Okay friends, it’s time to begin Phase Two of Operation: What’s Next. I’ve officially dusted the cobwebs off my ancient LinkedIn profile and I’m asking for a little help from the hive mind.

Sometimes, when I feel petty, I want to call it the “Whine” Industry.

Okay, Internet Hive-Mind, what should my next chapter look like?

Fairly assessing a decade of one’s own work is a fascinating enterprise. Take, for example, digital footprint—in this case, there is a single potential buyer, but a ton of opportunity cost. How do you value these things?

I wish we still had an America that wielded the power of principles, instead of one that relishes in the naked principle of power.

Worth sharing: www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/01/12/o...

Is America great yet?

America: "We're doing all we can" Also America: "We can't do a general strike, I would lose my dental benefits"

Say it with me, friends: The ends don’t justify the means. They never have, and never will. Allowing yourself to think otherwise is how you lose your soul and moral centre, piece by piece.

Fentanyl isn’t a weapon of mass destruction. It’s not a weapon. It does, however cause massive destruction. Trump’s declaration that it’s a WMD to justify the use military force against a “weapon”, when there are many other tools to use.

Forget trans people in sports, we need to monitor spelling bees and math olympiads for Tylenol doping. Isn’t that the very definition of unfair advantage?

Cov+ damnit!

Today, I met Gem.

Since it’s my 50th birthday next week, give me your most unhinged suggestions on what I could do for my “mid-life crisis”.

Less than two weeks until my 50th birthday. DM me if you want to be invited. :)

Microsoft CoPilot is pushy to the point of feeling like a clingy ex. I’m sorry, MSFT, you’re not getting pity sex out of me.

I have epic neighbours.

This morning’s medications include: 50mg prednisone 1000mg NAC 10mg cetirizine 60mg biphentin 4 puffs 100mcg salbutamol (ventalin) 2 puffs budesonide / glycopyrronium / formoterol fumarate (breztri) 2 puffs 20mcg ipratropium bromide (atrovent)

When somebody tells you they hung out at The Haçienda in Manchester back-in-the-day, you’re clearly in the presence of someone cooler than most of the people you’ve ever met.

The Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away.

It’s gettin’, it’s gettin’, it’s gettin’ kind of hectic.

If I had a nickel for every astrophysicist I’ve met since I moved to Keremeos, I’d have nearly a dollar.

Boundary-setting sucks sometimes, even if it’s necessary.

In-laws. Ugh.

In the last few years I’ve developed an awful histamine reaction to all forms of alcohol. An instant snotty, itchy mess. How am I supposed to let someone get me drunk and take advantage of me now?!?

Was I anxiously attached *before* I married an avoidant on the spectrum? :D

End of day three in the hospital for Influenza A + Pneumonia + Asthma = breathing crisis. O2 blood sats are still only 95% with oxygen support, but the infections are clearing and I showered myself today. Huzzah!

Awash in antibiotics.

I try do equal labour around the house and in parenting, emotional and otherwise, but also demand to be equal in setting standards and priorities. Women have a lot of social conditioning to let go of, too.

In Penticton Emerg because my lungs have decided they hate me. Is it out-of-control asthma? A lung infection? Something else?

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

Kid finds a nearly 20 year old meme shirt in my closet. Loves it. Chose to wear it to school this morning. Is he cool? I think he’s cool.

The kid is now playing Ween songs on his acoustic guitar. Right now, it’s this one… bad Mexican accent and all. How did my kid get this weird/cool?! Cinco de Mayo for the win. youtu.be/uv-gT9lNa1g

A friend who is an elementary school educator attended a series of Pro-D presentations yesterday and one sentence went off like a bomb for her: "The first symptom of a learning disability is a sore tummy."

Took my ADHD meds on a totally empty stomach. Now I feel like I could wrestle a bear while organizing my spice cupboard alphabetically.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

What if instead of arguing on social media, we met in a school gym and went at each other with pool noodles instead?

Sometimes there’s alternate versions of songs that just change your brain chemistry. Maybe it’s a remix, maybe it’s an acoustic version, but there’s something about it a connect with a deeper place. What’s one of those for you?

Of all the potential purchasers of the Hudson Bay Company core brand identity, I’m kind-of rooting for Canadian Tire to get it. Or, hear me out, Indigenous ownership.

In my twenties, there were two music-related minor mysteries that were simmering in the back of my mind: 1) How the hell did Mae Moore end up opening for Morrissey in Vancouver in 1993? 2) How did Spirit of the West end up on a Wonder Stuff album? Yes, I have niche interests.

I used to think the internet was going to connect me with my people. You know, those who could talk for hours about the geopolitical context of “I’m With Stupid” by the Pet Shop Boys. The internet failed me.

@benbradleyca.bsky.social going to be in the south Okanagan/Similkameen this summer?

I'm young, and I'm hip, and I'm going to be a Supermodel. Rest in peace, Jill Sobule--you kissed a girl long before Katy ever did.

If you could help yourself to any single object at work and take it home as a keepsake, without consequence, what would you grab? (Something sentimental or representative, not for pure value.)

A stinking broken freezer, complete political exhaustion, frustrating health issues. And yet, I just checked and my business is up ~60% YTD over same period last year. It's still really early in the season, but holy crap! This might just be the year I've needed to have since COVID hit...

The aroma associated with discovering a freezer has failed is the worst. 🤢🤮

Look, we *just* had an election. Can we maybe take a *short* break from the compulsive political posting? Why don’t we all try to find new hobbies for a little while?

The 1st of May, the 1st of May… outdoor nookie starts today!

Ordered something off Amazon, against my better judgement. If you’ve recently got something that had to cross the border into Canada, what’s the tariff situation like these days?

A vape pen that just releases ventalin. Can someone make that a thing so that I can be douchey *and* free breathing at the same time?