Archive for the tag 'frustration'

canada, environment, fort saint john, personal

Peace Country Kool-Aid…now with 20% more gas

As of two weeks in I can see that reconciling my issues with the oil and gas industry is proving to be more frustrating than I originally predicted. A major gas player dragged out the BC Public service last week for a fam-tour of their South Peace operations.  Members of the Oil and Gas Commission [...]

travel

Vladivostok 2008

I’m keeping my posts short because I’d like to keep my internet bar time to a minimum because in addition to hourly rates, users are also charge a bandwith premium.  Traveling the eastern seaboard of Russia (namely Vladivostok) is no walk in the traveling park.  It’s not impossible, or even difficult for that matter…just frustrating.  [...]

china, life, nanjing

Last week in Nanjing

Life in the Big Red without a passport is like life without arms or legs – you are consistently denied service, forced into a helpless infant like position in which you must rely upon many others for otherwise simple and menial tasks. For the record…yes I do have numerous copies of my passport (which is [...]