Snow

All I want for Christmas is my two side teeth, after getting them pulled out a couple of years ago I have had a hard time with tortilla chips dipped in Baba Ghanouj. I have purchased and wrapped all my gifts, including one for myself. I recieved a pool table from my boss yesterday, something I have wanted ever since I was a smelly teenage boy shooting pool in the church basement. I became a movie star as a galavanted through the snowy wilderness of Manning on my cross-country skis. I was the special task force parachuted into the alps of switzerland to make my way to the guns of navarone and disable them. I was tom selleck as i sipped on my cinnamon laden hot chocolate.
Lately I have started Lolita- one of the greatest books of the last century. It is moving me like only a "certain type" of literature can. My grand scheme is to read 50 books next year, while this is a daunting task for the slow reader that I am, it will reward me with treasures. Of course some rules must be applied because of the variety of book length etc., but this goes without saying. I plan on creating a family legend for Christmas- Spice Bread. It goes hand in hand with Christmas morning as we anticipate what is behind the bedsheet mom has placed in the doorway so we can't see the work she has done the night before.I will be leaping across this great country next year as I sit in a train car and watch the surroundings pass by. This is a highly anticipated trip as I will be seeing some past friends and re-planting the roots of friendship.
-Nathanael Alan Baker

Internet

Just got the modem in the mail, plugged it in and the lights started blinking symbolizing tons of bytes coming into my computer. Oh and what bytes, bytes of music that come from canada, bytes of tv shows from england, bytes of technology from china. The amount of information waves over me as I bob in its influence. There is nothing I don't have access to, nothing I can't discover with these flashing lights. I can learn to speak klingon on wikipedia, I can found the song list of weezer's pinkerton, I can learn how to play the mandolin. Most of all you can hear me rant and this I think is probably the most exciting- somehow it is settling writing this even if no one out there reads. Just to put my small fingerprint on this global community has to change something- doesn't it? Nathanael Alan Baker

cold

Here I sit sweaty, cold on the main street of my town-Hope. A large wooden bear looms before and my muscles ache from two hours of badminton. Today I cut grass and the pincones made a racket as they got demolished by my lawnmower. Tommorow I think I will vacumn my floor and listen to some records. this weekend I want to hike and see lots of trees over a vast distance. I am happy here and I have settled into clothes that feel good on me. Travelling still happens periodically which I think I couldn't do without, mostly trips to the city to see my brother and his lover. Paul Desmond is playing with Dave Brubeck on my little digital player. I get this urge every month or so to buy vinyl like crazy and the itch has caught me again and I will go this weekend to scratch it. Nice to talk to you again!!- Nat Baker

Too long

Since the painful (painful because I lost all my saved music since I was 15) demise of my laptop I have left this cyber world to search for greener lands. I have found fertile soil but I return here to replant my roots in long forgotten acquaintances . I purchased a cheap small laptop that I will frequent to communicate. Too much has happened to sum up effectively, so here is a non-effective list; new job, amazing apartment with an equally amazing roommate, got a haircut, went to folk fest in Regina, saw some red salmon, camped far away from humans and close to bears. If there is any questions they can be forwarded to bnathanael@hotmail.com Today I plan on buying an order of u-brew wine- cheap and lots of it! Then I am going to carve 10 pound pumpkins and roast the seeds and maybe listen to some new music- Nat Baker