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Lately I’ve been pondering over my blog and what good it is to the world. I’ve read blogs from developers at Google, from CEO’s of hosting companies, even the Rantings of a BYU Student and it seems like everyone has something to contribute to the greater knowledge of the world. What exactly have I done here? Other than create a place for family and close friends to check in on me without having to pick up the phone, What have I done? Almost ALL of the search engine traffic I get is from people looking for information on really quick boy haircuts. And even those people come away thinking “huh?” to themselves. I could create a place where design principles are preached to the designerly challenged masses. I could create a place where family values are heralded and inspirational stories are told. I could create a place where the marvels of the internet and technology are explored. I could create a place where design, technology, and marketing are analyzed in relation to today’s business world. I could create a place where the teeming hordes of digital camera users could learn some basic principles to keep them from ruining everything they capture in their lenses. But what do I choose to do? I choose to ramble about nothings. I guess they must be important or I wouldn’t ramble about them. Hmmm, I’ll have to check into that logic there… (note to self [curiously posted on my non-private blog]: check into logic of ramblings being important just because I rambled about them) As I read back through my posts, they don’t even read that coherently. Unless you already know a little bit about what I am doing in my life, they don’t make much sense at all. What’s the point? Am I just adding to the countless piles of hard drives on the Internet that are filled with nothings? (and can “nothing” actually be used in the plural form?). There you go Grant, how bout that?

“I’m not saying I’d like to build a summer home here but the trees are actually quite lovely.” I don’t know how many times I’ve said it. Most of the time it’s been to mock some horrible place but I think I may have finally found where I would build a summer home if I were so inclined. It would have to be towards the north end of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. I think I actually said something like “Wow, the trees here are just so amazing” which of course brings up the summer home and then I really started thinking about it. A winter home would definitely have to be some place tropical (the DR) and why not have the summer home be some place that stays close to the same temperature and is just as green? The locals are even quite amicable too eh? Oh yes, that’s another thing. Where can I find a guide on the correct usage of “eh”? It seems that all the Canadians use it in their own individualistic way. Eh? So yeah, the fishing was so so. The crabbing was pretty decent. The berry foraging was fantastic. The scenery was amazing. The bears were nice and kept their distance, except for that one bear that we almost drifted into when the prop got tangled on fishing line. But then, he was still very cordial and didn’t eat us. Most (and I mean like 99%) of the Canadians we met were not just polite, but they seemed to go out of their way to be nice and friendly. I think it would be quite nice to become one of the summer locals. So if you have the chance, go visit northern Vancouver Island. And take a boat that has a motor if you want to catch fish this year. Or better yet, charter a fishing boat for a couple days.