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I am the worst note taker around. I take lots of notes in meetings and in general life but I'm sooooo bad at it. I've got a thing for stuff about the wife that is alright after years of edits but in the moment....oooffff. For example, I use the notepad app. The Google and apple one are similar (Google's is a bit better) with options for bullet lists, open typing, etc. I have lists for various parts of my D&D campaign: enemy ideas, story ideas and so on.  In the future encounters I have a bullet that just says yellow blackberries. I know I had an idea there but that just sounds like they need ripening without any additional info.  And I'm the same way with my work notes but with the added benefit of shitty writing. I've gotten better at slowing myself down to write a proper note but if the meeting continues on, I'm fucked.  Or the great times where I write the titles of a game or book Ina blue and have no idea why I wrote the word entity. You have a list for ...

Did I ever mention that I listen to history podcast and watch history videos on the YouTube? A dozen times already? Well, I'm going to talk about it again. I've recently got into a podcast call Behind the Bastards in which the host talks about a historical or present bastard. From Hitler to Lafayette Ron Hubbard to FBI agents that fuck up investigations into the Olympic bombings and the Anthrax scare. Each episode is an hour and they go from one to five episodes for a person so you get to hear a lot about them. Some of them are really bad. One cult leader he made the comment of "Yeah, it's very much Jeffery Epstein stuff but Epstein wasn't nearly as bad." and yeah. It was a rough fucking episode. Some are people doing a job, like the FBI agents, but some people are selling a product. Cult leaders selling peace of mind, Steven Seagal selling a personality, Dr. Oz selling whatever bullshit. The Dr. Oz one caught my ear real good because A) he's actually know...

What a world we currently live in. The United States of America are currently trying to eliminate Iran and their President is currently hated by all his allies. I honestly don't know how to feel. Yeah, Iran's leader/government (And also Venezuela's) is/are awful, but the actions of America and Israel are not great. I've found myself cheering a bit each time Iran hit's a tech bro facility. I think I'd move on much easier than I like to think if the Internet disappeared. I think in the end the internet is a good thing, but it would be nice to not have to do the work to make it better. And now Trump has Alex Jones and MTG going against him. I never thought I'd be on the same team as those two! Part of me wants to just say "Yes, I'm against Trump, but I won't team up with them." I also like to preach meeting somewhere in the middle though and this is the opportunity to start. Whenever we get a chance we gotta meet in the middle. That's wher...

Ugh. Mondays. Over the Christmas holidays I started to get some hives on my body that would transform into a hard, kind of callous-scabby type skin. It moved around my body every couple of week, as one patch healed, another appeared. As the second was disappearing I went to the doctor to get it looked at. In his words, and I quote: "This worries me." Just what I want to hear. Fast forward and I've had my blood taken and went to get my backed stabbed on Monday with allergens and there are no allergies. One thing we did find in the blood test was a serious Vitamin D deficiency. Like, half the minimum level. So that's an easy fix. It shouldn't be causing my issue but it can cause other conditions to get worse. I've been taking supplements for about a month now and seem to be clear of the reactions now. The allergen doctor figures it's just a random reaction that sometimes appear for people and then just never happen again. He's prescribed me some meds in ...

Headed up to the Cameco Key Lake facility this week for work. Over 600km north. Flew out on a 50ish seater airplane and back on the same model but newer and slightly longer for a 70ish seater. First time I've ever been on a propeller plane. All flights were good without much turbulence. The trip back was delayed 4 hours due to the snow and the fact that the de-icer at site broke down. And they needed that. We woke up to -336 degrees on Wednesday morning. Fuck that. Site was pretty good though. Bed kinda sucked but I had my own room and bathroom in the construction camp which was just atco trailers. The rooms were small but all I needed. They fed us good food and after 12 hour days all I did in the evening was watch TV and sleep. A lot of guys to 12 days on, 12 days off. I don't think I could do that. Two nights was too many for me. If I didn't have a family it wouldn't be bad, but I do. And I like to spend time with them. There's some guys out there that I'm sur...

Should we go back to city states like we had back in the olden times? I mean, I realize it would probably be bad for Saskatchewan as a whole since we get some money and help from the federal government, but is it worth the stress? Mainly I mean that we have such large countries everywhere that what someone wants/needs on the coast is WAY different than someone in the prairies and they will almost never be able to meet in the middle without a lot of frustration. I've been listening to more history podcasts. Can you tell? The old Roman thing of you only get one year in power and it's a lottery and such is kind of a good idea. Actually, I think someone said it best that in the early days of the USA, when the leaders had day jobs that it was best. None of this making money off your power shit we got going. If we forced politicians to get paid at the average income of a country or lower, you can be damn sure they'd be doing a better job of trying to get that number up. Or just a...

Huzzah! Lamb of God released their new one to day. So far, it's fire as usual. I've known it was coming and have been listening to the back catalogue to prepare myself. I also then did some googling about them. The band historically had two brothers in it, Willie the guitarist and Chris the drummer. These last two albums have been without Chris though as he had reportedly had a motorcycle accident and couldn't drum anymore. He has recently come out with the truth. Turns out he was fine after the motorcycle incident within three months. The issue is that he has a condition in his foot with the nerves that cause them to fire backwards once in awhile. He basically had to reteach himself how to lead with this left instead of right foot. Normally, this condition is a death sentence for a drummer so he kept it quiet but started hearing other drummers coming out with it so figured he'd set the record straight. He got this thing, won a Grammy with Megadeth, and then the band se...