Jim's Blog

It's been a long time since I typed an entry into this blog. I guess that happened for many reasons, not least was because I wasn't sure that I wanted to read back what it was that I was thinking. There have been a lot of changes in my life the past three years. Some that have made me happy beyond what I thought possible, and some that have brought me to my knees in pain. But that is life. And it goes on.

I'm looking forward to putting up more thoughts here as the days go by. Stay tuned.

I keep hearing and seeing lately the phrase "he/she gets it". Now what "it" is doesn't necessarily matter here becasue I have seen this used in many contexts. Nor does who he or she is, because it applies accross a wide swath of individuals. So what the heck is this all about and what does it mean.

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Grandparents are always full of wisdom. They don't always offer it up freely, but they learn a lot having lived through so much. These is a woefully incomplete list of the things that my Grandparents taught me. Some are things that they said, and some are things that they did. My Grandparents were not ones to pontificate freely upon matters very often, so you had to be observant to learn sometimes.

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Travelling on holidays, and more specifically getting out of Saskatoon on a semi-regular basis made me realize that I really like getting out of the city. When I was looking to buy my house I had almost purchased one out at Pike Lake, but that didn't happen after I realized I didn't like the thought of driving 30 minutes each morning and evening. And with the coaching load that I now have it would not have allowed me to do the things that I now do.

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I have updated the pictures page with the pictures from this last weekends trip. The link is the same as last week so just go there and see the whole lot. Enjoy

    I'm not sure if I necessarily got what I was looking for when I decided to travel around to all of the places that I had lived over the last 38-ish years (I didn't hit up Moosimin as I don't actually recall anything of the time I spent there). But I probably got what I needed.

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