Ugh, Weather went from like -17C this morning to just above freezing now. I mentioned a science journal lately published a report that rain, itself, doesn't cause arthritis flare ups or 'joint pain'.... But as I mentioned it's not the rain itself, it's the barometric pressure.
What's ailing me this evening are my ribs. Old breaks, sprains even just some place that you might hit real hard, will come back to haunt you later as osteoarthritis. I broke my ribs in 1998, sometimes when it rains it comes back to haunt me and it's haunting me. Hell it's possessing me.
When I was up early this morning to pop my Naproxen (anti-inflammatory), I saw that I'd received an email and when I saw that it was a 8.0 had struck, at first I'm kinda, hmm used to seeing those numbers and it being somewhere in the middle of the ocean or something like that, so my eyes bugged out when I saw it was the Gulf of Alaska. Of course in 1964 there was a massive quake that caused a sizeable tidal wave that smashed Anchorage and other cities along the coast, so an 8.0 is pretty good, a tusnami alert was issued for almost the entire West coast. What I guess we didn't know/take into account was that this was a 'strike-slip' quake, which is a horizontal quake so unlike a subduction quake, it's not displacing as much water. Subduction quakes can have the ocean floor 'snap' up and it can displace mass amounts of water, like in Japan, that will send tsunami's barreling towards the coastlines. So, give the size of the quake, which was over the day downgraded to a 7.9 didn't cause much if any real damage. Now there's been some real sizeable aftershocks, some almost as large as the original quake. I'm seeing in news reports that with this quake people are extremely happy with the time given from the time the quake happened to the sirens going off, emergency texts and calls sent out, a lot of people managed to get away from the coast. Sad thing is, people can become complacent, sometimes quakes and major natural disasters can not send death hurtling to populated areas, so when they happen again, people will think, "Ohh nothing to worry about", always react! Always follow emergency instructions and damn it! Always have an emergency kit! I've got one! You should have one, it should be able to help you and your family for at the least 48 hours at the most a week or more. have batteries, flashlights, first aid kits, some food, some clothing, some blankets, stuff for your kids, an emergency radio, some cash. A natural disaster won't be as goofy as you see in the movies, but it'll be real and frightening. I'm glad everyone is safe and sound on the West Coast.
That graphic at the begining of this blog is a great piece of art by 'Pushead', one of, if not my favorite artist. He's been known to do a lot of artwork for Metallica, Rush, a lot of Japanese bands. I have some great pieces by him, a few shirts, even sneakers with his work on them. What is crazy is that the Japanese have made these toy lines out some of his works and those tiny figures, like less than 3inches tall are over $2-300!! lol Makes me mad, because there's some cool stuff by him.
One piece I've always wanted was the 'Jar Of Pus' kit :
There's variations of this sculpture, some are glow in the dark, some are metal... But all of them are expensive...
I do have a 3D sculpture of 'The Wave'
As well as my Pushead skate deck from Conspiracy Skateboards. I dig skulls and I love the way that Pushead draws them. Almost all of his works have skulls in them and are just mind blowing. I've been told because of his style that he does his art that a replica tattoo of one of his works would be near impossible, but I've seen some decent ones.
Dude is amazing!
Well just as I had finished writing an email to a friend in California, I had said, 'Well looks like the next snowstorm is passing us by unscathed'... Then I went to my hotmail and there's weather warnings for Sussex, Edmunston and Fredericton... Possibly 15+cm But the temperatures are still bearable, so like I've said, 'it can snow to the rafters, just as long as it ain't below -10°C.
Was out for a nice walk today, been trying to get out everyday that the weather isn't being a jerkface. I've gained weight as I'm not walking up to the University most days, also I need to get out so I'm not sitting here with the heat on too high.. Who knows what my heating bill will be like this year, I had been trying to keep it as low as possible, the last two bills have been below $200, so I'm happy about that... I am a little worried about this next bill because it has those near two weeks of crazy ass ridiculous cold weather. I have been using my oil heaters, so hopefully that'll help, that was my plan for this Winter.
Spring is 44 days away, but that date/day doesn't mean Winter is over, heck it could snow until freakin May!
