chase the light

Not a bad year really. Some crap things but mostly got to tie up some loose ends that had been hanging around for a bit. Didn’t get to travel at all as I had to wait for some paperwork to get sorted but that finally happened. You can’t leave the country while that’s going on. That was the most crap thing really. So that’s not too horrible. I’m looking forward to some long and short distance travel this coming year. L.A.? S.F.? Vegas? Hawaii? Japan? Paris and Venice? That’s the short list but we’ll see how much of that gets checked off.

One big thing that I didn’t accomplish was my “Walk to L.A.” I thought it would be fun to track my steps around town this year as I greatly increased my walking routine. Walk to work, walk to lunch, walk to just walk somewhere. So I set a goal to walk from home aka The Apple Store in Vancouver to my old home The Apple Store at The Grove in Mid-Wilshire of L.A. Turns out the weather and just being ill a few times greatly affected my goal. So instead of the 1250 miles/2000 kilometers I needed, I only got in 1000 miles/1609 kilometers. Hmmmm… That means I only made it to just south of San Jose in California. I like to think I at least got to Casa de Fruta. Which is still amazing to think about! I WALKED from Vancouver to like Gilroy this year. That is crazy. I only have to average about 4 miles/6.5 kilometers a day but once you get behind it’s hard to catch up so consistency is key. One week of illness can set you back 30 miles/48 kilometers. My biggest day of general walking was February 26th with 10 miles/16 kilometers. Which doesn’t seem like that much but it really is a pretty good distance if you look at it as a long string on a map. I plan to add some Lions Gate Bridge walks into the mix this year to boost the numbers. It’s about 2/3rds the length of the Golden Gate Bridge and within walking distance so it should be a decent round trip. I’ve just never done it.

I bought a fair share of cameras this year and shot most of them. I have a bit of a project in mind for all of them but who knooooows. It’s all about finding time. So much lack of time. I’ve got a few concerts coming up. One I’m oddly really excited about. In August, The Guess Who are playng at a brand new venue that is being built right now. It’s called the Freedom Mobile Arch. The Guess Who? Aren’t they some old fogey band that no one listens too? Yes, kinda. For many years now a fake band with something like the original drummer has been touring around under The Guess Who name because he somehow ended up with the performing rights. No Canadian venues would even book them so they just toured around the States year after year as one of those crap cover band billed as the original band. Anyway after many many years the two who really are The Guess Who won the rights back in a court battle! Randy Bachmann and Burton Cummings are now back in the saddle and hitting the road. I heard a recent interview with them and they were besides themselves in how excited they are about playing again. It’s surprising how many hits The Guess Who, Bachmann Turner Overdrive and Burton Cummings solo have had. So it’s going to be a good all killer no filler set! Looking forward to These Eyes, Stand Tall, Share the Land, American Woman, etc. Will be a bunch of olds grooving out but can’t wait.

Oooh ooh and in a very strange show coming to town I’ve got tickets for David Letterman and Zach Galifianakis. The code for getting presale tickets was “beards”. Yep.