Category: Personal

  • It’s our highway

    Well, Alberta, until just after the upcoming May election has no gas tax. Supposedly swimming in O&G surplus, we can afford not to collect funds to help repair our roads. This isn’t groundbreaking or a personal insight… that’s coming. Over New Year, the family and I went for a trip down the beat up QE2.…

  • Starting out into the new…

    With changes having happened at work, I am once again staring down the a potential change in career path. Unlike last time, I feel a little better about my “fail over” but that is almost like saying that I might accept a result that doesn’t move exactly the needles that I want. But that’s the…

  • Bucket list item checked

    Bucket list item checked

    Growing up, my brother and I had received a couple of posters from family friends. One, a red Lamborghini Countach; and the other a white Porsche 911. I remember picking the Lambo because “it was more aerodynamic”, but there was always something about that 911 that caught my eye whenever I went into my brother’s…

  • The grind – Or maybe that’s what happened to get those ideas out

    The grind – Or maybe that’s what happened to get those ideas out

    Normally, whenever that was, I would go out for a run, zone out to my heartbeat, breath, or the sound of my feet falling on the pavement and have a storm of ideas come into my head as a shapeless mass and then leave fully formed. I could take these ideas and do something new…

  • Starting things – another look

    Last time I wrote about starting things back up as society. This time I want to put out some thoughts, about thoughts. I know that’s a meta thing, but this isn’t a philosophy paper that I’m being marked on *assuming anyone is reading… So for the past few weeks, at least since I wrote last…