Is the National benefit authority a scam that targets the handicapped with tax fraud? It appears so.

There are ads and websites out there for an organization called the National benefit authority which claims to be able to provide you with up to $50,000 for disabilities. Their sources are listed as various government grants, credits and vague descriptions of free money in unclaimed government programs. They claimed to be able to deliver [...]

Bet you never thought you’d be so interested in sewer videos… Free cleaning by City of Edmonton!

Well my mother decided she would come out and visit me from Victoria for a few days to meet the new cat and celebrate me passing my journeyman exams. That means I’m pretty tied up this weekend, but I did find a colour DVD video inspection of my sewer line from when I bought this [...]

Local Business Profile: Bohemia Cafe (ArtMuzak!) Epic, Chill, Indie Venue

Bohemia Cafe @ 10575 114st I bought a Livingsocial coupon for this place ages ago and just now got around to going in for my discounted food and drinks. Turns out they make a pretty mean sammich, (yes, sammich) and serve excellent coffee (Catfish Coffee from right here in town). They’re very homey and comfortable, [...]

Online dating via Plenty of Fish: Forget about it

Well kind of a ranty personal thing going on today. I’ve been out of the e-dating scene for a while and a friend got me into POF (plenty of fish). I gave it a good month experiment and my experiences led me to write a facebook note that ended up getting a lot more support [...]

Local Business Profile: Off The Grid Renewable Energy Power Systems

Randal Benson operates Off The Grid Renewable Energy Systems. He is a master electrician who instructs courses in Photovoltaic theory and solar generation system installations at the Electrical Industry Training Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. He not only designs systems but also standards for those systems to be adopted by jurisdictions nationwide.  He’s known in the [...]

Cara’s Epic Bokashi Compost: Easy and Amazing

   Cara is one of the participants in my Bokashi Experiment, her family of 5 filled a bokashi bin within about a week and a half and now uses two buckets. The first one has been sitting, has compressed as it breaks down and had more food added and has turned into amazing compost! The [...]

A taste of summer: Classic car meets @ A&W!

Well we are about to burst into spring, or maybe crawl into it. It’s been dark and snowy and cold for months and we need a little brightening up! I go to a lot of car meets, usually with imports but I dig classics & muscle too. The most interesting part to me is the [...]

ADHD Life: Just managed to sit through a very challenging 4 hour exam

While at the AIT (Alberta Industry Training) testing centre on Friday for my interprovincial license exam I met a couple other people. One girl has the entire exam on CD to listen to on earphones which I found pretty interesting. I draw pictures for most of the problems. I wasn’t able to use all of [...]

Are we becoming twitterized? We should watch out how deeply infected we are by the 140 character addiction.

Sometimes a tiny event happens and triggers a whole massive chain of thoughts and ideas about some particular subject. This girl Acacia just triggered one such mental avalanche for me! Are we really seeing our social interaction change into 2 sentence blips for people to simply acknowledge rather than meaningfully interact or take action based [...]

Why Unions are better, and worse for apprentices. We need to own up and fix some stuff!

I’m a journeyman electrician! I passed my branch today and will write my inter-provincial this week. I’ve worked in lots of different areas of the province (and in BC from time to time) across many segments of the electrical service and construction industry. This included time both in the non Union and the Unionized workforce [...]

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