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I’ve got my semi annual performance review this week. I’ve always felt that reviews where somewhat of a waste of time and energy. They always feel rushed and contrived, you sit there while some HR bot or your disengaged manager follow along with some pre-formatted review form scoring you like one of those stupid tests out of Cosmo to rate your date or something.
In preparation for my pending review and my recent fifth year wedding anniversary, I got to thinking the other day that there should be an annual review process that each person has to go through. Being married can feel like work some of the time can’t it? Throughout your marriage you are expected to perform certain tasks such as mowing the lawn, killing spiders, cooking, cleaning, laundry etc. You are expected to maintain specific financial targets and represent the “organization” in a professional personable manner.
So why not review each other each year to give you an indication of how you are performing as a life partner and how the “Organization” is performing as a whole. It would come in handy God forbid if it ever came to divorce.
“Well your honor we feel fifteen thousand dollars a month in alimony is unwarranted.” “If you look back at Mrs. Smith’s last three performance reviews she has clearly not met the expectations in many areas. She has not worn the Cow Girl or Xena Warrior Princess outfits when requested, and has failed to learn the basics of lawn care” Or, conversely it could be “Mr. Smith has clearly not been performing up to his potential your honor.” He hasn’t fixed the fence, or painted the garage, and his commitment to foreplay is clearly spurious”
Now I wouldn’t see the reviews being too stuffy or formal but something typical to most performance reviews you would go through in the corporate world. It might look something like this for instance.
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Yet another Canadian solider has been lost in Afghanistan bringing the toll up to 70. Reports are that he was found with a gunshot wound inside a secure compound in Kabul. It appears that the death wasn’t a result of hostile action, but perhaps an accident or even suicide. I would hate to think that things are bad enough over there for one of our guys that he would want to off himself. Again, my deepest sympathies to his family, friends and comrades.
Come home soon guys!
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I have been neglecting my blog over the past few days. I was experiencing some technical difficulties late Thursday but the fine people at worpress support fixed me up in no time. Friday I spent a fantastic day on the Golf Course golfing in the Sindi Hawkins and Friends Golf Classic for Cancer. I fortunately haven’t been touched by cancer but have had some friends who have, so it was great being involved with such a great event. I had hoped to have some pictures but as usual I forgot the camera, I should just buy 20 cameras and have one every where, the car, the golf bag, at work, tapped to my head, tapped to my ass.
Saturday was spent cooking and prepping for 40+ people for an epic 70th Birthday Party for my Mother in Law, ahh the things I do brownie points. Everyone seemed to have a good time and enjoyed the grub so all went well.
I’ll be hopefully back to regular posts in the next coming days so stay tuned…
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So we’ve lost two more. Two Canadian soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were killed Wednesday in Afghanistan. No details of the incident have been released yet but again avoiding going on a angry rant all I have to say is my deepest condolences to the family, freinds and comrades of these two soldiers.
I will however ask that you check out the following link and do what’s best…….
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/end-canadian-combat-operations-in-afghanistan.html
Come home soon guys!
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As I have mentioned before I have a soon to be 2 year old son. His name is Alex but we call him “Bub” most of the time, I’m not sure how “Bub” came about but it seems to fit. “Hey Bub dont touch that”, ”Hey Bub, get down from there” “Hey Bub why did you set the cat on fire?”………As with most toddlers his age, Alex is an early riser, a really really early riser, he is generally awake before God wakes up most Days.So almost every morning we lay in bed dozing until its time to wake actually get up while he watches Treehouse. For those of you who don’t know Treehouse is a children’s network here in Canada that caters to youngish kids. It plays all the popular stuff like Barney, Dora, Diego etc… Anyways one morning I’m laying there in a kid induced semi awake coma and I hear a song and I in my haze I think to myself who in the hell got paid to write this piece of shit, and where can I sign up. I can write garbage like this while drunk and standing on my head. For those who aren’t familiar with this piece of musical genius the lyrics are as follows:
If there’s a place you got to go
I’m the one you need to know
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
If there’s a place you got to get
I can get you there I bet
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
I’m the Map
Yes, the twelve “I’m the Maps” at the end is correct, I counted them. Now if this little jingle isn’t enough to drive our kids into either epileptic seizures or the very least to mass in numbers and kill all the adults ala Children of the Corn style I don’t know what is? I know kid’s minds are somewhat simple at this age but holy crap. There should be a disclaimer before the program stating that particular songs within this program will incite rioting and an urge to commit murder in adults. Please use sedatives while watching this program.
