19-2-27

One spends any given moment of his/her life trying to figure out who we are. It's nice to have it so succinctly spelled out once in a while.

19-2-26

19-2-25

Any place you take your boots off is home for the moment. Tonight it's a hotel in Victoria.

19-2-24

19-2-23

19-2-22

 Morning....

And by afternoon.

19-2-21

Obsolete chainring on an obsolete swappable spider. This stuff was so good. It's a shame it's considered worthless today.

19-2-20

Shiny new E-string next to a less shiny A-string that I broke a year ago. I bought a replacement D-string today as well for that old dark string to the right. Maybe one day I'll learn how to play guitar...

19-2-19

E-string. Broken.

19-2-18

19-2-17

Bridges and stuff. It's been a good winter without much rain. And a good winter for walking. 13000 steps today, because in the 21st century you measure everything with your phone. Right? Right?

Another day. Another picture.

19-2-16

I imagine a room with good light and a table and a view and a place to write. And then I remember I have that already.

19-2-15

19-2-14

iPhone shit photo. But this kid just got back from a week in Quebec. School trip, and the first time she's been away from both her parents for so long. She survived. We survived. It's good training. I suspect it's going to happen more.

19-2-13

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19-2-11

19-2-10

Snow. In Vancouver. Chaos ensues. And serenity.

19-2-9

19-2-8

Epilogue: The person living in this thing had removed the wheels and put it up on blocks so that it couldn't be towed. Two days later, not sure how, but it's gone. People have been living all over Vancouver in motor homes for years now. 

William Gibson described an ad hoc community built in the fringes of the Golden Gate bridge in his novel Virtual Light. In some ways he was ahead of his time, though I guess when you're writing books about a possible future your goal is to be ahead of your time. On bridges, under bridges, in the gaps; there's going to come a time when that community is too big to "move along."

This camper van is/was someone's home. A home is a precious thing. Average income in Vancouver is $56k/year before taxes. Minimal deductions puts you at $42k net. The average one bedroom in Vancouver is $2150/month. Add in modest utilities and a cell phone and internet and you're looking at about $30k/year. That leaves you $1000/month to eat, entertain, save, pay off your student debt that allows you to make $56k a year in the first place rather than a minimum wage living.

Truth be told, you can find 1 bedroom apartments for less than the average, if you're lucky. But $56k a year is about $27/hour, which I know a lot of people in Vancouver don't make.

Vancouver often ranks in the top 3 or 5 or so when ranking cities by "liveability"; whatever that means. I'm pretty sure the people doing the rankings don't live here. Pretty sure the guy that lived in that motorhome doesn't agree with the ranking either, though technically he doesn't live here anymore.

19-2-7

Tyvek; A semi-permeable membrane.

19-2-6

I should clean out this tool box. I have a closet somewhere, too, that could use a cleaning. 

19-2-5

Trout Lake was frozen solid 2 years ago. Currently there's a thin layer of ice over it. Thin ice.

19-2-4

19-2-3

Ever get the feeling of deja vu? Oh, no! It's happening again....

19-2-2

Spring. Early. Trump, I've found your global warming.

19-2-1

Friday night at the tattoo shop. Stranger things have happened.

19-1-31

Victoria BC. What a lovely place.

19-1-30

19-1-29

Every get the feeling of deja vu?

19-1-28

Woodwards.... (ever get the feeling of deja vu? you will, just wait...)