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It had to happen sometime. Today at 3pm, I became a Flickr user. Not only a Flickr user but a two year subscription pro user. I have struggled to keep pace with my trigger finger, uploading through FTP all day long to keep the hope alive that my Open Source walkah -made Drupal modular image project ethics savvy gallery could work.

For the longest time, I've had a camera at my side. That is, in my bag, near my bed, stuffed away with my toiletries, whatever... it was there. If I needed it I could snap shots of anything. In highschool, it was a clunky film SLR which I used for a photography course. It broke down under warrantee and I returned it to Henrys for a full refund after using it for the whole course in the end.

I've back with my folks and family in Toronto for this past week. I've helped my sister and her boyfriend rennovate their new house in New Market; spent time with my friends, and their parents; babysat my brother's dog; seen some things that have changed in this city.

There's a strange feeling of familiarity and nestalgia that comes with a 5 days visit, that is not rolled into the weekend stop-by.

Disclaimer: this post explains my journey to Camp NeeKauNis this weekend. I highly recommend reading this to get a sense of the full-experience, though it is highly bike oriented. The post following this one should (I expect) focus mainly on what was an explosively spiritual experience.

My previous post reminded me that I'm considerably out of touch with my blog. My readers deserve to know what I've been up to, and why I've been incredibly negligent in keeping up to date.

It has probably been 6 years that I've thought about applying to become an official member of the Religious Society of Friends, or under it's more commonly known name "Quakerism". I hadn't really thought about it for some time, because I didn't feel any sense of urgency or need-- why is adopting membership so important?!

Hey out there!

This is a quickie, I'm working up in Ottawa with my company OpenConcept Consulting Inc.and I thought I should quickly post something before people start thinking I'm dead, or worse they think I'm not blogging... HA!

I've been spending my time here working on some exciting new services, brainstorming and planning for future ones. I've been spending my afternoon's evenings working on NDP stuff, and preparing for some major fund-raising.

I plan to be in Toronto as of Friday for a wonderful Quaker, Young Adult Friend, retreat, followed by a quick stop over in Guelph, before I'm off to help out with E-day in London North-Centre for Megan Walker.

Last night I capped off the municipal election for Guelph by working an e-day hub for the Karen Farbridge campaign.

I had originally intended to limit my participation, on account of my job, and on account of the fact that I'd been holding down the NDP fort, while the rest of the Executive were working for the elections. However, when I got word that there was help needed for e-day, and considering it was on the weekend that I would be most needed, I couldn't resist. I was working mostly with my compatriots from the NDP, but there were many who helped from the Liberal and Green parties. After-hours, it was mostly an NDP campaign, and reminded me of the Federals.

Hey friends,

I'm just posting a quickie to say that I'm going to the Ontario New Democratic Youth Convention this weekend in London Ontario. I often say I will take photos, and post entries, but I'm often too involved on these weekend outings to take photos. I will try though because I'm the only Guelph youth going. I might even submit a report to various business meetings for posterity.

After going to the OYF Thanksgiving retreat, where I was admittedly rejuvinated with Youth Group energy (the wink game was a reminder of how I love my religion); I decided to cover a whole bunch of business here in Toronto-- with my parents for week. I was supposed to visit the cottage, but it turned out I wasn't needed there. On the itinerary for this week: work, NDP training, visit SEED, and pack remaining belongings for moving to Guelph.

I'm firstly going to try to work a whole week out of my Dad's basement office. This is one of the things that I hope will work about my new job. But I'm also trying to focus and bring some discipline to my life. I'm very easy to pick up new things and take on more tasks... but I need to learn to focus my mind and bring order to my days. This has always been a problem for me, but I think I've gotten better recently. While I would hate to make excuses; I've been sick for the past week, and have been struggling to get my sleep patterns back on track.