be able to support myself financially and to properly do this I need some sort of further education, whether it is a trade or degree. There is no way I can could support my self right now. I want to much which leads me to my second stress. The Truck. a year and a half ago at the age of 16 I went $8000 into dept to buy a truck I wanted, well guess what I’m still paying it off. Had I known better I might not of bought it but then again I think I would have but pushed a little hard to pay it off. I hope to have it paid off before mid march…. will see how long those plans last because you never know when something is going to happen and you need to spend a little more then planned. Which is number three. The snowmobile, okay maybe not the snowmobile its self but the most recent issue with this reason has to do with the snowmobile. I took another $2000 out of the line of credit to get it and with only a couple hours of riding on it I blew a piston. Which is long job to change not to mention how much it cost. Its these unexpected payments I have to make to make sure everything is working. I was lucky this time around I was able to do most of the work myself with guidance from a friend.

If there is one thing I have learned about stress or not stressing is that the problem which you are stressing over will work its self out eventually you just need to be patient. I will find something to do one day, probably nothing that I or anyone else is expecting but I will do something. I will pay the truck off eventually and yes there maybe problems with it but they will get fixed one way or another and the same with the snowmobile. I maybe bored today but maybe tomorrow will bring something or someone new……..

Never live in regret and never look back, you never know when something is gaining on you.