well, a lot of people were interested in how the first day of work went...it was a pretty slow day. i really didnt do a whole lot.
i started at 0830h and we had a meeting at about 0900 so i could meet everyone. at 1000, 7 of us went to tim hortons for an hour.
then the rest of the day i read up on how to run the autoanalyzer to test levels of nitrogen in potable water samples.
thats what ill do tomorrow.
so far so good. good people, fancy machines.
27 February 2006
23 February 2006
starting monday...
i will no longer be unemployed!
i have accepted the position of Laboratory Technician with the Taiga Environmental Laboratory up here in yellowknife.
so, my three month weekend wraps up a little prematurely, but in a welcome way.
thanks for all the prayers and help from everyone!
i have accepted the position of Laboratory Technician with the Taiga Environmental Laboratory up here in yellowknife.
so, my three month weekend wraps up a little prematurely, but in a welcome way.
thanks for all the prayers and help from everyone!
22 February 2006
quinn and bertuzzi
yeah, so canada lost out in the olympic hockey tournament.
these are the two guys i blame.
what a terrible penalty by bertuzzi that let russia go up 1-0.
and what was pat quinn thinking on the powerplays?
pretty disappointing.
better luck in vancouver boys.
these are the two guys i blame.
what a terrible penalty by bertuzzi that let russia go up 1-0.
and what was pat quinn thinking on the powerplays?
pretty disappointing.
better luck in vancouver boys.
16 February 2006
made it
well. after a short flight to edmonton, tim met me at the airport and we started the journey northward.
slept in stony plain and left at 730 wednesday morning.
pulled into the ashbys place at about 1100pm wednesday nite.
some good driving, good music(poison, motley crue, G'n R, trooper...) and some very good conversation.
all that to say im here and ill keep you up to date with what happens next.
slept in stony plain and left at 730 wednesday morning.
pulled into the ashbys place at about 1100pm wednesday nite.
some good driving, good music(poison, motley crue, G'n R, trooper...) and some very good conversation.
all that to say im here and ill keep you up to date with what happens next.
14 February 2006
next stop...yellowknife
its true. im moving north. the last few days have been filled with more sweet breakfast/supper dates, some good price is right watching and some sad goodbyes.
this city is filled with so many good people and i am going to miss that for sure. to be honest...i wont miss the actual city, or the church building i go to every week, or the soccer facility...but the amazing people that are part of my life. whether it is my soccer team, my church community, my family or my breakfast dates.
so many good people to leave!
kind of shows you what is really important in life...the relationships.
shows me that there is something more to church and soccer and breakfasts than just showing up...
its not the places, its the relationships that are formed there.
so if you are reading this, you are likely one of those people that i am going to miss a lot.
send me an email.
this city is filled with so many good people and i am going to miss that for sure. to be honest...i wont miss the actual city, or the church building i go to every week, or the soccer facility...but the amazing people that are part of my life. whether it is my soccer team, my church community, my family or my breakfast dates.
so many good people to leave!
kind of shows you what is really important in life...the relationships.
shows me that there is something more to church and soccer and breakfasts than just showing up...
its not the places, its the relationships that are formed there.
so if you are reading this, you are likely one of those people that i am going to miss a lot.
send me an email.
10 February 2006
why can't i trust?
serious. its so hard for me to trust. to trust that God is watching out for me.
its weird because i have seen him provide for me so often, and i know that the relationship i have with him can only be strengthened if i trust...
but still, im scared. scared for the future, for next week, for next month.
i dont know whats around these corners ahead, and i am having a tough time
dealing with that.
God, i want to lay my life at your feet, give you total control. but something is holding me back. help me.
its weird because i have seen him provide for me so often, and i know that the relationship i have with him can only be strengthened if i trust...
but still, im scared. scared for the future, for next week, for next month.
i dont know whats around these corners ahead, and i am having a tough time
dealing with that.
God, i want to lay my life at your feet, give you total control. but something is holding me back. help me.
07 February 2006
Proceed with great caution...
From C.S. Lewis' "The Weight of Glory":
I mean this sort of thing. I say my prayers, I read a book of devotion, I prepare for or recieve the Sacrament. But while I do these things, there is, so to speak, a voice inside of me that urges caution. It tells me to be careful, to keep my head, not to go too far, not to burn my boats. I come into the presence of God with a great fear lest anything should happen to me within that presence which will prove too intolerably inconvenient when I have come out again into my "ordinary life". I don't want to be carried away into any resolution which I shall afterwards regret. For I know I shall be feeling quite different after breakfast; I don't want anything to happen to me at the altar which will ring up to big a bill to pay then. It would be very disagreeable, for instance, to take the duty of charity (while I am at the altar) so seriously that after breakfast I had to tear up the really stunning reply I had written to an impudent correspondent yesterday and meant to post today. It would be very tiresome to commit myself to a programme of temperance
which would cut off my after breakfast cigarette...
.
i am kind of in this place these days. scared to give everything to God because im scared of the change i know he wants to see in my life.
02 February 2006
update on the job hunt
well, this update won't take very long.
mostly because i still dont have anything to report.
ive applied for a lot of positions, and a few of them have deadlines coming up.
so maybe ill hear from those guys in the next week or two here.
but im still plugging away.
somedays its frustrating, other times i enjoy not having anything to do because
ive had some pretty sweet breakfasts at good old simply delicious.
so if you are reading this, and want to go for breakfast one of these days,
i know a really sweet place, and have nothing to do, so
look me up.
(and if you are sick of reading my blog, go check out rick mercer's cause he is one funny guy...ive definitely had a few laughs thanks to him during the last 2 months of pre and post-election coverage)
mostly because i still dont have anything to report.
ive applied for a lot of positions, and a few of them have deadlines coming up.
so maybe ill hear from those guys in the next week or two here.
but im still plugging away.
somedays its frustrating, other times i enjoy not having anything to do because
ive had some pretty sweet breakfasts at good old simply delicious.
so if you are reading this, and want to go for breakfast one of these days,
i know a really sweet place, and have nothing to do, so
look me up.
(and if you are sick of reading my blog, go check out rick mercer's cause he is one funny guy...ive definitely had a few laughs thanks to him during the last 2 months of pre and post-election coverage)
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