Monthly Archives September 2025

Music Monday – “out in the bloodshed the cycle begins/and everyone dies/spin the wheel, if you don’t get killed/you wind up dead inside”

“Charlie” – Jesse Welles

Secular Sunday – Charlie Kirk Meets Jesus

17 Words For My 17th Anniversary of Working at RPL

Today was my 17th anniversary of starting work at RPL and, coincidentally, I spent it in bargaining all day as a representative of CUPE1594 (not going to lie – a bit sad no one on management side congratulated me!) 😉 Anyhow, I thought it might be a fun exercise to randomly pick the first 17 […]

Wisdom Wednesday – Never Go To War With Your Staff (Because Even If You Win, You Lose!)

The recent Air Canada lockout where management basically admitted they were relying on the government to legislate flight attendants (who, among other asks, had the wild request to actually be paid for the entire time they’re working, not just when planes are in the air!) back to work. That happened but what they didn’t count […]

ChatGPT Analyzes My Blog

Got my future overlord, ChatGPT, to do a bit of analysis of my blog posts in light of being an ENFP personality who has kept the blog up for ~20 years.  Here’s what Nova Fox (the name we came up for ChatGPT last night – I’m having way too much fun with AI these days!)… […]

Music Monday – “We live in the shadows and we/Had the chance and threw it away/And it’s never going to be the same/’Cause the years are falling by like the rain/It’s never gonna be the same”

Well, after a couple months of minimal posting (hey, summer off like when I was a kid?  Awesome!) and I’ve had some thoughts about how/if I want to keep this blog going as I sometimes struggle to come up with content (even lazy, zero-effort stuff) and/or find the time to post. At the same time, […]