Category: LIFE
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My First Office: Remembrance Series
Originally posted on 11.17.13 I started my first information management business in September of 1997. By early 1999, we had grown large enough to necessitate formal office space. As we toured many options around Calgary, surprisingly we were lead to one of the buildings being rented on Calgary’s former army…
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My House: Remembrance Series
Originally posted on 11.18.13 My youngest daughter is now 4. When Phoebe was born, she entered our lovely house taking us from a family of three to a family of four. No big deal, she was small and we had a bedroom perfectly set up for her. Oh how wrong…
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Values: Remembrance Series
Originally posted on 11.19.13 So who am I on this, my 43rd Remembrance Day? I am the values I represent. I am the consistent patterns of my past. I see myself through this lens, this Remembrance Day. From the day of my birth: Be respectful From my dreams & lessons from…
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Seasons, Costumes and Being a Kid
One of the great things about living in Calgary is that our climate offers us four full seasons. Since mid-September, the leaves and grasses have been turning and the mountains have been unbelievably beautiful. We’ve had a wonderful fall, and happily, Calgary made it to Halloween with only one snow…
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Auditing Time
I’m conducting an audit of how I spend my time at work. NeoStream is really rolling these days and there are many competent professionals in our organization. As the business has grown, my role has changed significantly. For example, among other roles, I used to be the HR Manager, Finance…
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Re-Architecting My Digital Life
I find myself rethinking a few things these days around the technology I use to manage and move my life. I’ve noticed that this requires me to stretch slightly outside of my familiar zone, in order for me to make a well-thought-out decision when it comes to the my digital…
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Paratrooper For A Day: A Story of Legends
Originally posted on 09.23.13 On Friday, September 20th, ten of my friends and family (and I) went to Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in Edmonton to participate in an experience I’d bought at the Kids Cancer Care Foundation “Quest for the Cure” event. I purchased the package in competitive fashion (definitely…
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Paratrooper for a Day: How it Came to Be
Originally posted on 09.23.13 My wife Catherine has worked in the kids cancer discipline her entire career. She’s a modest girl, and deflects a lot of the ‘it takes a special person’ type comments that arise as people learn her profession…but her dedication and passion run deep. I’m proud of…
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Canadian Proud: The History of a Team
Originally posted on 09.25.13 Sergeant John Prior was our guide for our Paratrooper for a Day event. He’s a seasoned paratrooper (i.e. veteran) and respected leader (as we came to see through his interactions with his team). After donning borrowed fatigues, combat vests and being loaded down with supplies, John…
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It’s a Physical World
Originally posted on 09.25.13 “Fitness is our life — our life”. – Sergeant John Prior As we walked the halls and toured the unit’s history, we weren’t alone. On each side of us, soldiers made their way up and down the aisles flipping tires, doing deep squats with huge barbells…
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The Jump Suit – “There’s no such thing as ‘too tight’ in parachuting”…
Originally posted on 09.26.13 If you’re going to be a Paratrooper, you have to know how to jump out of an airplane – with a parachute and the rest of your gear. That’s fairly obvious, I suppose. But obvious doesn’t mean easy. The Paratroopers of 3PPCLI train endlessly for the…
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The Obstacle Course
Originally posted on 09.28.13 This “Paratrooper for a Day” event was moving from good to great! Following the success and elation of the jump tower, we moved on to our next activity, the obstacle course. Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve loved physical challenges of this nature. Obstacles courses…
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Walking with Weapons
Originally posted on 09.30.13 Following a delightful lunch of field rations…which were actually pretty good…we were given guns. C7 automatic rifles to be more accurate. It was just after noon, and I was now packing heat. And so the education continued. We were taught some pretty specific stuff about safety…
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The Firing Line
Originally posted on 10.02.13 One of the highlights about the Paratrooper for a Day event was the firing of live ammunition at the range. More than one group member said this was what they were looking forward to most while we drove up to Edmonton. It was now time! As…
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