Lost and found, lost and found and lost and found again.

The weekend before I had gone skating at beaver lake with my old roommate. I hadn’t done any recording with my gopro in a long time and I had been feeling the urge to be more creative. I charged up my gopro batteries the night before.  I had planned to record what it’s like to hike from downtown Montreal to the chalet (cottage) on top of Mount-Royal, then make my way over to beaver lake. The timing was perfect, the city had just finished getting a large snowstorm. It was a little cold so there weren’t many people hiking.  It was going to be beautiful to record, a real winter wonderland.  Here was the 45 minutes route:

I ran into a problem I really wasn’t expecting. The camera kept shutting itself off. It wasn’t the batteries, I had three that were fully charged. It seemed like the camera simply stopped working. I fiddled with the battery thinking it was the cause. The camera turned on and allowed me to hit the record button again. Then it would stop once more at random intervals. I tried to stop and restart the camera each time this would occur.  I thought I had done a pretty good job at ensuring I lost no footage.

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Moin 22 le 22 janvier à St-Henri

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Unintentionally discovering the identity of one of Montreals great buskers. A week in review.

I was off of work for the past few days. I spent a lot of that time working on my home lab (A bunch of computers that I can configure, break, fix and use to learn). I had been working on a particularly persistent problem and I couldn’t find the cause.

It probably took me about 8 hours over three days to solve the issue. It seems so easy to get working correctly once you understand why it wasn’t working to begin with.  “It’s easy once you know how to do it”.   These are skills and knowledge that are applicable to my career.  It felt so good to “work the problem” until i found the solution. This included a few breaks when I felt like just giving up.

I was suppose to meet my old boss for lunch. Just taking some time to catch up with ourselves. He had to cancel an hour before due to unforeseen events at work. We rescheduled for the following week.

I had made some chicken noodle soup from scratch the day before but hadn’t had a chance to eat any of it. It had taken all day to make, and my old roommate had invited me over for supper at his place. So I reheated a small pot of the broth, which included the chicken and vegetables and I threw in some pasta.

It was the perfect food for the day we were having. The weather indicated it was hovering around -16 Celsius. -21 If you took into factor humidity and wind. Despite the cold, there was still sun shining and a blue sky to be seen in between the occasional clouds. I finished the soup and decided to head to the gym for a cardio workout.

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What a wonderfully strange beginning to 2019.

What a wonderfully strange beginning to 2019.

As you may have read in my previous post: I just got dumped. It was only a 3 month relationship but I had fallen hard. The first few days of the breakup were difficult. No doubt it’s a sign of age and maturity but I almost immediately told myself not to waste too much time over it.

I acknowledged and accepted the feelings of sadness. The pain of heartache, the rumbling stomach and the loss of appetite. The intrusive thoughts that force themselves to the forefront. These would crash over me and I’d say to myself “Yes I’m hurting. Yes I’m feeling down and a little sorry for myself. That’s ok, It’s normal to feel this way.” The feeling of loss and grief can be overwhelming at times. So for a day or two it was hard to pretend like it wasn’t bothering me.

That quickly changed.

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La vie est tellement merveilleuse. Life is such a wonderful thing.

The English version follows.  

Je suis triste.  Ce n’est pas une dépression.  Je m’attends à ce que les prochaines semaines soient introspectives et émotionnelles.

Pour la première fois depuis longtemps, je me sentais prêt.  Ma dernière relation sérieuse remontait à plusieurs années.  Ce fut une relation saine avec beaucoup de respect et d’amour.  Elle me prit un bon bout de temps pour m’y remettre.  Émotionnellement et personnellement je n’étais pas prêt à me donner complètement à une nouvelle relation.  J’ai fréquenté très peu de femmes durant ce temps, préférant de passer du temps par moi-même et avec amis.

Enfin, me sentant prêt à poursuivre une nouvelle relation je faisais l’effort depuis un bout pour socialiser et de rencontrer des gens.  Au début septembre j’ai rencontré quelqu’un.  Non seulement quelqu’un mais quelqu’un qui m’intéressait.  La première rencontre fut sans attente, un petit verre suivi d’une marche pour découvrir Montréal.  J’en avais rencontré quelqu’une auparavant mais aucune ne m’avait vraiment capté l’esprit.  Manque d’une meilleure manière d’écrire ce sentiment.  Lorsque tu as vécu une relation pleine d’amour je pense que c’est normal de comparer nos présents sentiments avec ceux du passé.

J’étais tellement épris.

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