So if anyone knows how you get a job writing songs for kids shows let me know. I’m sure I can come up with better lyrics than the genius who wrote these. Maybe I can make some extra cash.
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So Harper, Bush and Calderon ended their summit in Montebello, Quebec today to discuss security and the North American economy or more presumably how the pathetic US economy is tainting everyone else’s. Why do I feel strangely afraid every time these three get together? Why do I feel that my children and children’s children will be living in a country or more importantly a ”non-country” more equal to the bizarre world?The concept of a North American Union to me makes a little sense in principle, hell it seems to be working for Western Europe, but I can’t not take into account a rouge government in the US who is hell bent on world domination as though they were the big giant eye in the Lord of the Rings. I have very little confidence that our Mr. Harper has the bullocks to really stick up for our interest, however, on the surface he is showing some with regards to our northern regions so maybe he’ll surprise me.I hope and prey that they destroy the ring before all of this comes to past and we become assimilated with the likes of the Bush government.Hmmmm I wonder what would be a good country to move to?
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Canada lost its 67th soldier today in Afghanistan due to a roadside bomb. He was a 23 year old Private by the name of Simon Longtin. As much as it pains me to my core that we continue to loose our country men half a world away due to some imbecile’s warped political agenda all I have to say is my deepest condolences to Simon’s family, friends and comrades in arms. Come home soon guys!
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Apparently the contest posted about was a scam and there was to never be a winner. Being very new to the blogging world, I’m not hip to the value of linking and linking back stuff but sounds like he completely scammed those who linked back to him. Baaaaddddd Baaaaadddd Blogger!
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I’ve stated before that I’m not that fond of where I work and I’m contemplating moving on to something else. The main reason is the fact that this job is not challenging enough almost to the point I feel as though I’m loosing intelligence working here I can tell because I’m starting to get into “Dancing With the Stars”. There is however a constant source of entertainment from my co workers, their strange hobbies, constant chatter, strange smells etc. You know what I’m talking about. So to kill the tedium I thought it would be fun the profile them all for you over the next few weeks.So we will start with Mr. M. Now Mr. M. in his own right is a nice guy, hey I’ve had a beer or two with him on occasion but he is one of those creepy Jeffery Dalmer types that lives alone in a basement suite, doesn’t have a girl friend and likes to show you pictures of girls he’s taken with his camera phone while chatting online. No wonder he doesn’t have a girlfriend. I can just envision his basement suite……..computer set up with top of the line web cam in the corner World of Warcraft poster on the wall, smelly old couch and the $5000 dollar flat screen on the wall complete with an extensive DVD porn collection, in his bedroom a broken futon and milk crate night stand complete with lava lamp. I’ve often thought about offering some advice as to why he remains single, if it’s not already obvious. So what I’ve done is drafted the following list of 10 possibilities as to why Mr. M is still single. He might find it enlightening……
- The believe that the ”Axe Affect” is real
- The “It’s not going to suck its self” T-shirt
- The Flashing of devil horns in every photo
- The of taking cell phone photos of his genitals
- World of Warcraft
- The assumption that the mouth is self-cleaning
- referring himself as a Vagitarian
- The Peeing Calvin on his car
- The smoking of 3 gaggers before 8:00AM
- World of Warcraft…..(Had to have it twice)
So next time we will me the ever so irritating Ms L…..
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So we’ve been married five years as of last Saturday and the day was as exciting as a womens auxilary macromea sale on a rainy Sunday. We quietly exchanged cards, no gifts this year as we are going to Maui this winter and it will be this years Christmas, Birthday and Anniversary gifts to each other all in one. Now the lameness of it wasnt to the fault of Linds (my wife) or myself but the exhuasting endless stream of house guests that we’ve had in the last few weeks. Last weekend it was my parents which if you knew my folks isnt really indicative to a romantic, fun filled aniversary weekend filled with song, sex and wine.
So we are hoping to set aside some time this week, before the next bacth of company arrives on Friday to celebrate our past five years properly.
So here’s a shout out to my bride, I love you Babe!
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