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Tuesday, 22 Betteroff 2011

In light of recent events (particularly the incident where Milan Lucic of Boston flattened Ryan Miller of Buffalo and put him out with a concussion), the Funny Farm Security Service would like to offer the following advice to the rest of the goalies in the NHL:

You are amongst the largest players on the ice. You have a lot of equipment on to protect you from getting hurt on the ice. Utilize your advantages. When they take a run at you, brace yourself and take them out instead of letting them hit you.

I can guarantee that, once a goalie has established that he will be one of the ones doing the checking, players will think twice about running them over.

Full disclosure: I have played all positions on the ice, and was very much an in your face type of goalie who was body slamming anyone foolish enough to pull cheap shot crap like Lucic's while I was goaltending. Lucic would have been airborne and spinning upside down into the net, back first, if I was in Miller's skates that evening...

Fryday, 20 Promise 2011

Hey Paul!

I got your email from your YouTube account. Unfortunately, Google wants me to set up an affiliated account with them (and provide them with my cell phone number) in order to send you an email reply (and keep my YouTube account). And I'm not interested in another set of signups that require me to hand out my personal info yet again.* So this is the best I can do...

Yes, it's been a while. Thanks for getting back to me - I couldn't find you (not that I looked very hard - right now I'm hanging on to what's left of my life by my fingernails, waaay stressed about not finding a job for two and a half years, and failing miserably at trying to be a small business owner again and starting a new religion) but I was hoping you might be able to find me again.

I hope all is well with you and yours. Do me a favor, and email me directly instead of sending something to my (newly found out to be) defunct YouTube account. I'd love to find some time where we could finally catch up on things. Talk to you soon!

* - they want my phone number to contact me directly because there's some unusual activity with my YouTube account, which isn't passing my smell test this morning. And why do they need my phone number and addy for a YouTube account? So, sorry to disappoint, but I'm not interested in signing up for another site on the intertubes. That's right, kids - you won't see the Funny Farm on MySpace or FaceBook etc. etc. either because I don't trust that they're going to keep my personal info personal. I haven't even found the wherewithal to get the RSS feeds and some of the other toys Movable Type provides for my web space together for the more techno-friendly of my dozens of readers. Let alone keep up with maintaining them...

_{Fryday, 26 Reckning 2011}

Thanks for all of the fantastic music that you and your various cohorts have created over the years. I thought you might be interested in listening to something I did with a bit of that music...

Along the path of my life's journey I was given the opportunity to play in a radio station with multiple sound studios. Around thirty years ago, I took the song Yesterday and added my own set of harmony vocals to the recording*. You can check it out here - consider it an early 69th birthday present.

* - all thanks and praise to the Mess, CKMS-FM - now operating as 100.3 SoundFM in the greater metropolitan Waterloo area.