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.