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By this time everything is going pretty well with my 4-legged friends. They are used to me, and I also know which ones I need to keep a closer eye on, which ones will try to fight who. etc etc. So things are getting pretty routine. You could even say that I’m in a rut.

In the evenings Kev and I are doing various home renovation projects, so I’m doing hardware store runs, drinking Corona, watching Holmes on homes fully domesticated, blah, blah, stick me in a wooden box.

Then a week ago today I had my first ever car-car accident. I have hit stationary objects before, trees, other parked cars, frozen snow banks, and of course crashed my bicycles more times than I can count. Last week, even I was skiing downhill, and going under a bridge, well snow doesn’t fall beneath bridges, so I biffed it pretty bad, sliding around 10 meters on the pavement. Picked up some road rash there, not really helping my skies any in the process.

I was driving Kevin’s Element northward, homeward, and Kevin was driving his Focus westward. I look up as I’m preparing to bang a left, and think, aw nice, there’s Kev driving over to his parents. As I step on the brakes, the ABS action kicks in on the icy roads. I look up only to see Kevin’s Focus in the same predicament, sliding downhill through a stop sign at twice my velocity.
Focus kissed Element.
At least this way a third (or even second) party needn’t even be involved. I was first out of the car, and laughing so hard that standing was difficult (kinda like when Crookham ran his boat aground twice in one evening). Though Kev wasn’t as quick to get out and laugh, he was really optimistic. Pointing out that it was convenient, compared to accidents in which strangers, or even friends that no 2nd party would be involved in the insurance claim. And that if I hadn’t been there to destroy the front of his Focus, he would have surly spun, and hit the guard rail side-on resulting in much more damage. So really it was a god-send that I had been there to bounce him back into the roadway.

Is it Normal to find e-mails like this in ones inbox?

I had to work on some school papers so I didn’t have much time to check
stuff out, like e-mails. I hope you are divine, who you just must be, I
mean with that wonderful spirit of yours. So how have your last 5 weeks
been? If my calculations are correct -you Mr…. should now be in Canada
once again, right? Today you came up in an odd conversation…We were
talking about the most interesting characters we’ve ever met…and you were
one of mine…Exciting right Natalio? So is your brother marry yet? Well my
train buddy I hope everything is just dandy in your life…although a little
excitement never killed anyone right? Well hope to hear from you soon, don’t
forget the Eurotrip. July—-2007

Well, I guess the e-mail is just saying how a-normal I am. Kelly, you hear that, I’m not unstable, I’m ‘interesting’. Check? INTERESTING.

Dog Walking Drama

Well with a client base comprised mostly of middle aged single women, I might as well be working as an escort (Mom, this isn’t actually fact). One 55 year old (she is a Russian mole in the Cdn government) tells me that I didn’t walk her dog long enough and that it’s not tired enough. I have now done some walking in these woods, and in the hour run, I cover 2.5h of walking territory. So I told the mole, that I will spot her 30 minutes and duel her for $1/minute over this same loop. If she has any smarts she will realize that I am a mutant gladiator, and withdraw from the contest.

Well it made my day just thinking about it. Yours truly, as well as the pooches, is fitter for having snow scrambled, rambled for an hour a day over 3 weeks now.

Operation Blind Date - yes. It’s exactly what it sounds. I will be in transit for 16h, flying on a one way flight, most of the way up to the arctic, in winter. Good bye, warmth, good bye daylight, good bye….

Ironic that this time last year I was closer to the Equator than ever before, with rivulets of sweat running down my back, while I sunburned.

As I have never met Jen in person, I’m trying to make my best impression, and assembling an ‘Alaska Costume’ complete with not shaving my face for the past 15 days (it now looks like I have a 3 day growth).