December 2008
11 posts
Dec 31st
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Happy New Year
Wishing each and every one of you a safe and happy new year.  Enjoy your celebrations tonight.
Dec 31st
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Christmas Presents
So I got a couple Christmas gifts this year that were worth way more than I really have any right to ask people to spend on me.  I’ve decided that I’m okay with it though, because I’ll be able to use them as a way to give back to people in the things I love to do.  First up is a nice addition that will really expand my abilities with photography. This is the Nikon 55mm-200mm...
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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a different christmas
I’m not going to expound too much on this right now, simply because I haven’t decided how I feel about the whole thing. Christmas this year was different.  Very different.  Mainly because: Hard to feel like Christmas when you’re working all the time through it and live alone First Christmas away from home A combination of bad weather and what seems like a complete lack of...
Dec 27th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 5th
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on canada
I have this unexplainable need to share my thoughts on what has transpired in Canadian Politics over the past week.  A lot has happened and there’s just a few things I want to comment on. First, lets catch people up to speed.  Last week Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative minority government revealed their 2009 budget.  The oppositions parties (the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc...
Dec 4th
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Dec 2nd
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I’m blatantly stealing this from Joel’s (Tempest) blog because this is a great exchange about Canada and oil.  I laughed.  Spelling and punctuation is true to life. VasyL‎‎ [10:56 AM]: ya anyway qucik fact question for you how many acres has been minded in the oilsand to this date note. area not volume nined fuc mined ‎‎Tempest‎‎ [10:57 AM]: hmmm, i don’t know thousands?...
Dec 2nd
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another freezing rain night
Tonight I go to face off against my mortal enemy: freezing precipitation.  Yes, it’s true.  That phrasing that I hate so much is in the public forecast: “Temperature rising to [anything close to zero] by morning.”  On the bright side it should give me lots to do and make the night go by quicker.  Oh, and there’s also that whole blizzard thing up in Clyde River. I think,...
Dec 2nd