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I hope you had a good Christmas ^-^
We all got sick here, but that seems to be an annual right of passage lol.
My friend sent me a whole bunch of unreleased Pearl Jam tracks that almost no one has heard or even knows exists for Christmas..
so that is the coolest gift I got this year. I also got to see them live again at the start of their Dark Matter tour in Vancouver.
Otherwise life rolls on. I'm helping a friend get a divorce XD I'm also planning on starting my first playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3.

Happppyyyyyyyy Biirrttthhhdddayyyyyy!!!!
I hope you are doing well :3
Life is going here on the west coast. I broke my right collar bone and left hand skiing in April. It wasn't as bad as the shattered heel, but challenging in its own way lol. I'm healed up now and packing for my 4th summer road trip in the RV, and 3rd visit to Prince Rupert (arriving late on Aug 10th). I love that town. I feel like I could live there. I'm going to stop at Klemtu on the way this time though, and see the Great Bear Rainforest. I bought into Starlink and it has me thinking of all the remote places I can now go while still being connected LOL. If the world ends to Nuclear annihilation, I'll be quietly living in my RV somewhere in the remote north playing video games, cooking rice, and slowly dething of radiation. :D

Another Christmas, another New year. I hope you had an excellent 2023. I've had to reflect a bit lately since I suddenly woke up one day and found that I'm in the last year of my 30's. I think I lived a pretty good decade, even if it wasn't entirely what I expected. The door on the dream of having a wife and kids is closing (but not entirely closed). That's a bit of a bummer, but I also have to say it's not like I ever compromised on what I wanted to get there. Instead I'm living the ultimate solo life. An RV on a mountain ridge at Whistler, with a seasons pass, and I haven't worked a job for anyone but myself since Sheridan. The channel just passed 270,000 subscribers, and I've made some amazing friends along the way through it. Sometimes I have a chuckle that everyone calls me CC, since that was your middle name at one time. I've gotten into livestreaming. After I write this bi-annual message I'm going to get set up and hop onto WDW Pro's show, and then Midnight's Edge, then I'll have some dinner and play Baldur's Gate for the rest of the evening.

I hope life is treating you anywhere near as well, and that 2024 is most excellent to you.
Your friend as always (even if you don't want me to be lol),
CC

P.S. - Happy actual birthday! I legit thought yesterday was the 4th. Maybe I'm going senile in my old age. Hopefully not. I don't want to end up like Joe Biden.

Happpyyyyyy Birrrtthhhdaaaaayyyyyyy!!!!
I think I'm living the best days of my life right now (so far anyways). My Van Wilder years were unforgettable, for all their highs and lows, but this has been the topper I think. Youtube did change my life. I've made so many friends through it, and all the things I have going on with it is almost overwhelming, but I'm being careful not to burn out lol. Streaming has been a big part of that, and has been a ton of work, but also addicting and fun. Plus just living free in the RV... It's summer so I'm parked at the Icefields Discovery Center. Heat and bugs suck so, this is perfect. Highs around 15, lows around 0. No bugs lol. ...and the view.

Anyway, I hope life is treating you as well. Wishing you a most excellent year ahead. :3

I hope Christmas was a good one for you this year :)
Ours was a success, but just barely xD ...Dad caught the wuhan virus of unknown origin on the plane and then I caught it from him last week over dinner. So that laid the both of us out for a few days. Not too bad though. It just threw Christmas plans up in the air for a few days since Mom and Kirsten and Blake didn't catch it, but they said F it we'll risk it and Dad and I were mainly recovered by yesterday so we all still managed to get together. I had to drive in on Christmas morning though cuz the hwy was closed the day before due to an ice storm >_> That's not gunna help the ski season. But eh. Life is good. Another winter parked at Whistler workin on the channel and playing video games.

I missed your Birthday this year >_> I was playing Elden Ring. A lot of it. I lost track of the days while parked in this old hospital parking lot; gaming hard. Life is going well mainly. Still road trippin in the RV. I'm in Saskatchewan this summer. It's kinda hot. I prefer the Icefields. ... but it's good I think that I learn how to actually explore in the RV lol. I'm at 162,000 subs on the channel now. :3 So there's that. Otherwise, as always, wishing you an excellent year ahead. ^-^

Merrrrrryyyyyyy Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!! (◜௰◝)
It has been a fun year. I ended up staying in the Icefields for 2 full months. The not doing summer thing worked out excellently as I do not especially enjoy summer. I plan on going back for next July and August again. I drove from there to Prince Rupert. I think that is a town connected to both of our souls. I could see myself living there, but perhaps we both already have...
I'm back at Whistler now for the winter skiing again, and still working on the channel. Curious thing about the stars... my discord community fractured literally ON December 7th. I think maybe that's just a bad day of the year for me :p It worked out well though! ... After a week of drama lol. In a bit of highschool drama one group said I could only be friends with them and not the others. The others said I could be friends with both ... so of course I sided with the others. On the one hand it is sad to see some people lost, but on the other, I have grown closer to the group I'm with as a result. One of them is a massive Kiseki fan, and another named his kid Locke after the character from Final Fantasy VI. ... So I'm in a good place. I hope you are too. <3

