The Briar Patch

 I see a LOT of Alberta north of Edmonton in my travels. At first I tried to write it all out but that didn't work. Often I would get to town, go see customers. Take one out for dinner, depending I might do my night classes after or blog or write but not about my travels. I THINK I might start doing that again. Making little notes and memories about some of these towns. I will be 100% honest Alberta has some beautiful places. Places you might not think of but here my friends is my take on some of the North! Lets start of out Edmonton down Yellowhead Highway 16. I am not doing Entwhistle or Evansburg as I really don't know them. Honestly they seem like nice enough small towns but I just don't know them. Same as Wabamun. Great lake view but again dunno anything about it. Drayton Valley (pop 6802) I started going to a year ago. It is an oil town. I say that with no issues! I need to be pretty clear about this. I am fine with fuck Trudeau stickers and truck nuts. I get that som...

 OMG again a post that just got too long for social media so it becomes a small blog rant... First lets just all get on board that politics has become a joke. Social media has not helped politics at all. It is now more about people shit posting online and politicians (Of every party) mud slinging rather than doing what is best for our nation. We are more divided and grow more divided every day. I don't want to be a luddite and say tech is bad but without a doubt it has a lot of bad to go with the good. It is great people and parties can reach a wider audience, a more informed voter is a better voter. Scroll through social media though it isn't important points anymore, it's trying to stir up shit to not win your vote per say but to make you not vote for the opponent. I will admit right here I post on politics and get a lot of negative feedback because I do exactly what I am bitching about here. I guess what I am saying is personally I could be better and the entire world wo...

So I started out ranting about comics and the things that were pissing me off. Not just comics but pop culture in general. I decided I don't want to do just negative things anymore. SO while all the original paragraphs are here I did ad in some thoughts on current runs I am really liking and tried to put some positivity in. So sorry if this one is long. You can skip the angry parts if you want.... Ill start pleasant. I have said it before and I will say it again AWA has become my favorite comic studio. I love the fact even if "powers" are in the comic they are usually background to good story writing and usually not much for powers anyways more dark and gritty. The truth is this whole blog post was inspired by a series of theirs New Think. It literally is the smartest written, half assed political / "woke" series I have ever read. I hate wokeness but I loved it. It really took a good hard look at humanity, showed our flaws yet not once did I say wow this is prea...

 I have like 5 blogs started so I am finishing them up and I guess / hope in the last / next few weeks there will have been a lot put out by me! This is all pop culture and full I know a few of my last ones have all been anger and politics. So lets just chill!! First I am amazed by how even ball hockey has been in our div. after they divided into 2 divs it has been good. Like extremely even. As of this writing we are 6-3-2 and everyone is with 4 points of each other. Has been an interesting. One of our games we forgot to get a goalie a team playing afterwards that watched the game were impressed we could keep it so close. Also getting 7 goals for us that game was pretty damn good. Of course we lost 11-7 but it got desperate, they just kept dumping by the end hoping to hit the empty net. I currently am (Probably not after writing this, will jinx myself.) having my best season since 2011. I was 30 then, be 42 this year...  Think we could probably win our div this season, but I s...

A lot of my blogs have been angry recently. SO here is just some fluff on my boys, my dogs. I think I did one like this before but they make me happy and I kinda want that these days!! "Dogs lives are to short. That's their only fault really." Anges Turnbull The world cannot say enough good about dogs. There is no living being more loyal, faithful and just happy to see their human than a dog. I heard it before "Lock your wife and dog in the truck for an hour, when you open it who is happy to see you?" Pretty sure you know the answer. A dog has nothing but love even people who are cruel to their dogs, for some reason that dog comes back. Hell I believe they are just good creatures. Even the "Bad or Scary" ones. You can raise any dog to be a good dog if you put the time in and if a dog is bad it usually falls right on the owner. Don't get me wrong, I like cats. For a large portion of my life, up until I was like 30 we usually had a cat. They are grea...

 This is a quick rant, that could have been a long thread of tweets but this is just easier.  Today is a day to shut the fuck up about your politics and the police in Edmonton. Or at least not mix the two in regards to the tragic shooting. You may not like the UCP, I may not like the Edmonton city council. Thoughts on gun control, defunding police whatever your views and mine are, we need to shut the fuck up. As of this writing, there aren't a ton of facts out there on anything. Except 2 police officers died in the line of duty responding to a domestic incident. At this point nothing else matters. Families are now grieving over loss of loved ones, who were legitimately trying to help with domestic violence. Right now your & my opinions just don't matter....... Not saying you can't ramble on about a million other things. I am sure you have another reason to hate the UCP. The city council. Debate the merits of gun control, just please have some fucking class and not mix t...

 I love people who are against credit scores and overdraft fees. Thats sarcasm and I say this as someone who has had a shit credit score for many years. Yes credit scores are annoying, they have kept me from phones and credit cards. They made me angry but I do understand them. The banks are not going to give money to someone who isn't going to pay it back. Companies aren't going to issue credit if you can't pay it. A lesson I learned. Right here I have to say thanks to Capital One and Bell for taking a chance. Oh and BMO as well. The system does need an overhaul though. If a person shows legit payments that should count for something. If you have been working hard and it shows, companies IMO should try and work with the person. I know micro loans worked very well in Bangladesh and could work here as well. A small loan paid back would show the person is trying and might be worth taking a risk on. Also to the people mad about credit scores, keep in mind loans before were base...