Tales from The Sidequest Inn

Picture a board game where you play against friends and family the way they are as people. These folks all around you are a lot more interesting than you realize, and you can get some idea of this after a few rounds of Turnabout! Every game is different. Every outcome is wild! I never thought board games were fun, so I made a fun one called Turnabout. Let me carefully expand on that by saying it is not the anti-board game. Turnabout is the ultimate board game. It’s a bold statement, but I stand behind it as true, or I would not have published Turnabout. It is flawed, but it does not have any of the built-in flaws that make it no fun to play. You can play it and find out all the faults. Speculatively, you can resolve these faults and make that resolution canon around your dining room table. That’s FUN. What isn’t fun is a rigged situation that is just waiting for one lucky player to reach the club, which they will then use to punish the other players with for the rest of the game, h...

Protip: Don't let the ease of registering your business with your province fool you: name your business, click, click, click, pay $60, here is your certificate. Protip #2: It appears that in the process of building your business, no one at any point ever will ask you for this provincial number. It is the FEDERAL number that you need. For everything. Brilliant. The federal registration has proven to be far more necessary and far more challenging. Not because of the forms, the paperwork or even the government instructions in english and en francais. There isn't even a charge for this service. Allow me to explain... You are teased into thinking that if you register online, they will issue your business number immediately from all advice you will find anywhere on the internet. This may be true. However, there is a verification process that will not me to register by this method. It claims that I may, possibly, perhaps already have such a number and that I should use the pho...

 Welcome to the Sidequest Inn! Here is the first tale told by me (james@sidequester.ca) Selling things has not always come naturally to me.  My personality will skew towards being introverted but in a direct contradiction, I am not uncomfortable speaking in front of strangers.  Sales always had this feeling of "nuisance" to me.  I never believed that the value of any item that I was trying to sell would exceed the amount of annoyance that I was placing on the prospective buyer.  The good feeling of "the sell" was exceeded by my feeling of being glad that the pitch was finished.  The wilder the claims about the product, the less likely I was inclined to portray that I believed them myself. It might come as a bit of a surprise that I have had experiences working as a door-to-door salesman, a bill collector, a telemarketing sales agent, a food server and bartender with upselling requirements, amongst others.  If I converted a sale, it was mostly because I...