Bill 44

As I mentioned a few posts ago, I really should have commented on the absurdity of Alberta's Bill 44....

Luckily a friend sent me this vid to point out the positives in the bill...

Additions to the blog

So I have been thinking of a few ideas to help myself post more than once a week.

One idea I have is to post my thoughts on some current event once a week, say Sundays.

I have noticed on a few other blogs I go to that aside from HNT there are other weekly posting, which I am going to start looking into (such as TMI Tuesdays) - though I'm not sure yet how to find out about some of them.

If anyone has other suggestions, please let me know. Usually something simple would be nice, as my life does tend to be busy.

These changes, like the Sunday Reflection, may take a couple weeks to appear as mentioned in my previous post, my laptop is in the shop for repairs and that limits my internet use (good and bad).

Please post any suggestions you have to this post :)

HNT 43 - Reliving the Stampede

Coincidence will have it that I'm in Calgary for this year's Stampede.... I'm not planning on going, but there is still 4 days left.

In honor of the Stampede, I have re-posted the pictures from last year's Stampede HNT: HNT 23 - Ride 'em Cowboy

Other factors have lead me to re-post the photos, and have yet another 'cop-out' of an HNT:
1) I'm still watermarking my photos, and will not be doing anymore for about 2 weeks because
2) My laptop is in the shop for repairs (under warranty, good thing I got the extended 3 yr warranty). The monitor started to occasionally go dark while I was working on it. All my software for adding the watermarks is on my laptop (or back at home in Edmonton) - none of my files are on the laptop though.

Happy Independance Day

A quick post to wish all those in the states that follow my blog a happy 4th of July - independance day.

HNT 42 - Canada Day HNT reprise

In the currant theme of my post, I have a short one...

more related to HNT than the last....

though much more like the last actual post....

a re-post of last year's HNT: HNT 22 - Canada Day, part deux


Interesting, I this is the 20th HNT post since last year

Canada Day 2009!

Happy Canada Day everyone.....

... I'm in the office attempting to work, to earn money to pay for school.

Therefore today's post is almost a repost of last year's post....

I have reinstated the photos on last year's post, and I now direct you to that one as my full Canada Day blog post:

http://nudecanadianboy.blogspot.com/2008/07/canada-day.html

Enjoy.

HNT 41 - Course work catch-up

Sigh, I am actually farther behind than I thought in a lot of things. Thanks in part to going back to work this week (luckily on contract so I can spend some (unpaid) time on other things).

Aside from updating my photos, I am also behind in course work. I took a course on Lego Robotics and teaching last week. It was a one week hands on course with a variety of assignments due the following Friday (aka tomorrow).

Since I am behind in the course I am posting photos from that course - yeah noting much to do with being Half-Nekkid.

First picture is of me and the lego robot (named Terrance), the second picture is of just Terrance at the end of all the competitions. (Photo 1 taken Wednesday 17 June, Photo 2 taken Friday 19 June)

HNT 40 - Coming back

I titled today's HNT 'Coming Back' for two reasons.

First I hope to be coming back to posting HNT on a more regular basis (see below regarding my photos).

Second, next week I'll be back in Calgary - where I started to post HNT, and where a number of my photos where taken. I'm back in Calgary (on Sunday night) for a seven week contract job at the company I left to return to school.

Regardint the pictures: as I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm in the middle of reorganizing my photos, and watermarking them. I have a few done, but would like to get them all done before I post them up on Flickr.

In my reorganizing I have been making copies where my face is blurred, and some where my crotch is blocked out - both to allow for other places to have the pics posted.

Here are a few:

1) From Underwear Modeling 1: Taken September 2002, in Calgary, Alberta.
This is from my first 'set' of photos. I was playing around with my digital 8 video camera, and the digital picture setting to get these photos.


2) Taken 30 July 2008, in Calgary, Alberta.
This photo was taken when I was moving out of my apartment in Calgary last year. I had moved all my belongings into storage and spent the last week 'urban camping.' The photo was taken with my digital camera, with the remote I believe.


3) Taken 11 August 2008, in Calgary, Alberta.
When I get around to updating the photos else where on this blog, this photo will be on another HNT - of me leaving Calgary. This was a few days before I left Calgary for Edmonton, and is in Nose Hill Park, over looking downtown Calgary. Between the cool weather that day, the openess of the location, and the people around, I did not strip all the way (my shorts are around my ankles and cropped out).

Birds and the Bees (and other stuff)

I'm afraid of bees, and anything that looks like a bee: wasps, hornets, etc.
When I was looking at buying my house back in late August, I noticed these creatures (I'll call them bees, even though they might have been wasps), coming and going from part of the siding in the back. Part of the negotiations on the house was that the bees would be gone.
This spring I have noticed a few bees around the same places. I'm not sure if they are exploring or moving back in, or never really left.
Today while I was sweeping my back deck, a bee (actually a wasp I think) started to buzz around where I was.
I moved away as calm as I could - a good 3 meters away is, to me, a safe distance.
There are 3 ways to get onto my back deck: 1) from the kitchen, 2) from the den (or what is currently my bedroom), 3) stairs to the back yard.
The bee was exploring the door frames, so I was closer to the stairs, watching the bee.
It then decided to come closer to me, so I moved rapidly down the stairs.
With my adrenaline going, I had heightened senses, and so I came to an abrupt stop when I heard a magpie squawk.
I turned and saw a baby magpie.
If you don't know anything about magpies, they can be vicious birds. I've seen them chase down and attack cats!
So, when I saw the baby bird I moved quickly away from both the bird, and where I last saw the bee.

That is my story of the birds and the bees.....

.... now onto the other stuff....

If you've followed this blog at all, you'd know that life has been keeping my busy - mostly school.
Well, my other free time in the past month has been spent with a great guy I met. We met online a while ago, but only started seeing each other a month ago.

Some of my personal relaxation time, while watching t.v., has been fully organizing my photos for here and Flickr. I hope to have them done in a few weeks, then I might start posting HNT posts again.

Recently I have been meaning to write a few other posts in relation to current events and things in my life, such as one on Bill 44 (a piece of Alberta Legislature that was passed - the main points of it I was going to - and may still - comment on had to do with a) gay rights and b) teaching sex and religion - the most controversial part), as well as various other thoughts that have come to mind, like when someone asked me the other day; "are you happy, both in this moment and in life?" - My reply was: "I've been too busy of late to think about whether I'm happy - in life"

I guess it's time to stop and smell the flowers, just hopefully the ones without birds or bees.

Links

I have added a few links to the side.

There are now links to:
1) some of my profiles (which need to be updated)
2) blogs I follow / favourites (when I've got the time)
3) list of sites I had in my bookmarks

At somepoint I will be adding a few more categories of links - such as nudist sites, art, comics/humor, etc