Going Around for Another Whirl.

• January 2, 2012

I cried twice today. Once when a friend was more upset than I was, and I knew my friend was the truest kind of soul. The other was when I immersed myself in Jane Jacob’s book and understood. I know that I must find a way to explain myself clearly, with simplicity. Without the “… plethora of subtle and complicated dogma [which] have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.” The situations are subtle. Read More

An Old New Year

• January 1, 2012

A new year blows in. It is a time for reflections, for setting goals, for renewal of your inner strengths and resolves. I ought to be looking forward to the new year. I ought to be loathing the old year. I am not. 2011 was not all I wished it was. 2012 will surely come with it’s own share of joys and disappointments. As the calendar makes it’s arbitrary flip, I see both change and continuance ahead. Read More

Yeah, okay, I'm arrogant.

• December 28, 2011

“I kinda figured that I’d just plant myself here for the next five to ten years and not have to change.” “I enjoy that you thought you could plan that.” This somewhat paraphrased and ill conceived (at least on my behalf) conversation is directly referring to my reluctance to change. Ah, to be set in my ways, to have all the answers predefined, to have preplanned all the possibilities in advance and to have enumerated the probabilities of each of them occurring. Read More

Change

• December 26, 2011

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Funny, the more I say it, the more I think about it, the more it stays a constant around me. Constant change is a given, and it’s a continual process that happens all around each of us. The irony is that we never change, we are always the same. So which is the lie? I’m a simple man, with simple wants and desires and an unbendable longing for stability and dependability. Read More

Customer Service - the Wild Goose Chase edition

• December 23, 2011

I try really hard to not be an asshole. Granted, I’m not perfect and it takes a lot for me to lose my cool these days. Fortunately. I know I’ve got a temper and I try really hard to keep control over it. I try especially hard to stay calm around this time of year. Line ups get long and nerves get frayed for the best of people. I make no apologies for being scroogy right about now but I genuinely try not to be a dick to anyone else just for the sake of being a dick. Read More

Practice the skills to get you there..

• December 10, 2011

Look where you want to go. We’ve established it as a good idea for driving and a good idea for life. For all the looking you do, it will not be helpful unless you have the skills to take you where you’re looking. Canada’s Worst Drivers regularly smash into obstacles in front, behind, and to the left and right of themselves. Sometimes the show gets criticized for putting the drivers into an impossible situation that is far and beyond the capabilities of a typical driver. Read More

Where are you looking?

• December 7, 2011

When you are driving safely, you are looking to where you want to go. You should not look just in front of your vehicle. Surely you want to go farther than the 20 or 30 feet ahead of you. The faster you travel, the further you have to look ahead. You need more time to accumulate data and you require time to process that data into good decision making. Nor should you be fixating on your final destination. Read More

Look Where You Want to Go

• December 6, 2011

Here’s the blog I’m dedicating to Sly. I loathe “Reality T.V.“ From it’s tenuous grasp on reality to the puffed up ego monsters that tend to be attracted as stars for their hideous 15 minutes of fame, to the ridiculous assumptions that I have to watch and I have to have an opinion about people and events I couldn’t care less over. I do, however, love Canada’s Worst Driver and Canada’s Worst Handyman. Read More

What is this, some kind of love letter?

• November 17, 2011

Hey Glenn,  You know, I really look forward to seeing you, and I know it’s always going to be the quick “hi and bye.“ I know you got the basic gist that I’ve had a very full day today and we caught each other at the end of it.  The funny thing (for me anyway) is that tonight a hi and bye was probably the exact thing I needed today. Read More

Remembrance Day 2011

• November 10, 2011

Remembrance Day is always special for me. Quite often I’ve worked at a place where it’s just a day off. If it’s in the middle of the week, they’ll swap days around so you can get an extra three day weekend or something. It is a day that means much more to me and I’ve been blessed to work at companies that understand that. I made certain that I’d be able to take my kids to commemorate Remembrance Day together every year. Read More