"I love you all, the cops too" 8.13 - 201.46

I guess I should explain the very odd heading for today's blog post.

It all started...when...instead of my usual "head west until I hit the Shaughnessy/Kerrisdale neighborhoods and then walk home".. I decided to change my 8-mile route and head north towards the docks and then south up Commercial Drive.

The waterfront is a very interesting area currently going through a socio-economic flux where the thin edge of the gentrification wedge has started to take place. So in between garages, old dockworker hotels, warehouses and abandoned buildings there are now trendy condos..(granted they all have high security fences!! :P)...but the middle class types have taken root like dandelions in the front yard and the fact there are Starbucks and drive through McDonalds pushing out the old "Chinese/Canadian Cafes" there mean these people ain't goin' anywhere! (holy smokes..I am one of them too..)..But there is also still a lot of poverty down there and all the nasty stuff that goes with it..ie. Drugs and Prostitution. Which, fortunately you don't see much of during the light of day, so fat ol' sweaty me in my goofy vest and wickable shorts didn't get hassled at all..So..as I was walking along the street down near the docks, I saw hand painted in drippy green letters in an old boarded up store front doorway "I love you all, the cops too"...

I wonder who wrote that and why?

I wish I had the literary tools to express how much I enjoy walking and how much I love the city of Vancouver.. As I was walking home up Commercial Drive I couldn't believe how much that street has changed over the last 20 years.. When I first came to Vancouver, I lived a few blocks off of Commercial and the area was a lot rougher and edgey..and more interesting...now it has a veneer of "hip"..*sigh*..I guess it's for the better though..

so two weeks until the half marathon..then what? do I keep blogging? what will I do to motivate myself?

iPOD: "Velvet Pants" by The Propellerheads

Time: 140 Minutes