Rambling In The Woods

2020 Year In Review

So 2020 has been one hell of a year. I've seen lots of highs and lots of lows in this past year, as most of the world has seen and felt. I'll do my best to make this as coherent as possible, but I'm sure I will mix some thing up. The good thing is, @hirondelle has put together a list for me to look at, so that will help keep my thoughts organized. So, with out too much more preamble, let me get into it. To finish off 2019 and start off 2020, @hirondelle a

January 6, 2021

Teaching

Around The World In 10 Days (Reposted from 24/01/2020)

For the last 2 weeks, I've been teaching a special class. Well, what my work calls a camp actually. It was a lot fun. I had a class of twelve 5 year olds. Every day of the class they learned a little bit about a different countries. Day 1: Orientation, Make passports, Make photo albums Day 2: Went to United Kingdom Day 3: Went to New Zealand Day 4: Went to Australia Day 5: Went to United States Day 6: Went to Canada Day 7: Went to China

Timberwolf in Teaching

January 23, 2011

An Exploration (Reposted from 22/09/2009)

I plan on making this post a bit of internal exploration. Now at times, I may wonder off track, but bare with me. About 2 years ago, @hirondelle I and moved from Bangkok, Thailand to Chiang Mai, Thailand. When we first got here, we rented a Honda Click (what a Click looks like) for a month until we bought bikes of our own. First we got a Honda Wave 100 cc (what a Wave looks like) for @hirondelle, and ordered a Honda Phantom 200 cc for me. When my bike arrived, we returned the Click, and

September 21, 2009

H1N1 (Swine Flu) Scare (Reposted from 02/08/2009)

I have to give you some back story for this before I get to far into this. Since the start of the Swine Flu scare, I've been kind of taking the piss out of it. Someone coughs and "OH NO, IT'S SWINE FLU! SWINE FLU, SWINE FLU!" That type of thing. At work we were told that if a child coughs a lot, sneeze s a lot or has a runny nose we should ask their parents to take them home. So I would joke cough and say I've got swine flu, can I go home. And things like that. I was also scoffing at peo

August 1, 2009

Making Great Strides (Reposted from 20/07/2009)

On Saturday, Tracy ( @hirondelle)and I flew down to Bangkok from Chiang Mai. We wanted some time away from Chiang Mai and we also had an appointment with an immigration lawyer on Monday (Today). Yesterday, we went shopping for a camera for Tracy ( @hirondelle)(she has been wanting and SLR camera) and we looked at a number of places, but nobody had the model she was looking for. Hell, most places didn't have have the brand she wanted. We settled on a really nice camera which she really lo

July 19, 2009

Goings On (Reposted from 30/07/2009)

Well, things have been a bit busy for me around here. As you all know, I've recently finished a number of skins, which I am very happy with. Just after finishing my latest skin, and just before heading to Bangkok, our desk top computer crashed. Well, the C-Drive crashed. Now that wouldn't be so bad if it was just the software, because then we could have gotten all the information off of the drive. But nope, the actual hard disk itself crashed. Which means we lost everything on that drive! All ou

July 29, 2009

Karate

Going Back To Karate

As most of you know, back in March, I had knee surgery, which I wrote a blog post about back on September 14th, 2020. Since before that, I've thought about going back to martial arts. There is a place near me that teacher Brazilian Jiujitsu (BJJ), but to I have a few issues with going to that place, which I won't get into here. To go along with that, I really wanted to go back to karate. There are basically two (2) different disciplines in karate. There is Japanese karate and Ok

Timberwolf in Karate

November 12, 2020

The Northlands

A New Home. A New Blog. A New Life (Reposted from 12/06/2009)

Welcome family and friends. Today I start my new blog. A few days ago, we all started a new home here at The Northlands. And just a couple of hours ago, I started a new life. A five(5) months ago, our home crashed, burned and died. For whatever reason, our hosts server crashed. And for about two(2) months they answered my emails. About three(3) months they updated their main page, and stopped answering my emails. With their server down, I couldn't access any of the information to move ou

Timberwolf in The Northlands

June 11, 2009

Poems

15 Years

So, on October 9, @hirondelle and I celebrated our 15 year anniversary of being together. On October 09, 2005, after 40+ hours of travel from Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI) to John F. Kennedy International Airport (where I spent 8 hours) to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (where I spent 2 hours in the middle of the night) to Taiwan International Airport to Don Muang International Airport, which at the time, was the only international airport in Bangkok just to hold

Timberwolf in Poems

November 10, 2020

2020 Honda BR-V

For years, Tracy has been trying to convince me to drive a car. She wants us to do some road trips in the UK and here in Thailand. We’ve done road trips on the bike, and as lovely as those are, I’ve never felt comfortable with taking one puppy, let alone two, on the bike. Since I’ve started my new job, I travel farther for work. I used to ride for about 20 minutes to get to work, now it’s just shy of an hour, and Tracy has been concerned about my safety, understandably. I was starting to come ro

