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Sun Chip

Awesome Town Intro

Lighting fun!

I was fooling around with my desklamp and my camera this evening and got some fun effects. I borrowed my friend Mikes airsoft gun(thanks Mike), going for the 'film noir' look.

Shaolin Monks get sick too...

So I'm at the doctors office today and after the doctor sees me, I'm on my way out and there sitting in the waiting room are a group of what look to be four Shaolin Monks. I couldn't help but do a double take to make sure one of them wasn't bending a spoon with his mind. What has our world come to that even the strong mind and body monks have to go to the doctors. Maybe my doctor is not really a doctor after all! Maybe she is the Oracle and we are living in a digital world created by machines who use our bodies as energy sources!! Maybe she wasn't filling out a request that I go to physiotherapy for my shoulder, maybe she was filling a perscription that said "Jhop, you are the one!" maybe I misread her handwriting!

I'm going to try and jump across to the other office building I think just to be sure.

Dragons!!

In case you didn't know, I have a love for Dragons, and McFarlane who has done a lot of really great sculpted toys came out with a line of Dragons a couple years ago. Well he's now got a new line of them coming out and they look so wicked I might have to get them all...





Check em out!

Big White and Silverstar Trip!

I just returned from my Big White and Silverstar snowboarding trip and it was fantastic!

Day 1: Met Bonnies friend Carla whose parents have a chalet on the mountain at Big White. Didn't get there till 12:00 am cause we left Vancouver at 6:30 or so. The drive was amazing tho. The moon was out the roads were clear and we made great time. So day 1 was pretty much arrive, say hi and sleep.

Day 2: We got up and were on the hills by 9 am. It was a bit foggy but we didn't care! We were rode like crazy! Keeping up with Bonnie and her friend Carla proved to be a bit challenging considering those girls have been riding for years and loved riding through the trees, which is something my limited boarding abilities weren't used to. It was a good day all around. Found out we could ride right up to Carlas parents backdoor. That was a nice feature! After riding, hot tub then sleep.

Day 3: We got up and were on the hills by 9 am. Got better and hurling myself through the trees, got better at the jumps. Good times had all day. Afterwards , hot tub, sleep.

Day 4: We got up and were on the hills by 9 am. Ok this day will be remembered for the rest of my life. There was a lift on the far side of Big White, it's called Gem Lake and it was closed all of the previous day, and it snowed like crazy for the last half of that day and all night. So Carlas mom said, she would give us a ride over to that chair in the morning because there would be so much untouched snow. So off we went and I have to say, riding down a hill with a foot of untouched powder is pretty much the best experience I've ever had in all my life. It felt like I owned the mountain for that one run. The silence of the board cutting through what felt like icing. If I wasn't addicted to boarding before this, I am now. I don't know if I'll ever get to experience anything like that again, but I'm glad I did. After that I had my taste of the Super Pipe! I rode down Big Whites largest pipe, its walls are about three of me tall, that was a great experience too. It was icy on the lip and I had a bit of difficulty turning, but all in all it was a good time! After this run Bonnie and I said our goodbyes to Carla and her great family then made our way over to Vernon to say hello to my friend Graeme and hurl ourselved down Silverstar for the day. So after three days of snowboarding we show up to Graemes and go out for a few hours being that is was St Patties Day and all (and Graeme and I ruled the pooltable for 3 straight games!!). Oh by the way, don't mix 800 mg of Ibuprophen and beer, it makes you feel not so good.

Day 5: We got up and were on the hills by 9 am. It was a beautiful day there was a fresh coat of about 5 cm on top and the first few runs we cruised down were sweet. It was no-where near the day before but good times were had. We tested our abilities on all the great runs and left a bit early cause our legs were burning and we were getting a bit sloppy from the previous days and the snow was getting crunchy which is a recipe for injury. So we called it at 2:30 and went to Timmy Hos, hung out at Graemes all day and watched Crash (which is fantastic, not only was I physically wrecked, I was emotionally after that movie as well.)

Anyhow that was my trip, I just got back and now I gotta work tomorrow, it sucks coming back to reality sometimes.

(Wish I had some pictures but I was too busy to stop and enjoy the scenery)

World Of Warcraft...

Recently I started playing World of Warcraft again. I played it before and I didn't really like it that much. It sat in my computer and took up plenty of space on my hard-drive for a while. Then a month or so ago I loaded it up and made a different character and I've been hooked ever since.

Well today my level 22 Warrior picked up a new pair of pants from the 'auction house', where you can trade and sell items to other players. Well today I bought "Spiked Chain Leggings of the Bear" 165 Armor, +6 Strength +6 Stamina! I mean these badboys were gonna take me places!! Anyhow, I bought them put them on an as you can see below, they are apparently trasparent or invisible pants! Now I'm runnin around half naked in the World of Warcraft! I think they meant Spiked Chain Leggings of the Bare!! (So funny, cause it's a pun, and puns are funny!!)

Anyhow, if you play and see a halfnaked Nightelf running around...that's me...

The Submitted Designs

Here are the official snowboard submissions that I've completed for the snowboard art challenge. Not sure if I like the light blue one, but I guess we'll see what the flavor of the judges is, in the meantime I learned how to use Adobe Illustrator and I had a good time doing the designs.

Leaky Condo Entry #1

I've decided to log the process of my leaky condo on here giving updates as they come in so as to inform the rest of the world of my mistake of buying one.

You see, a couple years ago I bought a place for the first time, and was told by my realtor don't get it inspected it's just a waste of money. So I didn't (that was mistake #1) however that being said I talked to other owners who got their places looked at and the inspector said it was ok (inspectors are bunk). So anyhow I moved in and then a few months later I kept hearing rumblings of leaky this and water damage that. Then it was forgotten about till 8 months ago when the strata got the place looked at by a company that deems buildings leaky. It turns out that it is leaky for sure. Then I almost fell over at the cost of it, estimated at a mere 1.2 million dollars to fix. Unfortunately there's only 18 suites in the building, that's 70 thousand each.

Well tonight we're starting the ball rolling on getting it fixed. The suites are all voting on which construction estimate we're going with and after that, designs are drawn colors are picked and siding is sledgehammered off while you're sleeping at 7 am.

You see the place I lived at before this was a leaky condo and I was renting. I was going to move out when rumors that it was leaky emerged, but they lowered the rent by 30% which made my two bedroom, two bathroom place 700 bucks a month, and who could turn down that? So I stayed. I don't know if it was worth it though, I was robbed twice(once while I was sleeping) and there were workers taking out my bedroom windows while I was in bed. There's nothing like waking up to a grubby worker taking your window out, saying goodmorning while you're laying there wiping the sleep from your eyes. My favorite though was a large cement patio below my bedroom, they jackhammered the whole cement slab off. Every morning for about 4 months I was awoken by the sounds of jackhammering. I think they became addicted to jackhammering cause they jackhammered pretty much every slab of concrete around the building, and when the jackhammering ended there was months of the sledghammers driving into the wall.

Anyhow so I know what I'm in for, and I'll be posting here on how it all pans out. My place should be finished sometime the beginning of next year, and it should be an adventure getting there!

Wish me luck, and if you know where I can find 70 grand that would be helpful.