Shit!Well i told you how i was moving? I made my mind up and was happy with the decision. Then i got an email “Hi Luke, The Community Foundation is nearing their Annual General Meeting in April where some Board Members will be completing their 2 year terms. As you are very community-minded, I thought that you would be a great fit with the Foundation. Have you ever thought about joining? The time commitment is one meeting per month. There are also opportunities to sit on the following Advisory Committees, whether you’re on the Board or not: Let me know if you’re interested and we can talk more.” I know what your thinking. Holy shit! That is awesome. Congratulations! Yeah, that is what i thought. Then i remembered that i am moving. So it turns from a holy shit to a holy fuck! Why!! Why!! I do still want to move though. So i am going to turn down the opportunity and move. It sucks balls that this is happening now, but hopefully i can get on a board when i am all settled down in some place. Who knows what that place is though, only time will tell. ThinkingsSo this week for me has been a week full of thinking. What have i been thinking about. Well i have been thinking that i don’t want a mediocre relationship. Not that i have one, but i don’t want something that just trudges along. I value both parties to much to do something like that. I want to know that i am valued by and value the lady that i love. What brought this around? Well i was meant to tell my boss this week that i am leaving, and that i am moving down to the coast. I feel bad having to tell him that i am now leaving. It is kind of a sucky move. I am looking for a replacement now for me. It is hard to find people in this town. Also another thing that might have brought this on was, watching Family Practice, the spin off from Grey’s Anatomy. So i was watching the episode that the two black people had just broken up. They were wondering if they should be together, and the guy came to the conclusion that he only wanted to be with her cause it was easy. That he was only with her before cause they had a kid together and things were simple and no worries etc. I think that is the message they were trying to put anyhow. I really do love this town, Golden. It has a special place in my heart and i will miss it immensely. I know almost 1/3 of the people here, and feel like i am a real part of the community. Like i can make a difference. Something that i have never felt before in any other town that i have lived in. In one regard i don’t want to leave as i wonder if i will still like Canada as much as i do now. I am trying to think of reasons why i am scared. I think that with saying that i am leaving work, that it all becomes real. That i am moving for love, to follow my heart. Something i really haven’t done in, well ever. I have said it many times, but this time it feels different. That scares me. What does the future hold for me? I am not sure, i don’t even want to think about it at the moment. I am only looking to the next even, moving to Victoria, BC. That is far enough for me to be thinking. Really, That longI didn’t realise that it had been that long since i had posed something on here. I know, i know im slack and blah blah. It seems to be something at the back of the mind that you need to do something. Then it gets shuffled off into some other part of the brain. So i have been teaching, Just at the local college, never the less it has been fun, but nerve racking. I have enjoyed it immensely. The Mac course that i taught for 1 night was awesome fun and lots of people enjoyed it. Whilst the class was small in size it enabled me to do what ever i wanted and let the class decide what they wanted to do. I think of it as similar to a changecamp, but i call it Changeteaching. Not sure if there is something out there already by that name, but hey. Lets jump on the Web 2.0 bandwagon and declare something as cool. I am travelling to the nations capital on Thursday to see the hearts number one fan, my lady. She is super awesome and has been going to the gym getting healthy and stuff, whilst i have been sitting at home, driving the 5 mins to work and doing nothing. So i almost feel like it is a reversal of roles. Kinda weird, i really need to get more active and start running again so i can loose those New Zealand beer handles! I know that a lot of you that have seen them, say they are not big, but im worried and want to get rid of them as it is getting warm to start running again. Watch out, im donning the reflective pants and bandana again! I think that is about all that has been happening with me for the last little bit, im on Twitter now, so follow me. I have lots of useless stuff to say. Catch ya round on the internets. Ha, take that flu!So yesterday, i was coming down with a cold, i could feel it. Thick head, runny nose. So rather than battle the day out. I did something i normally wouldn’t do. I went home, took lots of pills and slept. Then i got up, took some more pills, ate then went to bed. First though i talked to my special lady, couldn’t not talk to her. In the morning, i woke up feeling fine, could breath thru the 2 