{"id":133,"date":"2008-05-24T13:08:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T18:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2022-03-19T20:56:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T01:56:25","slug":"limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2008\/05\/24\/limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"limb.o"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, internets. I&#8217;m backed up on images with words falling into other places, and that&#8217;s just fine. April was roaming the seaside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7224a-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7705\" title=\"Macaulay Point, Esquimalt.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7224a-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7224a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7224a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7224a.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7231.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"I ran about the rocks with strangers' dogs.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7244.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Canadian Forces hidey holes of old.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7164.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"hhttps:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7170.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WTF?\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7174.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WTF RIOT!!!\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7191.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7183.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Approaching the Inner Harbour.\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7177.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br>I was in a new temporary neighborhood, with a housesat decrepit cat in a temporary frame of mind, tromping around in Papa Bear&#8217;s purple Crocs and watching BBC&#8217;s Planet Earth in a pile of fever, blankets. Funny. Having been removed from routine, I can almost disconnect the depth of poor health, now on the mend before another unraveling, I guess, and I like this illusion of no delusion, danger, no damage <i>there was no match to the near-death!<\/i> with Canadian healthcare queues and questionable concern. With this errant corpse my mind calls home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll elaborate on this, I suppose, in fantastic morbid tones when the time is right\u2014if and when I get some answers. In the meantime, hope the time stays wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7212-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"Grafitti that says, &quot;What are your strengths?&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-7703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7212-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7212-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7212-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7212-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last weekend I flew to St. Paul for Sam&#8217;s law school graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_0052.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Familia Holle. God I love this picture. I love this picture.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_0039.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"We made our own fun.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a short, surreal trip of family, fajitas, friends, GPS hijinks and hanging out with Dan and all awesomeness entailed therein including but not limited to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IZ4LCejQg8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bulgarian State Radio Choir<\/a> at the Basilica and bun chay deliciousness on a bright sesquicentennial celebration day wandering around Frogtown taking pictures of fonts and nonsensical signs. He bought me a tin of tea and a set of crowbars. I introduced him to Vietnamese iced coffee and my family. We went to the fuckin&#8217; mall, no apologies. I didn&#8217;t crash my dad&#8217;s car even once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Laughing with the ones I love, for a few days I felt home. Then I returned to where all my stuff is.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I have things to work on, oh yes I do. Projects and possibilities and taking advantage of myself when I feel like myself. I miss Minneapolis and I miss Vancouver. I&#8217;m going to miss everything, eventually. I&#8217;d be a fraud times fool to not enjoy it, this here right now then wrong there there, show my love show my teeth while I can. Am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So look at some pictures while I duck behind this curtain, make reason pay attention, make certain nothing&#8217;s certain and accept it till the tension disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things that happen are just things that happen.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_6960.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7071.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7150.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"I like his little knees.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7207.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7208.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7249.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7255.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Build them up, tear them down.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/highntools.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"[Not] to be confused with High-end Tools.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7216.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vic has many corner groceries.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7259.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"And the skeletons of corner groceries.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7290.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7293.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"I took this for the TV. I like it for the culvert.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/052408\/IMG_7296.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"I've never seen a city that tags its fone poles quite like Vic. Though posts are just trees in different form, they leave the trees alone.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7221a-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"toy horse in quicksand\" class=\"wp-image-7704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7221a-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7221a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7221a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/IMG_7221a.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We are all just things that happen.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, internets. I&#8217;m backed up on images with words falling into other places, and that&#8217;s just fine. April was roaming the seaside. I was in a new temporary neighborhood, with a housesat decrepit cat in a temporary frame of mind, tromping around in Papa Bear&#8217;s purple Crocs and watching BBC&#8217;s Planet Earth in a pile<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2008\/05\/24\/limbo\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,17,23,37,41],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shouts","tag-deepsicks","tag-family","tag-home","tag-street-art","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}