The Briar Patch

This is the second in a 2 parter. Not really edited so sorry about that. Also maybe you should read part 1 for this to make sense. So were I left off C-girl my roommate had packed her shit and vanished. Or I watched her drive away with no idea why. I went in the townhouse and it was clear why. A couple pair of her shoes sat at the front door chewed to shit. I headed upstairs to her room and she had left more chewed items in the room and a small TV that was smashed on the floor. Those old 13" ones that people had. I assume some how Obie had pulled it down. I went into the basement where my room was. Nothing was damaged but the amount of dog piss and shit was overwhelming. SO I had asked a friend (Black we can call him, see old blogs if you want) to stay at the townhouse and look after the dog. He told me he would but while we were gone he changed his mind. Now he said he did come and take the dog out, which I believe as there was some new dog poop in the backyard but clearly he did...

 Christmas my favorite time of the year! This year with things going on in my life it doesn't really feel like it is Christmas but I am still going through the motions. I am doing my Christmas runs for clients, which is actually pretty decent. People bitch a little less about issues and mostly just want a good meal and to say Merry Christmas. Xmas parties are happening and I went to my wifes company recently. SO just some random take aways from that and from the season in general. Again not edited so sorry if reading this hurts your brain. Fucking smile! I was out and about just buying chocolates and liquor to give to customers and everyone was scowling. This isn't even a Christmas party note. I just mean out and about in the holiday season. This is the time of year when we at least pretend to be happy! People smile and pretend they care most years so why is everyone scowling this year!! Also if you can, donate some money. Doesn't have to be much but don't make three Ch...

I recently made a post about 2002 just in passing how big the Eminem Show was that summer and it got me thinking about that whole fucking year. The fact is, it was the most insane and probably most formative year of my life. I guess I am gonna get nostalgic for a minute here. I am not really spending much time editing this, so sorry if it is a bit harder to read! Honestly it is kind of filler until I can travel blog again. Before I get to 02 I need to set it up. In summer 2000 I moved to Edmonton from Grande Prairie. I was going to take journalism and you would all be reading my adventures when I was done. Truth be told I wasn't ready. Not responsible enough at 19. I moved down with my best friend Ditch and his girlfriend Shwa. We got a 2 bedroom in Oliver. $600. (Now they start around $1400) I cant blame them, it was my choice to be a meat head but I was terrible in school. I started at GMCC and they did fun shit like go to the water park. Which is an irresponsible kid gonna do? P...

Time to post this, I realize I started it a month or easily two months ago. A lot has happened over that time, so some of this is dated. It is easier to make quick entries like this right now so sadly for the next little bit I doubt I will be working on any travel blogs. The next two entries will be a two parter and MAYBE by the time they are up my life will be calmed down and I can get back to travel..... It is time for the X-Men to save the MCU. Ratings are down, we have super hero hangover even F4 didn't do amazing. Its time for the Phoenix Saga. They have tried with two terrible movies and it ended both X-Men runs. Time to do 20 movies like the Infinity Saga with Phoenix in the background until the final showdown with her as well, the villain. I want to see the original 5 in the first movie and yes Magneto as the villain. A few solo offshoot movies and Giant Sized X-Men is your first crossover. You can cover so many classic stories and please do Mutant Massacre, the whole MCU c...

I have ranted in a better thought-out blog before, but I need to vent on health care!  Throughout most of my life, I have had the fortune or misfortune of dealing with the healthcare system. Some of it is due to family and friends being involved in it. Once in a while, I have had to rely on it, and it is easy to notice over the last few decades that things are getting worse and worse. I've already vented on it, but I just have to get more off my chest about our current healthcare system. No matter what party is in power, they should be willing to repair the healthcare system; this should not be a political issue. I realize that different people will want to fix it in other ways. Still, no matter what party they should want to put the money in (like a lot of cash! and not wasteful spending but actual targeted spending), put the time in, put the effort in, and make Alberta healthy and happy once more. It can't be a Band-Aid fix anymore. We keep doing that with everything, doing m...

Again, this is in a series of travel blogs; if you read this, you may want to read the others first. Have already put up travel basics and a few days in Paris.   Religion is possibly the best and the worst of all of humanity's creations. I am sure I could do some Google research and find out when the first noted religion existed, but I am not about to do that. The first caveman that made up a story about why the sun rises and sets was probably a religion. I am sure an all-mighty god of some sort did it. In the beginning, religion was great; it still can be. It gives people a reason for why things happen, and there is mental security in that. It can be all wrong, but it still provides what people need: reason, belief, faith. It also gave meaning and support. When a Viking died, he went to Valhalla to sit with his ancestors, not just rot in the ground. There is a beauty in that. I used Vikings because that really isn't a mainstream belief anymore (except for online weirdos that ...

This is in a series of blog posts; if you haven't read the others, you might want to give them a read first. Started in Canada and have been to Paris already.                                                       Florence Villa Hotel   Before I carry on, we should get into the travel tour bus lifestyle. Not Motley Crue wasted for weeks, but first-world tourists travelling Europe on a slightly less luxurious bus. I think we had a good handle on it, so that's how I will break it down. My day typically started at 6. Again, like Paris, my wife started before that to do hair and makeup for pictures. It was 50/50 on the trip who did that. Some women, it was every day, others never, and others sometimes. I assume it was based on the day's itinerary. Anyways, she was pretty much up every day around 5. 6 is enough time for me to read...