The Briar Patch

Woke up my first day married, in a king sized bed in Mexico. Not a bad way to start the day. Room service knocked shortly after that. They serve breakfast in bed, the day after a wedding. It is a nice gesture, but there isn't much to it. Fresh fruit and some pastries. I had a couple bites and we were on our way to the buffet.Well actually I had to walk to the Frenchmans room to get my toothbrush, pit stick and all that kind of stuff because I got ready in his room the day before. Amazing let me in and gave it to me. But no one else was moving, not even the kids who were usually up and running by now! For the first time we weren't up early, but no one else was either. Well that's not quite true, we ran into my wife's cousin Show and ate with her. People trickled in and we did meet up with in-laws and a few others. Also Biggs girlfriend had just finished eating by herself. We invited her to eat or sit but I think she wanted to see how he was doing. I guess my brother was ...

I can hear the opening to 8 mile this AM. Except I don't think I looked calm and ready. Woke up early on the day of my wedding. So did my bride, ya we slept in the same room together the night before which lots of people were saying we shouldn't have! I dunno why, I mean we have been sleeping in same bed for 5 years now and weekends for years before that. Anyways I showered early and said my good bye next time I was gonna see her she would be walking down the aisle. My friends all told me not to eat breakfast alone that morning. So I wasn't going to, but it was too early for me to bug people yet so I wandered the resort. I won't lie and say I had some deep thoughts. I looked at the ocean, people watched and waited until I thought the Frenchman and family would be up for eating. I ate with them and basically for the next few hours became a cling on. We saw Biggs and his girlfriend at breakfast, since it would be just Frenchman and I getting ready that AM we figured to ...

So Justin Trudeau came to Alberta. He got the warm reception I think everyone knew was coming. Let's be honest, he ain't popular here. Signs were made that mocked his mom for possibly banging the rolling stones, oh and Castro. I have no problem with that. IMO like Melania Trump she saw some $$$ jumped on and ya know maybe got some on the sly. Some people well they may have taken't it too far with the whole noose thing. I have 0 like or even respect for him but the whole death threats, that kinda crosses a line. It is what it is, classless but have seen and heard much worse. Now a local turd sandwich and bitter Ex MLA is trying to blame right with politicians for this. People here have disliked the Trudeau family for decades, so good try I guess??? We get it you're bitter that you got punted... I am flying to Mexico tomorrow morning. While I got legally married a couple months back, this is the big show. Friends, family, big white dress.... No not on me! Am I nervous, ...

Been awhile since I just blogged about random shit. A ton has gone on in my life. I got married, I finished a first draft of my book. Work picked up. My grandmother sadly got worse. So ya even though I should be doing something useful in my chance to write this AM, I think I will chill and ramble. I guess if I am rambling about writing I am kinda bummed that Fansideseats.com hasn't been putting new shit up for awhile. I was enjoying writing stuff for the and I think there was actually more views of my work so that was good. But not writing there gave me more time to work on my fantasy novel. Which I finished YA! But editing sucks, it is making me rethink the whole writing process. Like I just pour words onto a page and then get back to it months later. Welp half the time I am not sure what I meant and then my writing was so unedited that I, the writer can't get what I was going for. SO I think I need to work on making sure my first drafts are better. Total random thought but ...

I was reading a thread on Twitter again that got me scratching my head. About the Edmonton city police. Let me say I have no feelings on cops good or bad, really they are a none issue to me. Growing up in GP we only had the RCMP and they were great. Reasonable and fair. Ill say it I like the RCMP. Then I moved to Edmonton and a couple times I have been rather angry with the EPS. Like when I called in a stolen car and nothing was ever done. Or when two big cops used a friends head to open Essies bar door. She was just a tiny little woman BTW. But living and working in Ingewood, Queen Mary and Central McDougall I have seen really good cops to. So to me I guess it is like anything you can have good and you can have bad. Plus I will freely admit I "banged" Fuck the Police. I was one of them whit kids who thought Ice Cube was bad ass and it made suburban whites feel tough. It was years later I learned the actual reason for the song and still respect it. Anyways the whole thing w...

January 17th 2014, currently was my last move. For anyone keeping score that is 14 moves in the 14 years I had lived in Edmonton. This time I moved to St. Albert. Also KTs was the single longest place I had lived anywhere in the last 14 years, so it was sad to go lotsa good memories there. On the bright side it was a crazy warm day for January. Like plus 10. The Frenchman, Bud and Diablo helped me move. Had a bit of a headache, the night before Tats had friends over that were in the living room until late. So even later Diablo came upstairs and we had a couple drinks and a last couple games of NHL hockey. But the day came and we were done early in the afternoon again. We did the normal thing and BBQd burgers and bought a flat of beer as she had some helpers too. However it wasn't like some of my moves. No one got super hammered, only Bud was actually there late. It didn't take long for me to be replaced. Only a week or two something unexpected happened. Bud moved into KTs. He...

I should have finished 2012 with the move. No not me moving again, thank god but my work moving. We had long out grown our old building so we had a massive one built. The week between Xmas and New Years all we did was move. Now this was bad for me. With KT home a couple nights we sat and had drinks late. But because work was so slack I really didn't care. I think I had a week long hangover during that move. Plus the building wasn't finished so we had to use port potties. Let me tell you 40 people using 8 port potties for 5 days is nasty. Actually it got to the point we would just drive over to the timmies and get a coffee just to use the washroom. 2013 started out rough. KTs holiday for the Christmas break was winding down, in fact I think she was supposed to fly the next day or maybe the day after so we were going to go out and have a good bye dinner. She was running late but that was okay, I poured a drink and played some of the Arkham games Bugalow had gotten me for Xmas. ...

So up to speed it is about spring 08. I have moved 10 times in the last 8 years. Quit college twice and am living with TCM and our two cats just off Whyte ave. I was starting to get bored with my job again. I am not really good at being a person who can sit and read the same reports each day. Then order the same shit. When I had moved into the purchasing department I had thought it would be much more. Like actually meeting vendors, picking out what to buy. Not just buying the same shit over and over. But other than that things were good. Now I should start out with some side things that had gone on. I want to say most of this kinda seemed to happen over the following spring & summer. If it isn't bang on in order I can't help it! First Bud. I think I mentioned him way back when I first moved moved here. He was friends with Black, they went to High School together. I honestly can't remember why we started hanging out. Likely cause he was the most normal of the people Bl...