Randy | September 24, 2008
About 15 years ago, one of my medical alarm clients dropped her panic button in her toilet. She fished it out right away, but in trying to wash it off, water penetrated the casing and caused an alarm. After the dust settled, and she told me what had happened, I went to her residence to […]
Randy | September 17, 2008
The family doctor I had known since my junior high school days retired in 2001, and even though I am no longer a patient of his he is still a client of mine. He recently phoned me with a question about his security system that I handled in my usual highly efficient and professional manner. […]
Randy | September 10, 2008
Yes, that’s Sean Connery. There has been no Photo-Shopping of any kind on my end, and if Diana had done it he’d be naked so I’d say no. No Photo-Shopping of any kind. In 1974, Sir Sean Connery was in an incredibly shitty movie (“starred in” would be a bit extreme) called “Zardoz”. This post […]
Randy | September 6, 2008
A familiar situation; turn your back on the world while you access your cash. For good measure, maybe stick some ear buds in your head and obliterate all background noise with some non-stop “feel good” music. A few years ago I was quaffing some ales with a group of my cop friends when the conversation […]
Randy | September 4, 2008
Eats, Shoots & Leaves, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss should be required reading in every school system that claims to teach English. Words can be misspelled in a sentence without losing your meaning. The ability to read “typo” is a vital skill, and we all forgive it when we encounter it. […]
Randy | September 3, 2008
There’s an old saying: “Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.” On 5 July 2007, Sea Kayaking the Inside Passage posted this story on their website under the heading, Kayaker Fights Off Starving Wolf. As a wilderness survival instructor, and bush traveller of no small experience, I read this article […]
Randy | September 2, 2008
Back in early 2001, in those blissfully dippy days when Canada and the US still bragged about sharing “the world’s longest undefended border”, and the September 11th suicide highjackers were busy being thrown out of flight school after flight school because they kept insisting that they didn’t want to learn how to actually land the […]
Randy | September 2, 2008
This website is an outlet for a man, blessed by The Gods and disdainful of the clods. It’s the lectern of one who, like some hoary old primate in a tree, has finally reached that level of enlightenment from which he feels unapologetically compelled to fling turds of wisdom upon all who pass by. Each […]