Category: Life Musings
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Every Parent’s Nightmare; Lost Child
So the unthinkable happened to me this week; I actually lost one of my children. Rest assured, within a few minutes she was back with. A little background; we were in Burnaby on the SFU campus for a work related thing I was doing and because my kids enjoy being on the SFU campus, I…
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Words to Live By; Advice for Parents
A friend of mine posted a comment on Facebook saying how he felt like a bit of a failure as a dad after reading about and seeing images of all the fun and interesting things that other people were doing with their children this summer. A blogger friend, Don Smith of the Personal Growth Channel…
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My Mini Rant on the Evils of Reply All
I recorded this little video in which I explain a little technology stuff, primarily around the evils of the reply all. https://youtu.be/yngmKLiJWBw Although I didn’t mention this in my video, just like if you subscribe to my blog, it also helps if you subscribe to my YouTube channel. It is free and it is easy…
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Help a Blogger; Please Subscribe
You may have noticed that I changed the appearance of my blog … again. This time my changes were only cosmetic; the look of the blog has changed but not much else. Not like the last time I made a big change to the blog where I moved everything around. That big blog move destroyed…
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Thanks Baby; We’ve Come A Long Way
Father’s Day – it is difficult to imagine, but the reality is, this is my 8th Father’s Day as a dad and I have been thinking about what it means to be a dad. So many wonderful memories. So many wonderful feelings. Although I was pretty mature, well, maybe not mature, but older than the…
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Cleveland’s West Side Market
Last weekend I had the opportunity to visit the city of Cleveland Ohio. While I was in Cleveland I visited the West Side Market an amazing market. The following are some of my pictures from my visit to the market.
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The DIYZ app: A Kind and Confident Guiding Hand
Disclosure: This post is in collaboration with the DIYZ® app. As always, all opinions of apps and companies that help me complete DIY projects are my own. In the past, if I needed to do a home repair, I would turn to my grandfather for the how-to on any DIY issues I may have run…
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Email Phishing Scam
**I am reposting this blog because there is another pretty effective phishing scam going around. The bottom line is…if you are already logged into your account, Google, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace (just kidding)…DO NOT log in again if you click on a link that asks you to do so again. It is probably a scam. There…
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#liveyourbestlife; If You Can
Have you heard of the CBC Radio One show called “This Is That“? It is a radio show similar to the blog called The Onion. It is a satire. An example from the show is when they “interviewed” an employee from Canadian border services who was going to teach border guards to be friendlier. Except…
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Vlog #8; Beautyrest Sleeptracker
My eighth vlog entry with some of that fancy editing like my friend Michael over on Beyond the Rhetoric does. In this vlog post I discuss my favourite pastime – SLEEP – and how the Beautyrest Sleeptracker is making me more aware of the factors that influence my sleep. https://youtu.be/ZSXINbbUQ9s Disclosure: I have partnered with…