Category Archives: My Life

The Faux Pas of The Sausage Rolls

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Chris Cane

Many years ago, I’m guessing in the early seventies, Cheryl and I were visiting my folks and something unexpected happened! Who would have guessed that by teaching her daughter-in-law to cook sausage rolls could backfire and blacken a Christmas dinner. … Continue reading →

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Porcine Immaculata or The Three Legged Pig Story

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Chris Cane

A newspaper reporter heard about an amazingly clean farm north of the city. She felt that there might be a story here so on a quiet afternoon she drove into the country to find and visit this farm. She was … Continue reading →

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The Three Legged Chicken

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Chris Cane

The other day I was driving a country road a little north of here in my roadster and as I rounded a corner, checked my rear-view mirror, I saw a chicken running along behind the car. I was doing about 60 … Continue reading →

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The Sales Meeting and the Trip to Wrigley Field

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Chris Cane

Way back in the nineties I was the sales manager for the electron device group at Richardson Electronics. At one of our international sales meetings in Chicago we arranged for all attendees to go to a baseball game at Wrigley … Continue reading →

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Re-Tiring in Utah (Roving Roadster Style)

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Chris Cane

I was reading about a friend’s recent tire disaster with his Z4 Roadster it made me recall the time we re-tired in Utah in 2007. Cheryl and I were traveling back from the west coast with a group of roadsters. … Continue reading →

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Trying to do the docent thing!

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Chris Cane

It was about a month ago that I was at the Columbus Zoo with the the family. It was a warmish day and I decided after seeing several regions of the world and their animals that I’d take a rest … Continue reading →

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The Snow Job – Selling in the Seventies

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Chris Cane

So I’m the new sales guy at Varian Associates making my first sales trip to visit the DSS (Department of Supply and Services) in Ottawa. In those years the section of the DSS that I visited was in some second … Continue reading →

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The Law of Unintended Consequences

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Chris Cane

I checked with Wikipedia and they list the Law of Unintended Consequences as “an adage or idiom that can be stated as follows: ‘Any intervention in a complex system may or may not have the intended result, but will inevitably … Continue reading →

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Ma Na Ma Na – The DEW Line 1969

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Chris Cane

Click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExW48xz5yc4 and listen while you read this posting! The year is 1969 and I’m on the DEW Line at DYE-MAIN Cape Dyer on Baffin Island. It’s somewhat desolate. The DEW Line or Distant Early Warning line was a … Continue reading →

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The Easter Bunny and the Three Ethnic People

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Chris Cane

Typically, I don’t like ethnic jokes as they tend to disparage different religions, races, creeds, nationalities etc. and that simply is not PC. I’ve tried in the following to take away ethnicity while maintaining the humor. I hate prejudiced people. … Continue reading →

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