AN ISLAND

Spent yesterday looking at cabins on the biggest gulf island. Saw four, two with ocean views, one with a lake view and one in the middle of the forest, next to a main road. One of the ocean views, was quaint and was available because the old guy died, which my chinese girlfrind thought was bad luck, the second ocean view was half way up a mountain the views were soaring. You felt quite literally like you were on the edge of a cliff. It was very private but a little too big, too expensive and isolated for my taste. The last one was a small self contained cabin in a little resort on a lake $795 all inclusive and would be suitable for my needs. The guy who runs the place, Jim is a fireman and seems like a nice guy. When he bought the place it included the most notorious drug dealer on the island and other unsavoury charactors. Another eight places to look at today so... Went for dinner with an old friend who has taken a vow never to fly again as an enviromental support measure. We ate at a restaurant which is owned by a lawyer who is spearheading a lawsuit, instigated by the Cree (Indian tribe), regarding land claims on alberta oilsands projects. Rumour has it he is raising money and 60 or 70 lawyers are working on the project. The restaurant gets all its vegetables from its organic garden and none of the locals go there any more or so i was told. On a more important note my homeless friend has an agreement to rent a humble abode. Local bookies are giving him 2-1 odds he survives the winter with out being kicked out...being a betting man i'll leave this one alone... The laws in BC, regarding drinking and driving are the most onerous of any province. Anything over .05 and you get an automatic 90 day suspension, car impounded for thirty days, (you pay) and twenty lashes by a righteous teenage activist who lost her best friend to a drunk driver. It is not pretty. In bars you can know longer smoke or drink and over 400 establishmnet have been closed since the law came into effect. In BC they are now considering making hot yoga mandantory as the do gooder wet their panties in glee. As bad as this island is, it is still a massive improvement over richmond, which has been over run by the chinese who make little or no atttmept to speak the language, and though polite and amiable, create a culture of a vacuity. God how i hate the suburbs. Today the sun is shining and the wars seem far away.