HaaaPpPpPPEEEEEE BiiRrTThhHDDAaAAyYYYY!!!!!!!! (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ
I'm still living in the RV full time, on my first summer road trip. I escaped the heat dome by living in the Icefields. It's nice n cool up here. No summer, which is nice, cuz summer is hot and I don't like hot. I've been playing Trails from Zero lately, now that the games are translated. I don't know for a fact you're a fan of the series, but I'd suspect it, given the investigative nature of the games. I love them, and getting to play the Crossbell games finally is awesome, especially for being able to fully appreciate Cold Steel IV. Otherwise I spend my days still plugging away at the channel. I'm closing in on 100,000 subs. I want that silver play button >.> ... though I suspect Youtube will probably not send me one for reasons. I've also brought many of the other similar channels together on Discord to form a supergroup of channels. I think we should become a religion because there's less regulations, but they're more grounded and want to be a business. Eh. I'm happy to let the thing become whatever it'll be and just hang out xD As always, hoping you're well :)

Merrrrrryyyyyy Christmas :3
Mom and Dad aren't here this year cuz THE PLAGUE. Which is apparently mutating cuz that's what plagues do, of course. I've successfully bought my home on wheels and moved into the mountains to be a hermit. Whistler, specifically x3, or well, 9 minutes from Creekside. It's much more pleasant than the city O.O I've been pulled back in sorta for Christmas though, since my sister lives in Maple Ridge, so I'll be spending it with her and the horses. Otherwise the Karaoke channel keeps growing. I hit 60K subs this morning ^-^ I hope life is going well for you. I found you in my dreams a couple times lately. I'm enough of a crazy head to wonder what might have caused you to wander into them X.X Hopefully happy things :3 ... and happy days.

hAAAPpPPppppEEEEEEEE BiiRrrTThHHDDDAAaaAAIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!!! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
Wishing you well as always (b ᵔ▽ᵔ)b
The Youtube channel has become all consuming. I'm picking up 150 subs a day at this point with no slow down @_@ ... So the short of my life these days is ALL CHANNEL >,> With whatever little bit of time I can squeeze in for life otherwise... like an hour in the middle of the night. I do try to ease up where I can and make actual time lol, just never seems to happen exactly. Otherwise just still saving up for the RV so I can go be a hermit in the woods wearing my VR helmet sitting in a virtual room in the virtual woods with LOTS OF BIG SCREEN TVS. * - * The dream will be ... -achem- 'real'.

Merry Christmas .+(´^ω^`)+.
As always, wishing you well in your life, where ever you may be these days.
I'm still working towards that RV, but getting closer all the time. I'm going to power my gaming rig in the woods with solar panels and order food off amazon. It will be (hopefully) very excellent. The YouTube channel has been taking off recently too and always threatens to completely overtake my life xD Anyway, all the happiness to you :)

HaaaPPpppPPPyyyyy BiiRrtthhHDDaaaYYYYYY!!! (>'.')>
Nine Years ... it feels like it has gone by so fast. I do look back sometimes and wish that I was mature enough back then to have been able to better deal with my emotions. I remember you once said to be careful of going back in time and changing things because you never know what you'll end up changing. I'd still hop in my time machine and change all sorts of things, just for the fun of seeing how things would turn out differently. I'll probably always be like that. ... But I'm more at peace with things than I used to be too. I used to constantly fight my own mind over the fear of being alone. These days I've come to appreciate that I actually rather enjoy being alone. In fact I'm saving up for an RV so I can go live in the woods and play video games all day. ... So basically what I do now except in an RV in the woods instead of an apartment. But sure, I mean, if having a girlfriend means having to wear clothes, and get a job, and have to DO STUFF, I'm like ... not especially interested. I don't suppose I ever was, which is why to this day I've never been on a date and only kissed that narcissistic girl (but that's another story). But at least I understand that better about myself now than I used to. And besides, a decade has only proven that I have never found another you ... but then, for what it is worth, that hasn't stopped me from appreciating the wonderful things in other people, so that's OK. I suppose it just points to the fact that sometimes life doesn't give us a second chance. Sometimes we only get one, and I blew it ... but I can not blow other single chances that life will inevitably provide as well. Anyway, here's wishing you a year ahead of happiness. That was, after all, always your goal right? I don't suppose time has changed that. It's a wise thing to strive for. :)

I would normally only post on your birthday or Christmas, but a couple things happened in the last day that piqued my interest. First of all, I had a dream with you in it yesterday. You were driving around me in a GO KART. I kept trying to jump into it while you were driving by but I kept missing and falling flat on my face. Then you smiled at me, took my hand, and we walked away together. Today, I found a red balloon tucked into the back wheel of my car. It struck me that Balloons are your favorite thing, and that it was a RED balloon. It also had a picture of a devil on it. With regards to religious symbolism in our history, you are God, and I am the devil. We once had a great friendship that I ruined through my immaturity and stupidity. I have been and continue to live in regret of those actions every day. I found this coincidence all too powerful to ignore. It got me wondering what might have happened to you recently that would cause the universal waves to reach me.

Haaapppppiiee BiirrthdaaaYYYY! =^.^=''
I finally came out of retirement 'bout a month ago. Figured UBER might be worth working for.
So far, yeah, but I'm feeling pretty anxious about the idea of working forever... and ever... until death. x_x
I found a purpose though this last year. I'm making Karaoke CDGs out of the thousands of instrumentals that have been leaking these last few years. I wanna replace that old culture of crappy reproductions so people can go get drunk at bars and sing on the authentic backing tracks. Maybe if I do enough of em I can leave something meaningful behind in this world that'll benefit everyone ... and make the world a slightly better place.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwXOPyNfdUIhsM4NykfhPFw
I hope you are finding much happiness and wish you well in the year ahead. :)