The heat blisters and the sun is bright. Everyone is outside playing in the hot weather but where am I? These past few days I find myself wondering what I am doing. Am I doing anything at all? Like some sort of drunken bum, I sleep in many mornings and my day starts late. One of the many so-called priviledges of being your own boss and a person on contract.
Saturday afternoon was spent working at the nursing home. I couldn't make it out to beach volleyball due to timing and logistics. Too much driving all over the place and not getting enough things done. The same group of friends wanted to have a bbq as well except that they had no bbq as I soon learned after calling to say that I may not be able to make it out. I think it was hoped that I would be the bbq person as I was all last summer. The knee injury is taking much longer than I had hoped forcing me to put volleyball on the backburners still.
Later that afternoon I went to salsa class. Alberto had asked me to join the intermediate level III class even though I wanted to retake the level II class. It was just that no one else wanted to take it over with me and there was no group advancing from level I. I had missed a number of classes and forgotten a lot of the lessons which is what compelled me to want to take the class over again.
No Diavolos or HoJo's this weekend. Everyone took a break from dancing and did their own thing.
I watched my Initial D anime movie again this weekend. I had forgotten parts of it and really liked seeing it again. Then I remembered that I had not seen the real live version which came out in asia last year. So today I went to a videoshop in Parker Place, one of those all asian malls in richmond and picked up a copy on vcd.
At first it took a bit of getting used to having certain expectations of what the characters should be like. If I were the producer, I would have cast it differently and shot it differently. Now I know how people are like when they see movies after reading the book and disapproving of the movie. Always things that are left out or changed. Give me a shot at it! I'll redo it! This movie did win a number of awards in Hong Kong. Despite originating in Japan, the movie was made for more of an all asian crowd consisting of Hong Kong and China. Cast members being the current popular young Hong Kong stars. Why didn't they cast it with japanese actors and actresses?
The tiling job continues at the nursing home. I went and loaded up my truck with everything I needed today. All the tiles, mortar, grout and self leveling cement from the Rona store in richmond. The other Rona store in vancouver had ran out of the tiles that I wanted.
The self leveling cement is wonderful for anyone with an uneven concrete floor. Just pour it on the floor, spread it around and let gravity do its thing. The staff at the home seemed happy to finally see the old stained carpet removed.