I love NYC weather

My new job has me working outside for 7 hours every day. Rain or shine. Or snow. Or sleet.

So last Friday when I woke up to 4 inches of snow, I bundled up layer upon layer and went to work.

Saturday was a little different. It was nice in the morning, but then it got bitterly cold. It snowed for about an hour and then that turned to rain. Then it cleared up and got warmer, only to drop below freezing about night time.

Today was about 45 degrees and beautiful - definitely sandal weather. I went to my dad's house and he still had snow in his driveway (he's been away for a few days). So my brother and I shoveled the driveway and the sidewalk. I had never shoveled snow in my sandals before. That was fun.

Hiking Gone Wrong

I posted this last week on youtube, but I thought I should put it up here on my blog because it is directly related to my exploration of our Perfect Little Planet. It's the "Hiking Gone Wrong" saga from Mexico. I think only my mother saw the original videos that I posted a year and a half ago. If you haven't seen it yet, it's a little over 6 minutes long, so get comfortable and hit play:



I'll post another story tonight. So if you're reading this on Sunday or later, click here.

Thanks for watching!!

I challenge you!!

Click here to try to beat my best kick in Monkey Kick-Off!

I know. This is a random post. It's ok. It's late.

'08 is Great

2007 was a great year (Aruba and my book). It was even better than 2006 (Mexico and PHX). Which definitely beat out '05 (Utah and NYC). Which somehow managed to squeak by my amazing 2004 (Europe). Which was able to top my incredible 2003 (Cambodia/Thailand). And I'd venture to say that that beat my 2000-2002 (the mission). And '99? Graduation and Disneyworld. '98? That's when I got cancer.

It seems that cancer started the most wonderful snowball effect in my life. Every year gets progressively better than the previous. Not that '98 was a low point in my life at all. That was also a great year. It just makes me wonder: how good can it get? I have an idea that I haven't seen anything yet.

'08 is setting up to be (yet again) the best year of my life:

- I got an apartment in the Bronx. How cool is that?
- My book is done. Now I can work on getting it published. I wrote a book. Seriously, that's so cool to say.
- I have a vision for my website. I just have to make it a reality.
- I am LOVING youtube. I love the community and I love making videos and people are actually watching them. :) That makes me happy.
- I'm finally going to be somewhat "stable" (I have the apartment, hopefully I'll actually live there) so I can have an actual relationship. DOWN WITH FLINGS!!

Just thought I'd share. I am really excited about the future.

I hope your '08 is even greater than you imagined.

Jack's Book is Done!

Hey everybody,

I finished Jack's Book on London early Christmas morning. It was a fantastic Christmas present to myself.

It ended up being 221 pages, which is 67 pages when you put it in 8.5 x 11 format. I've reread parts of it, and I love it. I hope you will too.

Please let me know if you want a copy by sending an email to brian@perfectlittleplanet.com. (2010 Update!! You can buy one now for just $10 on Amazon.)

I'm really ridiculously proud of it, but I know it's not perfect. If you see something I should change (spelling, grammar, or entire parts or stories) please let me know. I plan on reading it this week and I know I'll be making changes too.

Woohoo! I'm done. :)

The Pacific Ocean is COLD in December

So I went exploring today and ended up at Asilomar Beach at the tip of Monterey Peninsula watching the surfers and enjoying the sunset. I had no intention of getting in the water because the sand alone was ridiculously cold, I couldn't even imagine how cold the water would be. But it's been almost 6 years since the last time I'd touched the Pacific, so I figured I'd just put my feet in.

You know the rest of the story, don't you? I got my feet wet and it was FREEZING!! But I saw the surfers and I got a picture in my head and I ended up going pretty far out into the water to get the picture. You can watch the video here:



Don't you love the music?

I also put two videos up on my PerfectLittleLife channel. One is from my day at FDNY's Fire Academy with Chris (my brother). It was so much fun. Click here to watch "FDNY Fire Academy" video.

This last video is one that I am extremely proud of. It's a compilation of clips from 30 locations in 8 different countries. I've been putting it together for over 3 months. It's a response to a questionnaire posted by Michael Buckley, one of the channels I subscribe to on YouTube. I made it into a game so you can watch the video and try to guess what city or even country I'm in, and you can learn a little about me as I answer the questions. Click here to watch this video.

Let me know what you think.