Month: April 2025

  • big fishing it

    big fishing it

    I quit my job yesterday. That sounds overly dramatic. But it is true. I have been working a part time gig at a little local retail grocery store, off and on, for the last nine months. Karin spotted the advertising along the side of the road last summer, and we followed the progress of the

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  • photo phails

    photo phails

    There was a time when I would have proclaimed myself a real photographer. I didn’t just have the right equipment, but I knew what I was doing, took thousands of photos, and even sold some pics. Not only would I likely need to wipe the dust off my SLR right now, I’m not even sure

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  • weekend wrap two

    weekend wrap two

    Technically it’s Tuesday, but with yesterday being election day in Canada that Monday really blurred into the other days. In my continued efforts to be as pedestrian and basic as my pride will allow here once again is a wrap up of this past unofficially extended long weekend’s activities. This past weekend, I… Completed the

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  • when being annoyed is the whole point

    when being annoyed is the whole point

    The primary operating mode of any bully is to get into your head. Fear is primal after all. Very few of us yearn for confrontation. We want things comfortable. We want to sit and enjoy our lunch in peace and quiet. We want to watch our show without being disturbed. We don’t want to be

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  • keyboard life

    keyboard life

    I have developed a lot of little productivity hacks for myself in the past couple years. It’s odd, actually. Realizing that. Odd. For the first year of my career break I wrote about it all the time. The career break I mean. I was always writing about it. I was slightly obsessed with working through

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