Steve Patterson

Just realized that the Lottomax lottery winner this week is from Alberta. And I bought tickets with two friends from Alberta. Whom I now can’t get a hold of. Good morning!

just stopped our 7 year old from wearing pyjamas to school on a non-pyjama day. Is there a Nobel prize for dadding?

Off to Regina today! Your envy is assumed.

I don’t mean to brag but my Air Canada app just told me that my checked bag is “expected to arrive in baggage area”. Lofty expectations.

I just voiced an ad for the new Tom Cruise movie “Digger”. So Tom and I are both hoping you’ll go see it. Thank you, Steve (and Tom)

Jesus. Say what you will about AirCanada and Westjet. But I believe they’ve kept the number of knife fights between pilots in the cabin mid flight to less than 1.

The Vikings have landed in Vancouver. They’ve probably already pillaged the closest Starbucks.

I’m always fascinated watching the floatplanes land/takeoff on the water in Vancouver. That’s it. That’s the bluesk.

One of the locals came up to say hello at my hotel on the Sunshine Coast this morning.

Morning rush hour in Kelowna.

Kelowna is a unique place. That’s it. That’s the bluesk.

I like that the Vancouver airport leaves dedicated space for unmanned Golf carts.

Time for dogs…

“Sorry for my absence America. I was dead. Lol” ~ Mitch

I accidentally took TWO of my “one-day” vitamins this morning. Might see if I can settle this trade war.

Our 12 year old daughter just taught me the password my wife set to watch shows for ages 14 plus. First week of school year is really paying off.

Pierre Poilievre:

Happy 50th to the The Muppets! The coolest quinquagenarians in the world!.

What a powerful message it would send if hundreds of thousands of Canadians suspended their subscriptions to American film streamers, if only for a month or two, in order to explore the National Film Board of Canada’s catalogue. We already own it. #ElbowsUp larrycornies.substack.com/p/lights-dow...

Before there was “mambo number 5”…

Canada Forever 🇨🇦. This is us.

I sometimes think that the reason laundry isn’t put away properly at our house in a timely manner is because my wife and daughters are procrastinators. Then I remember that I’m pretty sure there’s still laundry of mine left in the dryer of my dorm at York Universiry from 1990.

really wish USA would follow Uefa’s example…

I went to give $250 to our almost 12 year old daughter for spending money on a weeklong swimteam trip and my wife said “that’s way too much” and pocketed $50. My wife is a devious genius.

Finally got to theatre to see the latest Spiderman movie. Pretty crazy when everyone finds out that he’s Odysseus’ son Telemachus.

I just made a “Home Alone” reference to one of our show producers who for sure wasn’t born until after Macaulay Culkin had left the franchise. Way to go GenXassaurus.

No notes. I miss Gordie.

I just said “good morning” to our 6 year old and she said “stop singing. It hurts my brain!”. Those summer camp counsellors are going to earn their money today.

Our almost 12 year old daughter has taken to call me “Steve” instead of “dad”. Looking forward to settling in for the teen years.

When your 7 year old daughter paints your nails and swears it will “wash off easily”. But it doesn’t. So you just go to a work meeting anyway…

“Laurentian elite” sounds like the people who come from old pencil crayon money…

this is very, very close to just saying “everything I do will be wrong”…

We should all just get to book that private jet for a week…

My daughter didn’t finish her mini-wheats this morning and they soaked up every milliliter of milk. They should use this stuff in flood regions.

Man I hope it doesn’t turn out that Trump is his DAD…

they seem much less scary today. I think the really scary thing was the wallpaper…

Love this. Calling out the rampant rip-offs being performed from within the White House, while himself being named “Whitehouse” is perfect. I’d like Mike Myers to play him in a sketch. Oh and every time he removes his glasses, you drink. And there’s another pair of glasses underneath…

Leave it to the Swedes to break Infantino down into pieces. Not sure anyone will want to put him back together.

After seeing “The Odyssey” in theatre yesterday I really can’t wait to see what Christopher Nolan does with “The Cremation of Sam McGee”.

Happy 7th birthday to our Norah. Always ready to laugh, eager to learn, and eager to TEACH. All who’ve met her believe she’ll bypass acting and go straight into directing. She got her mom’s looks and smarts, and my impatience. She’s already asked for a car in 9 years. Don’t grow up too fast NoNo!

50% of being a dad is eating the ends of a loaf of bread.

We’re hosting a petting zoo party at our house tomorrow for a bunch of soon to be 7 year olds. Your thoughts and prayers are appreciated.

“Let’s start with the temperature in here. Everyone ok with 21 degrees celsius?”

Captain High Liner has clearly had some work done.

R-Poo-D-Poo

Me: Is this chicken in the fridge still good? My wife Nancy: I wouldn’t eat it or feed it to the girls. But you can have it. 15 years married. Life insurance up to date apparently.

Another huge opportunity at our house in Toronto today for people who like fold other families’ laundry.

I’m just a man. Watching his two daughters in their gymnastics class. Desperately wishing they would acknowledge me with a small wave or something. So the other girls in the class don’t think I’m just a man who showed up randomly to watch a girls gym class.

There are going to be a lot of very ironic posts here on “Bluesky” today…