From Crazy Larry in Banff

Plan: To cycle across Canada with Goal Zero Power Solar Panel powering my laptop and phone (Windsor,Ontario > Banff,Alberta) like the movie Forest Gump Style allowing everyone to join in...visiting SkateBoard Parks along the way...talking in schools about making healthier decisions / smart food choices / why every choice counts in life / uplifting and full of humour and high energy - how Cancer can affect many family members and friends(the ups/downs) of Cancer including costs and NEW treatments available = making smarter choices than ever before.

This trip is allowing FULL disclosure of the entire trip via LIVE Web Streaming /GPS LIVE tracking. F.B messages/emails/blog updates/LIVE Video Footage at SkateBoard Parks.
Live Video's/pictures will be made by the kids at SkateBoard Parks for souvenirs of their fun efforts encouraging them to stay away from choosing drugs,drinking and making a difference in society will be and 'can be' the Hallmark of their ways!
NOT just wishing they come in 1st, 2nd,3rd.
Talks that we all can have fun staying healthy will be highlighted with some FUN music.

Meetings with town/city mayors, Fire Chiefs-firemen and women, Principals of schools, teachers, Police, RCMP will allow help me to bridge the gaps of kids/youth connecting with adults that we trust so blindly. Trusting that they will do deeds and doings that are honourable, sound in principle and morally right, and at least for the betterment of our health.
Folks and friends ~ I need to get ELLEN Degeneres TV Show plain and simple.

ELLEN needs to understand how many lives will changed!
I need lots of people to explain to her that with some High Energy Announcing abilities/positive talks about beating Cancer/Keeping kids-youth updated with current knowledge that there is 'much' that they can do as individuals in a forever changing world and with my Custom-made SHURE Axient Announcing System with Custom-made designed Speakers I can impact them even more!!!
Time to harness some goodness and bring out the STAR the lies in each one of us!
Mom's illness will not go unnoticed.
The event name: Today I Ride for You will be for ALL to ride for someone they love,care for,or has past on.
We 'Can' do this;if we come together to help each other.
*** For more information on how you can help Crazy Larry's Today I Ride for You please email him at www.crazylarry.ca
While visiting please feel free to write in what your thoughts are of encouragement towards this paradigm shift about to take place that includes 'you' as individual friends.
Together 'we' make a difference.
Sincerely
Crazy Larry Melnik
Banff,Alberta
www.crazylarry.ca

Summer plans...

Lots of swimming, book reading, and stereo playing

Books on the go now are

Who killed the avro arrow by chris gainor
And the wholy bible by god and jesus

Another daily bible passage

1 Corinthians 4:20 () 20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. #Bible http://mydailybible.org/dv/esv/2013-05-07.htm

Long day and walk...

Today i participated in the louise pettre memorial walk in london ontario. It was a nice brisk walk through a small park in london. Got a chance to chat with freinds of mine i havent seen in a long time...

The event had a small bbq with pulled pork sandwiches then we walked back to the car and a friend of mine said, hey why dont you tie youre laces before you trip. And as i was tying my shoes i look down and theres a brick or metal sign that said in honour of linda tripp...what a co incedence...

Then we went to annettes place,  and we had a nice long luch at her little apt in london....then came home

Played guitar outside for a while and now im inside nice and warm

Corinthians

2 Corinthians 4:16 () 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. #Bible http://mydailybible.org/dv/esv/2013-04-18.htm

horooscope....

Thursday, March 21

The warm sound of an old Fleetwood Mac song will fill your heart and send tears pouring down your face today -- too bad you'll be in line at the grocery store when it happens.

Android app from reverbnation....

Will add it in the sidebar later

http://m.reverbnation.com/artist/41225/app/android

from back in 2009

1.  Best Snowsuit you saw this season: ( cool or uncool....lol...)
our crew....of course.... 

2. Cutest Kid you taught/helped to teach or saw on the hill....)
 a little kid named parker, he was in the 4 week camps with Doug Ferguson. I have his picture if you want. he always had missing teeth because he's a hockey player

3.  Did you teach anyone on your own?
Im not certified yet T, but I did have to sort of teach some kids the basics once and a while..

4.  Coldest Day at Cobble was.......      
 any day in January, what about the warmest? c'mon t....
5.   Number of times you said the word pizza this winter.......?   (lol....)
 4,000,000 ok sorry im exaggerating...more like 150...though sometimes on school group days I had to yell like 5 times
6.   Number of hot chocolates you think you drank......
 at least 50-60
7. What was your strategy for helping people who were scared on their skiis?.........
 I didn’t have a strategy but I just stayed close to them and said it will be ok...
8. Last run you took at Cobblehills this season........
 march 14th, fun day last time this season ive been on my short skis...I coulda taught how to snowblade this year...

so my questions for you are

1 how's the weather?

2. how many runs did you think you made per day?

3. I got an award on Friday, guess what it said..?

4. If you could ski any run in Canada 1 more time where would you ski??

5. Have you got lots of new friends and have you gotten along with them?

6. Are you staying for another season next nov-dec? or is that it?

7. when does the season end? 

looking forward to your reply's sorry for the delay....

New ebook

http://db.tt/MBCp9iPS

WDA A310 CYVR Final

A quick and short overview of 2012

Usually i do a full year by year talk about things that happened in my life in 2012

 

February

8th-I Fall on the Ice. Sent to hospital and am released later in the afternoon. Thanks to the helmet which i dont have worry about replacing and it saved my head.

May

2nd to the 4th-spent in montreal during dads conference. Took our time getting there and took our time coming home.

Summer

More Airshows and i met mikey mcbrian at the CWH’s 40th Anniversary Airshow.

 

Fall

Just as simmilar to the summers and years before…

the emails that got me famous on interrobang

Hello my name is darren elliott and i am 28, am finishing fanshawe and was emailed on Better The World about someone wanting to interview me about this website called "bettertheworld.com" her name was kristen. She mentioned that if i was avialible i would do a phone call interview which would be ok but i am busy with school work and studying maybe theres an alternative way to approach it, maybe i could drop by tomorrow or next week sometime and do an actual interview. Would that work?? (better use of 3 hours in between classes)
She didnt mention who it was that was going to do the actual interview so i thought id email the writer directly because that may be who does it.
What building is the interrobang out of. I know its based on the FSU so it must be in the SUB building i guess.
this is what she posted on bettertheworld.com


"Hi Darren! This is Kristen from Better The World - thanks for supporting us! A reporter from the Fanshawe newspaper is going to do an article on Better The World and was hoping to speak to a Fanshawe student and get their opinion. Is there any chance you would be open to speaking with her? It would probably just be a quick phone call. If you are interested we would appreciate it! Thanks! Kristen"
Oct 07/09
maybe you know her or know what this is about...
Talk to you soon
Darren Elliott
ps can you pass this on to whoever was interested in knowing more about this, thank you

Have a nice day.
____________________________________________________

What can i say, what a wonderful way to find out how you can change the world by surfing on the inter net, cool huh?.

I found out about better the world at an IT conference in Stratford Ontario, as i am from that area. I thought that this kind of caring for causes was a nice way to go about things. I find that the website is easy to look at and works well with the other stuff that you are interested in and all the causes you support.

There is a school related contest going on for most of ontario i believe and Fanshawe is #14 at the moment. It would be nice to see us being near the top. Lets go Fanshawe lets get some more members (ivanna this would be good for the paper) and get more going on with this website.

This site also works with Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. in getting your word out there in order to change the world. Just sign up today and get started in changing the world. I can all be done with a click.

