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19:29, 6 September 2025 RooK talk contribs moved page 2025.06.25 If Not Stupid, Then Why Stupid-Shaped? to 2025.08.15 If Not Stupid, Then Why Stupid-Shaped?
19:27, 6 September 2025 RooK talk contribs created page 2025.06.25 If Not Stupid, Then Why Stupid-Shaped? (Created page with "category:2025 Rant Seriously, there is so much political stupidity going on. ETA: Examples? Hell no. It would be like admitting a vampire into your home to post anything like a meaningful set. If there is permitted to be accurate news and history recorded of this era, simple searches will reveal enough to explain. ")
20:30, 25 June 2025 RooK talk contribs created page 2025.06.25 Corporate Culture (Created page with "category:2025 Rant Big changes at work. Not going to talk about that overly much - it's too boring to even write out. BUT. An aspect I find interesting is who is excited about these major changes, and who is worried about them. Now, obviously, both reactions are simultaneously valid and possible. I feel both myself. But whether the excitement is more important compared to the various individual level of concern does speak t...")
20:29, 14 June 2025 RooK talk contribs created page 2025.06.14 Head Down, Staying Quiet (Created page with "category:2025 Rant Today there is a multitude of public gatherings around Portland, along with the rest of the USA, to decry "NO KINGS" on this day that Trump has coopted the military's questionable anniversary to be a giant parade for his birthday. All in the wake of weeks of skewing-totalitarian actions from federal departments, most notably ICE agents violating people's rights and subsequent violations of the rule of law to dep...")
19:53, 1 June 2025 RooK talk contribs created page 2025.06.01 Puppies And Motivations (Created page with "category:2025 Rant http://www.kvankii.com/gallery/IMG_5323_copy.png Say hello to Bergiet, our 9-week-old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy. She's small, bitey, friendly, and has unfathomable charisma in person. I really should be spending this post writing a MSDS for cuteness, in case it is actually possible to get lethal exposure. The one down side of the Panda Shark is that house training her involves taking her outside every couple...")
21:53, 16 April 2025 RooK talk contribs created page 2025.04.16 Bandwidth (Created page with "[category:2025 Rant] How many things am I doing right now? [loses count] OK, let me re-phrase that: How many things am I actually engaging in right now? Uh, looks like 5. 1) listening into a technical staff meeting that my designs are involved in but I'm not the responsible engineer, 2) updating a related "concerns" list for the same project, 3) answering a question from a colleague, 4) considering coordinated plans with Amy...")
23:00, 6 April 2025 RooK talk contribs created page 2025.04.04 Personal Values (Created page with "category:2025 Rant We did a departmental workshop to delve into our personal values yesterday, with the purpose to see how best to harmonize as we work together towards supporting our department mission. We make the best damn trucks for a better future. It was an interesting bout of self-reflection for many folks who do not seem regularly interested in that sort of public review of internal drives. There was...")
17:27, 6 March 2025 RooK talk contribs created page 2025.03.06 Employee Appreciation Day (Created page with "category:2025 Rant Just got a breathlessly appreciative email from our chief engineer, extolling about how grateful they are to each and every one of us. I'm normally a cynical person, who nevertheless works to see the humour and bright side whenever possible. But this is especially hard to hold with equanimity in context of one of our brightest engineers being fired last week for embarrassingly stupid reasons. This is an engi...")
22:00, 9 February 2025 RooK talk contribs created page 2025.02.09 Identity (Created page with "category:2025 Rant Been having lots of thoughts and discussions about identities lately. Which naturally, fermented in my brain as contemplation about my own identity. Looking at it chronologically, it aggregates as something like this: ==smart== Early on in school, I felt accomplished and continued to feed that throughout my life. I definitely identified as smart, and still do. Which isn't to say that hasn't had some problem...")
22:15, 25 January 2025 RooK talk contribs created page 2025.01.25 Back To Adventuring In the Future (Created page with "category:2025 Rant So, Amy had to take a break from being the Dorks™ dungeon master due to fatigue, and Dave stepped up to start running us all in an AIF game. Now, clearly, I have some strong bias going on. But wow is it a fun return. I've played some AIF with Amy and the kids, which is indeed enjoyable and more suited to my general imagination. But the lower bullshit threshold for running a character in AIF is a welcome and...")
21:14, 6 January 2025 RooK talk contribs moved page 2025.01.04 Regel Iconography Lead Candidate to 2025.01.04 Rebel Iconography Lead Candidate (typo)
17:10, 4 January 2025 RooK talk contribs created page 2025.01.04 Regel Iconography Lead Candidate (Created page with "category:2025 Rant file:Roundel of the United States (1942–1943).gif Because apparently just a plain single star is too "Texas" or "Russia". ")
17:09, 4 January 2025 RooK talk contribs created page File:Roundel of the United States (1942–1943).gif
17:09, 4 January 2025 RooK talk contribs uploaded File:Roundel of the United States (1942–1943).gif
16:35, 4 January 2025 RooK talk contribs created page Category:2025 Rant (Created page with "category:rant Official year of renewing the Resistance.")
