The Briar Patch

SO just a heads up this will be 2 parts. Neither part is really long but together they seemed way too long for a single blog. I kind of divided it up between Gp and Edmonton. The first part I was a minor and maybe not fully in the "Industry" life. So I guess part 2 is more like Vanderpump and part 1 is a boy looking in. Restaurant life yo! From 15 to 23 I worked in restaurants, mostly a single major chain here in Canada. I did a few jobs, host / bus boy, salad maker, dishwasher, cook and delivery driver. To be fair this was 19 years ago. I was done in the industry but to this day when people have asked if I liked it or if I would go back (For the same $$$ I make now) I have always said yes. Honest truth, I don't know how people who aren't young adults make a life in the "industry". Having a mortgage, truck payment, house bills, insurance and just wanting to buy nice shit and travel the world I couldn't do it on a cook wage. When people say though if you ...

So lets deal with this whole stupid restaurant bullshit that has been plaguing Alberta for the last few weeks. See first of all a few ago half this land was up in arms about Earls not using Alberta beef. Really?? Then I think we were all brought back to our senses by one of the bigger tragedies of my lifetime in Alberta. The Ft Mac Fire. Not much good comes from something like that but guess what, a couple things did. First off, the human out pour was crazy!! I don't think I have ever seen as many people give as much so fast as I have in the last couple weeks. It is amazing and I am proud to be Albertan. The next and only other good thing I see from such suffering is we all step back and look at our lives. All the little things that seem so bad just don't seem nearly as bad right now. And with that I am gonna get to Alberta Beef. My family has been in Alberta for years. Look up James Kirkness, he is my great great grand daddy or some shit. He was a business man. Our provinc...