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No good deed goes unpunished.
So I take my break to go get a cup of tea, and in the store there is one gentleman in front of me. I sample some free tea and when I turn back I see a lady who is unsure if I was in line or not. Being the nice guy I an, I [...]
To-Do #5 – Aimless Wandering
I don’t like the term ‘bucket list’.. So these are my to-do’s. On my lifelong to-do list at number five, to take a continent-wide road trip with no specific timeline or destination. I’d probably need a couple months to do it properly. Today I feel like.. Montreal. Then Boston.
Skip the New Year’s Resolutions
I haven’t made a single New Years resolution since 1999. In my humble opinion there’s no point in waiting for a specific calendar day to decide to better one’s self. If someone wants to lose weight, be more charitable or quit smoking, why would January 1 change their drive to do so? My friends, the [...]
Moving on!
So today I packed the last of my things in Strathmore and said goodbye to the prairie town for good. In a few days my old home, the zen garden and koi pond, that climbing gym, it will all be in the care of it’s new owners. To those who might ask why we decided [...]
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Grinding at the digital stone..
So chess, lucid dreaming, and all those other oddities that I usually fill my day with have taken a back seat to work. I’ve been coding away on my new revision of Film Rogue, which relaunched yesterday as a film distribution service. I really have no idea how it will be received. My site supporters [...]
My epic, bittersweet week.
Monday was one of those pivotal days that would not just define the week to come, but may have altered the course of my life. As I drove to work in my wife’s aging Hyundai I started to hear a faint knocking sound in the engine. Aware of how overdue I was for my routine [...]
Saving my platinum ogon koi.
It didn’t look good for Silver Cloud. For the last two days he was slow-moving, jittery and confused. He swam with a slight tilt, and it looked like my prize fish was on the way out. I had trained him to be hand-fed, which gave me the benefit of being able to handle him without [...]