Thanks

Darren Elliott

(GAS) student

should i have even moved to banff

even though this aint no regular break up, and i should be fully moved on so far. It aint doing anything for my heart. Though my head may have left thinking about her mot of the time, my heart still wishes and longs for this girl who i met some 6 and a half years ago.

I dont know why im on this long road that leads nowhere and i cant seem to get any closure from this i really want to know why she ignored me so then movidng on process wouldnt be so hard and i could actualy move on and find someone to fill that hole/

i really didnt want to end up hating her and wishing and in the end losing her but there we go again just pissing of another girl so that they will never want to see me agian. Isnt that great!! i feel as if im in a re-run of "cant hardly wait"

Por the previous post i can tell that she wants nothing to do with me anmore and thats great, even better but then i start thinking about her again and like ive said before its like im on some jeykll/hyde run and im not really liking it.

The key to fixing this is CLOSURE and when i will probably get it will be 2040 or so...

so im screwed till then!!!

So how's this?

I'm checking the photos just posted to the instagram site and a photo shows up from Ryan belder with les flames of fire and low and behold willow Boyd's instagram account is up, I need to talk things over or it's over

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member
jetaircraftmuseum.ca

Thinking about this girl I met out west

Sorry about the delay on this but I've been thinking about this girl I met out west a lot, she really shook my heart and broke it as well. I do t want to dwell on the past too much but this girl is so wonderfull and she's my dream girl, my horoscopes are saying soming about a girl from a recent past and so maybe she still likes me I dunno... Anyways time to update the blog at least... they are still skiing out west so maybe it's time to go skiing out west

very warm outside

its not even the beginning of april and were only in the 1st half of march and the temperatures are up into the double digits, tomorrow is going to be plus 20 degrees ferenheit. Its so very odd that its more like summer and we havent even hit march 21at which is the first day of spring!!

thats all!!

Some Canadian geese

Darren Elliott

Jet Aircraft Museum

Volunteer/Member

jetaircraftmuseum.ca

So I fell and almost broke my back

I'm so glad that I didn't break my back but I'm in a lot of pain...

Brian doing yard work

It's been a weird winter...

The last few winters have been pretty normal with snow on author ground through out the winter but this is just one of those years where the winter is only around on the weekend and this week is supposed to go back to +5 degrees so we will see what happens this weekend coming up and if it snows again...

Brought the iPad over to the hill so I can blog, chat and check things out...I'll test sendings photo to the blog later...

Enjoy

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member
jetaircraftmuseum.ca

Outside right now

The month so far

Sofar were fighting a war to hope that it stays cold and they can keep making snow over at the ski hill I work at but then mother nature fights back and the sun comes out and were back to square one. Right now a lot of snow has melted after a few days of cold and a day or so full of snowfall. I'm looking out my window and it's bare out there we had about 3 or 4cm of snow and then now it's melting...last night we got tons of rain so that melts the snow... Anyways life is ok, for now...I just wanted to update everyone for this week...I'll update you soon... Bye

review of 2011

January

-same as any january

 

february

lessons and school groups at the hill(hard at work)

 

March

nothing big and or new

 

April

 

17th-Birthday, in the afternoon my mom and wally and anne went to the katana kafe and had lunch to celebrate my b-day (weather was foggy)

 

May

 

5-6th Hamilton Av Expo first airshow or expo of the season

27-CWH airshow firt real propper outdoor airshow 

 

June

 

24-26 GLIAS, probably the best airshow of the year...

 

July

nothing big

 

August

20th and 21st-KW  airshow.

 

Was probably the last airshow of the season

 

September

 

unknown date, we had our 3rd successful doors open/open house thing...we had 3 flights with members who paid in full for a half hour flight...

I had my old camera there and took some shots but at the time had no long lens  

 

24th-Tillsonburg CHAA wings and wheels

met steve and paul at the airport at 9am and set up the booth, was pretty simple and straight forward, we were there to sell calendars and pass out pamphlets etc. I met eric dumigan (airic.ca) and finally met kevin moore at the show as well. I tried out eric dumigans camera and tried to take osme shots with my old camera which I had found a longer lens at that point in time

 

October to December

same old same old

 

thanks for reading

 

 

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

Happy holidays from the Elliott's

not much new

just thought I would check in on things even though I know there is not much going on....

 

loving being with buffalo again and heres some shots

 

have a great day!!

 

 

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

back with buffalo virtual

well for the past few weeks now i have been back with buffalo virtual, enjoying the time while im back there. Been doing a few online flights with them..

anyways i cant sleep so im up posting this

blogging again

its been two months since I've blogged and to say the least I'm sorry, ill try to keep more up to date as much as I can..

 

 

things are wrapping up with the aishow season, so for most of what I've done for JAM is done unless we get into some malls to put the photoship  or whatever. I wont give out much info but yesterday we had a great fundraising meeting. We chatted about other things we could do about the calendar sales and stuff. Like I sadi I wont discuss the specifics but after the meeting we all wanted to get some pizza or something. But we decided to go to the Katana Kafe after and it turned out to be quite a nice time to chat with the other members about other things going on.

 

anyways Ill talk to you all soon!!

 

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

what other person..

"Ah, emotions. Can't live without 'em, but sometimes, like on the 1st and 2nd, you might wish you could. Well, instead of trying to wish your emotions away as the month begins, do your best to be glad you have them, even if they're a little bit difficult sometimes. After all, they are a sign of health. Not only that, but they are very helpful guides as you navigate this thing called 'life.' Difficulties point you to the places where you might need to do some extra work, or make some changes, or let yourself be yourself more completely. By the highly ambitious 6th and 7th, you're in overdrive. You know what you want and by golly, you are going to get it. Great! Just don't forget to keep working out, while you're go-getting, particularly on the tricky 10th, 11th and 12th. You're a star, the super-shiny 13th and 14th. So sparkle! If you have family (or urban family) obligations on the 20th, 21st or 22nd, fulfill them. It'll be fun. Take your time on the 27th and 28th. After all, you need to focus on the other person. Wrap up the month with more emotions on the 30th. How does that feel?"

 

um...there is no other person at the moment...what do they mean

 

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

Its Taken 3 years to make it to this

This photo posted below, taken in 2009 was supposed to be the arrival of two more t-33’s to london. This is where being with the jet aircraft museum began. As tomorrow begins a new day and we start up 346 for an official flight. All the work thats been done with these aircraft id like to thank all the guys in the Jet aircraft museum maintenance division of JAM a big thanks for all your work.

 

Most of all the big things that have happened at Jam was in the  year 2009. Thats when 90% of the aircraft had been flown in. There were times of joy there were times of sadness. Before i took this photo i had been hanging aorund with these guys waiting for two aircraft to leave CPZ3 Mountainview, Ontario and fly to london, they had a short window of a few hours before the clouds moved in or soemthing and they tried and tried but the fix took longer than they thought and so we had to go or leave or whatever. I was finishing off my college degree at the time and the JAM building was where these guys are all standing. Every afternoon when i was done my classes id go to the airport and wouldnt be back untill after 8 or 9 pm as i watched katanas and cessnas and twin pipers.

In 2009 at the 1st Doors open i met the current (at the time)London Mayor, Anne Marie Decicco best. This was our official grand opening. I was there early with dad to help set up and to get things ready before dawning the reflective vest to go work the parking lot. I actually guided Mrs Best to where she should park. I would have thought shed have the biggest security force and haver her own bus or limo or other ways of transportation but she didnt and she came with her 1990’s Pontiac Grand Am type car. Anyways I also met the President of the CYXU Airport as he was there to cut the ribbon. Like i said it was the  first offical grand opening and all the ones since then have been there to get more word out/referrals etc to other people that we are there.

