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Growing Pains
As you’ve seen over the past couple of weeks the blog has been going through some growing pains. In my professional life i work with organizations as they grow and mature in their information technology service management capabilities. I’ve delivered and ran global software as a service, services for Microsoft and am pretty good and […]
Methodical
Blindness is discipline, No really it is. Its not some kind of weird control or S&M thing. To manage and accommodate myself I need to be very methodical and disciplined about my logistics of life… Orientation is critical for safety and functionality. Once I have my orientation or as I talk about it my context […]
Recognition of the Canadian Womans Olympic Hockey Team
My wife and i took our car in to get serviced yesterday at the dealership. The dealer has a shuttle service to get you back home or to your office after dropping off your car with them. The driver of the shuttle was an interesting fellow who is apparently passionate about hockey. He asked us […]
Assulted on Calgary Transit Route 301
I live in the very far north part of Calgary, it takes me two buses to get from my home to work in downtown Calgary. The shuttle bus I use is bad enough the Route 420 is served generally only once an hour and the size of the bus used on the route variable on […]
Woof Woof, I’m a Dog
In Alberta your disability is measured on “point in time” capability. For instance to get a disabled placard in Alberta to enable you to use the “disabled” parking spots you can’t be able to work more than 150ft, “50m”. See the policy from the Services Alberta website below: Parking Placards for Persons With Disabilities Effective […]
Unaccompanied Travel of Minors
I like many of you out there is divorced, and remarried. As a result I have an extended family of four children. As a person that loves children and always dreamed of being a Dad with ten children I don’t see any of my children enough. With the economic realities of the time and the […]
A Culture of One, Identity
Recently I published an article defining culture, I want to build on that article as the definition of culture has given me language to discuss identity. I have been drafting an article on identity for as long as this blog has been in existence. All of my life Spock from the “Star Trek” franchise has […]
Ode to Attitude
Attitude was a bear, a teddy bear to be precise died on Jan 1, 2011. Attitude was the best $10 I ever spent on anything for my kids. This bear, Attitude, seen my daughter through her first 16 years of life. My children survived a horrific fire in their apartment complex. The downstairs neighbour spent […]
Our Social Context, Cultural Interactions
The fun bit. My personal perversion is my ability to see the spacial, abstract in different constructs and contexts. I was in a job interview the other day and I told the interviewer I get paid to: think, provide energy, facilitate, and communicate. Effectively I get paid for the things that I do to manage […]
Anxious
Fear is such a profoundly negative force almost as powerful as death. I was having some energy and pace issues, way too much life. I was worried about my kids after the fire they had in which they lost everything. I worked with my daughter to help them get back on their feet and get […]
