lokiscoyote

Today's post brought to you by hockey commentators at the Olympics. Have you been watching Olympic hockey and wondered what a "toe-drag" is or been at a game and overheard a Canadian say, "oh beaut dipsy-doodle eh?" Well I'm here to help. I've compiled a list of common but not technical hockey terms that announcers never explain.

Chirp - Trash talking

Dangle - This is...
Read More

I'm feeling very worthless because I'm unable to help the people I love. I hate things that are beyond my control. That might be a rather immature attitude, but at 35 years old, I can't imagine it will ever change.

My friend, my lover my everything, but yet we are still in limbo. We fight like a couple, we support each other like a couple, but I haven't seen her in over a year. We talk daily on the phone, in fact I spend hours with her on the phone. Taking the next step isn't easy. My finances are a mess due to under-employment, medical...
Read More

My mother has been coughing up blood for the last week. She has an appointment with the doctor on Wednesday. She smoked for almost 30 years quit a few years before my dad was diagnosed with his cancer, then started smoking again shortly before he died. She's been an on again off again smoker ever since. I'm scared. I don't think I can watch yet...
Read More

I wrote this for a competition on a video game website. The game is Star Citizen if you follow those kinds of things, the game is still in development, but many of us followers have found we have a bit of an addiction to buying ships for this in production game. A video blogger was looking for entries to read for her videos about said...
Read More

I can't sleep and for whatever reason "All Along the Watchtower" has been stuck in my head and I decided to to do a little research. I came across this critique of it,

"That whole artistic mystique is one of the great traps of this business, because down that road lies unintelligibility. Dylan has a lot to answer for there, because after a while he...
Read More

I'm going to the Leafs game here in Dallas tonight. I hope they can extend their winning streak and make it seven straight. Maybe Phil will get a hat trick to round out the evening for me.

Hope you all have a good night.

Things have been rough the last month or so, between the anniversary of my father's passing, turning 35, my parents anniversary, and the holidays it feels like it's been constant where there has been something going on. Amid all of this I haven't been sleeping, which spiraled into my not exercising or eating right with the holidays. So I currently feel like crap. I feel...
Read More

It's the third anniversary of my father's passing. It seems like every time Nov. 21 rolls around, I'm saying goodbye to him anew. I miss him, I always will and I think I've come to terms with that, but I still hurt, my mom still hurts so very much and I can't seem to help her.

Take sometime today and love those you are close...
Read More

Today on the way to the hospital to visit my grandmother, we were rear ended. We are ok and that is good, but my mom's car is pretty damaged. I feel beaten in all honesty, I would just for once like to catch a break.

I took this picture earlier as I made a mock up of the tattoo I had hoped to get in...
Read More

Are we meant to live for the happiness of others or our own happiness? I've been wrestling with this question for a very long time. Of course the simple answer is - both. We are meant to find balance, but balance is never simple, the impulses to be selfish or selfless can both be very attractive and often one wins out over the other. So...
Read More

We had to take my grandmother to the hospital yesterday. She hasn't been feeling well, but yesterday afternoon she blacked out twice. We still do not know what is wrong with her. While I don't like to see her in pain or suffering, I do not have a lot of sympathy for her. She told me shortly after my father died, that he wasn't a...
Read More