I’m sure the word ‘consarn‘ is very close to the word that I’m trying to think of,  if any of you have any ideas let me know…

Meh,  a little deflated today,  small inklings of frustration seeping through the cracks.  I know things will be better,  just a matter of a good nights sleep and a positive week..  Smilie Face!

THE GOOD 

• My laptop rocks
• I’m beginning to get paid for work that utilises my creativity!
• Autumn is beautiful here in the Vermontonian wooded valleys,  golden leaves rain down in the wind
• I’ve been writing some new songs,  pretty high quality work
• Friends and family members being very supportive of me and my big adventure
• I’m going up to Montreal this weekend to visit relatives in Canada
• Seeing and being with the people over here

THE BAD

• My laptop didn’t work on the wi-fi hotspot in McNeils pub (damnit, it worked flawlessly everywhere else,  why won’t it let me drink and surf!?)
• My web-site coding skills need work (darn cross browser compatibility gets me every time).
• Internet really really sucks here in the middle of nowhere!
• Getting frustrated about lack of independance (can’t go anywhere without my Father turning up and giving me a lift to places)
• Car search is going slow (try to rectify the above problem, however all the decent looking car deals get snapped up before I can get anywhere close to checking them out)
• Still no digital camera (sorry folks, that one is long overdue for the blog)
• Seem to have gone a few steps backwards in the music theory I was teaching myself,  will have to relearn some stuff
• Banking sucks here in America compared to UK
• Finally got confirmation that I was ripped off by credit card fraud on the Canon camera I auctioned before coming over to the States meaning I owe Paypal 415 GBP (plus another 10 GBP for them doing me the service of failing completely to prove to the credit card company in question that I am the victim here.)
• Having to rebudget a lot of things for my trip due to the above (really could use that $800,  at worst I will probably have to put off travelling west until I have done some more jobs and reearned the money).

A few other odds and ends,  in general I’m doing pretty well I think.  Nothing every goes smoothly but I am confident that the experiences that are coming thick and fast will give continue to give me big pushes in the right direction and I will be thoroughly making the most out my time here as a young man with nothing holding me back from my potential to create and achieve.

Hip, hip, hurrah.