Forgive me today. I may look the smiling happy-go-lucky fellow that I normally am. But I am distraught. Distraught beyond words. But I will try to put my distraughtness into words. Even though I am beyond them.

 I have found myself in a lovely town called Las Vegas. I… Read full post »

Life has three check lists, the way I see it. Checklist #1 is for mandatory things. Checklist #2 is for nice to have things. Checklist #3 doesn't have any entries yet, but I refuse to go through life with only two checklists. I guess the first entry should be "Create checklist… Read full post »

I'm sure that most people who will read this, know the lady of whom I am speaking here. Will Someone Feed the Cat has done what I consider, yeoman's work here on OS and has made this community fun, friendly, and... well... fun again. So I stumbled onto her blog in… Read full post »

One of the great things that comes of travelling a lot is you get to see what other contries do. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, hospital visits, prison, television... you see it all. So what with all the broo haha going on down south of the 49th parallel about healthcare, I thought I'd… Read full post »

Happy Birthday, WSFTC!!

Some people think you're a bit prickly.

Some people are afraid to offend you.

But you work tirelessly to keep us amused.

And you sure know how to party.

We love you CAT, and hope your next… Read full post »

I stood by the front door, anticipating the blast of air that would hit my face when it was opened. But it was a hot steamy blast, not the cold, arctic air I was so used to. Before me lay those creapy airplane stairs leading to a rugged, cracked tarmac and… Read full post »

I find this such a huge coincidence. Last night I was flying over northern Saskatchewan and this full moon started to creep above the horizon. My first thought was of the post that Spotted_Mind had done with the picture of the moon so I snapped a few photos. Now you have… Read full post »

I'm convinced Chicken Little was the model Ted Turner used to start CNN. What better focus group for what has become the world's leading pervayor of fear, than some chicken who always ran around claiming the sky was falling.

 Again.

All we hear about is how mis-directed  our youth is. When… Read full post »

Terror in the sky

Some things in life were never meant to be put together. Garlic and icecream, Spandex^tm  and fried chicken, or Palin and common sense all come to mind. But of all the "don't put 'em togethers" out there... airplanes and open flames are right near the… Read full post »

Few things in life tickle the fancy of the male of the species like jumping up in an elevator that is going down. How many of you have not hoped that with just enough effort to avoid that embarrassing “Extreme pushing” fart, you could touch the top of… Read full post »

The unrelenting darkness hung over them like a Chinese torture. It squeezed every breath from each of them to the point that they had to consciously breathe in… breathe out… breathe in… breathe out. Any distraction at all, and the automatic breathing function would founder and st… Read full post »

Today I went to a movie. It was a movie about a gentleman who has endured much throughout his life and exited our plane of consciousness a few short months ago. He was a tortured soul and many referred to him as the “King of Weird” even though he was probably… Read full post »

By nature I tend to lean towards the less stressful angle. “Lazy” is what my better half proclaims, but she also proclaims world peace and an end to wide collars and look where we’re at on those fronts. So “less stress” it is. The route (root, as we say in Canada)… Read full post »

Our cat is a mouser. Now by definition a mouser is “a feline which uses its limited intelligence to find, stalk, and attack small rodents. In extreme cases rats may become targets (although cats tend to the lazy side of the spectrum and rats have been eating steroids lately and pumping… Read full post »