How I got to Winnipeg.

Well Julian and I had been living in ottawa again after coming from Halifax for roughly 8 or 9 months and that was long enough to be well reminded of all of the reasons we had left in the first place. So far since we had been back I had worked for an internet cafe that had been a front for a secret Cocaine Dealer. That was a ton of fun..... Julian and I had both met girls that either A) were completely interested in someone else(the same girl) or totall insane(2 different girls). There came a day when we both said fuck it.. we decided that now was a good time to leave again. We each put a bunch of names of cities that we wanted to go to. Everything from Phuket Thailand to Whitehorse. As it turned out the 2 names that we pulled out of the hat were. Winnipeg and St. Johns Newfoundland.(in retrospect we probably just should have gone to St. John's anyways.) We flipped a coin and the coin said Winniopeg so we packed all that was important to us and left Ottawa once again.

Now before we go to Winnipeg there was a horrible 31 hour bus ride. 31 hours on a bus sucks especially in the dead of summer without any air conditioning. By the time we got off the bus we both smelled severely of major ass but that was nothing compared to what we were exposed to in the bus terminal it was almost enough to make us get back on the bus and head back to Ottawa.

First the only thing you could smell in the bus terminal was fumes from the bus and Glue(yes thats right glue) the poor people in winnipeg are so poor that they can not even afford real drugs and they had to sniff glue, hell the more better off poor people could not even afford to huff gasoline, (I mean with the economy the way it is these days and the Evil Warlord emporer Bush butchering people overseas who can afford gasoline these days, you pretty much need to take out a 2nd, 3rd and 4th mortgage on your house every 2 days just to keep your car on the road. but thats not really part of the story sorry I had to let it out.) and Second we got into town on a friday night at close to 8pm. Now every other city on the face of this planet in the downtown core is where you want to be on a friday night(hell the market in ottawa is packed till 3am on any given night, besides Sundays when the entire population of the city is ligned up for retro 80's night at barrymores on bank) Not Winnipeg though the downtown core was a fucking ghost town i could have sworn i actually saw tumbleweeds rolling down Portage avenue.

It did not take Julian and I long to get ourselves settled I met a girl Lisa who eventually became the mother of my daughter. It was not planned and although I am still not sure how I truly feel about the situation i am in, I love my daughter and could not picture life without her. julian on the other hand met a nice girl and then whisked her away to edmonton where they are now a happy couple (at least together) Julians happiness on any given day is soley based on whether or not he encounters absolute stupidity at any given point. Check out his blog at http://www.thingsthatmakemyheadexplode.blogspot.com and you will understand exactly what I mean about that.

So for now I am stuck in Winnipeg, in a situation that may or may not drive me to a psychotic episode. My only wish is that i will be able to evenutally make it back to ottawa to be with my own family and see my old friends.

Wishes : When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.