We had a few aircraft visitors who came to have a burger and a break in their schedules. 3 Harvards from CHAA in tilsonburg flew in. We had a ryan navion piainted up like a luftwaffe FW-190 (C-FWOL). We also had two russian jets an L-39 #69 and an L-29. It was a fun day…

 

hope tomorrow is as better as that one was

How #577 used to look like…very drab

heres a photo from 3 years ago when JAM or KW’s Flightline had aquired T-33 number 577.

Now heres what she looks like
The MAKO SHARK!!!! ARRRGHHHHH

looks good eh

not so busy weekend.

normally the last few weekends in the summer have been very busy for me and my family. Weddings and buck n does, airshows/music festivals and the like. But the last few weeks have been very not busy, and has given me time to chill/swim/listen to music out by the pool and get back to being myself.

this weekend we planned to have my aunt and uncle, their son's roomate or schoolmate from back in the day or something. and their kids to come to have an afternoon lunch of corn and chicken kabobs etc...

they both arrived here at about 2pm yesterday and was happily hanging out by the pool but it eventually turned into a small rainstorm. Usually when i start to see lighting or thunder i dont try to even think about going into a pool. but my neighbors kid decided to stop in on the way home from work and i said sure, lets go swimming (inside my mind i was saying no!!) but we ended up in the pool the whole time the storm was coming through, because there was no lightning. anyways other than that the weekend went off without a hitch. If you saw my post about maybe going to wallaceburg on the 13th, i probably am not going to go!!...its just too far just for 5 or so hours...so i am going to jump ahead of that and prepare to go to kitchener in two weeks for the airshow,  the same weekend as the mopar fest....arrrgggg!!!

in september JAM has the open house and ill be possiblyt working in the beer tent as i have a smart serv certificate.

oh and i bought these incredibly awesome wireless speakers from the source (electronics store) for only $70!!!  they werk wonderfully...anyways that my blog for august 8th 2011..

cheers and have fun!!

wonder who this is?

"Someone in your life is going through some heavy issues that you might not be aware of. This person's recent odd behavior could be leaking into your relationship and subtly -- almost subliminally -- affecting it in a very negative way. Let this person know that you are concerned, and give her or him space to realize the impact this behavior could be having -- don't be hasty with demands to shape up. Your patience and support are needed right now."-Yahoo Horoscopes..

 

wonder who that could be!!!

 

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

u2 dream again

last nitghts dream was very weird becuase i was in some tour group or something, i dont remeber being a part of it or doing anything with it but i remember just touring with some choir or school group...were trying to do some rendition of a movie or something, then one of the people playing guitars was playing wildy and ended up going outside for some reason and then some woman followed him and they sat on thier knees, then i was on a bus(the wrong one, because i was trying to find the right bus, as the choir group i was in wasx heading back to the school or the homes, but i missed it and got a bus with people ive never met.And then my vantage point was moved to see this guy walking and he had his right arm streched out with his left arm holing his inner elbow area and then thats when i woke up!!

Hot HOT heat,

it haa been very very hot here in ontario, very hot indeed...

one the busiest summers on my record

I apologize on the behindness i am at right now but it seems every weekend is busy and i either have airshows or folk fests and weddings. Yesterday we did it all in one day, went to a reception for a wedding of my neighbors that lives around the corner and we went to a buck and oe the same night for my neighbor...and the weekend before i was folk festival selling beer tickets, the weekend before that st thomas airshow. Now as i dont think there are anything big until  kitchener airshow but im sure there are lots of events here and there.

My other reason for posting is that some people at airshows can be brutaly not polite at all at most airshows. They just want to sit cloe by and dont care to knock people over to find the best seat, however on the saturday or sunday show a very nice family whith their young granson and father and grand father noticed i was trying to take shot of the aircraft flying or taxiing, and let me move right next to bob, um i have no idea what is last name is but hes with jam!! anyways as soon as they were gone for the day everybody moded up!!! and it was almost a fight to get the best spot...no one polit about it atg all...and i didt get their names but i will cherish their thoughfulness for years to come...

to that random family thank you!!

im starting to understand why parents hate their sons for

getting tatoos. obviously some tatoos have an ugly nature to them and are not "clean" as in the idea behind it maybe because of a gang or what not, but if said parents son got a tatoo saying "come home troops" or "we love you canada" or something clean and strong like that their parents would love having this on them or at least let them get it...

welcome to june.

OMG, am i ever behind!! i havent posted since may so i thought id post again. Just got home from the ingersoll  rib fest. Was ok but most of the places were shutting down their tents so there wasnt much going on.

too much hot weather this week...

hi guys its me, just checking in...its almost the end of june,cant belive it, just afew more weeks and ill be going to a god dam u2 concert!!!

Ive volunteered at a few airshows so far. There are only 1 or 2 left in my agenda, one more in kitchener, brantfords not having it, nor is sarnia/windsor so theres a lot less airshows in SW ontario this year...

im testing how far the internet width is here see how far i can go on dads laptop computer. Im on the porch and its starting to get a little breezy.


anyways ill post some photos soon on here in the coming weeks

later

Friday Fab Five

What new book coming out soon do you plan to buy?: I don't have any that I want that hasn't been released
2. What upcoming book are you dying to read?: I don't have any
3. What series is a must read for you?:Artemis Fowl
4. What new author have you found so far in 2011? Eoin Colfer
5. What little known author are you a fan of?:Gordon Korman

 

enjoy...

 

 

 

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

where has the time gone

Well is that time of year again, summer. Its not official yet but it will be soon. Im going to be really busy this year as I have signed up for many shows and have plans to attend weddings. First up is the hamilton show, then I think theres a bit of time untill either the st thomas show is on or the folk festival I don't know.

 

I have been feeling a bit better about things. Im into my 2nd book of the artemis fowl books,well its actually the 3rd installment. The bookstore in st marys person said the arctic incident is the first book but it's the 2nd one so im on the 3rd and I havent read the 1st one yet.

 

oh well ill get to that at some point. Lots of grass cutting this week. We got our massey back but the other 8n is not working so we towed it over to this place just a few minutes drive from here but was a hair raising time as I had to keep my feet on the brake not pushing it but had my feet resting on it incase something were to go wrong.  Nothing went wrong but heck going up the hills was very hard to do as there could be a crash and my eyes were watering and I couldn't stop to wipe them.  But yes it was fun!!

 

Anyways ive been having some banff dreams lately and I don't like them. Someones sending some sort of message to me during my subconsious thoughts should be illegal..

 

anyways sad to see the canucks lose last night.

 

night

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

reflecting on banff

in the last few days ive been reminiscing about the days that i lived in banff. Seems that some of the things i put in the past are coming back into my day to day things. I dont spend every day in a starbucks but, i do see one every few days and it reminds me of someone. Someone i knew a bit and am thinking of alot these days, not like a "im really like you " thinking more of a "wondering that she is ok" kind of thinking.

I stand my ground on wanting to be with an airplane or to find someone else to talk to etc...

fed up trying to get the drive mowers belt back on?

Well heres what i did today, normally i would call the local garage or get someone to to fix it but i found out all you need to do is raise the lever/mower deck as high as you can without breaking it then get someone to raise the belt and hopefully i should fit back on and you are good as golden

wtf??

Hi Darren! Here is your Daily Single's Horoscope for Tuesday, April 12

Mixing family with dating might seem like a recipe for disaster, but it's not actually such a bad idea to get your relatives in on your love search today. Could it be that your mom's friend's cousin really is the one for you?

more should be done to end school shootings

sorry the long delay on updating

i havent been in much of a mood lately and now im just deleteing emails and organizing stuff..

bought 2 sets of dvd's the other day one has four of the police acadamy movies and the other has the drama ones...like eraser,passenger 57 etc...been watching many of them on my computer


ttyl

how closure should be...

I know that when most people break up its hard and we put the memories in the back of our minds. This really does not solve the problem it prolongs it and makes it so that its not forgotten. What we should be doing for closure should be filling out some sort of legality forms. In these forms you would write as much as you could about what you have wanted to say since the breakup.  After you write all this and the partner fills it out you get a form of emotional closure and a phsyical closure. This would prevent or at least help prevent stalking or Unrequitted love. At least even if there was no love you could at least carry around a piece of legal paper that says you and someone else had a relationship and it lasted for XXX number of years. You broke up because of this or that.  It would allow full closure of sorts.

 

It would help me greatly, to know what I did wrong or what I said or did that made things change for the people who no longer want to talk to me.

 

Does anyone agree?

took mine out...

Just completed a bit of  work on my computer on the insides...i had to look at if the PCI slots are PCI or AGP card slots so that i can tell waht kind i need to upgrade my video card.

Abd then since i dont use the 4.5 floppy disks anymore i decided  that im not sure i need it so it took it out and its sitting here...

anyone want it?? yet again no one seems to use the floppy...anyone remember the big floppy disks no ones used them anymore...

its just amazing how much its changed

hey world whats up

buddy dan here with me, arrived ok and here for the weekend

hey guys!!

sorry i havent blogged in like 3 or four days or so...just trying to say hi

happy new year.

tomorrow will be the new day and  a new year of 2011 im so used to writing 2010 it'll be hard getting to know 2011 and getting used to wrtiting it as well.

happy new year

merry xmas

have a happy xmas everyone no matter where you are these days...

keep safe and have fun!!!

2010 in review

about this time every year, i  try to do a wrap up of the big things i did this year.

December=31/ January 1st- went to mark langois's buck and doe, and then closer the the "hour " we went to cobble hills to hang with freinds drink and be merry

January-nothing big

Febuary-Olymipic Week @Cobble. I entered a snow volleyball comptetiton and won a pair of mp3 sunglasses, and a box of mike and ikes. My team of allan brander, matt and me. We won by default.The team we were supposed to play left the hill. Good times.

March-nothing big

April-birthday
21st-went with fundraisig team at JAM to Air Combat Zone. Meeting was nice talked about all the cool plans and then went to the sim room.  i was d-man, derek was cardinal, paul was ??? and dave was maverick. Someone shot me down, but....but...i shot someone else while falling down to the ground.

May-3rd, mom in an accident on the way home  from the doctor, was rushed to local hospital and put inder a medical coma of sorts.

19th Traci flew to the west to get her car and drive home. The plan was for me to meet her in winnipeg and continue to ontario. I landed in winnipeg 21st or something.She didnt even have time to park at the entrance before i hopped into the car and we were on our way. We stopped overnight in kenora, then continued to  dryden where we had planned the night before to go see a friends parents place and they werent home so we took some pictures isntead...

We continued to drive past shale rocks and trees almost like a cartoon uses the same background in animations or cartoons. Untill ta-da the lakes started showing up. We continued all the way through northern ontario and i drove a bit.The night before, we planned out where we were going to stop over and we thought wed go from kenora to wawa, stay over and then try to continue on from there. But it got late and i we saw a travelodge at the side of the road and we were both yawning alot, so we said its about time to stop.and so we did. That night we opened the map and made a plan so that we knew what we were doing the next day. We did quite a good job of planning becuse we drove all the way home in one day from marathon, mind you we stopped a million times to take in the view. What a beautiful place northern ontario is. We also stopped a long time at the most beautiful place on the border of northern and southern ontatio Perry Sound is beautiful town/city and we stopped for a photo opp, supper and some particualrily famous ice cream at the floatplane base...

This is about the time the signs start showing the  400 series freeways on them instead of the normal highway  one. We are coming into an area of ontario ive seen before, as its not like what i had been driving in before i got to that point. Id never been in northern ontaaaaario. And then my cool and i know what im doing ego comes in as i had started to remeber a secret way home we used to drive to skii hills near arthur and had not driven this route in ages. We managed to make it home before sunrise the next day!! The END

June-weekly visits from mom and the NRC team. It was good to see mom home as ahe had be aching to get home and back to her chores.

July-Uncle david visit. July-13-27. Introduced him to my pilot friend Turbo at the JAM open house. A suprize vist by a crew of a c-130 from trenton or somewhere and dave got to chatting with them.
Also went to a car show and a movie with him.

August- lots of swimming, grass cutting

September-more grass and swimming. etc etc..
joined buffalo airways virtual.

October-flew in the haloween flight for buffalo airways virtual and more grass cutting. Ryan and jess flew home for thanksgiving. As well a the auzzie's and the torontonian stratfordite relllys visited.

Movember-snow falling, flew in the rememberance day flight

December-so far so good!!

Happy Holidays and Have a Happy and Safe New Yea

hey guys!!

heres a screenshot to show you

Mark Dailey passes away

I grew up with a tv with 3 to 4 channels. One was usually london, then kitchener and toronto and sometimes (with the right antenna setting wed get CBC. So i spent a lot of time in between those channels and one channel in particular was torontos city tv. Everytime the programming went to commercial youd hear mark dailey say "city tv its the news out here " or something. Wasnt much but it has lasted all these years...


Toronto will miss you mark.

its december

hey world its me. Im blogging again. Not that anyones listening that is. Im watching a lot of corner gas, dr oz and a few others.  I have been thinking aout ony 1 thing...the boeing 737-200. It's the most beautiful aircraft ive ever seen.  Not to forget the 727 and 707.  The old smokers as they used to call them. Not sure what they were smoking but they were loud.  I love the 737-200 because of how wonderfully cool it looks.  In some angles it looks like a flighter plane.

 

Cobble hills is open soon.

 

Snowing here at the moment

 

hey guys!!

sorry to disapoint you in my absence...i am still alive and well!!

ill update you later

webcam not working...

cant seem to get it to be recognized on the computer...i mean it runs awesome but for some reason when i plug it in it says its not recognized. Ive had it for about a year and a bit and i think its even better than the 40-50$ one my dad bought for his computer but its just not recognizing that its a usb camera and when it does...get all the way through the wizard and then it says some error

just a checkin...

sorry i have left you guys hanging with no update from me

'should be a law against having a gps on your dashboard

hi blogger...whats up...its just me posting since i havent posted in a while..

hows life

where have i been??

hey everyone i havent been on the blog in a long time, how are you all...do you like the new logo...created it myself...!!

this is the 1st time it has been so busy in july and i dont know what day it is anymore half the time...im getting active and having fun!!

nothing big to report of...

peace!!

later

bike signals need to be changed

i dont know if they are the same where you are but the bike signals that you use when biking with your hands. i have been taught them but ive forogtten them a bit. No one retains them very much anymore and when i look at the ones you are supposed to do when you are turning right you put up youre left hand??

you also gotta know that alot of divers dont know or remember the bike signals nor can they figure them out when you drive...maybe they should change them to allow both bike and car dirver to understand which way they are going..


sorry for not posting lately

Roadtrip

Roadtrip
Originally uploaded by darrenvox

a shot from the road trip

does it make any sence to anyone else

it just doesnt add up...doesnt make sense. Have you ever met someone you worked with that made your day much better than the way it is? I did. Now i wont go into details on what actually happened buti really liked her. I did a lot of things for her to try to earn "brownie points" so to say, i emptied the garbage for the are in the same store i was working and anything else she needed to be done.....then one week in may she decides shes going to go to go back home, whic is fine with me, im not gonna tell her if she or if she cant go...its her life...im fine. its cool. We talked like wildfire that week, life was flowing and i didnt care where she went or what she did. We were good freinds.I quote some katy perry because it is 10x more than true "we used to be just like twins so in sync, the same energy now a dead battery, used to laugh bout nothing now youre plain boring" descrinbes it to a T.

Then 2 weeks later she arrived back in banff from her time home in ontario and we went from that to not a single word from her or I. I figured it would be just a few days or so then shed be talking to me again. Nope. In a nutshell, we never discussed that i was leaving to move home to where i am today. Not one word from either of us!!

I often wonder when i sit here and listen to itunes songs and think that maybe i did/said/knew/heard something she didnt or said something rude or...you know....i just dont know...even though im not focusing on the past i just wonder if the freindfshop with her could have continuted. All this was was a friendship, nothing more. Aand even at that she ignored me for some reason...and to this day i dont know why...not one idea!! If it was me then she could have told me what i did/said that make her ignore me and guess what i would have made a change so that it didnt happen again...but since i dont know what caused it im all on my own at this point...

and thats just it...al this little post was about...just what the heck made her go silent...


my thought on what happened in ontario

1)she got married
2)she got in a car crash and couldnt remeber me
3)she was ignoring me because maybe.....you see i just dont know (as well)

someting big happened in ontario because it literaly happened overnight and she was a changed person for sure when she walked back in through the door...

*i have left the name of the person as annonymous as i fear the name getting out and she could get stalked..

but i just dont get it...it just doesnt add up...

anyone in the same boat...

stumped the pros...

this is one of my courses i created for Tiger Woods PGA2003 look at his shot amount

similarities

i was watching an old version of the movie jesus, from the mid 70's to the world of today. Im not sure if what in the movie was correct or not but they made fun of him and ripped/burned his cloak...take that to todays world and you see kids making fun of younger kids that they dont understand like jesus was not believed by others, ya know.

If i was alive when he was i would believe in what he was doing and that he wasnt what everyone else thought of him at the time that it was all a joke...

a common misconception

is it true that there is a difference between god and jesus...for some many a year ive believe that jesus is the son of god, as he was killed on either good friday or easter monday, dont ask me ive never understood it...im agnostic...

does everyone take this for granted or am i the only one??

changing blog name...

hi everyone...anyone?

i am...within the next few weeks going to be changing the name from living in banff now to living in ontario now...and ill need to change a few thingd around...

anyone disagree with this...any ideas on a better name...

blogging again...

should be vlogging again soon...

im hoping to find a version of PAI that updates united, delta and air canada that shows them flying to CYXU!!

addicted to farmville

a few months ago if you had said join farmvill,i would have said i hate getting those invitations but now...im happy to get one as now im kinda addicted to farmville...

so go farmville!!!

yesterdays horoscope on facebook

"Until you know the real reason why you haven't heard from someone that you placed so much faith in, try not to jump to conclusions. After all, being aware that things can occur unexpectedly, this person does deserve the benefit of the doubt. Pay more attention to your inner voice."

hits really close to home because thats what i felt like yesterday

the amzing world of aviation

i find it awesome when looking through hundreds upon hundreds of aircraft pictures on airliners.net every day, its amazing how some of these planes can get off the ground at all.

I see plane pictures of planes on their last lease on life and ones just starting out on life and those in between. Its sometimes sad to see old planes you saw flying around you getting ready to be scrapped and you know you cant do anything to stop them from torching them to bare metal...

i always find funny pictures to look at and laugh or cry or whatever....its a fun thing to do...

anyways have a good day...

best 737-700 liveries

these are the top -700 liveries...by darren elliott

1.Southwest

2.Moskovia

3.Climber Sterling

4.Malev

5.House Colours

6.Westjet (Care-antee)

7.Delta

8.BBJ

9.Easyjet

10.N/A

june 1996...world record

no im not talking about high shcool but what happened back in 1996, A volga Depner AN-124 landed at CYXU, not sure if it was the first or not bu it did land and it had a very good delivery to make, for the 1st time ever a new workld record was for 148 tonnes for an Irish city train to be deliverd from CYXU-EIDW i believe it was dublin but it could have been further, im not sure..

anyways i want to try to re create this in flight sim though i dont know how i will do that realistically...

heres a pic of the train i found online...this came from london ontario...i might be riding this someday when i go to dublin.

http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/2/1/1/2211.1193486400.jpg

computer needs to go back into store to be reformatted...

I got my computer back last week and it still doesnnt work...but the guy said if i bring it back in i could reformat it and reinstall windows....

the folders i need to be copied are "My Documents" "Microsoft Games" I have all the games but id be lost without all the planes i have added to my flightsim, Then i want to try to see if i can copy the PAI files on my desktop (the files are only like 1.5MB but id have to find them again) then wipe the computer and reinstall windows xp....so i hope to be flying on my computer by the first of march.

i dont think copying all the files are going to take that long but i might have to wait as other computers are getting fixed...we just brought it home to take it out of their shelf so they wouldnt have to deal with it again so im expecting 2 or 3 days...should only take that long to to wait for other computers thatg are in the que to get fixed...

other than that....thats alll thats new...oh ya the flames won again!!! go flames!!

just breaks my heart

every day every month, every year another 737-200 gets scrapped and torched. I know they are old and un-environmental, but what happened to the whisperjet type aircraft, they didnt call them whisperjets because they were quiet, no they called them than because it was ironic..

But if you call-1-555-555-5555 you can save a 737-200, once you place youre call we well ship a picture of the plane you want to adopt and tell you the story about what airlines its been with...

so call now....make a difference in a 737-200's life

save them from the torture they dont deserve...

please send 4,0000000 easy payments of a dollar and well make sure by the time you pass away the plane will be sent to you

help save 737's like this one Quincy find a home and be loved

hi guys...anyone reading...

not much is going on right now...

computers still in the shop...problems with the capacitors

my computers sick...taking it in to to store tomorrow to fix it...

hopefully all goes well...

flightsim

im doing a fligh right now in the Project Opensky 767 from mc murdo to YPAD Adelaide Australia, i started this trip withthe T-33 but not sure i would want to fly that long without an autopilot...

Xfire now has a way to play games and listen to music so im listening to some u2 and stuff...

thats all for now...

chapter 4 isnt written yet

i havent made chpter 4 yet since i havent had a lot od time in the past to create chapter 4...but enjoy below

Chapter 3

In the morning after he woke up at 8:45am and had a shower and went downtown to the core of Banff and visited the stores and boutiques but they were all closed, they dont open untill 10:30 am and so he feels its only logical place to head to would be to head to the internet cafe and then he noticed it didnt open untill 9:30 he had a whole half hour to wait for the internet cafe to open.

Not alot of restaurants or stores are open so he walks back to his hotel room to watch some TV untill 11 or so and happens to find a channel that is showing red bull air races. James loves aviation quite a bit and finds himself flying virtually with the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. Whenever James can find aviation on TV he watches it no matter what it is about and wishes the hotel TV had the wings channel that was created by the discovery channel.

Meanwhile it has become 9:45 and he waits till the show is over and heads down to the internet cafe, he wants so much to stay out of the internet cafe and do nature walks and bike rides but nothing is open yet and it’s too early to go on a hike. He settles himself on the furthest computer from the entrance and logs into his account. Checks his email first off and then his facebook and my.yahoo.com After this he walks over and grabs a coffee to keep him warm because it is a little cold in the internet cafe.

After a while of updating his friends on facebook and everything he checks if his account still has hours on it and if he owes anything before heading upstairs to the main street of Banff. He notices that there are way more people in the street than there was when he got to the internet cafe.

James goes back to his hotel and gets his car out of the garage and decides to drive to Radium, BC. His mustang roars to a start and he’s off on a road trip and this mustang is quite an interesting version. Instead of feeding the CD player cd's and for a few seconds taking your eyes off the road, no this one has a hard drive in it and it plays iTunes now renamed CarTunes. Al you have to do is connect the USB cable from the laptop computer to a hideable USB port on under the volume knob in the stereo area of the dash. Getting songs from your desktop computer is the next version in which they are researching at the moment.

Anyways he puts CarTunes on shuffle and merges onto the Trans Canada highway to the west toward radium. His CarTunes consists of alot of U2, Coldplay, Collective Soul, Bright Eyes and band that is hardly known unless you have seen his youtube channel, called Blue Skies and has alot of covers and originals. And he also has his own music.

After 30mins he gets to the intersecting highway that takes him to radium and merges onto that highway and within another hour arrives in Radium set to go to the hot springs and see the sights.

He arrives at the parking lot for the pools in Radium and gets out takes his backpack with him and heads for the pools. It is now 11:45 am. Kind of a weird time to visit a hot pool but he’s got so much to see (invermere and maybe a trip to interior of BC) why not?

He goes into the building pays his 5 bucks and heads off to the change rooms to change into his swimming trunks. 5 minutes later he emerges from the change area and has a quick shower and heads out to the pool. The pool isn’t very busy and there are only 5 other people in the pool with him. It’s hot outside and it’s hot in the pool.

After what seemed like half an hour of wading in the pool he got out and went back took a quick shower and went back and changed into his regular clothes and headed back to his car. A few minutes later he got back on the highway heading for Invermere that is just down the road from where he is and he hopes to lie on the beach and read his Harry Potter book.

While having the CarTunes on shuffle it came upon a few Bright Eyes songs every other song. This was a good part of the trip, anything your doing while listening to Bright Eyes is a good thing to do. He arrives in Invermere about half an hour later and the time is roughly 12:55pm and its very hot and a bad time to be outside at this time of day and he puts on his sunscreen in the car and waits twenty minutes and reads a bit more of Harry potter book before going to the beach with his towel in hand ready for maybe a bit of a swim.

He’s lying on the towel at the beach and reading more of his book. He seems to be really into his book when an old friend come walking by. This is his friend John from high school who he knew quite well and hasn’t seen in like 10 years and is wondering what he’s doing here, not like he’s not supposed to be here enjoying himself but he just never thought he would never see someone from his past out here.

James and his friend lay next to each other and talk about what’s been happening since high school and after all is said and done john asks where James is heading to and he says "im heading home after this" and then john says "that’s cool, hey have you been to the white swan hot springs?”.” No, what’s so big about that?” James says to John. John replies with stating "The fact that it is the best unknown hot pools in BC, i say unknown because not everyone knows about it, it’s on this old logging road about half an hour or so from here!"

After getting instructions from john he thinks he best be off onto this hot pool place. He gets back into his car and drives an hour or so to the entrance to the white swan provincial park and drives up the old logging road till he gets to a small parking lot and parks the car, with his swimming trunks still on. Gets out and walks down the boardwalk to a set of 3 pools. He gets into the top pool and notices it’s very hot, stifling hot. So he goes to the smaller pool and notices it’s quite cooler than the top pool.

After a few minutes in the bottom pool he slowly makes it to the top pool and i guess that’s the way it’s supposed to be. He then meets some new folk sitting in the top pool and they tell im that it’s not a big deal but you are supposed to dip your body in the cold river then get out because as James finds out it has to be in the 30 to 40 degree range because it’s very cold as in very cold. B-r-r.

After 20 minutes of hanging out at the hot tub he goes back to his car gets dried off and gets in the car. He looks at the map and notices that Kelowna is only 4 hours from here and so he decides to head for it. He starts the car and heads back down the logging road and finds himself back on the highway and heads towards Kelowna. He turn’s on the CarTunes and listens to some Coldplay and some U2.

It will be nearly 4 hours of straight sailing to Kelowna. They have a nice beach there and a nice little airport that he has virtually flown to many times. The highway is busy. Its almost 2pm by the time he gets there it will be about 7:30 and so he thinks to himself maybe kelowna is too far and turns around and heads back to town. 2 Hours later he gets to Banff and goes back to the hotel and lays down and thinks of the good time he had today.

Later that night he packs up and gets ready for the flight back home. He can’t wait. He has such a fun time out in the town that he’s been in for the past week and a half. He wishes that he could keep the car but the car goes back tomorrow at the airport. He has a flight at 7:45 am back to London on Westjet. He watches some TV and falls to sleep.

In the morning he wakes up at 4:50am after getting a wake-up call to give him enough time to get to the airport. He gets in his Mustang and heads towards Calgary. He stops in Canmore for a few minutes at the Tim Hortons and gets himself a coffee and a doughnut and heads back onto the busy highway.

After an hour and a half it is now 6:30am and he’s approaching the Calgary airport and heads for the Parking area for returning a rental car. He cleans out the car quickly then lends the guy working the keys and asks quickly if there are any of these cars being sold and the guy says in the next few weeks they are going to be released to all ford dealerships. James now looks pleased, maybe he can own one.

He gets a cart and puts all of his bags on it and quickly gets to the Westjet kiosk and tells them his name and the email agenda paper he has that has the number the agent enters into the computer. “James Katchen we have your ticket here” as he prints out the boarding pass and hands it to James. He then loads all the bags he has and takes his backpack on board with him and heads to gate D40. He walks through the airport entrance and enters security and takes off his bag, takes out his wallet and all the stuff in his pockets and walks through and it doesn’t beep so he waits for his stuff to be checked and then puts it all back in his wallet, grabs the backpack and heads for the gate. He arrives a short few minutes later and notices there a few people waiting to board he goes to the clerk and shows him his boarding ticket and his license. The clerk says “you may board now if you wish!” and James thanks the man and boards the plane. He notices the plane he is flying on is the 737-200, he thought that Westjet had retired them but they had brought them back for a few flights as they had a few 700’s that were being worked on and they needed a loaner plane to fill in.

The plane slowly did its pushback and get ready to start its engines and ready for normal flight from Calgary to London. After a few minutes of being towed the engines started up and the plane was ready for taxiing. A few moments later they were taking off and flying towards London Ontario.

After takeoff the plane quickly climbed to 10,000 feet and was half way to his cruise altitude of 20,000 feet. James was watching out the window looking at the mountains in the background before the plane made a left turn to head towards Ontario instead of more westerly areas. Once the plane reached the cruise altitude he heard the captain speak “good morning this is your captain Darren Elliott speaking, welcome to our special Calgary to London filler flight! Because of a few extra fleet planes being taken into the hanger they lent us this plane to fly untill they are fixed! Thank you and enjoy your flight!”

During the flight James ordered a few cokes and a package of licorice while the plane flew them towards London. 4.5hrs later they landed in London during a small rainstorm. They parked the plane at the gate and opened the doors and as soon as they did everyone got their stuff and headed for the gate and towards the luggage carousel.

James found the rest of his luggage and headed for the door and out to the parking lot. He got there and put all of his stuff in his car and paid for his parking for the week and headed home. Within the hour he was home and back by himself again ready to get back to work the next day. He picked up his cell phone and called his work and said im home I had a good trip and im ready to get back to work now and the manager said take a day or two off and come in when you’re ready.

He took 2 days off to get back to work and reset all his clocks and get ready for work. During the two days he spent all day flying virtually and driving virtually and he did manage to get some time to relax and read a book. The next day was his first day back after taking a flight to the west. His manager greeted him at the door and asked him how his vacation was and James said it was wonderful. After spending a few minutes explaining the kinds of things he did there in Banff and the things he didn’t get to do he got straight to work.

The next few weeks were as usual, there wasn’t a lot of traffic in the store. But he kept busy by thinking of his trip to Banff that was fresh in his mind. He loved climbing the hills and taking walks at night. During one of the nights he was sleeping at home a dream came to him that he didn’t understand. It seems he couldn’t stop thinking about the plane he flew back home on. It was a Boeing 737-200. In the dream he was flying the plane so perfectly he wondered if anyone was watching him. He awoke suddenly after what seemed to be an alright dream to be woken up by the sound of a doorbell. “3:45 am?” he said to himself, “Who would want to talk to me outside my door this early in the morning?” he mentioned to himself. He opened the door to see a total stranger at his door. “Hello?!” James muttered to himself. “Who is this?” he said to the stranger.

“I am someone you don’t know but I met you in Banff one night” she says. “Um im sorry I didn’t meet anyone out of the internet café or climbing mountains, you’re face looks unfamiliar to me” James replied but didn’t know how he knew this girl who was standing at his doorstep. “Don’t you remember being out at Bruno’s one night?” she said trying to get him to rember the night she met him.

“I didn’t go to Bruno’s at all during my trip, or wait yes I did but it was during the day, not at night” James said back to the total stranger who was looking offended he didn’t remember her. The conversation went on for a few more minutes before James said “im sorry its 4 am now I don’t recognize you from Banff or anywhere I went, I have to work in 2 hours....sorry but can you leave now?” James said back to the stranger hanging outside his door. He decided to stay up and check his email and have a coffee before work.

Later that morning he was ready for work and got to his place of work 1 minutes early, told his boss about what happened this morning and got himself ready to start work again. His day was spent with thoughts of who that girl was or who she was not. “I do not remember going into Bruno’s at night at all on my trip” he thought to himself.

The day ended and James went home, back to being alone again. He was quite sure he only visited Bruno’s in the day time, when James got another knock on the door. It was the same girl from last time, the unknown girl that somehow entered James’s life very recently, like last night perhaps?. This time around she said she worked at UNLTD and that James had walked into the bike/snowboard/skate shop and again James was confounded. “I did not go into Bruno’s or into what you say is unltd store, I do not know you now leave me alone” to which the young girl replied “I know you more than you know me”.

James was now mad, he had now claimed a stalker to his list of unknown friends and added what she looked like and put her out of his mind...”so now wherever I go im going to be followed, like I need this” he said to himself just before bed.

The next day he was surprised to not have to wake up so early to fend off some unknown people so he slept in till just before his wake up time of 5:45am. He didn’t have to worry about the girl stalker at all that day and the rest of that week untill the Saturday that was coming up. The girl arrived on his doorstep in the afternoon of the Saturday. “Why hello again stalker, what else have you got of me visiting that id didn’t go to?” he wailed at her like he was totally mad. “Listen to me sir, Im having a hard time remembering where I met you but I know it was at a bar or something during the night, maybe it was a café not a bar and stop calling me a stalker” she said.

The weeks that went on were quite strange, not sure what to make of the mysterious girl he keeps going to work. Things were going much better at work and no mysterious girl had even shown up there either. He was very pleased with this. He didn’t have to fight with someone he didn’t know at all. He found this to be a benefit to himself.

Chapter 2

The next day James awoke at noon and decided not to go to the internet cafe and went for a drive in his mustang headed for Johnson Canyon. Moments later he entered the 1A highway and drove on it for at least 45 minutes untill he saw a sign telling drivers that Johnston canyon was a few miles up ahead and he pulled in to the parking lot and got out of the car. He had packed a backpack full of sweets, not fruit and vegetables.

James had been to this place before but not in the summer. He started walking up the trail and began to take out his sweets, being a small package of skittles. He kept walking and passed a few onlookers pointing to interesting things in the distance. Seems there were a few bears that had come to this area not long before James had gotten to the west. James walked over to the railing and took out his digital camera and before he took a photo a thought crossed his head. These bears get pictures taken all the time of them and so James thought it would be best if he didnt take pictures of the bears and just watched them walk away because of all of the commotion of the people talking and watching.

He climbed up the canyon to continue his trek upwards. A half hour later he reached the top of the canyon and noticed the wall of rock ahead of him was full of rock climbers. James watched this closely to see if anyone was going to fall so if it happened he could call the local authorities for help and then decided it would be better if he walked down to the bottom of the canyon.

At least 45 minutes later he emerged from canyon to notice that there was an ambulance parked in the parking lot. I guess someone wasn’t hooked into their equipment quite good enough and fell and landed on hard rock. James didnt seem to see the paramedics on his way down but then again he made so many stops to eat all his sweets they must have ran up when he wasn’t looking

James got back into his car and drove off towards Banff. About 30-45 minutes later he emerged onto the Trans Canada highway and a few minutes later he was back into Banff. It was about four fifty five in the afternoon. He decided to go to the internet cafe and check his email account and face book.

He went straight from the hike to the internet cafe and logged in but forgot the last time to put any money on his account. He went over and talked to the staff member and within minutes he was online. Nothing in his email but junk but got an email from his work telling him to call them when he was ready to work again. On his face book no one had emailed him all week.

After a few hours playing games he wandered back to the hotel room. He was about ready to go to sleep. He wasn’t a pajama person a preferred to sleep in what he was wearing minus the pants and sweater he was wearing today. He was in the middle of reading the 4th Harry potter book. He read till the end of the chapter and then fell asleep.

Chapter 1 in the book im trying to write

Late one night in a hot muggy summer in rural Ontario a man named James Katchen in his late twenties was sitting in his bedroom in his house where he lived all alone and he was on his computer playing an old computer game called midtown madness. While cruising around in the city of Chicago he got to thinking his life was this bad that he had to be playing that game?

A few hours later he emerged in the kitchen looking for something to eat, something to much on and found a bag of chips and opened them and walked back to his bedroom where earlier he was playing an old computer game. At this time he was starting up another old game called Motocross Mania. He decided to do a race against the clock. The time was eleven fifty pm and it was really time for bed but he didnt mind it because he had a few days off and this was time to play.

He exited the game and logged into his email account and checked them. There was nothing but junk, James didnt believe in spam because it’s a waste of time and wished that spammers didnt need to exist. He also logged on to MSN messenger and there were only a few people on tonight. His mother and father were on and he talked back and forth then realized he really wanted to talk to his mother and father and hear their voice so he ended the conversation on the messenger program and picked up his phone and dialed their number into his phone and moments later he heard their voices and began the conversation. He updated them on the goings on in his life and 2 hours later hung up the phone.

James Katchen worked at a general store in a rural town in Ontario. He did bagging groceries and the like. He was very helpful and came in to work on time and ready for work. He worked 5 days a week and had Saturday and Sunday off. He loved this job and thought he was going to be at this job for a long time.

He had been working hard at his job the coming weeks and he had been wondering for a while if he could have been let off for a week to go on a trip to a place he has been to many times before in Alberta called Banff. He asked the manager and said 'id like to go on a short trip to Banff Alberta if i could?’ The manager replied with 'sure go ahead youve been working so hard go ahead'.

A few weeks later he was off to Banff and flew by an airline called Westjet. James was very fond of Westjet and preferred it over other Canadian airlines. He’s a member of a virtual airline that bears the same name of the airline he likes. While playing the ever popular Flight Sim 2004 he usually flies a few virtual flights to either Winnipeg or Calgary.

James landed in Calgary and called the hotel he was going to be staying at to make sure his confirmation was still active and the room was still available and then got his luggage and immediately afterward looked for a rental car because if he wanted to go somewhere else while in Banff he might need one. He got a new ford mustang and headed for Banff. He had never driven in Calgary by himself so he went to a nearby gas station and asked how to get to the Trans Canada highway. The local gas station owner gave him the directions to the highways and within 45 minutes he was on the highway and on the way to Banff.

Nearly and hour and a half later he arrived in Banff and found the hotel very vacant, he really didnt need to call because there was no-one at the hotel, but the hotel manager and his staff was there and it looked to James as if they were wondering where everyone was. He talked to the hotel attendant and said 'i called about an hour ago, my name is Ja-- but before he could say his name the staff member had his info up on his computer screen and said 'room 201' and handed James the key and James went up to his room and unpacked. He explored his room and walked outside. It was mid august and hot but not muggy hot. He also brought all his games with him.

Later that night he moseyed on to the downtown and passed by a place called underground internet cafe. It was five after nine and just in time to go and do some emailing and face book and the like manly because he wasn’t a business person and didnt have anything that required getting done. While down at the internet cafe he said hi to two friends named Daniel and Phil. They had just finished touring the Europe countryside.

He walked to an open computer and used the pay option instead of a member login because he didnt have an account here. He waved to the guy at the counter who he knew and the computer in front of him lit up and he could use it as along as he wanted and as long as the cafe was open. It closes at 1am a sign right next to his keyboard read. He checked his email and face book and all the websites he usually visits back home and then while starting to get bored he gets up and walks up and gets a diet coke and tells the staff member that hell pay for it afterwards.

He notices on the desktop that the game world of war craft was still installed and decided to log in to his account he couldn’t use because his computer wouldn’t allow the size of the game. So then he logged in to his account and started playing with his dwarf on level 21 and spent most of the night playing this game.

The next day he skipped breakfast and instead of going to the cafe he decided to climb tunnel mountain and it took him most of about an hour to get to the top at which time he noticed the clouds above looked like it was about to rain, before he even get to look at the beautiful view. He took one look at the streets before starting to walk down the mountain and he got soaked walking down the mountain at which he thought he’d go back to the hotel and dry off and chill out.

Later that day he went for a walk downtown to a bar he had been to before called Bruno’s. He went and asked the waiter for a diet coke and a menu. The waiter hands him a diet coke and a menu and James then looks at the menu. A minute later he mentions he wants chicken fingers. He waits a few minutes and then his order arrives full of fries and about 4 chicken fingers. He eats his meal while watching soccer on TV. Arsenal vs. Manchester United are playing and Manchester is down 10 points from arsenal. A few moments later he pays for his meal and leaves, saying goodbye to the staff he knows.

Again tonight he’s drawn to the internet cafe. This time he asks the staff member how much an account here means and asks if he can have one just for a few days and the staff member says 'yes, that’s alright' and gives him a small paper to fill in. Moments later the info gets transferred and he loads some money onto the account and goes to computer seventeen and logs in. He finds a few games he had forgotten about called track mania and combat arms. He hasn’t played these games in a year or so. He would have but the internet is slow at home and doesn’t really work that much with the games he is looking at on the desktop.

He decides to play combat arms. It’s a game that is about war battles fought more in buildings than in fields. He logs in and loads up a game and starts playing it for a few minutes than thinks about what emails has he gotten. He doesn’t get many emails but there are few ones from his mom and dad and some friends usually so he exits the game and logs into his email account to find more junk. Nothing in here today.

2009: a year in review

these are the big things that happened this year

January-celebrated new years eve at cobble, tube slide was opened for the first time.

-started helping teaching at cobble

March-Got an award to the best assistant ski teacher of 2009 for all my help

April- around my dads b-day we went to montreal for my dads buisness conference. Mom leaves for australia for 3 weeks

May-I start rolling the grass to get it ready for cutting

June-August..cutting grass regularily

August- signed up to help with the kitchener airshow and dad helped as well

September-voluntered with the open house and doors open with the Jet Aircraft Museum

-Started college courses, with the goal of finally graduating college.

September-December-College courses

December- i actually pass both classes with the help of my sister...

see you in 2010

aw jeez...

You all my laugh at me at what i am kinda in love with...dont worry people its not another girl i can go harrass but an airplane. I know what youre thinking, people can be in love with a plane can they? well most people would say no. I say yes.

I am really in love with an airplane and i know this time at least ill know that it loves me...haha....

im having alot of dreams about it...some have me as it pilot

a round the world next year...without leaving home

For next year starting in a few weeks ill be on my way to starting a round the world trip. But i wont be laving my bedroom. This is a virtual trip. I plan to fly from London CYXU to London CYXU but go around the world in between.

The plan is this

CYXU-->CYYC
CYYC-->PANC
PANC-->UHSS
UHSS-->OMDB (maybe?)
OMDB-->EIDW
EIDW-->KEWR
KEWR-->CYXU

but i might add a few routes as time goes...

school is almost over...

As it is now, there is only 1 day left of actual class time. I have the last test tommorow at noon. After im done that test i can technically be free of school but thats not it. I have another class at 4pm in which we talk about the move we say the night before but since ive already watched it many times i dont need to really know about the plot of fargo...but im going to go figure out the ideological subtext so that it can help me on the exam next wednesday...

I am also going to be meeting up with a buddy of mine whos in my class and asking about the missing stuff on the in class sheets in between after my test and my 4pm class and if we dont get it doen i will be screwed, these sheets are going to be used on the test so i have to get them finished....

merry xmas and ill update you next week...i need to focus...

now that the last essay is out of the way...

i have a little more time to fly this afternoon after a well needed nap from an all nighter that i did to finish this essay..

there are no more essays due in this class or the AB studies, and im not talking about studies of your six pack but of aborigional studies i did the only essay they required me to do. All that needs to be done are is the last test for AB studies and the exam. Once im done i can start flying alot more....

ttyl...

im tired....need sleep..

coming to you from the middle of a flight...

im posting this from the middle of a virtual flight CYZF to CYVR and im about 300 miles from the destination...hope all my virtual travellers are alright...

ttyl

that only took a few minutes..

ive decided im not going to create a flightsim blog im going to post them here since this is where i usually talking anyways...

i have been really getting bothered by the way the 737-200 alternate painjobs were showing up in flightsim as 737-253 as its own set on the list when we know that the 737-253 is just a variation of the 737-200. So i decided that i would try to fix this. All i had to do was fix a few numbers in the aircraft.cfg file and i was on my way. Now instead of 6 different variations taking up space in the list of all aircraft they are all within the 737-200 set was like magic...only took me like 5 minutes...

things are ok so far..

ttyl..

darren