Strange how the world works. 48 hours ago I felt something was a near impossibility short of me moving to Calgary. Today I get offered a crack at a job which requires me to re-locate to Calgary if I get it. What an odd little turn of events. Actually offered a crack at two positions, one in Calgary, the other in Vancouver. No guarantee I would ( Read more... )

Perhaps the strange dreams and deep thoughts lately have less to do with my mood, time of year, or whats on my mind, and more to do with diet. Eating pasta and various other things between midnight and 1am every night could have more to do with the strange dreams. Tonight's was fettucini in a white wine and seafood cream sauce. A little heavy ( Read more... )

So much to say, no way to say it. That dark spot continues to twist, turn, writhe, and roil. It tears and burns and rips but still never quite makes it out. Twice already this week I've woken up from dreams about a past I though long dead and gone. Over the past fifteen years that one's hit me more times than I can count, especially every time ( Read more... )

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A very long time ago, too long to even try remembering exactly how long, I knew a man named Charles Sweetwater. I doubt anyone knows him as that now. Few even knew him as that then. He was an interesting character. Loud, brash, rude, obnoxious, arrogant, pompous, short tempered, greedy, self serving. In short, all of the things people would ( Read more... )

Hindsight is twenty twenty. It never fails. No one sees things when you're in the middle of it. But when you look back... Sometimes the same things you thought made you the happiest person are the same ones that made you miserable. You knew what you had, and you loved what you had, but it wasn't happiness. Other times, the things you thought ( Read more... )

So, couple of things of note. I realized recently by the grace of god how blessed I truly am. I really can't even put into words how lucky I am, and it truly hits full force when I realize how sometimes others who have far more right to the good things I have in my life are faced with hardships they never should have to endure. But tonight is ( Read more... )

At times it amazes me how sometimes its when your plans fall completely apart and things go totally different than what you had expected that are the same times that things work out best.

This weekend was not at all what I had expected, but it certainly was good. :)

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