the thunder bay wonder boy

and the ultimate short bed non pickup

Greeting from cloudy Thunder Bay Ontario!

Yes dear reader, this fool has flown far from the coop and has been scribbling from the land of the sleeping giant.

I’m staying with my mother in law - fixing her roof.

Should I make some mother in law jokes?

Naw… I’ve been antagonizing her enough by making fun of her daughter’s technology choices. Her daughter, my wife is great at quilting and being a mom. But when it comes to buying computers? Well, that’s a tale for another time… Another time when she’s out of town and I can sleep wherever I damn well please.

I will say this about my wife’s tech savvy.

She buys short bus computers for our son and for a long time had herself a short bus telephone. He tastes in technology can only be described as special.

But her taste in men?

Exquisite if I so say so myself.

It’s been three sleeps that I’ve been here, immersed in the glorious odour of the pulp mill.

I’ve missed both of my children, the animals and my wife.

But today was the day I had a crushing longi…