The Infinite Thoughts of a Finite Mind

My Thoughts on the Life and Death of Jack Layton

2011-08-23T03:13:00.004-04:00

In the school year of 2004/05 I took the mandatory Civics course in high school. I was in grade 10. In that course we all took a survey which identified us all to a political party or persuasion. I, without much surprise, was put to into the N.D.P. I knew I was a leftie, so to speak, but was unsure about which party I'd have most in common with. I took part in the mock parliament which the

The Promise

2010-11-26T02:03:00.002-05:00

A few years ago I started listening to Bruce Springsteen. Unlike most people, I just didn't get the whole "Born to Run" thing. I do now, but it took a few years. The sound of the album was just too big. The album that hooked me and remains my favorite is "Darkness on the Edge of Town", the topic of this post.I listened to that album three times in a row on the day I first heard it. I

First Month

2010-10-09T21:40:00.002-04:00

Greetings friends, accociates, countrymen.No greetings to my enemies who may read this. It's been a little over a month since my arrival in Ottawa so I figured I'd talk a bit about how things are going. Leaving Timmins was much easier this time around as compared to leaving three years ago. Adjusting also was a hell of a lot easier. For the move to Ottawa it took slightly less than two days

Updates on my Summer

2010-08-25T18:29:00.003-04:00

Good afternoon/evening friends and associates.It has been a long time since I have posted anything. I find myself bored at the moment so we'll see what happens with this. Since June 13th I have done a fair bit of travelling, working and reading. In late June I made my first trip to Ottawa where I stayed for about three days. That first trip was quite nice. Greg took me on a mini-tour of the

Family

2010-06-13T16:29:00.002-04:00

In January of this year I decided to try out www.ancestry.ca to search into my family history. I had reached the limits of what my living relatives could tell me about it but wanted to know more. Ancestry offered a free two week trial. After two days I signed up for a one year membership which would provide me with access to all Canadian documents that Ancestry has access to. There were

Shadow Part II

2010-05-03T22:54:00.003-04:00

Looking back at my last post it seems a bit depressing and negative so I thought I’d lighten it up a bit. In the last post I talked about Shadow’s decline, death and its immediate aftermath and only briefly touched on his life and why he is important to me. I hope to clear that up a bit with this post.I had wanted a dog for a long time before we actually got Shadow. We did have a dog before

Shadow

2010-04-23T17:43:00.001-04:00

I had been meaning to write another entry for some time. Unfortunately my dog Shadow died last week. His death was not unexpected, but that didn’t make it any easier. For the last three years or so my mother and I would talk from time to time about his eventual death as Labrador Retrievers rarely live as long as Shadow did. It always seemed as something far off that doesn’t need to be worried

The Singer Lives!

2010-03-09T12:54:00.003-05:00

Good afternoon to you fine people. These last few weeks have been particularly good for me. I am once again employed full time and I have been accepted to my top choices for University. Also in this time frame my sister had a child, I spent a weekend with my father and went to quite an amazing concert. In January I bought two tickets to see Steven Page and the Art of Time Ensemble in North

#17

2010-02-12T10:34:00.002-05:00

It's been nearly a month since my last post so I figured I'd write another. In five days time I shall turn 22, the same age that Buddy Holly was when he died. I shall use that excuse to continue to avoid airplanes. I have an extreme fear of heights which is somewhat inconvenient. Well, it's good for my wallet as buses and trains are generally a cheaper way to travel. Even so this fear made

A Pretty Fun Night

2010-01-21T00:26:00.003-05:00

Well I've just returned from another Blue Rodeo concert. I'm not sure if this is number five or six for me. Kind of neat that I waited six years to see them for the first time and have now lost count of the number of times I've seen them. The last time I saw them was in Kapuskasing back in July. It was a hot, poorly ventilated arena where alcohol flowed freely and clothes were optional. The

So it Begins

2010-01-12T04:21:00.002-05:00

Well, hello everyone. In mid December I told you that I would be doing a full decade in review. My first part ended off somewhere in 2005. I have since decided that some events are still a bit too recent to share in this format. For now anyway. Don't worry, I'll still manage to bore you with those events in some detail at a later time. You may be asking yourself, "how?" Well the answer is

Changes

2009-12-06T06:23:00.000-05:00

Last July I made the decision to finally go vegan. It has been a goal of mine since becoming a vegetarian back in April of ‘02. I constantly put it off out of convenience mostly. Then last July someone actually challenged me to give it a try, and I accepted the challenge. I didn’t have a “cold turkey” incident as I did when I switched to a vegetarian diet though. It was a much slower process

Decade in Review Part 1: 2000-2004

2009-12-01T03:45:00.000-05:00

I generally do a year in review at the end of each year. I figured I’d do a decade in review seeing as we are about to enter a new decade. 2000-09 is the first decade that I can remember pretty much all of. Makes sense considering I was not quite two years old when the 1990s began. I feel fortunate in that regard. From what I’ve seen in pictures, music and movies the 1980’s were a horrible

Part IV: Mortality

2009-11-24T07:06:00.000-05:00