Well, Grandma Was a Christian

I’ve worked a lot of jobs in my lifetime. From grave digging, to brick and block laborer, farm worker, to factory worker, to warehouse worker, to painter, to ditch digger, to leaky basement laborer, to ski lift operator, to worker in the water well drilling industry. But the one job I really dreaded heading out…

Genuine

Recently I was studying the most recent Canadian $10 bill and was amazed by all the security features. As counterfeiters are getting more sophisticated and high tech, the Bank of Canada works to keep ahead of them with security features that are becoming harder to counterfeit. To check what a genuine $10 bill is like,…

Taxes and More

The end of April each year can best be described as a high and a low for myself. On a high note, the last Saturday my favorite trail race is held, the 50k Pick Your Poison. On a low note, income tax filing is due at the end of each April. It is something I…

The Man Who Cheated Death Twice

Tsutomu Yamaguchi’s claim to fame is quite unusual. He cheated death twice. On August 6, 1945 as a 29 year old engineer he was on a business trip for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Hiroshima Japan.  That day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city killing 80,000 people. With burns to the upper…