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
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
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
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
**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
Wolf and Goddess have started a new podcast. In this first episode, you get to meet Wolf and Goddess and find out a little bit about them and a little bit about what the show will be about.
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
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
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
This weekend, I was on my third shift, and the hardest. I knew it was going to be hard, purely based on who was sharing my shift and the number of bookings we had. I was grateful to work though - we had a high tea party in that I had booked and was looking forward to seeing and arranging.
But. It’s a Saturday. Saturdays are always slightly mental. Especially when teamed up with our wonderful but very scattered Nell. She’s a great woman with a tiny, shrewish face and figure, and a way of li
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
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
You know how sometimes you feel a feeling that is hard to explain?
The other day I had a conversation with Dom that started with me longing to go back to the day Dom stepped off the plane and go through it all again appreciating everything more. Dom gave me a (textual) hug and reminded me that I appreciated everything plenty the first time around so I had nothing to regret / do better.
And while I agree I also can't shake the longing... there were things I threw away that I should have
I created this a while ago pending blog entry and life got in the way I have pretty much stayed away because of being so busy, to the point I barely see my relatives. Perks of building a business.
Well for the past 2 and half years i have been building a credit repair business with 2 partners and we currently employee about 40 people in a call center in the Philippines and 10 people here in the US. So it's going good, not profitable enough yet to make good money but it keeps growing.
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
Tracy and I have made some changes to our life and relationship over the past six months. Well, I would say more in the past year. Let me start from the beginning.
About a year ago, Tracy and I decided to explore our kinky side a bit more. In doing so, we joined a kinky community to get to know others that were already kinky. We did some research and found out that there was what's called munch. Basically, a munch is a place for people to meet up at a normal place, like a bar, pub or r
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
This year for my birthday, Tracy decided to do something really special for me. See, Tracy's work was having her go to Hong Kong for a work. She would have to fly out on Monday the 14th, and she asked me if I wanted to fly out on that Thursday, my birthday. I'd never been to Hong Kong, but it's one of those places I wanted to visit. I was really excited about this.
After we had agreed on this, Tracy asked me if I would be OK if we decided to invite our friend, Stef, to go with me. So
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
So 2018 has been quite an interesting year to say the least. It's been quite an interesting and eventful year to say the least.
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January -
Early in the month, @hirondelle took me to one of her favorite restaurants from her early days in Thailand, a place called Suda. She took a great picture of me having a beer
Although hirondelle says the food wasn't as good as she remembers, it wasn't bad, and I enjoyed g
In 2016, I was approached a couple of hockey players here in Bangkok, Thailand because I did a podcast about watching 2 hockey games here, titled Bangkok Ice Hockey League:
They asked me if I wanted to be involved with a new ice hockey league they were starting called the Siam Hockey League (SHL), and be their official podcaster. All I had to do was let people know what was going on with the SHL and do a few interviews with the Player of the Game. Well, I ended up enjoying being
