I Just Wanted to Move that Damn Flyer

Nothing like hiking your ass down to some deserted lot on Olympia’s beautiful industrial waterfront and finding you have access to three wireless internet points.

I’m watching the sunrise over Mount Rainier. My ass is cold since I’m sitting on a rusty drainage pipe. I get to watch Olympia wake up. A town, regardless of living here for over a year, that I still don’t know.  At least the birds in this bay seem to enjoy it. I can hardly hear myself think over the gulls, blue herons, and some other birds I can’t identify. I just heard a hawk screech of some sort. I don’t know what I came down here to write. I feel kind of silly grabbing my laptop and camera to trespass on some abandoned lot to get to a beach that is full of rusty pipes and foul smells.

Oh well, I woke up there was the first hint of blue coming through my window and I knew it was my birthday. I just felt I should get up and watch the sunrise. Then I got adventurous and headed down to the water. I love the way the color changes as the sun comes up. From a reddish purple glow to washed out pastels and the sun hasn’t even peaked above the trees yet.  I look at the much more vibrant colors on my camera LCD and think at the unreality of it. From white lines indicating overexposure I can actually see better on my camera where the sun is going to rise then with my own eyes.  I’m kind of nervous about someone coming down here and harassing me. What could I say “I’m weird and it’s my birthday, leave me be”.

This sun is taking it’s sweet time. I had a nice time night before last watching movies in the hot tub and riding bikes. I have to say that my roommate is a pretty good guy. I mean we’re friends but we really have not hung out outside of the house much. Yesterday he took me rock climbing for my first time. It was fun, as scary and hard as I suspected but fun. Then we drifted around lake Cushman on air mattresses with beer in our hands. I ended up with sunburn in the middle of my back where I couldn’t reach with suntan lotion. Next we spent hours exploring old logging roads in the national forest. Danner likes to test his new truck and I was up for the ride. Today we’re thinking about inner tubing down the Deshuttes river. This sun may finally make an appearance.

What a beautiful day. 26. Wow, well I’m a year into the second half of my twenties. I feel like I’ve just started life. I hope I have that feeling always. Searching for scholarships online I found one called postpone reality or some such shit. It sounded like it was right down my alley. It’s mission statement promoted a year of travel or other endeavors post secondary education. All that take the bull by the horns crap. It spoke of not hurrying to become boring fell further into the whole life is a crappy rat race and the only time to be happy is now before you begin it. I think that’s such a bunch of bologna. Typing this just as the sun peaks out onto the bay. I hate the fact that there was no connection to these “adventures” and reality. The article also refused to acknowledge our privilege in our ability to travel and treated the world as our private playground.

There’s a world out there and I absolutely recommend that people go see it. I think of it as an adventure too, but there’s no reason it should be unreal. In fact, the rest of the world should be as much a part of your life as your 9-5 job is. For me I hope it IS my 9-5 job in some form or another.  And I don’t understand why life has to be boring. Even if you are working an office job. There’s too much life to be lived outside of work for it to be boring.

I’m done with this rant. I have not reflected on my life at all. I’ll save that for latter. This sun feels great! My ass is numb though and it’s time to get on with breakfast, and the rest of my day.