Last night I had a great laugh. I need to thank my Brother Scott and Sister-in-law for the string that was wrapped around my Christmas present... I have to play with Elsa each night before bedtime or it's scratches to the face for me... I had been toying around with this string and she was really fighting with it. I had gone into the kitchen and then came back in to find her playing with the string like mad, I hadn't seen her play by herself in a while and she batted, scratched, rolled, jumped around with that string like a mad woman! Then when she turned and saw me watching, she arches her back, puffs up her hair and jumps up in the air and takes off under the desk. It was so funny. She's been doing that enraged fluffy body thing since she was a kitten. She's just hilarious and that's what I love about cats, they are all mad in the head.
A few years ago, after I had moved back from Vancouver, I had become interested in the story of the Loyalists who had settled in Fredericton (before it was called Fredericton). Growing up with our house adjacent to a Loyalist cemetery, we had always been told that only Three to four people were buried there. The cemetery which has two tombstones and a Loyalist memorial. The story we knew was that two persons were buried by these older tombstones and one person or possibly two were buried beneath the memorial. The memorial told just part of the story of Loyalists who had passed away during their first Winter and that's about all we knew.
It turns out the story was much different.
Loyalist memorial located adjacent to Elmcroft place, Fredericton, NB
Late in the Summer of 1783 Loyalists to Britain were driven out of New York and took ships to the safety of Saint John known then as Fort Sainte Marie. As we know many of these Loyalist settlers after landing in Saint John once again boarded ships that took them up the Saint John river to a settlement that at the time was called 'Saint Anne's point' (A couple years later renamed 'Frederic's town or Fredericton)
As the story goes, the Loyalists had arrived at Saint Anne's point and due to an extremely early and intense Winter, over 30 men, women and children perished that Winter more than likely because of inadequate shelter and ruined crops brought on by the onset of the 'early and extremely intense' weather.
Now living in New Brunswick or even Atlantic Canada we're familiar with how brutal our Winter's can be. But was there something that made the Winter of 1783 particularly more intense and extreme than 'normal'? It appears that this just may be the case.
While watching a documentary on unraveling the mystery of mass graves in the UK, graves and deaths that would indicate that these people had died a particularly mysterious end, it was noted that in the Summer of 1783 volcanic activity in Iceland had been pretty intense and prolonged.
It was said in this documentary that the eruption of the Laki or Lakagígar volcano put out more lava in 3 months than the current eruptions in Hawaii have in 30 years. This eruption by the Fall of 1783 had spread so much debris into the atmosphere that all over the globe that it created somewhat of a ice age, from 1683 until around 1689 Winter's were quite harsh. In fact in 1685, it's said that the Mississippi river had ice in it. This abrupt change in climate had effects all over the Northern hemisphere. Much of history around this time talks about the "Summer's that never came" or "year long Winters".... So it can be now easily seen how when these Loyalists landed in Fredericton, that because of the change in the Northern atmospheric climate, which caused this early and extreme Winter which ended up being a virtual death sentence for these poor settlers that had already gone through so much.
Before I began to work as the music director at CHSR-FM and before the band had got back together, I had been working on kind of an investigation into the Loyalist cemetery on Waterloo Row, although it's more adjacent to Elmcroft place (off Waterloo Row) and is accessed via a dirt road that runs down along the Saint John river at the Morell baseball field.
I was shocked to learn that what we had learned growing up, with this Loyalist cemetery literally in our backyard (At one time, property plans showed it was part of the property, but was later sold to the city who intermittently provided grounds care of the place) had not 3 but close to 30 souls buried within. What else shocked me was that there is no record of WHO these people are, what names their families had. According to the story, they had been buried with haste and only wooden grave markers were put in place that eventually rotted away over the years. I've had the thought, that possibly some or all of these people may have been moved to whats 'formerly' known as the 'Loyalist cemetery' which is located between Brunswick and George streets in Fredericton. Through some investigation and study at the Fredericton archives, located at the University of New Brunswick, I had found out that the two gravestones at the cemetery were in fact two persons and possibly a dog buried at a later date, but only a few years after the original burials after the Winter of 1783. Now with more free time and with this new possible 'motive' to how these people perished, I may restart my investigation. I'd like, if it could happen to do a documentary, this would entail asking the University of New Brunswick archaeology dept and Geology dept to help out. I'd like to have ground penetrating radar scan the grounds to find out where these bodies lay, then, once I've hopefully found out the names of as many people buried there as I can, have the graves dug up and then see if some DNA could be extracted, that combined with my other studies to find the names of these people interred there, we could then find the living relatives to these people and possibly give them proper burials instead of being buried en masse.
It's an idea.
Here's a link to the source of my information and will give you, should you wish to explore further why I believe this eruption had an impact on the Loyalist settlers of 1783. These eruptions had a major impact on the global environment, and again, reading the provided link information will give you an idea. https://www.wired.com/2013/06/local-and-global-impacts-1793-laki-eruption-iceland/
So, yeah, we were supposed to get quite a wallop of a storm, I'm hearing other parts of the Atlantic provinces did. Man, feel bad for parts of Nova Scotia, they've been hit by every single storm so far and it's been knocking out power after power... They seem to be getting people hooked up and then the next storm tramples through like a child running through another child's building blocks.
The forecast yesterday for this storm looked and sounded pretty crazy.... We had the temps climb up around +11 and then winds were to pick up, heavy rainfall, which we did get, but then this morning (Jan 13) the temp was to plummet to -2 in the order of just about an hour or so giving rise to an alert I've never even seen or heard before. The "Flash Freeze" never came to fruition.
"Flash freeze" sounds like what happened during the end of the last ice age, where years ago now, they found woolly mammoths frozen to death with food still in their mouths and throats, it's also vaguely similar to a couple of scenes in the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' where there's like some kind of 'polar vortex' mixed with this massive downdraft that freezes any life solid in seconds!
So I was up earlier this morning, all the ice had been cleared from the driveway with the warm temps and rain through the night, which was a bonus, but then I thought since it'd be changing to this flash freeze and freezing rain into tonight, well what point in being awake! So i slept most of the day away and woke up a few times to eat and see the lay of the land, then I checked the weather warnings and they'd all been rescinded! Hey, sometimes it happens. Any of ya's that know me know I'm a storm buff, I love storms, so it was a let down... Not a let down of course for those now without power... So no the forecast is just for some spotty rain/freezing rain/snow... But nothing to get out the emergency kit for! Oh well, some storms are good, some ain't so good... At least the ton of snow and ice that was on the roof is gone!
Need an 'Edit' here:
So, was just reading the CBC's news for New Brunswick and it would seem that Fredericton escaped quite a weather missile. While we didn't lose power (at least my area), many customers did AND at least 6 roads and highways are closed because they were washed out. Above normal temperatures with the rain and frozen ground has caused flooding and roads and highways to be demolished by rising waters! Shesh, we did dodge 'the bullet'!
'I Feel Love' -
Now don't get all excited and think, "Ohhhh Chris has met a woman!!!".... Nope, no woman, but a cool discovery for me.
I woke up for my meds early this morning and usually when I'm up for that, I end up staying up and watching some documentary or finding some old music vids to watch... I woke up and for some reason I had the 'Bee Gee's' in my head... So I brought up on Youtube 'Night Fever' - While watching this video, as we all know, Youtube has all kinds of 'suggestion' and 'related' videos to the side and one of those videos was a song called, 'I Feel Love' by Donna Summer. I'm not a huge or even small Donna Summer's fan, but for some reason I clicked on the video and was wowed by the ear candy I received.
Now let me sidetrack for a bit... As I'm prone to say, 'Those that know me', know I love music... All kinds, all genres, '70's, '80's, '90's to current, right across the board.... So in 1994, when I had moved to Vancouver, the first job I secured was with 'Paradise Entertainment' - I always thought that sounded like some kind of stripper outfit lol - But no, they were a massive lighting and sound production house that had the contract for the the 'Plaza Of Nations', which was built in the mid '80's' for Expo '86' (which my Brothers, Dad and I attended, our first excursion by car out West)... So being back at the Plaza was a bit of a head trip, so much deja vu feeling. So, Paradise Entertainment, they didn't just have the contract for events at the plaza, but also did dances, weddings, parties, karaoke, you name it.
Since I'd done some DJing at CHSR before I left and had MC'd some Fredericton events, the powers that be at Paradise asked me if I'd go out and do some DJing for them and since it was a job, since it was money, since it was getting out and getting experience, getting out in all parts of the Lower Mainland of Vancouver, I jumped at the chance.
I had some great times, super huge parties, crazy weddings at some of the richest venues in town, eating foods I'd never even heard of, meeting all kinds of great people.
I did and do hate karaoke, I think it's like the Antichrist of music, I know my Brother and his girlfriend are quite fond of getting up havin some drinks and partying the night away at karaoke bars, but I just don't dig it and hell, I'm a singer!
