I've started this online challenge called 'Songfight' (songfight.org). What happens is, they give you the title of the tune and you have 2weeks to write and record your tune. I nailed the first week challenge in a night, but this week's challenge has been difficult. This weeks title is, 'Canadian Girlfriend'. Its due thursday and I'm going to do my damnedest to get a submission in. Runnin' to the wire though. If ou want you can still go and check out my last recording, its still up there on the site.
I got sick yesterday and it walloped me today. I went to work but I regretted doing that afterwards. I also regretted biking in today in freezing temperatures. I checked the temperature and it was 7degreesC but the windchill made it a minus celcius day. I had to decide whether to wear my touque or my helmet, and I chose the helmet. Both of those were the right decision. What I needed was a snowsuit. I only wore a sweater and a pair of cotton pants and froze myself stupid going in. The helmet saved my head when I slammed into a road construction sign. I just didn't see it, I was bent into the wind giving it everything I had to try and get there. It spit rain on me, then snow, and eventually the icy wind took all my strength away and got deep into my bones. My muscles gave up and the fever set in to stay with me all day. Its been a pretty miserable monday.So yeah, I'm workin! I had my eye on this print shop pretty much from the beginning. I dropped Tanya off to work one day and noticed it. Then we moved to where we are and it became an even better prospect. Its right across from Tanya's office, a 40min walk to home or 15mins on bike. I'm pretty lucky, jobs have always materialized right when I needed it to happen, and I dropped off a resume at exactly the same time another fellow was leaving. Being able to walk to and from work is a huge bonus with me cause I like to walk. Its a pre-press position, back to what I was doing in Ottawa 12 years ago. Lots to learn. Here's a kicker too, I'm making the same amount of money as I was in Moncton, except I'm taking home about 30% more money. This was one of the reasons we wanted to move here, the taxes are low. I mean, we were making decent money in Canada, but it was utterly impossible to build any kind of savings. Me personally, I have never had or have been able to save any of my own money. As long as I've been working I've been poor as hell, just barely surviving. If not for Tanya, I think I'd live a pretty down and out, mean existence. I don't know how families do it. And it kills me to see all that money being so carelessly thrown away on the machines and tables here in Vegas in the name of fun... I just don't understand it.
Tanya's dad was here all last week so we visited quite a few casinos. We also got out golfing which was our first outing here. It was a nice little community course called Desert Willow in Henderson. It was a beautiful day and I shot as well as I always do, on the green in two, plus 3 or 4 putts. The greens were pretty horrid. The beer cart came around the 10th hole and Tan and I each got one, and then we learned a hard lesson about golfing on a community course in the desert. Its not like back home where you can run off to the woods! There was absolutely nowhere to piss! I lost my first and only ball of the day on the 18th hole into a water trap that had a big fountain spurting water. That was it, I just couldn't finish the game in that state of mind so I left the cart and Tan and her dad and ran to the clubhouse.
We also went to see Criss Angel's show at the Luxor. I didn't really know who he was, or that he had a TV show all those years. But his show and the supporting cast was pretty good. I could use less of the rockstar screaming and crowd pumping stuff, but he seemed like a genuine guy who loves his craft so he sold me on it. And he IS a rockstar. He did some pretty cool tricks that I'm still trying to unravel in my mind, so I'd go back to see him again just to focus a keener eye on things. He has an amazing collection of custom motorcycles as you walk into his theatre. It wasnt' a full house for a friday night either. I've heard that his show isn't doing too well. No matter, I liked it and I'd recommend it.Tha's all for tonight folks. Thanks for reading.
TRJ
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