My photo with dog from June 2007.
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Most of my employment has been in and near my hometown of Vancouver, BC Canada.
In late 2007 I moved over the mountains from the Vancouver suburb of Surrey, BC to Edmonton, Alberta.
I have never been married, I have fallen in love with too many women and I have no children. |
I did spend several years doing software work in the American states of Mississippi and California.
I have a version of my software-related work history here.
I have also worked as bartender, waiter, construction worker and first aid attendant.
I have a few photos covering these careers at my Canada Work page.
Starting in the summer of 2008 I became a full-time student taking independant study courses at Athabasca University. |
While I have sometimes enjoyed good wages, I am far from wealthy.
My finances are generally improving and I just might retire in better financial condition than I had hoped.
I am generally good at ducking away from the crap that life sometimes flings in my direction.
When my career is going in the wrong direction I am quite willing to take a step back and then move sideways. |
| I am a firm believer in keeping a few things hidden from the open forum of Internet communications; but really hide very little.
I am blogging and Twittering. While the last couple of years brought my family a great loss, I have also had some bright highlights. |
| I have been working on this web site since 1996. I make very little income from this.
After measuring hosting fees I am still in the red and that is not accounting for the thousands of hours of work that it has taken me.
But it has kept me busy and creative. Someday I will figure out how to make the big bucks... feel free to offer suggestions. |
Many people wonder about this NotSorry domain name... well
my late brother's nickname was Sorry. I am not him. So therefore, I am Not-Sorry.
Some saw it as an arrogant statement about myself operating without ever having regrets.
I always saw the name as meaning that my visitors would be Not Sorry to visit here. |
| Literature and Good Reading: |
| I have spent far too much time reading and creating on my computer.
I used to have a big daily newspaper addiction but now read far more from magazine subscriptions.
I tend to read them from cover to cover. I have had far less success on my food and caffeine addictions. |
I enjoy reading books on Asian history and true modern adventures that take place anywhere on land or sea.
I appreciate traveler tales from exotic locations. I rarely have the time to read fiction books.
I greatly appreciate browsing old book stores but really must stop buying so many books that I will not have time to read. |
| During my teenage years the prime activity of my life was reading Science Fiction
-- especially Robert Heinlein, Andre Norton and Isaac Azimov. After throughly exploring that genre though I have rarely returned. |
One of my favourite authors, but certainly far from the only one,
is Han Suyin. I have read and owned many of her books.
I created a Han Suyin page because I could find nothing similar.
(I really must do the same for a few more of my favourite authors). |
| I particularly like any book where the author endures
some great adventure such as walking across India or working in the wilds of Borneo.
Some of the best of these seem to be written by women authors for some strange reason.
Rosie Swale, Agnes Newton Keith and Christina Dodwell are provided great examples.
Great male authors of this genre include Wilfred Thesiger, Eric Newby and Heinrich Harrer. |
| My favourite work of fiction is On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
I have read it at least ten times. It is a dangerous subversive book that always forces me to hit the pavement and travel.
It is hard to stay in one place after that inspiration. |
