Category: Entertainment
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Time away…
I’m currently enjoying some much needed time off. As usual for this time of year, Lynn and I are at our annual geek-fest at Calgary Expo. So far, the panels have been interesting, and the crowds have been manageable though I feel they are the largest they have been since before COVID. A couple panels…
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Stress test
It’s been a minute since I’ve had a chance to collect my thoughts and do a blog post. The last couple of weeks have challenged me both personally and professionally. A local firefighter with the department I used to volunteer with was killed in the line of duty at the start of February. The gentleman…
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Another Christmas done…
Another Christmas is done with. I actually turned my alarms off and let myself wake up when I woke up, which was just after 9 a.m., definitely late for me. It was nice being able to not have to worry about getting up. When I did eventually get moving, I grabbed some coffee and caught…
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Pleasant surprises…
Sometimes I succeed in surprising myself. I woke up to my Communications exam marks in my email box first thing Saturday morning, with pleasantly surprising results. Due to the few questions in the exam that I was drawing a complete blank on I was expecting a mark somewhere in the 70 to 80 per cent…
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Closing in on the end…
Well, the end is in sight for another of my courses. I completed the seventh module -of eight- of my Communications 201 course yesterday morning. Which it complete, and still around six weeks left of my contract, I am in good shape to complete the course by the Dec. 31, 2021, deadline. With the module…
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Hell of a ride… Climbing through life in my Three-foot world…
Well, it’s been a week. A busy one at that. I hit the ground running at work, working out of the paper’s Stettler office both Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday, Thursday, and half-day on Friday I ended up working out of my home office doing a bunch of stories, watching a bunch of training…
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A BUSY Couple of Weeks…
The last couple of weeks have gone by in a blur. Last week was fairly busy, with interviews and meetings for work, which I tried to get caught up on before Lynn and I headed to Calgary on Friday, for the 2021 edition of the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. The expo was three days…
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Holding onto the feeling…
With work slowing down a bit this week, I have turned towards my studies. I am approaching the half way mark on both my Communications and my Prose Forms classes. All told, I probably have about another ten to twelve weeks of work to get through for each course, though if I take advantage of…
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Feeling fortunate…
This has turned into a crazy week… Aside from a doctor’s appointment on Monday, the day was pretty light. I got some reading done for school, and got my first assignment done and submitted for my communications course. Tuesday is where all hell broke loose. I had a pair of meetings on Tuesday, as well…
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Progress…
Well, I managed to get my second assignment submitted for my Prose course, along with the first assignment for my Communications course. I’ve also managed to start on the first of three novels I’ll be studying as part of Prose. Slowly but surely, I’m making forward progress. This week has been picking up as far…
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Movie Review: F9, The Fast Saga (No Spoilers)
After being delayed for over a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, F9, the latest entry in “The Fast Saga” has finally hit theatres. Our local theatre in Stettler brought the movie in for four showings, and a buddy and I went for it’s last night. As any of you who follow my blog know,…
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Best laid plans…
As much as I try to slow down, the void in time always seems to be filled with something else that needs my attention. This month, I have deliberately stepped back from my writing for the paper and have been working on getting back into my school work. I got my essay submitted, and I…
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Face-Value…
Slowly, but surely, my moods are starting normalize. Aside from having a hard time getting my butt out of bed this morning, today has been productive. I spent some time playing Sub Nautica, a really neat survival game that Sony has made free to play, and then this afternoon I succeeded in getting five articles…
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Perspective change…
No blog post yesterday as the day got away from me. Yesterday was definitely busier than other recent days. I had a council meeting to cover for the paper first thing yesterday morning. When that concluded I spent some time working on my meeting notes before breaking for lunch. After lunch, it was back to…
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Crawl before I walk, walk before I run…
Well, after a much needed break, I am back at it again. Despite spending some of Sunday in the office working on my school stuff, I did manage to take it mainly easy, watching some television with Lynn. Monday was supposed to be an office day, working on school stuff, however due to mechanical issues…
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Book review: The Night Fire by Michael Connelly.
Michael Connelly has done it again, with his hit novel “The Night Fire.” A decades old murder, with the suspect still on the street. A more contemporary case, where a homeless person living in a tent is burned alive. A murder-book hidden away for decades brought to light by the widow of the cop who…
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Oops…
For the second time since the new year rang in, I screwed up and forgot my night-time meds. The problem is, without the meds, I don’t sleep. Unfortunately, by the time I realized what had happened, and why I wasn’t sleeping, it was four in the morning, and if I took my meds then I…
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Learning balance and time management…
This evening finds me in a contemplative mood. Today was a pretty light day. I let myself sleep in, then did a few hours of coursework. I managed to finish off another module of my 20th Century history course, this time studying how Hitler used the 1936 Berlin Olympiad as a giant propaganda exercise. It…
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Waging a campaign of health…
The last few days have continued to remain somewhat busy. Yesterday was spent in the office, working on stories for the paper. I had three to do from earlier in the week, and I’ll still have more to do early in the week. I’m enjoying it though, for the time being at least. This morning…
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Getting by with a bit of inconvenience…
Today has been another quiet day. I let myself sleep in again, trying to kick the remainder of this bug I’ve been fighting, and aside from heading out to grab groceries haven’t been up to much. I’ve done a bit of gaming, rendering the world of Farcry 5, and also did some grocery shopping, and…
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Not 100 per cent.. :(
My weekend has ended up differently than I was anticipating. I had a couple events to cover yesterday and was planning on going to church today, however those didn’t happen. I ended up waking up with a headache yesterday morning, which progressed to a fever and chills as the day went on. I did escape…
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Movie Review: “Bad Boys for Life” (No spoilers)
“Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whacha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you?” The “Bad Boys” are back, in a fairly solid movie. I’m don’t mind movie sequels, however the further between a movie and it’s successor, the less inclined I am to like it. It’s especially bad when they come over a…