There are things in life that are certain. Paying taxes, dying, and me making a fool of myself. Now while I was hoping my life of misfortune events stayed behind in Canada, I always seem to even surprise myself at how it’s possible to turn a simple everyday task into the longest possible nightmare imaginable.

In my last post, I described my final days at HOK. I guess I never mentioned where I went because I didn’t really think it mattered because I am just a personality on the Internet. But I moved to England.

I had been thinking that this move really was my chance to kind of grow up, or as my …

(Apparently it is needed to have a check-in next to the police)

If you didn’t notice by my Washington, D.C. post, I went to New York again. I’m not important enough to have any reason to go there other than vacation. So one could probably assume I’ll probably move there at some point in my life. Now I’m not going to give you every reason why I like it there so much, but one of them really is the people of New York.

For all of the hype that I write about Toronto, I have to admit the people here really are the ‘glass half empty’ type. Always ready to criticize, but when …

Today is a big day at HOK. It’s the day we celebrate our offices to the north: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Toronto, as we celebrate Canada Day. If you’re new to the office or visiting today, you would have noticed the Canadian flag displayed outside of the various HOK offices, and the reason why everyone is wearing red and white — it is customary to wish anyone wearing red a Happy Canada Day. As we at HOK celebrate all of our offices, and the wide range of locales they may be in, I myself can’t wait for the American Independence Day. Especially because we have been granted the day off to …