U.S. Solders need Canada's help

This is from the ceasefire.ca website. It's nice to see Canadians take action on behalf of U.S. solders. It seems that a military draft will ba a harsh reality that I along with my peers will have to face at some point. I have been thinking of how to move to Canada for some time now. I would also check out the ceasefire website and send a letter to ablolish nuclear arms.

More than 1,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed fighting George W. Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq and defending his illegal occupation. Falsely recruited, under-trained, poorly-equipped and mistreated by the military leadership, these young soldiers died too soon.

In America, parents whose children signed-up for a chance at a better future now live in dread of orders for Iraq. The families of soldiers whose tours have been unfairly extended once and even twice are suffering needlessly.

Canada can be a sanctuary from war and aggression. Please write to Prime Minister Paul Martin and urge him to accept U.S. soldiers who request admission to Canada.

Hitting the road

Beautiful Santa Barbara

My messy room

Somewhere around Wednesday we're going to be heading back to Santa Barbara to meet with David. It is going to be a bit of a trip just to talk to him, but it is extremely difficult to communicate with him over the phone. I have to pack up my messy room and try to fit everything in to my car. Perhaps we can go surfing when we are down there. I will have to post pictures of interesting things on the way down.

Life at work

So today is my second of three days working from opening till closing. Each day is eleven hours. I am going to be closing my cart down and we are leaving Sacramento. Things are a bit strange now. There isn't anything officially set up for us after this. Our boss is excited for us to move up to Seattle and start projects there opening in malls, but he hasn't paid us for last month yet, and we are coming up on our next month of payment. Not to speak of the expenses from February until now, including a hotel bill I put on my credit card for close to three thousand dollars. So we are nervous about getting paid. He has given his word and promised that we will be paid for the work we have done, but if we go to Seattle things will be different. Rather than a base pay he wants to pay us by our performance. Working here in Sacramento wasn't put together all that well. I thought we were going to open more carts and have a more dynamic situation, but instead we were just put at the carts for the last couple of months and there were no moves to open any new stores or carts. Instead of moving on to the next thing we had to stay in one spot.

So now I am working for thee days, eleven hours a day until we close this cart down. I would like to go to Seattle and not have to worry about getting paid on time, and to also have a more active roll in making things happen. If everything else fails then we will go back to Los Angeles. Will have to re-think my plans for the future.

I hope I have more interesting things to write about in the future. This seems rather boring to me. I'll just throw some pictures in to make it more interesting.

Outing

The other day Gadadhara, Kirtiraja and I went to Squaw Valley for our final snowboarding trip for the season. We have been trying to fallow the stupid weather report to get there after a good snowfall, but the weather people don't know how to predict weather at all. Every time they say it will snow nothing happens. So we just decided to go anyway. Forget waiting for the stupid snow. We had fun anyway.

My brother just bought an underwater housing for his camera. We jumped in the pool at our apartment building and found out that they haven't been heating the water all winter. We suited up in our three mil wet suits and got some really cool shots.

I think I have this thing figured out

I have been working for Velvet International the last couple of months and it seems I am now moving to the Seattle area to set up some stores and kiosks. I will be happy to leave this rather depressing place known as Sacramento. I plan on visiting Vancouver and the farm as much as I can.

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