My photo with dog from June 2007.
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Most of my working life has been in and near my hometown of Vancouver, BC Canada.
In late 2007 I moved from the large suburban city of Surrey, BC to Edmonton, Alberta. |
I did spend several years doing software work in the American states of Mississippi and California.
My computer related info has been moved 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. |
While I have sometimes enjoyed good wages, I am far from wealthy.
My finances are improving and I just might retire earlier than i had hoped.
I am 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 step back and move sideways. |
| I am a firm believer in keeping a few things hidden from the open forum of Internet communications.
Let it be sufficient to say that while 2007 brought family loss it also brought some bright highlights.
I am working hard in Edmonton, my future is positive and I have great expectations for the future. |
| I have been working on this web site since 1996. I make very little money at this.
But it has kept me busy and creative. Someday I will figure out how to make the big bucks... feel free to offer suggestions. |
People wonder about this NotSorry domain name... Well
my late brother's nickname was Sorry. I am not him. So therefore, I am NotSorry.
It was never meant as an arrogant statement about never having regrets myself.
(I also own BadChoice.com but have never found a good use for that domain name). |
| Literature and Good Reading: |
| I spend too much time reading and creating on my computer.
I used to have a big newspaper addiction but most reading nowadays is from magazine subscriptions.
I tend to read them from cover to cover. I have less success on my caffeine addiction... |
I enjoy reading books on East 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 old book stores but really do not need to buy more 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 fing 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 by women authors for some uknown reason.
Rosie Swale, Agnes Newton Keith and Christina Dodwell have all provided great examples.
Great male authors of this genre include Wilfred Thesiger, Eric Newby and Heinrich Harrer. |
| My favourite work of fiction is probably 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 this inspiration. |
