Edmonton is all I knew growing up and I loved it! The problem, when I traveled, I realized that there was more to life than Edmonton. I often wonder if I made the right decision.
I left Edmonton for the first time after high school to work in a friend’s dad’s bar in Calgary in early my 20s. I hated it, I did not belong in Calgary and never really felt comfortable living the bar life. We would get up in the afternoon, go get all-you-can-eat pizza at Pizza Hut, and then go back to the bar almost every day.
I credit my Calgary experience for that epidemy of going back to school which helped get my life on track. I remember working with a bartender, “Downstairs Jim” as that is the bar he worked at in a two-level bar. He whittled pencils to make extra money, and we would talk about life. I remember thinking, I need to figure my life out quickly, so I do not have to whittle pencils, LOL!
Ironically, I would move back to Calgary after graduating College to start my Telecom career in 2006. This time was different, I had a career and a stable paycheck. Ironically, I would still travel back to Edmonton on the weekends instead of enjoying Calgary and Banff which I still regret to this day.
I had a great group of friends who I still keep in touch with to this day in a hockey chat.
Here are before and after pictures of them and their wives and me with duck lips at a ballgame! Under that hat, I have hair too unlike that married crew, what happened boys?
I know I piss them off but sometimes but, I do not know what I would do without them!
Cheers and Go Oilers Go!!
We grew up watching the Edmonton Oilers win five Championship in seven years. Looking back, it really screwed us over as they have not won a Championship since, and we all watch most of the game since. That is 35 years of watching losing hockey until 2006 and 2024 when they lost in game seven of the finals just to fuck with us a little bit more.
I am pretty sure we are all obsessed with Edmonton Oilers hockey even though I might be the only one to admit it. We have a friends chat that is used for a lot of games. It often goes dormant so I threw crazy shit in there often.
Everyone in there played hockey so it is like bringing a knife to a fun fight!
Since the Oilers have sucked for so long, we have had a bit more fun the last several years. I created a goal song that stuck as I wrote in the Bohol blog but it deserves another share here. Make sure you check out the Bohol story as there are three more hockey clips by young kiddos on the beach.
Here are the three that I created in Mexico with the first one making the cut and the others well, not so much! LOL
Like Johnny Fever, I just kept getting better with alcohol! I loved that show and as God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly, LOL.
I actually thought about moving back part-time in 2019 when I met an old friend. It never worked out but a good experience for me to tell that I would not be happy in Edmonton. I am sure people die in minutes in the cold weather and drowning.
I will just take my chances with a margarita!
