Year: 2019
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When Ethical Issues Hit Home (Specifically, The Family Room)
I love Netflix’s service. I’ve been a customer since they became available in Canada. The service is cheap, fast, and has increasingly delivered very high quality original content. Renee loves to watch Korean drama. I love to watch zombie shows. When Netflix came out with Kingdom (a Korean zombie drama), we finally found a show that…
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Want to Fly to Alberta on the Cheap?
Heavily Photoshopped Picture I Took at Moraine Lake, AB Before we had kids, in 2008, we drove all the way to Victoria, BC in a rental van and had a blast. Driving across the country had always been a dream for me, and 9 years later, we drove to the other end of the country,…
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Goodbye, 阿婆 (Grandma)!
A few of you know that I’m currently in Hong Kong to say my last goodbye to my grandmother. She passed away on May 2. This post is part trip journal and part tribute to her. 阿婆 On Our Wedding Day, August 5, 2006 April 28, 2019 I’m 30,000 ft in the air as I…
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Autonomous Driving is (Almost) Here!
My Model 3 Driving Itself About 2.5 years ago, Tesla posted a video of a self-driving Model X. It completely blew my mind! You can see it in my old post about autonomous driving. Elon Musk then promised an autonomous cross country trip by the end of 2017. That year came and went and then another…
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What Did Jesus Write in the Sand?
Just this past Sunday, we heard the famous gospel passage of John 8:1-11, where the scribes and Pharisees brought to Jesus a woman who was accused of committing adultery, asking Him what they should do with her. Jesus responds by saying, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw…
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2018: A Year in Review – Part II: Building My Car Rental Empire
Read Further to See How I Can Afford This Thing! In my last post, I talked about the family and what we were up to in 2018. Today’s post is about money. As most of you will agree, raising a family requires a lot of resources, and money is definitely one of the important ones. …
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2018: A Year in Review – Part I
Hope You Had a Merry Christmas! It seems like I’ve settled on writing once every few months, and sometimes in bursts. Life, as a father of five, as you can imagine, is busy, but that’s no excuse for not getting things done. As the saying goes, “if you want to get something done, ask a…
Trickling Sand 