Smooth Moves

07 Jun 18
19:55 hrs

     Have you ever known someone who you had looked up to or who you admired because you thought they were so smart and then, many years later, you realize something happened to their smart stuff. It must have leaked out of their head or something because now that person, that mentor, has the mental acuity of a small dirty soap dish. To put it bluntly, he's as smart as a bag of hammers. It's to the point that I might as well argue with a grilled cheese sandwich because the sandwich would know when to quit.

     To make matters worse...it's a relative.

     There have been some alterations made to the Wayward Inn. As some of our guests are elderly getting in and out of a bathtub can be difficult. As we had two bathtubs, and we really only needed one, we had the second one, in the cheater ensuite off of the Sr. Couch Monkey's room, removed and a shower pan installed. Along with the shower pan were new shower doors, a new set of fixtures and a fold down seat. Photos of the project done by a pair of professionals can be seen on the Comox Valley Views Facebook page. Take a look.

     There has been a changing of the guard in the country's most populous province. A FORD is now driving the bus. Let's hope that he doesn't drive it like his brother drove the bus for the Golden Horseshoe. He had gone off the rails and crack'd up. According to today's Globe and Mail, there were confirmed reports of this new FORD's drive-thru hashish sales operation.

     My friend from Over the Hump and I went out and drowned a dozen worms. We brought back our limit of fish. Some fine cutthroat trout. I only kept two and let him take two of mine. They're in the freezer and when I have an opportunity I'll smoke them in my L'il Chief smokehouse.

08 Jun 18
05:55 hrs

     I woke up this morning to the sad news that my favorite celebrity chef, Anthony Bourdain, was found dead in his hotel room in Paris. The cause is an apparent suicide by hanging. His body was discovered by his friend and Michelin chef, Eric Ripert.

     I know that his loss will be most felt by his family and closest friends and that it is sad that he had to take this route as a solution to his problems. I am sure that it will come out in the wash that he was probably suffering from depression. Looking from the outside you would think, "What the hell has he got to be depressed about?" Celebrity status, popular author, world traveller and an excellent chef. He had written that tv celebrity status comes with a price and the price is the fact that you have sold your soul to your fans and the producers. The drive to entertain your fans is constant and the push from the producers is more so. That each day in the production of a show can and will suck four times the life out of you.

     A friend of mine said that I should not hate him for taking this route. Maybe it was the only way he could remove the pain. With his status seeking clinical help would have ended his tv career but that would have removed the pressures too. 

     I'm angry that he wasn't strong enough to realize that his life was more important than any tv career or any career for that matter. Maybe he was seeking help, I don't know. What I do know that it is an ugly thing. I had a friend who did the very same thing for the very same reasons and he was found by another friend/co-worker. It affected us all. It was preventable. Our crew chiefs knew that he was suffering from depression and had checked into the hospital. The lied to us and said he had injured his back. Two weeks later he was out of the hospital and we were partying. At the end of the evening he went back to his room and ended it. If we had known what was up we would have surrounded him with care and protection. As much as I hated him for his actions I still hate my crew chief for his inaction.

     Here at the Wayward Inn the door is open. Come in. Relax. Take a load off. Laugh at the world. Laugh at yourself.  Enjoy our company and enjoy life.

     Take care of yourself.