Money (That's What I Want)

Just checking up on the old finances and I'm not looking too bad. I think I will have saved enough money up by the time that I get to Canada (which ever damned province ends up stealing my heart) to live the high life - smoking caviar, eating pipes on Dutch bread and throwing Loonies at poor people. However on an actual serious note I think that I am planning well for this. The old Green Card application has been sent and I am planning to rejoice without even having won it (yet!). It would be great and I'd certainly relish the opportunity to work there. What a life I lead.

Furthering on the Alberta/Ontario move, I think I've made the right move. I wasn't entirely confident on Ontario. Sure it would have been closer to England/same time zone as GEORG but, er, I was fairly keen on moving to/near/around Banff. The guest who came in and told me about Banff blew my mind. I wish I was off that day so I could talk, talk, talk to her and her party of friends. They were informed, they was! A definite plus for me is that Alberta lives just above Montana and "those" states i.e. Wyoming, Idaho, North/South Dakota and Nebraska. No one ever talks about "those" states. So that's another positive. Positivenegative?

Does anyone read these all the way through? I applaud you heavily if you do. You should get yourselves a medal of some sort. Perhaps made out of bauxite. That would be great and probably deadly. I wrote dealy then wortte! TWICE. I am stupid. Soon people will get suspicious that I'm not actually going to Canada.

I'm certainly booked in for America this Saint Patrick's Day. Why did I choose that day? I have no idea. It just seemed cheaper than any other time during March. It seems so very long away when in reality it is 19 weeks away. Consider the fact that Christmas is now 7 weeks away. After Christmas/New Year it will only be 12 weeks. I won't be working those entire 12 weeks (1 week off to hopefully see Chelsea in January, 1 week off before I leave to sort out my affairs [certainly not romantic ones, zing!]) so that makes it, conservatively, 10 weeks. That's a walk in the park. I think I'd like to stop working maybe the 6th of March. It's a reflection of what I did in June. It was excellent not to work the Sunday I left. THEN free beers on the Monday. I enjoyed my last day there. I should recount that at a different time.

So that's the time line, old chums. March 17, I fly to Philadelphia to see Georg. I'll be with him for a week and then on 24th I'll be flying to BNA to see Chelsea for, at the moment, an undetermined amount of time. I really do need to figure out how long I'm going to laze there. Not too long but at least being in America I can apply for jobs/scout things about a little easier. There's no point me doing it now. Fallacy. I guess there is perhaps some point investigating but me saying "Oh, I'll be over there in April/May". I may as well say "I'm not coming yet but keep a job open for me". I'm not an idiot. Not as big as you might think at least.

From Nashville I will toddling up to Calgary. The only memory/thoughts I have of Calgary is of Cool Runnings. Not that good but I remember them being black and freezing. I think there was an egg involved too. Seeing as I have no one to pick me up from there I will have to get my grey matter functioning to think of a way to get out toward Banff. It's about an hour away and I won't have a car or a helicopter. Nor any ideas. I'm paddling up a certain body of water without a critical acceleratory device. Not to worry. Most things in my life seem that way! Per ardua ad astra! Something like that at least.

Happy November, Chelsea. I love you.