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It is just another average morning except the guy on the corner is having a tree taken down and it is garbage day and I am out on the front porch at the busiest time of the morning - coming up t...

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Hot yesterday. Summer came in like a lion. Hot again today and I suppose tomorrow. So says the forecast. Heatwave. Yea! We turned on the air conditioner for the first time last night. Funny how...

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Summer is here and I have no plans. I am waiting for the Kelowna condo to close so I can plan out everything that comes after that. It is the only upcoming appointment that I have, but I don’t k...

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My father used to call my sisters and me luggage. He never explained it and being kids we never understood that it was a metaphor. He was carrying us through life. We were his burden. We used ...

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I am stuck. The problem is that we have a big house in a great part of town with room enough for a mother in law and an adult child. (I suppose that’s two problems.) I’m retired now for more tha...

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Start with this: You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink. All things end badly, (otherwise they wouldn’t end.) Those thoughts are related. We live in worlds of our own c...

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Joe is in Norway and Allen is in Taiwan. I get texts, and emails with photos from Joe and instagram messages and YouTube notes from Allen. Allen has made 3 YouTube videos already, though he just...

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Now that I am retired, I prefer weekdays to weekends. I like it that everyone is going about their business, going to work, going to school and I am free to do what I do, which is a whole lot of...

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It’s funny how times change. We went and looked at used vans yesterday. A regional dealer. It is all he does - vans. Big ones, little ones, tall ones, short ones, high milage ones, low milage on...

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I was thinking just now how busy I used to be twenty years ago, when the kids were young and I had an office job that I had to get to. I don’t know how I did it. I could never do it now. Today...

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For me, this is where it starts everyday. Just a quick mind dump, not the stuff on top, the stuff I did yesterday, the trails and tribulations of being a human on planet earth. I try to not to b...

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I hate it when people tell me stuff I already know. I know everything So don’t tell me stuff It seems to be an Asian thing, obeying the rules, being pedantic, reminding others of things th...

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So I have a good friend that I have never met. Allen. It’s one of the joys of having a Youtube channel, lots of online friends. One guy that I met said that having a YouTube channel was an exc...

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If I don’t want to talk about the neighbours and the neighbourhood and I don’t want to talk about Youtube or van building, and I don’t want to talk about the routine things I do like read books,...

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It started with ‘would Friday morning or afternoon work better for you?’ That’s a sales line. The either/or close. So I was highly alert for more. And there were more - the takeaway close. ‘The...

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My friend Allen must have money problems. Aspirational money problems. He has enough money. I’ve seen all the stuff in his garage. He spends too much. So a few months ago, Allen started a Yout...

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There is a boomer couple who have been traveling and making videos for a few years. They sometimes pop up in my feed when they are in China or Taiwan. I can’t stand to watch them. Their videos a...

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I don’t know where the time goes. Weird. Especially since the days are so long. Summer solstice. I was still out on the front porch when the patio lights came on. Shortly after 9pm. The sky was ...

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The missus has a birthday coming up and I am fresh out of ideas. The two areas I usually go to are the garden and the pottery studio. But that’s not going to work this year. The missus did a pre...

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June the first and the weather could be worse. It is clear and cool, a little windy but I am out on my front porch in my hoodie and sweatpants, wool socks and fake crocs. It is just warm enough ...

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So it was old timey night on my front porch. Greg came over with a can of beer in hand. This is the third time this year that he has seen me and invited himself up. That’s ok. I don’t mind havin...

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Sometimes in life, you make a little decision that changes your trajectory a little bit and sometime you make bigger decisions that change everything. 25 years ago today, I arrived back in Canad...

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I was told by an American friend yesterday that my estimation of $60 for a nice golf shirt is too low. It would likely be over $80. That would put it over $100 in Canada. For that I could go to ...

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Everyday is pretty much the same. Sometimes the cat stays out all night. Sometimes we manage to keep her in. Sometimes I take a walk around the lake. Sometimes I take a walk through the city. Th...

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I like the way that the Taiwanese talk. Specifically, I like the way they speak English. Everything is flattened somehow, which is interesting because Taiwanese is a tonal language - when they s...

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