Category: General
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Creating a Card Game
I’ve been working on creating a card game for a few months now. The idea has been bouncing around in my head for over a year, and when I tried to translate it into a game that I wanted to make, I realized I didn’t have the skills to make…
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Anti-Smoking Drug Helping My Depression
I can’t believe I haven’t written a blog post about this already. As many of you know, I write pretty openly about my battles with anxiety and depression, and I am happy to say that Wellbutrin has been super effective for me. A little over five months ago, I started…
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The Breakout Project: Absolutely Amazing
In less than four and a half months, I went from learning about an idea that Innovate Kingston had for The Breakout Project to being one of the people that helped pull it off. I can’t believe that the first event is now behind me. I am happy to say…
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Hyperspeed Job Update: Three Weeks In
So I’ve been through three weeks at Innovate Kingston working on The Breakout Project. It has been a busy three weeks, to say the least. The first few days were brain dump meetings with board members and transferring ownership/control of many IT accounts to me. I also redeveloped the event…
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Senior Technical Project Manager – The Breakout Project
Annie and I needed a break from our life in Guelph, and so over the course of December, I searched high a low for a new job that would give us a new start. I hunted for a position that would either allow me to work remotely so Annie and…
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My Last Day at Sandbox Software Solutions
I knew for three weeks when my last day was going to be and I tried my best to prepare everyone at the company for my departure. I think I did an okay job as on my last day I had less than a dozen emails. And other than helping…
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Unique Soda Pop Birthday Experience
My wife gave me a six pack of glass bottle pops for my birthday. She knows that I enjoy trying out different sodas and we decided to review the half-dozen together. Here are those reviews. Anchor – Ginger Root Beer Orca Beverage Soda Works Mukilteo, WA Aroma Me: Root Beer…
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Leaving Our Apartment and Starting Our Adventure
Last night was the last night we get to sleep in our apartment in Guelph. Annie was never fully a fan of Guelph, using it mostly just as a place to sleep, but Guelph has been pretty good to us. Our apartment was pretty nice, and our location, while not…
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Homeless for the Holidays
So this week my wife and I are moving out of our apartment. We almost lived here for two years, and that’s the longest I’ve lived somewhere for a while now. My wife and I started discussing what we would do if we couldn’t have children over two years ago…
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The Past Year – My Hardest Yet
Typically, I wait until the end of the year to do retrospective posts, but as I approach my thirty-fourth birthday, I am struck again by how insane this past year has been. A little over a year ago, we lost Lily, my wife and I’s first opportunity to be parents…
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Birthday and Christmas Wishlist 2016
So with a month until my thirty-fourth birthday, two and a half months until Christmas, and some upcoming travel plans, I’ve updated my wishlist on Wishlistr to give people ideas of what I most want. Some highlights include: a new belt, preferably a nice reinforced one some books or an…
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Bed Rest for Annie and Anika
So Annie went from being mostly on bed rest to full on bed rest a couple of weeks ago, and it has been very hard for everyone. Watching my wife struggle is never fun. Seeing her frustrated, isolated, and uncomfortable is hard. Trying to be there for her needs as…
Malcolm Peralty 