20:02, 31 December 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.12.31 VELMA (Created page with "category:2024 Rant http://www.kvankii.com/gallery/IMG_0033_copy.png http://www.kvankii.com/gallery/IMG_0034_copy.png Dealership called us back again and took off the entire 10k$ market adjustment. So, OK then. ")
20:17, 29 December 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.12.29 Wrap-Up Free Write (Created page with "category:2024 Rant A causual review of my update frequency would suggest that perhaps my heart isn't really in talking about what is going on in my world. And that's probably fair, and politically adjacent. Nevertheless, there have also been things to mention that either got edited out of existence or failed to make the jump to web publication due to other distractions. With that generalized arm-waving excuse, here are wisps of...")
00:02, 30 November 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.11.29 Planning For The Future (Created page with "category:2024 Rant =2024.11.29 Planning For The Future= Facing the reality of the rising fascist state of the US is grim. The petty combative side of me wants to goad all the conservatives - show us, motherfuckers. Make it fucking great. No excuses - you have the presidency, the House and the Senate, and an ideologically groomed Supreme Court - all 3 facets of government. Let's all learn a fucking hard lesson together. E...")
01:18, 16 November 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.11.15 Kakistocracy (Created page with "category:2024 Rant I've never felt worse about learning a new word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy ")
01:02, 6 October 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.10.05 Trumping Thought: Candidate Of The Hatefully Stupid (Created page with "category:2024 Rant A nihilistic commentary I've seen a few times describes the evolution of the Republican party as naturally leveraging hatred and fear, and fostering that by undermining reason. So that when Trump snuck up behind the Grand Old Party, in a way that they openly mocked and disregarded, they were woefully unprepared for just how successful they had been at stoking the fires of fear and hatred. Moreover, they did no...")
03:41, 17 September 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.09.16 Oldness Echo (Created page with "category:2024 Rant Had a pretty good birthday - complete with chocolate cheesecake, playing D&D with Amy, Dave, and Bonnie, playing AIF with Amy and the kids. Life is good, and all that. But embedded in all that was also a poignant little vignette of passed-on Castle-ing. Because Simon and I had on Friday a wee confrontation, where he wasn't in a headspace to hear some parenting that was based on what I felt like was an importan...")
03:31, 8 September 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.09.07 2000 km Later (Created page with "category:2024 Rant Only about 1700 km were spent in two 10-hour-long drives from PDX to deepest darkest Canuckistan, but a few hundred km were also burned up acting as chauffeur to my EV-doubting family to and from various funeral related events. So many bugs. Ghost is filthy enough that I think I'll take him through an automated car wash before I do a regular wash with hose and bucket and shop vac. And I sure am not constitutio...")
05:26, 3 September 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.09.02 Angst About Going To Grandpa K's Funeral (Created page with "category:2024 Rant I got called last Wednesday by mom - basically only ever happens when death is involved. Which would be extremely creepy, and possibly an explanation for why I ended up married to a vampire, but it's really more of an expression of my mom's particular ilk of mental illness. Is it mental illness, though, if she's happy and always functioned this way? Anyway. It was to tell me that my Grandpa Kosiancic's interm...")
05:03, 25 August 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.08.24 Summer Event Horizon (Created page with "category:2024 Rant It's been a busy-lazy summer, full of bike rides, RPG's, reading books, eating good food, house and yard projects. Somehow in between weeks of kid time and all their associated lounging play, I've also been scrambling with odd weeks of working while truck projects get complicated. But this next week the kids go back to school. Hopefully the kids and I will sneak in another mostly-quiet bike ride up at Sandy Ri...")
02:16, 28 July 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.07.27 Soundtrack of My Grief Processing (Created page with "category:2024 Rant [https://youtu.be/P-cjWvUnPtg?si=QVPZf0tUxk7Ibxah My Pet Coelacanth - deadmau5] https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/coelacanth-full-color.jpg ")
04:56, 24 July 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.07.23 Goodbye Grandpa K (Created page with "category:2024 Rant http://www.kvankii.com/gallery/Kosiancic1.jpg Grandpa Kosiancic was a stubborn mean little old gnome of a man, full of laughter and caring, and my idol in most things mechanical. When my mom called this evening, I had guessed that he had died before she said anything. She's a hermit, and she only calls me in emergencies. Or, rather, in the wake of emergencies that I should know about after they've happened....")
06:08, 16 June 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.06.15 Eternal Summer (Created page with "category:2024 Rant By dint of luck and effort, I've got every week I spend with the kids this summer as vacation. Six weeks of... stuff. Hopefully lots of bike riding (and remembering to take pictures). Maybe some adventure trips. A few birthdays, with accompanying celebrations and Amy-cakes. But most importantly, a bunch of memories to savour. ")
02:21, 12 June 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.06.11 Simon's Grade-9 English Final Creative Writing Assignment (Created page with "category:2024 Rant A flash of lightning and the crack of thunder, a spark alights. The fire burns ever higher, towering above the body of a behemoth creature. The titan collapses, its legs burning away beneath it. The beast’s body slowly blackens and chars, thick scales peeling away to reveal ever more burnt flesh. The plateau that covers its back sloughs off, with trees and homes crumbling as they hit the ground. They become nothing but fuel...")
