Went out with a bunch of friends for supper and drinks Saturday night but my buddy Paul doesn’t look like’s enjoying a “Jason Sandwich” between myself and another buddy named Jason.
Topics of Conversation Through The Evening (Beyond the Usual Generic Topics of Work, Family, Travel)
How Empty the Restaurant Was On A Saturday Night and Impacts From Inflation to Covid (One Person Observes That If Our Table of Eight Wasn’t There, There’d Be More Staff Than Customers!)
Home Renovations and How Exciting We All Find That Now
Climate Change and How Much It’s Going To Suck For The Next Generation
Old People Problems and Body Breakdowns Ranging From 20-year old Crowns Getting Infected and Requiring Surgery to Ingrown Toenails Requiring Surgery To How The Simple Act of Assembling Patio Furniture Could Put A Person In Salt Baths For A Week (and Possibly Require Surgery)
“80s Humour” and The Changing Nature of Offence For Younger People. Has the pendulum swung too far the other way?
Andrew Tate, Putin & the Ukraine and if there’s any room for “both sides” with hugely controversial topics/personalities.
Why Teenagers Aren’t Excited To Get Their Drivers Licenses Like We Were At That age (Everyone At The Table With Driving Age Kids Either Had Long Delays Until Their Kids Got Their License or Are Still Waiting)
Women’s Rights and Feminism
If We Should Have Different Expectations For Behaviour Based On How Old Someone Is – Should a 70 year old grandparent get more leeway for how they see the world than a 50 year old?
Home Ownership and Again, How That Will Likely Be Very Different For Our Kids (Everyone at the Table was a Homeowner and it feels like we are the last generation where this is common/expected.)
Pace had four wisdom teeth removed early on Friday morning. When he got home, I was reminded of this clip – one of the original viral videos of the YouTube age:
I was trying to write a long post talking about the various roles I’ve held at RPL, some of the highs and lows, and more. But it was just getting longer and longer and harder to finish so instead, I’ll save that for my memoirs and instead, just re-post a picture that a colleague took on my first day.
This picture also happens to be possibly the worst posed photo of myself ever (pretend you’re working!” Proceeds to levitate hands over a keyboard in front of a *giant* monitor!)
Cool trivia: I started in the HR Unit as the Organization Development Specialist and had the rare pleasure of having RPL’s Director (who is still Director today) in on my interview – something that doesn’t even happen with many manager jobs! 😮
My last post was August 21 when I said I was going to try to get back to (roughly) daily blog posts after a summer of holidays and other distractions.
Then I promptly didn’t post again for nearly two more weeks until today.
Lots I could write, lots of navel-gazing about why I (still) have a blog when everybody’s sharing their “content” on Facebook or Twitter or Substack or Instagram or TitKok (h/t to coworker who gave me that brilliance.)
Anyhow, here’s a shot of a sunset at Nickle Lake and it makes me think of many things – the beauty of nature, the passing of time, the importance of transitions and how we managed to wreck Lorne Calvert’s wife’s sunset photo session earlier this summer by asking for a group photo with Mr. and Ms. Calvert then being all “Chatty Cathy” afterwards.
Not a lot of blogging this summer due to holidays and other things occupying my mind. But time to start over with trying to do (mostly) daily posts (he says posting a Music Monday post on Tuesday morning!) 😉
The Kayak Club at Nickle Lake where we camp recently had their first-ever “Glow Float” fundraiser where you could rent a kayak or stand-up paddle board (or bring your own), decorate it with glow sticks and then take it out for an hour late on a Sunday night.
We were going to do it but Sasha wasn’t feeling up to it. But when we went to the beach to see the action and saw ~50 vessels out on the water, she was very disappointed that she didn’t follow through (seize the moment, child!)
Next year…
Anyhow, here’s a shot of the armada from a drone that someone had over the water…
…and a blurry shot I took from shore through the darkness:
No, Shea didn’t finally get tired of being married to me and drown me.
We’ve been camping for much of July (in a campground that has really crappy LTE service that, on balance, I find to be a good thing – though Sasha managing to sneak the password for the $80/month wifi the neighbours pay for shows she doesn’t quite see being disconnected the same way her dad does!)
I’ve also been busy with accompanying my parents to a few different specialist appointments, a big landscaping project at our house and more going on in our lives keeping us busy (I think I’ve observed before that there’s irony that the busier I am in my life, the less time I have to document my thoughts about my life on this blog!) 🙂
So anyhow, just wanted to let the seventeen people who regularly read this blog know that posts will likely continue to be few and far between, perhaps until the end of summer (unless my inlaws do suceed in offing me with their constant offers of fish frys and poutine nights!) 😉
