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  • 1000 Likes / 101 posts

    I guess my coworkers like me… (You to can get fancy achievement badges if you post lots, or take orders, or get followers. Or get post Streaks.) This will post will be number 101 on this blog. Not bad considering this site address (dougaitken.wordpress.com) originally was created on Dec 1st 2007 and I hardly used…

  • Balgay Pavilion

    Playing Ingress and Pokémon GO, I end up finding out about interesting historical things that otherwise I wouldn’t know about. The tagline from the start of Ingress was “It’s time to move”. Telling you that you had to physically find the places in the game. Now, there can be some utter nonsense submitted as Portals,…

  • 10th November

    …2010. It had been about 16 months since my Papa passed, Gran was in an old folk home not far from us and we knew her health was going downhill. She passed about 3.30pm, then 3 hours we heard that my step gran’s husband had passed as well. Double whammy, eh? The next week or…

  • Today You Are Four

    Happy birthday my son.

  • Annual GM badge & swag photo

    Third time for the “I can’t believe this is my job” post. We have a ton of inclusion type pin badges this year, I went simple with the basics. Yes, that is a branded hotel room key…and I’m happy the data was pulled early for badges since my JPOP rotation ended at the start of…

  • Going viral on Twitter

    Going viral on Twitter.

  • Build the track tracks now!

    Build the train track now!

  • Timehop backdating

    Timehop backdating

  • Upping our recycling game

    Upping our recycling game

  • The Final Struggle

    The Final Struggle