04:22, 3 June 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.06.02 How You Spend Your Days Is How You Spend Your Life (Created page with "category:2024 Rant After a week of lingering nostalgia, Amy shook me out of my incipient body dysmorphia by chortling about how I'm much better looking now. As much as I remember how it felt to be whippet-thin and with boundless endurance, I probably don't remember well how nervous I was all the time nor how fragile my ego was. Plus Amy has similar pictures of her elfin bearing, but she is wildly more attractive now with her ful...")
04:25, 29 May 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.05.27 Hello From The 90's (Created page with "category:2024 Rant http://www.kvankii.com/gallery/IMG_4957-small.png In the midst of pulling the kids bikes out of storage to prep them for test rides I also pulled out my dad's old Forest Service backpack, in which I appear to have stashed a bunch of old photos. Man, there went a whole day full of sweet and sad reminiscences. ")
22:14, 18 May 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.05.04 Awkward Moments Plumb Local Socialization (Created page with "category:2024 Rant I had to pause before opening up my ship to this port, so I could collect myself. To hold onto all the things I've learned about myself, and consciously recognize the truth of them. Because this is a hard place to be: the place I'm originally from. And they think they know me here. It's awfully easy to become what other people tell you that you are, and it very rarely serves you well. Grey light from overca...")
04:28, 16 April 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.04.15 A Specific Walk (Created page with "category:2024 Rant I walked into a meeting room last week, and was met with an uproar from the array of faces on the screen as well as in the room. "I knew it was Clayton! I could tell from his walk." Obviously, the frosted glass in the front of the room by the door showed a silhouette of my approach, but not enough to make out my face. With my standard smug dad-grin, I sat down without saying anything. And the meeting began...")
00:45, 19 March 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.03.17 Mexican Reflections (Created page with "category:2024 Rant A trip to our plant in Saltillo Mexico earlier this month was quite interesting. The first thing to mention is that this was not my first trip to one of our Mexican manufacturing plants. Last time, the visit to Santiago involved staying in Mexico city - an urban area with the same population as Canada. That was interesting in its own way. This time involved being in northern Mexico, and it's possible that nee...")
04:55, 26 February 2024 RooK talk contribs created page 2024.02.25 Is That What I Looked Like? (Created page with "category:2024 Rant University student ID 1993: http://www.kvankii.com/gallery/IMG_4850_small.png University graduation yearbook 1999: http://www.kvankii.com/gallery/IMG_4851_small.png New engineer ID 2000: http://www.kvankii.com/gallery/IMG_4852_small.png Terrified Canadian engineer suddenly employed in the United States 2002: http://www.kvankii.com/gallery/IMG_4853_small.png Resigned Canadian engineer with a f...")
02:34, 6 March 2021 RooK talk contribs moved page 2020.10.31 Gun Saftey to 2020.10.31 Gun Safety (speeling)
02:39, 13 December 2020 RooK talk contribs moved page 2020.11.13 - United States of Assholes to 2020.11.13 United States of Assholes (formatting)
16:16, 24 May 2020 RooK talk contribs moved page 2020.04.25 Pandemic Ponderings 4 to 2020.05.24 Pandemic Ponderings 4
03:23, 31 March 2020 RooK talk contribs moved page 1: The Separation to 1: The Separation & Divorce
18:27, 7 March 2020 RooK talk contribs moved page Cusp to CUSP
06:07, 6 February 2020 RooK talk contribs uploaded File:IMG 9919.JPG (forsaken beloved)
19:45, 18 November 2019 RooK talk contribs uploaded File:Tianmen mountain.png
04:45, 27 September 2019 RooK talk contribs moved page 2:10 The NP to 2:10 The Nurse
11:52, 9 September 2019 RooK talk contribs moved page 2:7 NSG - friendzone Part 1 to 2:07 NSG - friendzone Part 1
11:52, 9 September 2019 RooK talk contribs moved page 2:6 Polyamory Class to 2:06 Polyamory Class
11:51, 9 September 2019 RooK talk contribs moved page 2:5 The Drug Dealer to 2:05 The Drug Dealer
11:51, 9 September 2019 RooK talk contribs moved page 2:4 NSG - Fucktard to 2:04 NSG - Fucktard
11:51, 9 September 2019 RooK talk contribs moved page 2:3 NSG - Falling In Love to 2:03 NSG - Falling In Love
11:51, 9 September 2019 RooK talk contribs moved page 2:2 NSG - First Date: Through The Looking Glass to 2:02 NSG - First Date: Through The Looking Glass
11:50, 9 September 2019 RooK talk contribs moved page 2:1 First there was T to 2:01 First there was T
11:23, 9 September 2019 RooK talk contribs moved page 1.1 First there was T to 2:1 First there was T

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