Back online.

Well, after some time off, I'm back.

Was I on vacation? Well not really. I was visiting family.

I was off to Canada for four days, Vancouver actually.

It's a really nice city, lots to explore and do (and lots of hot chicks wearing very short shorts and showing a lot of bare smooth legs and buttocks). It'd be a great place to live and raise the family.

Then again, there's the high taxes, the much higher cost of living. And were it not for the fact that I picked some weird stomach ailment that gave me much discomfort, it wouldn't have been that bad. I'd have to be making twice as much as I am now to probably maintain the same wondrous lifestyle I have now.

Still, there's this part of me that felt very much at home. It felt nice to be surrounded by people who largely are not all full of moral outrage and intolerance. It's nice to be in a society where differences are accepted (if not embraced) not mocked. And it's nice to be somewhere, where waving a flag means nothing more than being happy about where you live despite its problems, and not thinking you're better and superior to everyone else.

It isn't perfect, and far from ideal. But it'd be nice just the same.