Anyhow, so DJing exposed me to all kinds of great music, in all kinds of great genres, Paradise had this huge room full of vinyl and CDs, so I'd spend what downtime I had checking out some great beats and making mixed tapes to listen to.
On one of these mixed tapes, there was a song, and for quite a long time, because I had not written down who was on that mixed tape, I had NO clue who this artist was or even the name of the song, though I had guessed from the chorus and most prominent spoken lines of the song was 'Sunshine After The Rain'.
That song actually got me through one of the most trying, hardest, grueling times of my life and I had no clue who it was performed by.
Years later, around the late 1990's, early 2000's, with the advent of the computer, I searched out this song and found that the version I had on this mixed tape was performed by 'New Atlantic featuring 'Berri', so now I finally had the answer to who did this song, but that's only part of the history of that song.
'Sunshine after the Rain' was originally written and performed by Ellie Greenwich in 1968 and then was re-recorded and performed by Elkie Brooks in 1977, it was a kinda a sad slow song and the chorus was extracted and use in the 'New Atlantic' version in the 1990's as a monster club hit.
So the tracks been a long time favorite or mine. But what I didn't know was the connection between 'Sunshine After the Rain' and 'I Feel Love' by Donna Summer's. Because of Wikipedia many times when I run across a movie or song, I'll check out the info on it at Wikipedia.
'I Feel Love' was was written by Donna Summers with production by Georgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte during the Disco age. A lot of disco songs featured live orchestrations, but Moroder wanted to do something different with this track and instead of an acoustic orchestrated session he wrote the song purely digitally. It's said that David Bowie was recording an album at the same time and his producer having heard 'I Feel Love' rushed in on Bowie and said "This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years." Which was more or less right."
The song is said to be the advent of many genres of music today, including: Dance, Techno, Post Punk and New Wave.
So this is where things get crazy. Well maybe 'crazy' is a bit too big a word, but neat, cool.... When New Atlantic was writing their 1994 album that featured 'Sunshine After the Rain', 'I Feel Love' was 'interpolated' for the song. So this may be why the song hit me so hard when I heard it because essentially the music that underlies 'Sunshine After The Rain' is 'I Feel love'.... So cool!
Perusing around on Youtube I found that there is a live version of 'I Feel Love' done by Blondie as well as the innovative art trio the 'Blueman Group'.
When I first heard 'I Feel Love' this morning, my brain was on fire, 'How could I have not heard of this song? How did this manage to slip by me, especially since it is the bones of 'Sunshine After the Rain'?'
I really like how I've just stumbled across mind blowing music over the years, how one video leads to another and can open up sonic doorways...
So let's check out these versions!
Donna Summer - 'I Feel Love' (Extended Mix)
Sunshine After the Rain - New Atlantic feat. Berri
So I don't know who's reading this blog, but for those of you who don't know. In 2000, pretty much out of nowhere I was struck down with psoriatic arthritis - From Wikipedia: "Psoriatic arthritis is a form of arthritis that affects some people who have psoriasis — a condition that features red patches of skin topped with silvery scales. Most people develop psoriasis first and are later diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, but the joint problems can sometimes begin before skin lesions appear."
Now, my psoriasis didn't set in for years into my disease process. Some people who have psoriasis never have the arthritis and some with the arthritis never develop the skin lesions... My arthritis began in my feet, my toes, ankles are riddled with it, so much so that I had four toes on my left foot reconstructed because they were so twisted by the disease. My right foot is a bit better but someday I'll need the reconstruction on those toes. The arthritis spread to my knees, lower back, spine, a couple ribs that I broke in 1997, it's in my elbows and has effected my fingers and even my jaw.
Since I moved back from Vancouver to my hometown in New Brunswick, I've fared quite well...Usually each year there seemed to be some joint somewhere that flared up to the point of agony and very visible inflammation. Since around 2013, I've just weathered the wear and tear already done by the arthritis. My rheumatologist in Vancouver had told me, "Even if they 'cure' your arthritis, you'll always live with the pain from the damage done"... Not the greatest outlook...
Although recently there was a science story that said that rain did not have any effect on arthritis or joints (some people believe that it does), it's not the rain that effects me, and what is still true, is not that rain is the problem, it's the rain that's the problem, it's the changes in barometric pressure. These are the changes that cause me grief and have caused me the most grief since my arthritis process seemed to have settled down.
