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What I read this month

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A better month for reading, to be sure. Sadly, many starts and stops included, but I’ll take those any day over not getting a shot at reading enough at all, as in too many other months. ReadStarter Villain – John ScalziGreen Arrow, Vol. 1: The Death & Life of Oliver Queen – Writer: Benjamin Percy, … Read more

On a dumb argument

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Everyone has their opinions. And everyone has counterpoints to certain topics of discussion. That is of course a given. But here’s a hot tip: If you’re going to share those, first make sure they at least convey what you’re trying to say and don’t inadvertently make you look bad. I recently mentioned that my union … Read more

Thoughts on working my first picket line

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For those out of town or who otherwise wouldn’t be in the know or affected by it, employees at the LCBO — the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the one place in the province where you can still buy your own liquor — have gone on strike for the first time in its long history. … Read more

Three strikes against privatizing the LCBO

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I’ve worked for the LCBO for just over two years. This upcoming strike deadline is the first I’ve ever looked at being personally involved in, as LCBO workers are automatically enrolled in their local chapter of OPSEU (Ontario Public Service Employees Union). And unfortunately, what I’ve found from this side of things is just more … Read more

What I read this month

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Despite it being a pretty crazy busy month, I read more in June than I have for a while. Mind you, much of that was started and stopped. But in some cases I read well into the books before finally dropping them, so hey, that’s still reading.It’s not satisfying reading, but it’s still reading.Beggars can’t … Read more

Let people read during lulls on the job

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I’ve been working two part-time jobs for the last couple of years, and both underscored something to me I hadn’t encountered much previously: Companies don’t like their staff to casually read when they’re on the clock. And I sincerely don’t understand why. I think… I think?… that it’s what’s believed to be the optics of … Read more

What I read this month

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Being the early Doggo Times, even without a lot of work happening, I haven’t had a lot of time to read — or to post anything… regular readers will notice I completely missed April in this series of posts and in fact didn’t even realize that until over a week into May — so it’s … Read more

It’s (now) a dog’s life

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I’ve been remiss in updating my website the last several weeks. It’s largely because this happened on April 20th… After years of discussing getting a pet — we had a betta fish, but let’s face it, fish only barely qualify as pets — and after weeks of looking intently for either a cat or a … Read more