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Adventures of the Elders

Let’s Have an Adventure!

It’s Adventure Day here at WLBOTT HQ! Adventures mean different things to different people. Let us explore. Bev, From HR Bev, from HR, wanted to challenge herself. She was determined to spend 24 hours in a batting cage, in preparation for the WLBOTT summer softball league. Introducing Elder G2 I asked Elder G and Elder […]

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Adventures of the Elders Alberta Music

2026 Mountain Sapphire World Tour

THE MOST IMPORTANT MUSICAL EVENT IN CANADIAN HISTORY™Western Canada & Select Parking Lots For Immediate Release: Elder JA and Lady R Visit Tour Bus Rental Locations Barnaby’s Budget Band Cruisers ThunderWolf Gord, salesman of the month at ThunderWolf tour bus rentals (technically their only salesman), greets the young Mountain Sapphire couple. You may remember Gord, […]

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Adventures of the Elders Late Stage Capitalism

WLBOTT Tours Amazon

[Thanks to Muse-du-Jour Elder JimZim for setting up today’s tour] In what can only be described as a meeting of equals, WLBOTT toured the Amazon distribution center in Houston, Texas. Interestingly, the Amazon tour guidelines don’t ban smoking! We only bring this up because Sally the Intern‘s emotional support javelina decided to light one up […]

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Brotherhood/Sisterhood Elder G

The Simple Life

Eat. Love. Stay warm. Try not to get eaten by wolves.Coffee with Elder G First – Happy Mothers’ Day! But then Elder G and I get into a little deeper discussion. G, why is life so complicated? We’ve gone from village life to having As Elder G puts it: WLBOTT: I think part of the […]

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Clementine DuCinema Movies

Cinema du Daikon

[ed. note: Daikon is Japanese for “big root” (大根)] WLBOTT film critic Clementine DuCinema has long bemoaned the under-representation of the daikon in modern cinema. A couple recent WLBOTT staff meetings…. We asked Elder G to fact-check Clementine’s concern: Clementine’s complaint appears to be well-founded. I can find daikon as food, daikon as culinary subject, […]

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Health, Beauty and Medicine Shameless Product Placement

Eau d’Off™

The WLBOTT staff has recently begun a new volunteer activity: blood donors for mosquitos. Mosquitoes are the unofficial state bird of Texas right now. Always looking for ways to increase shareholder value, we’ve introduced a line of high-end mosquito repellent. The mosquito perfume market is tragically underserved. Paris has ignored the great frontier for too […]

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Adventures of the Elders Meaning of Life Vatican City

A John 14 Moment

At WLBOTT, we enjoy a variety of religious experiences. For the most part, as long as our primary allegiance is to twine and shareholder value, we encourage our flock to seek their own path to truth. A few exceptions apply: we find dogmatic atheists and evangelical, magaT Christians to be equally tedious and stultifying[1]. And […]

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Adventures of the Elders Canada

Where’s Elder JA?

Lady R, Elder JA‘s better half, now has a new tool at her disposal to track down JA. Just follow the tube! To help JA keep his tubing organized, Lady R put her knitting skills to work. They enjoy going on walks together, especially the three week spring-summer-fall when visiting Yellow Knife. On this day, […]

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Adventures of the Elders

O2 and Bonus N2

One of our Elders, Elder JA, recently came into possession of an oxygen concentrator. An oxygen concentrator is a device that concentrates the oxygen from a gas supply (typically ambient air) by selectively removing nitrogen to supply an oxygen-enriched product gas stream. They are used industrially, to provide supplemental oxygen at high altitudes, and as […]

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The Long Game

WLBOTT is all about The Long Game. The Long Game is a quiet rebellion against urgency, or possibly just another reason not to get off the couch. We’ve tasked a team of unpaid researchers to examine our position 250 million years in the future, where the continents have re-merged into Pangaea Proxima. To increase shareholder […]