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Sigh. Happy Birthday Dad. I miss you.

Maybe it’s just me, but this year the television networks seem to be a lot more with it around Remembrance Day and veterans week. I have learned a great deal about Canadian efforts in WW I, WW II and all they way up to present day this week, and I wasn’t exactly ignorant before this [...]

This post has been weighing on me for a while now. Had a big pile of chaos going on this January and February, and while I was thinking a lot about Dad in early February, getting a blog post together had about 100 things conspiring against it. Things are slowed a bit now. And my [...]

Props to Douglas Adams for that quote…. Apologies to you fine readers for the recent interruption in service on the blog. Due to some ongoing email pain around HostMG I’ve changed service providers over to GoDaddy for hockley.ca. The transition, due to the software at HostMG being out of date to boot with WordPress, was [...]

A year has gone by since I lost my dad. I don’t remember anniversary days in many cases. I remember my wedding anniversary, and the birthdays of my family (and even that I’ve had to improve on), but this day seems to be burned into me. Probably forever. I wish he was still here. He [...]

If you made it here to this post and the post previous, you’ve been successfully redirected to the new home of hockley.ca. The DNS caches around the Internet are still flushing (basically, for the less technically inclined, it’s like getting your address updated in the phonebook — it takes a while for everyone to get [...]

Technorati Profile This is a claim post, so I’ll rub it out when Technorati gets its act together. Currently it only finds the other blog at http://codekensai.com/wordpress Sigh.

Ok, this is again for posterity and I make no pretenses about this being a desired piece of audio for most people. It's a second experiment with GarageBand and my fledgling Shakuhachi skills. Difference this time is that I put a bit of midi tonal instruments to it, and well….. you can tell my tuning [...]

I miss my dad. Father’s day was very, very…. sobering. Only seven years ago did I join my dad on the honored end of Father’s Day. Now it’s having Father’s Day without a father to call and talk to. My boys and my wife sure made me feel special that day though. My parents bought [...]

It’s been a very long time since I cranked up the blog. Busy Christmas, much to do with work, a number of trips for work to the US and UK. That all came to a sudden halt on the 7th of February. The fine gentleman on the left, my dad, passed away suddenly that day. [...]