Want the TL:DR version? Get. Up. Earlier. I've gone through a shift over the last two years or so where I've focused in on personal development as a method to reaching goals that were once so far out of my grasp that they were more like dreams than actual, attainable statements. Most recently, I've been dipping into a period of 'optimizing' my current systems to get more out of what I'm doing. I suppose I should start by explaining that I like (read: love) a systems approach to anything. Any task, idea or event can, in my mind, have a [...]

Too often, when a celebrity falls ill, there's an outpouring of grief and warm wishes for the suffering. Something about it, though, always seems so 'tacked on' or done just because the moment presented itself. Somehow, this time, it's different. I was introduced to The Tragically Hip and by proxy, Gord Downie when I was just a little kid. My earliest memory, from a time and place I can't really describe if only to know that I was there while it happened, is dancing around with my mom while she was cleaning up our house. Bandanna around her head, I [...]

Last night, I went to the range with my lead-loving-family and broke the cherry on my new AR. Finally, after years of building guns that look and feel like AR's, I've got one of my own and had it out to punch paper. All in all, it was an awesome night where I was able to test gear, guns and have a good time - at the end of the day, that's why I go to the range. For quite a while, I've been sitting on a new-to-me AR15. A NEA-15 that I purchased out of pure happenstance. I fell [...]