September 26, 2020

Knee Surgery

**WARNING – THERE WILL BE SOME GRAPHIC IMAGES OF THE INSIDE OF MY KNEE—WARNING** So, to start things off, I want to give a bit of a history. I’ve led a pretty active lifestyle. I learned how to skate when I was 2 and started playing hockey when I was 4 and I played until I was 18. I also played soccer for a year, baseball for about 4 years, softball off and on throughout the years, American football for 3 years, professional wrestling for about 3 years, and martial arts off and on

September 14, 2020

Krabi 2019-2020

This year, for New Years, we decided to do something special. @hirondelle, Stef and I decided to spend the turning of the decade at one of @hirondelle and mine favorite places. We wanted to go down to Krabi to Railay. One of the nice things about Railay is that it is on a peninsula where you can walk from the east side to the west side in about 5-10 minutes, so you can get amazing sunrises in the morning, hang out at some awesome beaches and then get an incredible sunset. @hirondelle and

April 11, 2020

Cotsy

After I was re-introduced to hockey, you know, when I watched a BIHL game with @hirondelle, I was contacted by a guy about becoming a podcaster for his up and coming league, which sounded pretty cool. What they wanted me to do was come to come to a few games and interview the player of the game for the SHL news. So in the first interview after the first game, I interviewed Adrian Meyers, who gave credit to Jason "Cotsy" Cotsmire for helping them win the game. At the time, I thought that was n

December 4, 2019

Lion State 2019

As you all know, I have gotten back into hockey. I started off doing things for the Siam Hockey League (SHL). After that, I got some gear and started playing shinny hockey. For those of you that aren't Canadian, that means pick up hockey. Then I was invited to play hockey on the Flying Farangs in a few tournaments. Then in 2018, I was asked to play for Bunteng (which I'm told means 'to have fun'). The first year I played with them, we did better than the year

October 24, 2019

A Journey Through Helmets

When we lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand, we bought our first motorcycles. We bought two bikes, a Honda Wave 100cc (left) for @hirondelle and a Honda Phantom 200cc (right). Before we got these bikes though, we had to rent a bike. We needed helmets, so we went to a local helmet shop and bought helmets. I didn't want anything fancy, and something that would just work and wasn't pink. I felt that would be the best thing. I got a really simple black helmet with white stripes that looked simil

August 26, 2019

The Email

Dear Telenaz, Do you remember that café we met in? I remember it like it was yesterday. Akram, Fadhil, Baravan, Zamanlabib and I went in there for a drink after our football match. We were so excited and happy. We had beat the club from Taji. This was the third time we’ve played them this year and we finally beat them. We couldn’t believe it. Fadhil and Baravan each scored a goal for us. We were causing such a racket because we had won. Then you walked in with your friends,

March 12, 2018

Mr. Davis (NSFW)

Before you start reading this story, I do have to make somethings very clear. This post is very very NSFW Like my other stories, this work is pure fiction The characters in this story are both willing participants This story, in no way, shows that I think men are superior to women. I fully believe that men and women are equal in all aspects of life and should be treated as such. As this story is NSFW and adult in nature, you read at your own risk, and

July 26, 2019

A Loving Moment

I just wanted to share a loving moment with my lovely wife @hirondelle

July 20, 2019

Family Visit - April 2019

This has been an interesting and exciting year for me.. Things started off with my birthday, where @hirondelle did something really nice for me, and brought me to Hong Kong for the first time, and you can read all about it in Special Birthday Gift. The next thing was I got to partially fulfill something on my bucket list, and that was to go scuba diving and you can read about that in my Discover Scuba Diving blog post. The next big thing this year was that it was discussed, with my daughte

April 14, 2019

Discover Scuba Diving - March 2019

As most people do, I have a bucket list. Things in my bucket list are things like, go to Japan, go to Okinawa, go sky diving, learn to surf, and go scuba diving. Over the weekend of March 1st, 2019, I got a chance to cross something off of my bucket list. This was to go scuba diving. Back in January, I was talking to a friend of mine, Colin, a fellow American living here in Bangkok. We were talking, and he told me how go goes scuba diving. I mentioned that it scuba diving was one of th

March 6, 2019

Photography

Some of you may know that I have been dabbling in photography for a few years now. Before I get too far, let me start off at the beginning. I remember as a kid, back in the late 70s, way before there was digital photography, when you actually had to get your film developed to see what your pictures looked like, I got this little camera for my birthday. It was a little instamatic, similar to the picture you see here on the left. The film was in these cartridges like you see on the

January 7, 2019

The Punishment (NSFW)