LeeMobile

West Coast Trail Anxiety

So it’ll be exactly one week from today that I’ll be flying to Vancouver Island to do the West Coast Trail. I’m pretty excited, but at the same time I’m pretty anxious about the whole thing.

Mostly because I am terribly out of shape and I’m really in no condition to hike for 7 days.  It’ll be mostly painful and exhausting, and maybe once in awhile during the trip it’ll actually be enjoyable!  Well, I’m sure I’ll have a great time out there.

I started “working out” at work here.  I hopped on the elliptical today for 40 minutes and I was sweating up a storm.  It was kinda nice to actually get the heart racing again, but really I should have prepared for this 2 months ago.  Then maybe I’d be ready for the ass kicking that’s about to happen…maybe.

Now if only crossing my fingers would help lessen the pain.

*crosses fingers*

–

In other news, I attended a LAN party on Saturday in Kanata.  To be honest, I had never been there before.  I’ve always heard that Kanata is like Canada’s Silicon Valley, and that Ottawa in general is really dense for high tech stuff.  I remember seeing the Corel building as well as the Adobe building, and some other large firms around Ottawa, but I had never been to Canada’s “mecca” for it.

I was really impressed actually.  I couldn’t have imagined how much high tech business is there.  It was just building after building of tech firms.  Surrounded by fancy blocky architecture and superbly manicured green lawns made me feel like I was in some sort of lego-land, or as if I was plopped right into Douglas Copeland’s vision of Silicon Valley.

Coming out to Ottawa was definitely the right choice in terms of my career, I highly doubt there’s anything similar in my good ol’ town of Edmonton.

The LAN party was wicked

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »