Monday, October 26, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday, October 09, 2009
From Jairus Streight"s Blog
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Because you never know who is sitting beside you...
It’s funny how we cross pathes with so many people in any given day, often making eye contact with strangers we know nothing about, and even with an opportunity to say ‘hello’ we proceed to carry on as if they never existed, never once asking them their name, where they are from, or more importantly what’s their story.
The first week of class, I sat down next to this dude named Cody. He seemed like a nice enough guy, so we got chatting,
The conversation that proceeded absolutely floored me.
If you ever think you need a reason to stop and ask a stranger ‘whats your story’, try this on for size….
Our conversation, in a nutshell, went something like this:
Me: “So you swim for UVic?”
Cody: “Ya man. A bit of varsity here and there.
Me: “Cool. What events?”
Cody: “50m free, 100m free, 200m free. Mainly.”
M: “Cool. 100m free eh. How fast you swim that?”
C: “49 sec”
M: “Holy shit…”
C: “Haha ya, how bout you? you swim?”
M: “Haha I try. Not very fast though. I started swimming way too late. I was 15 before I could swim front crawl properly.”
C: “So what man…”
M: “What do you mean?”
C: “So what. I didn’t start swimming until I was 20.”
M: “What? Are you serious?”
C: “Ya man, for real.”
M: “Wtf? How did that happen?”
C: "When I was 16, I was a hockey player. Pretty good too. I was recruited for the like a Canada West All-Star team. But then during one of my training camps, my body started shutting down on my, causing me all sorts of horrendous problems. I was taken to the hospital, and diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. I spent the next 6 months in the hospital with multiple surgeries, and tubes coming out of me. At that point I weighed something like 109 lbs."
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Because you never know who is sitting beside you...
It’s funny how we cross pathes with so many people in any given day, often making eye contact with strangers we know nothing about, and even with an opportunity to say ‘hello’ we proceed to carry on as if they never existed, never once asking them their name, where they are from, or more importantly what’s their story.
The first week of class, I sat down next to this dude named Cody. He seemed like a nice enough guy, so we got chatting,
The conversation that proceeded absolutely floored me.
If you ever think you need a reason to stop and ask a stranger ‘whats your story’, try this on for size….
Our conversation, in a nutshell, went something like this:
Me: “So you swim for UVic?”
Cody: “Ya man. A bit of varsity here and there.
Me: “Cool. What events?”
Cody: “50m free, 100m free, 200m free. Mainly.”
M: “Cool. 100m free eh. How fast you swim that?”
C: “49 sec”
M: “Holy shit…”
C: “Haha ya, how bout you? you swim?”
M: “Haha I try. Not very fast though. I started swimming way too late. I was 15 before I could swim front crawl properly.”
C: “So what man…”
M: “What do you mean?”
C: “So what. I didn’t start swimming until I was 20.”
M: “What? Are you serious?”
C: “Ya man, for real.”
M: “Wtf? How did that happen?”
C: "When I was 16, I was a hockey player. Pretty good too. I was recruited for the like a Canada West All-Star team. But then during one of my training camps, my body started shutting down on my, causing me all sorts of horrendous problems. I was taken to the hospital, and diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. I spent the next 6 months in the hospital with multiple surgeries, and tubes coming out of me. At that point I weighed something like 109 lbs."
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Monday, October 05, 2009
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Overwhelmed with the internet
Do I Blog, Tweet, Facebook or post in some other way today. I can't keep track anymore. I don't know where people find the time. It feels like a full time job sometimes.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Trip Update
California has been great so far. We are staying right across the street from the Oceanside Pier. With the little guy in tow things have been pretty low key. In the first week we have fit in a couple runs on the beach and a trip to the gym. We weren't that impressed with the gym but managed to adapt most of our exercises to the equipment available. A couple days after arriving I did a nice long run with the father in law from Oceanside to Carlsbad. My sister and brother in-law were staying in Carlsbad so we decided to run over one afternoon. At dinner that night we were treated to a great fireworks display. We were told that they had been putting on the fireworks from the 20th of Dec until New Years Eve. The said thing about it all is that the one show we saw puts every Fireworks display in K-Town to shame.
We have made a couple trips down the coast to La Jolla. Todays trip was via the Coastal HWY. Lots of great beaches and small towns along the way.
I have reached the point in my vacation where I have completely forgotten about day to day life at home. My batteries are almost fully charged despite a few poor nights of sleep.
The boy is on his way to bed now so hopefully we can get down to the gym before bed and maybe visit the hot tub as well.
We have made a couple trips down the coast to La Jolla. Todays trip was via the Coastal HWY. Lots of great beaches and small towns along the way.
I have reached the point in my vacation where I have completely forgotten about day to day life at home. My batteries are almost fully charged despite a few poor nights of sleep.
The boy is on his way to bed now so hopefully we can get down to the gym before bed and maybe visit the hot tub as well.
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