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Went Downtown and Got You a HotDog

Jan 15 2015

Going downtown is now an event. Today was about the 8th time, since July. When there I’m like woah, I used to live in this?!

Ran a couple contractors through my house this morning, then interviewed the chief marketing manager for Nissan for next week’s column, “Why don’t some cars come to Canada?”

Then downtown for Canadian Tire’s annual event, “These are the spring trends.”

Last year I jumped on their trampoline.

Original post.

More running around, a meeting about making videos for someone (looks like it’s a go, tell ya more soon), and tomorrow’s deadline Friday so gotta go, will leave you with the shish-kabob I got you too, TTYT

Cleaning off my Phone

Jan 13 2015

Things from the last few weeks.

Catchup with Casie xo

We built our blogs together. Are you reading hers? You ought to – CasieStewart.com, and her Twitter is consistently one of the best curated feeds.

My comforter project is almost complete.

And my fan finally arrived, look how beautiful! Look how excited I am about a fan?

Home-owning makes me excited about things I never thought I’d be. Blog tag = house

I track the planets and planetary alignments.

This security project kicks off this week, it’s very good.

Monthly steak with a BFF, a 5 year tradition.

And I’m trying, hard, to learn to make food.

This is actually good for me, plus I didn’t have to go to the store first or anything.

Caught up with an old friend over the holidays, “remember this?”, “remember that?” and “wait we documented it…”

Re: the masks – that’s the 1st time I’ve dressed up on Hallowe’en in 20 years, and I’m still paying for it.

I’m not guys, same answer as another organization, last line here.

Night.

It’s a Blog Party with a BFF

Jan 9 2015

A blog party looks like this, and Casie and I love it and that’s what’s happening tonight so TTY Monday!

Having the Hardest Time Getting Back in Rhythm

Jan 8 2015

This is me right now, pretty useless on all fronts.

Think it’s from stopping, taking time off. I’m not convinced the energy gained during the downtime is greater than the energy expended to start the machine back up.

As in – just keep working. And know who lives the longest? The people who never stop working, those guys live to like, 90.

Dinner out tonight, where we put the world to rights and I jacknife laughed twice.

Tomorrow is Deadline Friday so back to that, have a good Thursday night, best night of the week!

PS – as I was typing this I got drunk dialled YES I love getting drunk dialled, see – Thursday nights…

I Have to Re-upload 102 Videos

Jan 5 2015

102 blog posts are now broken, and look like this:

It’s because Viddy shut down.

For a time, Viddy was like the Twitter of video; you could even edit using their app, add music, sophisticated stuff. Maybe too ahead of their time, people aren’t really watching online video like they will, so it’s out of business.

We had a good relationship – they’d promote me, Tweet my videos and highlight them in the app – so I uploaded a ton of videos exclusively to Viddy. That was my mistake.

Sad as it is to type this: that’s the last time I bet on the small guy. It’s YouTube and Google from now on, forever.

I downloaded all 102 videos, but they’re smaller than the originals and pretty grainy. The right thing to do is haul out my hard drives and sit here uploading 102 videos to my YouTube account, then re-embed them into the posts.

This will take 20 hours, at least.

The good news is it will force me to clean up my YouTube account.

Look how bad my YouTube account is:

I’ll make a few playlists and there’ll be 250+ videos (add in my “Canadian Explorer’ series, and that’s 400 videos online, totalling 9 edited hours of content.)