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…
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…
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…
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…
It’s no secret among family and friends that my income has been… let’s call it “tight” for a while. I’m ready, willing and able to do what I need to to pay bills and get food on the table. But I’m torn among thoughts of finding other work even if it’s for less hourly money…
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…
Hey, you know how Facebook (now called Meta) makes a fourtune from selling oceans of highly detailed, extremely personal data about each of its users to advertisers? … and how that had for some time included collecting data from its unsuspecting users even when they weren’t using Facebook at the time, reporting on what else…
I’m the first to admit I’m a slow reader. Painfully slow, sometimes. Slow enough that I’ve lost count of how many What I Read This Month posts have been effectively empty. ‘Working on the same thing I was last month’, is how those generally go.And here we are again. Lately I’ve been reading The Three…
I struggled with making myself work on this book idea more than any other idea in recent memory. I had the core idea for a while, and started filling it out as time (and other projects) allowed, and some time back finally felt like it maybe might kinda be ready to work on.I had the…
It’s been… let’s call it an interesting few weeks. Back in mid-February, we were visiting friends in Florida. The day after we arrived, I woke up to a notification on my phone that a lot — a lot — of money had been charged to my credit card by my webhost (the service that you…