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I'm just editing some photos from Australia right now. Took me a while to get around to doing it, but tonight is the night. I've got a) super relaxation and b) super time on my hands.

Why do I have those characteristics right now, you ask? Well, dear reader, I shall tell you why: Because I quit my job. Did I tell you this already? I might have. My current (or should I say ex-?) employer is QuestAir Technologies Incorporated. A small industrial manufacturer of Pressure Swing Adsorption machines. My future employer is a company known by the moniker "Westport Innovations" (Ltd?) I'm excited to say that I'm excited to try something new. Good things are on the way, dear reader, I can feel it. I already know a few guys that work there (several from QuestAir) and they are cool, too.

Did I tell you about Year of The Mitch? Of course I did. If you know me, you should know of the YOTM. But, what you might not realize is that 2008 in its entirety is the YOTM. It's not a fiscal year that ends in June, despite the fact that by June I was disappointed in how the YOTM had turned out. Of course, I can thank one of my facebook friends (one of those guys who I have rarely hung out with, but who is awesome, so he is my facebook friend) for reminding me that "Lo! YOTM is not over, good lad! For thou hast many a month hence from yonder to ponder!"

And I thought to myself "Facebook friend... you might just be onto something..."

Of course he was right. I have several months yet to continue the YOTM changes. Let me remind you, dear friends, what the YOTM objectives were:

1. New house:
My lease was up in the 'Burn, and it was time to move on. I wasn't feelin' living in the middle of buttf*$k nowhere, despite how much a) I enjoyed our Halo 3 sessions and b) our insanely cheap rent and c) 6 minute rush-hour commute.

Result: Achieved
I moved in February, via the help of my good reality-friend Bob and his truck, (and other people, of course, who I thank in my brain and not my "blog",) to my sweet as Coal Harbour pad. Sure, I pay out the anal sphincter for a place that has marble and granite and other heavy minerals as building material, but I also live 15 feet from a grocery store and 2 block from Stanley Park, arguably the country's best city park.

2. New car:
My old car was dying. Interior of the door had no trim, window didn't work, car wouldn't start, and would nearly die suddenly while driving. Torn, old seats. Rust. Squirrel damage to wiring. Water in trunk. So I thought: I need a new car.

Result: Achieved
For better or for worse: I have a new car. A sweet as hell new car, but frankly, I could do without the car payments. The recent winter weather is making me feel hell of better about my decision, mind you. It's like Ian said: you can't drive a motorbike in the winter in Vancouver. Sure as hell you cannot. I can't even go outside, let alone go outside and fly through the air like Kate Winslet on the bow of the Titanic, all being pelted with hail and icy water. So yes. Achieved.

3. New girl:
I was hoping to meet that perfect someone. I mean, perfect for me. I met many cool girls in '07, certainly, and hung out with lots, but didn't really meet one that I was like "You're pregnant! Oh well, let's go out for sushi and pick a name. How about 'Yamamoto' if it's a boy?" I think that was my goal. To meet the girl so awesome it wouldn't be the end of the world if she started reproducing, I mean, not name my firstborn son Yamamoto.

Result: Epic Fail
I met a great girl at the ass end of '07, and that lasted about 3 weeks, until we broke up just in time for Christmas. (I wrote a great "blog" update about it, which I think she a) read, and b) hated.) I liked her lots, but it wasn't meant to be. Even I, eternal non-understander of relationship issues, could feel that. The rest of the year was pretty much a wash, from what I can remember (Note: I can't remember much.) I met a few girls recently, and so I'm newly inspired. My Facebook friend's friendly reminder echoes in my mind like the echo of a transport truck downshifting through the rockies: "Mitch ...You have 1.5 months left... don't give up... BRRRRRRRRAAAAARRRRRRR."

ps: If you checked out that old blog post, you'll find the video is broken. So here is a new link: Cat in space.

4. New job:
I've been looking for a new job for ages, and I've applied at many, and I've interviewed at as many, and I've been asked what I wanted to be paid at not quite as many. It's been challenging. There isn't a lot of work in Vancouver, even for a guy with no experience, like me. (Disclaimer: If anyone from my new company is reading this, which can happen, because I know people could find me on Google as easily as I can find ... hmm... something easy to find... you are hereby required by law to know that nothing in this "blog" is to be taken literally. So get your head out of your ass and stop looking up your employees on the internet, wtf. Just kidding, sir. It's a great idea.)

Result: Achieved
I finally sent a resume to a place that values the skills that this kid possesses. And I do possess some skills, they are just not really suited to much of the engineering that goes on here. But this! This my friends is awesome. Everyone seemed really stoked on my resume, and seemed really into my skills. Chicks dig dudes with skills, and so do employers with brains. I'm super effin' stoked to get my new job. But want to hear something funny?

Something funny:
It's funny how many people say negative stuff to me about my new job! I get shit all the time like "I hope this economy doesn't mean they start laying people off like last time!" or "You don't know exactly what you'll be doing? That's weird, what if you new job sucks?" or other such types of non-sensical things you would never say to a person. It would be like someone shows you a picture of their new girlfriend and you're like "Huh. Not much of a looker, is she?" ... Asshat, you always say "Wow, she's cute!" even if it looks like someone put the genomes in wrong when she went into the bakery of life. They wouldn't be showing you a photo, you ass, if they didn't think she was cute. Likewise, I wouldn't be telling you about my job after I had accepted it if I wanted to get your un-educated, dim-witted, ass-mongering input!

But I digress...

5. New dog:
This one is a bit of an odd one, because I don't actually have anything preventing me from getting a dog other than just calling up my landlord and saying "I'm getting a dog. Cool? Cool." and going out and choosing one. So really I'm not getting a dog intentionally. Of course, you might argue that I could go out and get a girlfriend, too, if I was as picky with regards to girls as that would imply I am with dogs, but you'd be wrong, and an idiot. I am picky with dogs. Extremely. (And sadly, with girls. Ask Lianne, she thinks so too.) But really, the timing just hasn't been right. Who knows though. This year's really turning up Mitch-house, so we'll see.

Result: On-going
I search the doggy listings on the BCSPCA every day (I've decided I don't want a puppy, too much work for a guy with a job that doesn't consist of playing golf all day, dad,) and I want to save a dog from the pound. I won't say I'm gonna end up taking the dog no one else wants, I'm not that good of person, but the person who would have taken my dog might! Haha.

Conclusion: 3/5, and that ain't bad.

Mitch out.

looks aren't everything - Rosco, 2008-11-13, 22:30:13 I guess she has a great personality.

Robyn, 2008-11-15, 05:37:22 I could send you our dog that you loved so much: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y278/rastoddard/134_3494.jpg

Ninja's can't do this, only Bruce Lee - Ian, 2008-11-21, 14:18:02 Start practicing: http://buzzfeed.com/expresident/bruce-lee-ping-pong

Westport - Carver, 2008-11-25, 11:34:43 Nice one Mitch! We did a project with Westport when I worked for TEAM. They definately seem on the straight and narrow. I can sense good things. Hello.