2008 past tense summary

haha ok well ive talking about it... so here it is... the "landlubber" or newskool years written up just as they were old skool years... should be fun.

Of  course 2008 will allways be remembered as a transition year for me... transitioning from the 10 years of seperation phase to the aforementioned landlubber phase... which of course meant being dissillusuoned with kitesurfing somewhere along the way.  

it started off all innocently though... sesshing it up at eastern beach as allways... talk of maccas being open 24 hours got me all full of hope as graveyard shift worked great at greenlane when i worked there.  

Let me say this i was certainly not planning to end the year as a postie thats for sure.... to do that i was allways sed two things needed to happen... kiting had to turn to shit... and my job at maccas had to turn to shit.

It was going well at first as crew... then i started getting frustrated with the wind pissing me around. Then i got promoted into management and as a result got involved more socially at work.... little did i know at the time but this was the death knell for the old skool life for me.... and i have yet to recover.

now you gotta realise here that unlike today i was not a resentfull person back then... i didnt hate women, i didnt hate "societa" and i wasnt a raving conspiracy theorist like i am now... whilst ive been aware of the socalled end of the world for a long time i wasnt aware of chemtrails and all that... i never got vaccinated cos.... well i never got vaccinated... didnt see the point... and cos of my kiting i was pretty finiky about what i ate... i was much much better condition than what i am now.  Anyway so i was basically seperated from society cos i loved kitesurfing... not cos i hated ppl... back then i kited in the weekends and public holidays.... as well as my much loved workday sessions... which even back then felt good to kite when others were working.

Anyway simply put the social experiment didnt work out the way i thought it was going to.... i suddenly wanted to be popular... and got jealous of ppl who were more popular than me... as you can see it was a good thing that this was dealt to ASAP!  

By this stage i had allmost stopped kiting so once i fell out of management mid year that was basically it at maccas for me... even now i look back on all of this with a sorta "was i really like that?" 

anyway my time at management ended with a broken hand... punched the microwave oven... yea you knew that i was gonna have an outburst even before i sed it... i didnt have my phone on me at da time LOLOLOL.

More stress leave.... but this time i was eyeing up a new job.... yep with the realisation that kiting turned to shit... and maccas turned to shit... it was time for me to enter that new job id been contemplating for the last 5 years.... nzpost.

Anyway the time frame from me leaving management at maccas to me starting as a postie was about two months... and in those two months i experienced things that have basically moulded my personality today.... not good traits either!  THAT allegation.... and whilst its not the only incident of this nature it was prob the spawn of my new attitude for "SOCIETA"... although it merely planted the seeds.... other incidents in succeeding years would cement my attitude as a genuine outcast... and once which 7 years later desire to get back into kiting... not cos of the love of kiting but cos of the hate of society.

Anyway once at post i continued fighting against the popular thingy that was still with me from maccas... but at least now i could get away from it all... post was an entirely different beast... and the job was every bit as good as i envisioned it to be... i had allreally made friends with another outcast there.... a female called Andrea. Although like another friend of mine Stipe (who at this stage i didnt have much to do with) i am sorta regretting introducing them to my new group of friends that i met in 2009.... and they met in 2010.

I still remain friends with certain ppl from maccas and 2008 ended on a pretty good note.... even a few kite sessions.... but if you think i was gonna revert back to a skinny kiter with no friends and heaps of money then think again.... 2009 was just around the corner and it was THAT year which changed everything...