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Pretty

I gotta know.....that I'm more than just a waste of time

About Me

4 years in the North, creepin on 30 but now in management with the GNWT.....pretty sweet. Career is good, marriage is better (Gale's great by the way), homeownership is....stressful but beneficial.The music is going fairly strong, hoping to have about 30 tunes recordable so I can pick the best 8-10 for release, hopefully before 08 or 09. But career/life may get in the wayIt is seriously time for it to warm up here........

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I've met enough/now i need to catch up on old times/ whetever happened to everyone/the grade 8 crushes the high school bullies/CONCERT BAND.....HELLO???/

Music:

The Ipod got me back into current music after a couple of years rediscovering Springsteen/Costello/The Band (still love it all). Listening to lots of Sufjan Stevens, New Pornographers, the Hold Steady, CBC Radio 3 podcast is a weekly must.

Movies:

"I get window from a glass, he must get window from a glass. I get a step, he get a step. I get a clock-radio, he cannot afford. Great success". Can't wait for Spidey 3 in IMAX when I hit Calgary in May.

Television:

Sadly, my schedule consists of the NFL Network, and news from home. This 3.5 hour time difference means the wacky fanacky Sterling psychosis plays in prime time out here.

Books:

Anything from Newfoundland. Michael Winter's The Big Why was elegant, and reading Kenneth J. Harvey's Inside was like being punched in the fac repeatedly....and I mean that in the best way possible. I have never felt so INSIDE a literary character in my life.

Heroes:

I much prefer the heroes i meet every day. The guys working their guts out in the West to feed their families back home are my heroes. Its easy to sit and whine about things - but the oil sands guys and the fly in diamond miners are throwbacks to the real Newfoundlanders, the guys who built the Eastern Seaboard rather than suffering the perils of "poverty by homesickness".

My Blog

Quick Hits

1.  If you're in Puerto Plata, watch the jalapenos and keep your hands clean......Sunday was not pretty. 2.  Why do we say "April month"?  3.  Wrestlemania was last night, when I ...
Posted by Pretty on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:59:00 PST

10 things to do before 40, because I couldn't before 30

Ah....the joys of aging.  Time to take stock.  I'll be 30 in a few weeks, and while my 20s were certainly productive - get degree, marry wife, get second degree, get cat, move up North, buy ...
Posted by Pretty on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:26:00 PST

Where are the good workers????

I'm starting to think the real shortage in the labour market is in skilled writer/researchers......instant messaging is destroying the English language. You'd think someone who applies for a job of "a...
Posted by Pretty on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:26:00 PST

"in fact its cold as hell......."

Don't get me wrong, Yellowknife IS the kind of place to raise your kids.  Easy access at a great hospital, an amazing student grants program for post-secondary if you grow up here, tons of facili...
Posted by Pretty on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:27:00 PST

Great way to meet old friends

Can't believe i looked up Iggy on here......sorry, its Drew now....I suppose the 13 year old nicknames should all be forgotten, even if I still get "Prettio Video" on occassion. If anyone reads this a...
Posted by Pretty on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:23:00 PST

What a turd of a SB XLI

The game sucked yesterday.....why?  Rain, fumbles, no Redskins..... Prince kicked my ass though......Stacey was right the GND should have done Purple Rain.......
Posted by Pretty on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:33:00 PST

Lets Give this a shot

Trying the myspace thing.....creepin on 30 and starting to wonder where everyone ended up........ Me i'm in the Knife, working but still wanting to try the music thing......working on the long awaited...
Posted by Pretty on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:09:00 PST