nostrils i was given. I think i have beaten the cold. I am still taking the natural pills to help me build my resistance up to bugs again, but hopefully i am over it. Half a day down, and im back baby! Yeah! Eat shit cold, you suck, i rule! AbsentYes, i know. i have been gone for a while, yes i know it was around 2 months. Well let me tell you, i was away travelling around the world. I really need to setup email posts, that would solve my problems. It was a good time, if you hit up my flickr account, you will see some of my adventures, Cook islands, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland and Bay of Islands. Not a bad time over all. Got to see Z man, so that was cool, he is almost walking now. Crazy. So i promise to do more updates now im back in the land of cold and snow. I’ll try and pay more attention in future. Things are just moving so fast, even though i try and slow them down, it doesn’t always happen the way that i want. Getting coverageWell i have made it in Golden, I am a published critic of the paper. That is right, i got a letter published in the paper. I wrote a letter to the editor, and it got published. How about that. It was in response to this article. So i was disccused at that article. So i got replied and stated my opinion, and it got published. I’m laughing and honoured that they did that. So go and discuss it. It is all in the stimulus of getting Active Transportation into the press and out into the open more. Don’t know what to writeThere are so many things going on in my life at the moment that, if i had a briefest of moments i would share with you what i was up to. Maybe i can do it in 12 second intervals. See im on the beta for 12seconds.tv. So i might try and do that and then embed them here, so you can see me and also you can hear my weird dingo/ canuck voice that i have going on. Its weird. Really weird. Active TransportationI went to an active transportation forum tonight. Seeing that i can’t sleep and am excited about it, i thought that i would write about what i know and learnt tonight. So what is active transportation? Well it is basically anything that uses the body for motion, walking, riding, skateboarding, roller blading, wheelchairs etc. The idea is to create communities that can use these functions much more easily and thus rely less on the cost and associated problems related with car usage. It’s not about saying that cars are bad, boo cars. It is about saying, hey this lifestyle that i lead is unhealthy. I should be getting at least 30 mins of exercise a day but I’m only getting 2 mins. I need to do something about that. It is about making us less reliant on oil and more healthy and dependable on ourselves. I like the idea, it sure makes me think that it can be done, not only that, it must be done. The example was errands, how many times have your driven to the shops, only a few blocks away instead of riding, or walking? Sure it was convenient but how much CO2 did you put out into the environment, to save you that 10 mins? The average American walks 800 metres a day! That is a stunning and shameful fact, Canada is not far off. So i am very interested in seeing how much I can do in Golden to change attitudes and regulations. What can be done to make this situation change? How can things in Golden change? Studies were put forward stating that if nothing it done about this that the cost of helping all the people that are obese in relation to BMI (Body Mass Index) the health system is going to crash, along with everything else. It is not a matter of if’s it is a matter of whens. Children need 90 mins of activity every day, yet somehow they don’t get it. Instead they get over 5 hours of TV a day. How does this add up? It doesn’t it just makes me wonder and resolvant to make sure my kids are fit and healthy regardless of where they live. It does sound like a lot of dooms and glooms, but in reality, its the truth. The investment now is really a long life investment for the future. North America is 20-30 years behind Europe. There is lots more going on there about biking and active transport than is even being considered here. To finish up i am giving you some links about Active Transportation, so you can see just how important and relevant it is today and in the future. Goodbye, i hope it isn’t for everWell on Tuesday the 26th August, 2008 at 6.45am. The most significant person in my life (second to my parents) to date walked out my front door, and drove 8 hours away to Victoria, British Columbia. It was a sad day, even now, i get a little teary to know that it will be a while before i see her again. I have enjoyed spending the last year with her. Even if at times it was fucked up and weird. We both learnt lots about us, ourselves and each other. I wouldn’t change anything currently (except maybe for the 8hrs away). We both know that this is the right thing to do, for her. It is tough being here, but im excited about business ideas that are coming to a head and also about what the future holds for me. It is really an exciting time for both of us. I wanted to keep this short. I also wanted her to know that i’m thinking of her. |