Great advice

I’ll just get right on to this….

WTF? Strange but true

Again I must point out that I do not make this stuff up…

PSA

I’ll be redirecting my blog posts to my Facebook notes and my LiveJournal for the foreseeable future – send me an email if you have any problems accessing either.

Recent stuff:

But not to visit the Queen: read at LJ or FB

Could have, should have: read at LJ or FB

 

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Geekery – W guides my van

Yes – GW or W, as he is fondly known is one of the free voices that I can select for my TomTom car GPS. Mind you, I can also have HRH the Queen or John Cleese…

Masks

If, over the next days you happen to go for a walk in an area where there are lots of leaves that have fallen off of trees, take a moment to look at the many shades of yellow, orange and red.

Kick a pile of leaves – shuffle through them. That’s one mask that comes off for a few moments to allow innocence lost to remind you of the beauty in life.

Think of a person fondly and the good times shared – remember the things that captivated you, sustained you, enthralled you. Perhaps the smile on their face, the intensity of their eyes or the sound of their voice… Another mask comes off for a brief moment.

Think of the masks as costume masks that you would wear to a party, a veil that is only lifted briefly to allow a glimpse of the person beneath and her eyes. The mask goes back down in a most seductive manner, only to be lifted again for those who deserve, those who appreciate, those who will understand what it is that they are being allowed to see.

We move forward one step at a time, one day at a time, and usually, but not always, in a forward direction. Take the mask off, look at the girl in the mirror and smile at her…

Me?

I was rather surprised tonight to be awarded the volunteer of the year award at the sailing program awards banquet. Although I can be and often am a rather gregarious attention slut, I was just a bit embarrassed as well as I was not expecting to be in front of a lot of people when I was sober and not wearing PVC, leather or some type of uniform.

I’m such a

I could have saved myself so much time, effort, money and tears if I had taken the time to do some more research and think things out.

I would have then realized that all I really had to do was to join the pipes and drums.

Yup – wear a skirt with no panties…

Red, white and blew

We’re attending the sailing program end of year banquet tonight and I am the decorating committee.

Being a sailor girl I picked out a sailing theme complete with little wooden sailboats and lighthouses for the tables. Green mesh on the walls for sea weed, some brightly coloured jelly fish and about 150 balloons in several colours.

Have you ever tried to blow up 150 balloons? Thankfully I do a lot of my workouts in the aerobic range so it’s not that bad, but still a mindless, repetitive chore that is not made easier by having to chase a rambunctious kitten away! Balloon blowing babe thus moves to the garage where she blows until she turns red and then white while still in her pajamas.

Lovely. After I get all of the balloons blown up I still have to tie a length of ribbon onto each one, assemble them into groups that can be taped to the walls or ceiling and hope to hell that it all fits into my van.

My day begins.

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Carly of the CN

Here I am riding the train into the station, averting a disaster after the engineer ate the chicken for lunch.

 

Although it is rumoured that I may have a little uniform fetish I was just wearing this to instill confidence and prevent panic and chaos.

 

The conductor also had the chicken so I had to ensure that the passengers all had valid tickets.

 

A first class ticket? We’ll just see about that!

 

I was also the brake-girl for a while – or is that brake babe?

Troublesome

This story was somewhat lost in the background of our federal election – it’s an important story that will have far reaching consequence for the military. As much as I’m glad that the truth of the issue was uncovered, I find it worrying that soldiers do not have their weapons at hand in a war zone and in fact pile them in the back of their vehicle.

“In effect what they’re saying this morning is two weapons were lying in the back of a G-Wagon and the heavier weapon on the top of the lighter weapon underneath caused the gun actually to fire, that it dislocated the locking mechanism and actually pulled the trigger which caused the death of the soldier in Afghanistan two years ago,”

Charges of manslaughter and negligence in the performance of military duty were dropped on October 14 against Master Corporal Robbie Fraser, a Canadian soldier who had been facing a court martial over the shooting death of his fellow soldier and friend in Afghanistan more than two years ago. Even though the military maintained early in the investigation that the shooting was likely accidental and the case was “circumstantial” because no one actually saw where the shooting had come from charges were laid in March 2007 due to the seriousness of the incident

His rifle allegedly discharged on Aug. 9, 2006 in the cramped quarters of a Canadian Forces G-Wagon outside Kandahar, killing Master Corporal Jeffrey Walsh, of Regina. The two soldiers were travelling on a bumpy road when Fraser’s gun accidentally discharged inside the military vehicle. Moments after the shooting occurred, their G-wagon was shot at by Afghan insurgents. Once Fraser realized that his friend had been shot, he tried to help him, leading other soldiers in the vehicle to believe that the two were involved in a physical altercation.

Evidence in the form of a ballistics report raised reasonable doubt Fraser had pulled the trigger, or that he was even holding the gun when it went off. The defence put forward the theory that in fact it could have been a pure accident, where nobody actually pulled the trigger of the weapon that caused the death and argued successfully that the accident happened as a result of the way the guns were stored in the vehicle.

“On Saturday, the defence provided us an opportunity to see their theory of the case and what they did was show us, based on evidence only their client would’ve known, that with the C6 (machine) gun and the C7 (assault rifle) in the back of the G-wagon, the gun’s handle could’ve pushed the safety off the C7, and also within moments, push the trigger, forcing it go off. The defence was able to duplicate on several occasions how the machine gun could’ve slipped and make the rifle fire five or six times”

Lt.-Col. Bruce MacGregor, eputy director of military prosecutions.