Well last month my 'ring' finger began to ache, more precisely, the 'main' knuckle... I dug out my orthotic rings that I had made back in BC and hoped that might help. The orthotic rings, made of sterling silver help to keep the fingers from deforming. My 'index' finger is still somewhat deformed, but nothing compared to the 'S' shape it used to be. But not that 'ring' finger, well I can't even straighten it out, which is a bad sign and it's hot and swollen.
If you know what to look for you can see it in this photo:
The rheumatologist that I was seeing, well we had a falling out. I wont go into why, but let's just leave it at that other doctors and specialists, patients all agree the guy is an asshole. So, my 'nurse/practitioner' sent two referrals to him and he won't see me, the other rheumatologists in the city are full up. So I'll see what my 'nurse/practitioner' can do/recommend. The province of New Brunswick is in desperate need of general practitioners, so much so, that after 5 years on the doctor/patient waiting list, and thousands of other New Brunswickers in the same boat, the government decided that the best thing to do was to let these nurse / practitioners see patients, as essentially they are 'doctors', but just short of being so. They can prescribe meds, take care of basic needs, make referrals. It's the best they can do and I'm grateful to at least have her. I have a 'finger splint', so I'll see what kind of relief I can get from that, along with putting ice on the swollen joint. I hope it's not a sign that my disease process is firing back up, 2016 was probably the worse year I've had health wise and a lot of the extra-curricular activities I was apart of, the radio station/music director job, the Crazy Train radio show and the band I had to let go of because of my health.
In other news, good actually, the music video that was shot by 'Creeker Films' last January is just about finished its editing process. So I'm stoked to see that once it's released. As it's part of a movie, the band has little say on when it'll be released or where. The director, Jared Carney had told me last year that the video would be the trailer for the film 'Kill Scene' which is a full length horror movie made up of several stories, the music video, 'Kill Scene - Zombie Nation' will be like an interlude in the film. Which is pretty dang cool if ya asks me!
So stay tuned for news on that.
The weather's gotten nicer, today we hit +1, we did have a snow squall, but I made it home before then. This Thursday and Friday the temps will reach +6 and +8 and Saturday it'll be mild, but we'll have a snow storm, dumping an estimated 20 some cm of snow, we'll have a couple colder days after that, but then until Jan 23 the daytime highs are all above -6 so I can live with that!
OK, you all will roll your eyes after I type out the 'bad news'. But it's just disheartening to have something you've been a fan of most of your life turned to crap before your and the World's eyes.
Growing up, like most kids, I liked comics. I got into Marvel comics, in fact, actually, the first comics that I started reading were Conan The Barbarian. My Father and his then girlfriend and I had gone to see the movie in the theater in 1982, so I was, wow, 10 years old?? I thought I would have been a little older... Anyhow, within the first minutes of the movie, Dad's girlfriend got up and walked out (Guess she wasn't impressed by the first couple of decapitations), minutes later my Dad followed her, probably more on not wanting to hear what would come with not following her out. So I watched the movie alone and it left a huge mark on me.
Like most kids, I grew up with Spiderman and the Super Friend's cartoon... I collected some Spiderman comics, but in truth, I was more of a fan of the artwork than the stories. Later i would ditch Marvel and DC comics for more violent and obscure comics (No, none of 'Image's' characters)... Todd Macfarlane's Spiderman was a huge advancement in comic art and though I had collected a few of those comics, again it was the art that was more interesting to me. But I'll come back to Spidey in a bit.
