I grew up in a tourist town. Not the spring break, summer at the beach type of tourist town or the cultural hub, rare antiquities type of tourist town. Sadly. No, my hometown was the bus loads of big city seniors coming to buy decorative but useless knickknacks and hopefully catch a glimpse of Old […]
Bluerock Campground – review
I know of Bluerock Campground because an aunt and uncle of mine camped there annually with my young cousins years ago. When I first moved to Calgary, on a couple of occasions I either visited them at the campground or joined them camping for a night. Everyone else, I presume, knows Bluerock Campground as pseudo-overflow […]
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas
The Internet gave to me And You haven’t hit the big time until you’ve been trolled. My work doesn’t get many comments to begin with, so a nasty comment is worth commemorating. This was my first such comment and I had to write about after it happened. And with that, my little […]
On the Eleventh Day of Christmas
The Internet gave to me And This year I returned to Pinterest. I honestly don’t understand the appeal of Pinterest at all, but I started getting traffic referred from there thanks to one kind soul who “pinned” an image of stubby Canadian beer bottles I used in one of my posts (here’s that original […]
On the Tenth Day of Christmas
The Internet gave to me And That’s some techno-statistical jargon that Google provides blog owners. You don’t need to know what it means other than my stats are terrible. Laughable, really. Some of my superstar dad blogging friends would likely get a sympathetic chuckle from my chart. They’re laughing with me, not at me. […]