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Service Announcement
RE: Career/Life Housekeeping Greetings! For the past 15 years I have worked at Kiers Marketing, a small marketing agency in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Starting there as a graphic designer, I worked my way up to the position of Creative Director. Recently circumstances came about where the Universe seemed to be saying it was time…
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Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times
Neil Peart, 2004 I am an unabashed Rush geek, but perhaps even more so, as a lapsed drummer and a lover of books and thought, a fully-formed Neil Peart geek – which sorts me into an even more obscure niche of weirdness. I’d read most of his books, but had missed a few and the…
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
Posted in: Books & ReadingNick Cave & Seán O’Hagan, 2022 My introduction to Nick Cave was 1997’s The Boatman’s Call with his band The Bad Seeds and I dug it but never really listened to much of his other stuff. I’d heard him name dropped here and there and I think I maybe caught some of the press surrounding…
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Drafting
From time to time I miss the old school tactile feel of drawing and drafting. I still do some of it for various projects around the house but much of the time it’s more just freehand sketch type stuff in notebooks for smaller projects. Dimensional drawings to get cut and materials lists and the like.…
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Riding Out The Skaz Loop
I recently finished reading A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders and really enjoyed it. I highlighted a few sections and have had them rolling around in my head, most notably on some recent bike rides. I’ve been…
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The Devil is in the Details
When I bought this Surly Steamroller from Chris it had Panaracer Gravel Kings on it and they held up very well – but like all tires, eventually wore out. As such I was resolved to just get another set and when looking for pricing online – oh, how about that – they come in yellow.