One comic from Marvel that did reel me in was 'The Punisher', he was a more violent and real 'hero' than most of the other heroes that all had mutant or gifted powers. Frank Castle was just a man hellbent on revenge. The Punisher War Journal was the first series that i was seriously interested in collecting... At one Summer camp, when I fell ill, I actually lost all my Conan and I think my first Punisher comics when they rushed me out at night and I forgot my comics that I'd stashed under my mattress on my bunkbed.... When it came time for my first tattoo, this is about the closest image to the tattoo on my arm:
I chose the Punisher, at the time, I stood behind his anti-drug message. I mean, I wasn't thinking about going and killing drug dealers, but after smoking some hash laced with angel dust, I stopped smoking drugs altogether, I had a very bad trip and it swore me off trying ANYTHING, other than drinking beer. Still, to this day, I've never done anything harder than pain meds and marijuana/hash. So the Punisher tattoo meant something to me... And it was a kick to the stomach when the first 'Punisher' film came out in 1989, with .... *sigh* Dolph Lundgren.... I mean, c'mon, he didn't even have the 'skull' emblem on his chest like the comic version, so I felt that most people who would see my tattoo would associate it with that stupid movie.... My next tattoo was Spiderman, based off of MacFarlane artwork... The Spiderman movies were never quite as awful as the first Punisher and I will admit that the next versions of the 'Punisher' movies which were the 2004 and 2008 being much better than that first one... But then again, there's a Captain America movie that was made in the 1990's that most people don't even know about
So in the early 1990's I came across a Japanese comic book, part of a Manga series called 'Alita - Battle Angel', created by Yukito Kishiro. I fell in love with the story and Alita and collected the comics and graphic novels. Mike Fields and I named a cat we adopted 'Alita', but had to give her up and then when I got my Siberian husky, I decided to call her 'Alita'...
Then around 2003/04, Fields and I went to a tattoo convention in Vancouver and on me I carried two designs that I hoped someone could pull off, one was a Pushead design and the other was this 'Alita' image:
Sadly, I forget the artist I stumbled upon as I was perusing different artist's work. I saw he'd done an 'Alita' tattoo in his portfolio and immediately knew this was the guy to pull it off. It's of course still on my upper right arm to this day, right below Spidey.
Rumors of an 'Alita' movie, live action movie started to circulate around the late 1990's. Rumor had it that James Cameron was a huge fan and was waiting for the right technology to come along to really do the film justice. So for years, rumors came and went. Some "test" pieces of 'Alita' were leaked online.... Then a couple of years ago, the movie world announced that finally the time would come and the 'Alita' movie would be made.... Now I've seen many a great comic or novel ruined by film, we all have. Some of our favorite authors creations have been slaughtered by films.
Well, I just saw the trailer for 'Alita - Battle Angel' earlier this evening and was so sadly, unimpressed. My good friend Mike who works in the film industry blames it on the poor choice of the director... I don't know who to blame, but I wont sully my blog page with a photo or video from this atrocity. Why? Why couldn't they just make the movie like the Manga series? People over here would get it, they didn't need to "American-ize" it... They didn't need to make a girl with HUGE eyeballs just to make it look like the Japanese style character's the Japanese are famous for.... Sad, sad, sad... Another one of my 'Hero's' gets ruined and everyone who will ever see my tattoo after they see the movie and asks, "What's the tattoo of?" and I'll reply, 'Alita, Battle Angel'... and they'll first think of the horrible movie over having ANY knowledge of the amazing past that's inked in comics and graphic novels.
If Kishiro were dead, he'd be rolling in his grave. I almost can't imagine Jame Cameron being satisfied with this sham.... At least my other tattoo is an original creation that will never be tarnished by a bad movie.
A relentless Winter. Since two days before Christmas, when we had our first 'ice storm', then the storm Christmas day, then the polar vortex for almost two weeks... Then another storm, followed by more from the polar vortex.... It would appear, the polar vortex will dissipate in the next couple of days giving us some warmer, more seasonal temperatures. Although I'm hearing of a potential storm this Tuesday and one next weekend... I don't care if it snows to the rafters, just hate the dang cold. This 'polar vortex', which when i read a story on CBC about it, claimed that usually and in years and decades past, it was very rare for the mass of cold air usually "trapped" in the North, was escaping it's icy tomb and wandering across much of Canada and the Northern USA. Hate it! It's enough to make Canadians rally together (not only for warmth) and march South and take over the US! But with our luck the polar vortex would just follow us.
Not much new, just been hunkering down away from this cold air. I have been trying to piece together the bits and pieces of my autobiography. I've talked about it for some time now. Writing a book on my life. Do I think I'm special? Or more important than everyone else? No, not at all, I just think I've been lucky to have had some very amazing experiences. Sure loads of people have done more than I have, but having worked on the X-Files, Millennium and piece-meal work for other shows and films, plus the work I did at Electronic Arts Canada, the band years, the travelling, it's been an exciting life and I think people would be interested in reading about it and some of the stories that have come from these 45 years on Earth.
For some reason I'm super lethargic today... SO that's it for now.. Have the rest of my 'Indiana Jones' marathon to watch and hibernate for a few more days until this cold weather stint has passed us....
