Personal
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Anyone who reads my blog, or Canadian business news, or shops there already knows that Blockbuster Canada is closing. I’ve done a couple of posts already about losing my job, and the misrepresentation in the press etc. This isn’t going to be one of those posts. This one is going to be a bit more…
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I don’t play a lot of online games. It’s a combination of not being competitive enough and not being willing to make the commitment to my fellow gamers. GuildWars was the exception to that. There were a couple of things I liked right from the get-go. There are no monthly subscription fees. You buy the…
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I watched a TED.com talk by Neil Pasricha last night and it started me thinking. He talked about going through a very dark time in his life. His marriage ended and a close friend took his own life after a long struggle with mental illness. As part of the process of moving himself out of…
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Okay, so I know this may be a bit of a departure from the usual, but the usual is usually over-rated. I’m a Zombie fan. Not Rob Zombie. Not Voodoo zombies. I’m talking contagion driven, George A. Romero ZOMBIES. Ever since I first saw Night of the Living Dead many, many years ago, I’ve been…
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A couple of years ago, we bought our daughter a netbook to use for school. She was thrilled and happy as a clam… for about a month. Just long enough that we couldn’t return it. It seems she might have been mistaken in what she needed from her portable computer. As well as running office…
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Where I am at the moment, there is less than an hour until the end of rentals at Blockbuster Canada. It’s not easy for me to put aside my anger and look at the bigger picture. Still, I’d like to share a few thoughts about what it has meant, and will mean going forward. For…
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Job hunting sucks. It’s one of my least favorite things to do. Sadly, at this point, it’s also unavoidable. One of the things I don’t like about it, is trying to figure out what the heck I’m going to do. I don’t have a degree or even a diploma. In today’s job market, that’s kind…
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I’m not going to write a lot right now because I have to get ready to go out with my family to celebrate my daughter’s eighteenth birthday. From there, I may be heading pretty much straight to work for the evening so might not have a chance to post later. As you can see, I’m…
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I wasn’t really sure what I was going to write today. I hadn’t chosen a title or a “feel” for it. I knew there was more I wanted to say about my store closing, I just wasn’t sure what. I just started writing, and let it come. The original post starts below the line. It…
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I think it’s only fair to say upfront that I work for Blockbuster Canada, but not for much longer. The most recent deal fell through, and with nothing promising on the horizon, the receiver is recommending the liquidation of the company to pay the creditors. The problem is, they aren’t our creditors. Before our parent…
Brain Bits To Go 