Patricia Joan Scott (nee Stephen) June 10th, 1940 – May 16th, 2019 After battling many health issues over the past two years, my mom passed away. I have some blog readers that are acquainted with the family – although probably most of you may know already. She suffered an inoperable hemorrhagic stroke on Tuesday morning …
I’m at a time of my life when I’m realizing that sitting on some good stuff, but never using it, no matter how attached or the hopes of the past, it could be of more value to someone else. For many years, I built custom fishing rods and only used the very best components that …
Fly Fishing/Fly Tying Gear & Cork Rings For Sale Read More »
People who support Greta Thunberg and think of her as an inspiration are idiots. Look, I feel sorry for the girl, actually – what she is going through in her mind, must be horrible. Being taught the nonsense that she’s been taught, while those around her accept her “sense” that she can actually “see” CO2. …
Back in the mid 1980’s, I knew Margaret McWilliam through my wife at the time. They had both gone to Kemptville Agricultural College at the same time and studied in the same program. After they graduated, and Angela moved back to the Toronto area, Margaret and Angela kept in touch. Although I did not know …
In the earlier post, I wrote about some of my first memories and some ideas about memory. I pointed out that memories can be a peculiar thing. I’ll take that a bit further while discussing some of the most haunting memories I have. I have tried to put them behind me, have seldom talked about …
Two Memories That Haunt – Aiding A Shooting Victim & Being Shot At Read More »
Memories can be a peculiar thing. You can have them, lose them, and sometimes, memories will come flowing back into the mind like a river. Sometimes, when trying to recall something, the memories work like a small trickle, and then suddenly as you keep thinking about them, the trickle grows to a torrent. What I …
My Earliest Memory – The Empress Of Canada, 1966 – And Other Thoughts On Memory Read More »
Back in about 1972 or ’73, my father was seconded from his job in Toronto to work with the RCMP in Ottawa to provide advice and assistance on security systems at the National Museums in Ottawa for some time. We had family friends in the Ottawa area who had also immigrated from Northern Ireland to …
Last evening, one of my servers seemed to be quite slow and after a quick investigation, I discovered that one of the websites hosted on the server was under a malicious attack. With the DNS being served by Cloudflare, the first thing I did was log in there and configured the Cloudflare account for that …
That’s Beans – in a moment I’ll tell you why he is looking at me with that expression on his face. This is the Drop Kick Murphys and one of my favourite songs, “A Rose Tatoo”: And this of course, is the flag of Greece, of which Athens (or Athena as it’s called elsewhere) is …
Athens Greece, Dropkick Murphys, & A Boston Named Beans Read More »
Hopefully, he doesn’t read my blog anymore…. 😀 But this is him: That’s David, and he’ll be 17 in August. I actually have 4 sons, and they are all awesome – the older three range in age from 30 to 26 so David really is the baby. He’s been involved in karate since he was …