I’m not dead, i swear.
I know I haven’t really posted this week, and I have a legit reason this time!
A while ago I was asked to build a website. I won’t explain what it’s about quite yet, as I’m still building the theme for the thing, which has been an adventure. I always forget how finicky PHP is, and then I start coding in it for something and I want to shoot myself in the head. It dies when you don’t think it would, and then works when by all logic it shouldn’t. Joy oh joy.
I’ll give a quick rundown of what’s been going on, and I’ll try and get some reviews out this weekend between coding stints.
So I spent the weekend up in North Bay visiting Theresa, and so I didn’t really have a post ready for Monday. Yeah, it’s a lack of planning on my part but that’s just how it goes.
In any case I just drove 5 hours to get home. I’m tired, I’m hung over, and I just had a bath wherein no one told me that there was shower cleaner present on every surface of the damned tub. Here’s hoping I don’t get a rash or mutate through the night.
This is going to sound like an odd article, as I have yet to write anything on this site remotely reflective or contemplative. I don’t know why, actually but that’s just how it’s turned out. In any case, I was talking to Theresa on Sunday when the topic of my friend Norm moving to Japan. She commented on how she was jealous of those who have “free lives” or those who can just “up and do it.” She also made the comment that not all of them succeed, to which I responded with “those are the ones that lack the strength of character to see it out.”
So it’s been a while since I did anything regarding a personal post, and for good reason. I’m trying to avoid making too many, but instead I am focusing filling the site with content that people would actually wish to read. I know my personal life is both exhilarating and awe-inspiring, I wish not to bore you, the readers, with my mystical tales of life as a Web Developer.
I recently watched “Across the Universe,” a musical that takes place in the 1960s involving Jude (Jim Sturgess) as a dock worker who sets off from Liverpool to find his father. Upon the sad and simple meeting of his estranged father, Jude befriends Max (Joe Anderson) wherein he meets Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood).
The three migrate to New York to see where life takes them. Jude and Lucy hook up and are painfully in love. A lot of the movie is based entirely around their evolving love; through their dizzying highs (literally in some cases) and depressing lows.
I had the chance to watch this movie at about 3 in the morning after Theresa suffered a horrible coughing fit (she developed a cough while at school). She decided to put a movie on since she has this amazing habit to fall asleep to any movie she sets her mind to. I sadly do not have the same ability. In fact I could go so far as to say that if a movie is being played, I’ll be drawn to it like a moth to the flame, regardless of the quality of the movie. All it takes is one hook and it’s over.
I created a gallery of Duchesnay Falls, which Theresa and I visited over the past weekend. Feel free to have a look.
I have to say that I’m a little shocked that North Bay actually had such a beautiful waterfall so close to the road. If you park your car at the exceptionally small lot by the path, walk 5 minutes up hill, and brave the bugs, you’ll be presented with a very nice waterfall.