It's not all Americans who book a Newfoundland Food Tour when they're in Saint John, New Brunswick... but it's always an American.

If someone had the skills and an entrepreneurial spirit, I'd suggest becoming a cobbler and opening your own shop. The two we have in St. John's can't keep up with demand. Meanwhile we have about 86 coffee shops and bakeries with more coming.

It's so odd to me that people book a vacation, book outings, and then be completely unreachable to the people they booked with.

Name a non LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

Name a non LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

Which ticket do you feel better about? A) $32.97 with $0 delivery fee & order charge or B) $26.56 plus $3.91 processing fee & $2.50 service fee? They both come out the same on the credit card but I know which one makes me feel better.

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

It seems the local Marriott and Doubletree are not allowed to display rack cards or advertising for local tourism businesses (even the gov org's tourist map & guide) because it goes against corporate design standards or something. Rack cards can be given to hotel guests but only if they ask first :\

It is diabolical that the premier of Ontario can just force the city of Toronto to remove bike lanes.

I need Ernie Clement and Brett Bateman to start in a 90s-style buddy movie. Maybe they miss the flight to Cleveland and have to planes, trains, and automobile it there. Cameo by Davis Schneider’s moustache.

Needed something for work. Local Walmart said they had it in stock. I ordered it Wednesday for same day pick-up. Joke's on me. They're shipping it from Mississauga and I'll get it next Saturday. Ugh.

Thanks to me being a pack rat and keeping ticket stubs and baseball-reference.com for keeping all the stats I just realized today that Darrin Fletcher was the home team catcher at both my first Expos game in 1993 and my first Blue Jays game in 1998. Both teams won their games 3-1.

If you're a gluten-free vegan, why oh why would you book a food tour? I hope they at least understand that nothing they'll be served is our normal tour food and not connected to our stories but they'll be fed.

If I ever come into a big windfall of money, I'm going to pay someone to make dinner decisions for me. One of the worst parts of adulting (aside from having 5 kinds of insurance) is having to decide each day what I'm going to eat. I know Hello Fresh and Factor exist but not sustainable right now.

Technically, "Mark Carney" is an oxymoron

Cleaned out a junk drawer last night and found, among other things: a ticket to the Jays vs White Sox from 2016, a Samsung flip phone, 16 pens, 4 power banks, 2 Fitbits, a Valentine's card from my mom to my dad, my boarding pass from a flight to Japan in 2012, and an iPad2. Why am I like this?

About to purchase my 6th vehicle and never before have I researched where my car was assembled. This time I just wanted to make sure it wasn't the USA.

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · last mo.

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

Moving Andrea Barbour out of the tourism portfolio was a good move…but to make her Environment Minister tells me just what the PCs actually think of the environment. 🤦‍♀️

Even libraries are struggling with this current housing crisis... vocm.com/2026/08/17/3...

In Limbo: Michael Donovan Library Homeless After RFP Fails to Gain Interest

The vice-chair of the advisory group Friends of St. John's Public Library is disappointed that no solution has...

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Just watched my Gen Z neighbour drive away without noticing that there's a big yellow ticket on her windshield. 🤦‍♀️ That doesn't bode well.

“Daddy Snacks” just took the baby seat off his bike and I must now acknowledge the cruel march of time.

Midweek holiday + summer Fridays off = super productive Thursday or mentally absent Thursday? We'll find out tomorrow.

And speaking of saxophones, what was with that brief swing revival in the 90s? Was it all because of a Gap commercial?

Potentially unpopular opinion but we need to bring back sax solos in pop songs.

Cody, drops a truth bomb - "The cyclist’s sin is not that they slowed you down. Their sin is that they demonstrated the trip could be made without the two-ton machine, in front of witnesses." #yycbike medium.com/@cody.little...

We Don’t Have a Culture of Convenience in North America. We Have a CULT of Convenience.

And you can tell the difference by what happens when you question it.

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Is this a midlife crisis? Asking for a friend.

If you don't eat meat, why on earth would you book a food tour but not let them know in advance that you have dietary restrictions? Make it make sense... do most tours not pre-order their food?

The venue owner last night really said “stage lights? Never heard of ‘em”. 😆 The stage lighting for Joey McIntyre was two work lights. What an odd spot (small industrial building in East York) but what a special show.

Came to Toronto for a show (solo gig by a New Kid on the Block) and wound up sitting next to another person from St. John’s. What are the odds?