Moving Parks

As the last weekend of bachelorhood comes to a close, I sat there on my cold hardwood floor slowly coming out of my alcohol induced haze. There we were, four mikes and ben, the five us with very different current stage in life and very different career.
It brought back the memories of the yester-years when only care in the world we had to endure was what seemed like the endless projects and exams. Only about 6 to 7 years ago, we were all relatively in the same place. Same school, similar schedules and very very similar interests. Less than a decade later, there we were sitting in my barely furnished apartment arranged in a social circle that we always find ourselves in. On the outside, things didn’t change much compared to the similar gatherings of 7 years ago but everything has changed. We no longer worry about the thesis nor the result of an exam. No more planning of some crazy skiing trip latching ourselves to the UBC group. Half of us are either married, about to be married or virtually married. Everyone has chased their dreams to a varying degree and all have ended up in a very different place. Yet, we sat there talked and talked and talked. Very different now but still very similar and still able to relate to one another.

In the end, I got what I wished out of my last weekend as a legally unattached, lesser responsible yet still mostly in control self. Chance to just have the guys out without the wives or significant other and give me a chance to enjoy the company of friends I have been lucky enough to make and retain over the years. You guys rock and thanks for letting me be one of the “cool kids” before I have to take the plunge and morph myself once again. I think we really do need more nights like these where we can be just “us”. Maybe not a wings night revival but more of an old boys club with just the boys out having fun with intelligent discussions.

Maybe we have taken many different directions in life since that time of late nights in the pit but we still can bring ourselves together and still have fun while relaxing and not really having to do anything special.

So.. do we have to wait until someone else makes the “announcement”? or can we do this without having to have someone give up their bachelorhood?

Yes, I have not been blogging like I’ve promissed a couple of posts ago (more than a year ago now..).

I don’t really have a very good reason other than my work got in the way and I have a wedding that I have been preparing for. I’ve averaged 40% overtime during the first half of this year and I only have one more weekend as a bachelor.

Anyways.. enough of that.. the real reason I’m blogging today…

The client I’m working for right now is currently in a labour dispute. What does that mean? Not much but it is facinating to see the process build up and eventually end up in a full scale walk out of the unionized workers. This place has been almost entirly ran by contractors and consultants during the last 3 months! Now that they have reached an agreement, I guess I will be able to witness the process of “business as usual” ramp up.

I must say, that being called a “Scap”, getting yelled at and given a finger here and ther really wasn’t all that fun.

I’m already looking forward to gaining access to the new supplies of pens after the clerk (who are all unionized staff) comes back with their keys to the supply cabinet!