Friday, November 2, 2012

The Cap'ns Kid

O Jeeze.........

Well mates, the old Captain fergot to do something. It seems his daughter graduated high school back in the spring of ot '11 and the Cap'n fergot to blog it.

It was a proud day in the life of the ole Cap'n. Now the Cap'ns not one for sentimentality but it near to brung tears to his old eyes.

Here's a picture of me darlin' daughter in front of the family vehicle. Notice how her dress matches the color of the 'mog ? Me and the kid wanted to go to her prom in the 'mog but the Missus put the Kibosh on that plan real quick.

Better late than never. Here's to you kid.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Cap'n Willy battles the Hoar Bats from Hell

As you know the Cap'n has a small but tastefully appointed retreat on quiet and secluded Lake Tageesh. It's quite appropriately named Chateau du Shaque du Lac.

Several years ago it was invaded by bats. The common name for this species of bat is the Little Brown Bat. The Latin name is Pesticus Rodentia Volancia Infernum. The Cap'n, as a rule, has no aversion to sharing his abode with any number of woodland critter. But, these bats are starting to irk the Cap'n to no end. They are imposing on the Cap'ns good nature. They shit and stink the place up to high heaven.

Never one to shirk his duty, the Cap'n has taken up arms in order to repel the obnxious little pests. By arms the Cap'n means 10 cans of spray foam.

To the battlements me hearties !!!!


Sending down for supplies


A well deserved sit down on the family throne.

The battle is but half finished, one more weekend and the boarders will be locked out.

Fortunately for the Cap'n the little flying rats migrate south for the winter so the Cap'n doesn't have to worry about the fanged freaks suckin' his life's blood out.

Because the Cap'n has a soft side he will be putting up a stupid ass bat house for the furry flying buggers.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Roach-a-rific


I was recently chatting with a friend via email. We were discussing the Member of Parliament (MP) for Yukon, Ryan Leef. Leef is a big fan of mixed martial arts (MMA) and he holds the view that MMA can be used to combat bullying, (checkout this whitehorse star article). I'm not sure how that works, maybe it has something to do with the bullied kid being able to punch out the bully, I dunno.

It seems to me that if we use MMA to combat bullying, wouldn't it make sense to stop unwanted teen pregnancies by making sure teens got plenty of sex ?

When talking about right-wingers and their solutions to problems you inevitably come to the questions: How can people be so stupid as to vote these guys ins ? How come we are not extinct ?

I'm not overly concerned over the fact that human idiocy will eventually result in our demise. In a very real sense we deserve to go extinct.

What bothers me is that we will probably be responsible for the extinction of 90% of the other life forms on this planet.

On the bright side, the roaches wll still be here.

I can see 2000 years down the road: An alien lands on the planet and finds a bunch of cigar smoking roaches that speak with a Brooklyn accent. I suspect the the first thing the roaches will say is something like: "Hey bub, you from outta town?"

Thursday, May 24, 2012

First Time for Everything


Well I finally did something I never thought I could ever do.

I managed to start my big air compressor on fire. I have to confess it took a bit of doing but I got the thing to belch smoke like an old Russian tractor.

A gasket went in the compressor head, so the thing would only build up pressure to around 20 psi. I ripped it apart and pulled out the old gasket. I used it as a pattern to make a new gasket. I fitted the new gasket in and put 'er back together again. I fired it up and away it goes. It got over 20 psi, so I figured great she's gonna work. I went in the house for a couple of minutes and when I came back out there's smoke pouring out of the thing like a deranged tornado.

I shut 'er down and waited for it to cool off. I took the head off and the new gasket was toasted real good. I suppose that'll learn me to use cork gasket material for something that gets really hot. I might expect myself to take a lesson away from this, for some reason I doubt I'll learn anything.

Monday, February 27, 2012

The Adventures of Cap'n Willy goes to the North Pole

Howdy folks. It's yer ole pal Cap'n Willy. I bet you thought I was dead. Ha !! Fooled ya. I'm still alive and kickin'.

We just had a 3 day weekend so the ole Cap'n thought he'd make a short trip to the North Pole. It's no problem for the Cap'n 'cause he's got the green snow beast.


As you know the most important thing on any expedition is to be prepared. As you can see the Cap'n is way ahead of the game. I got a stick and plenty 'o beer.



Settin' out on a long adventure requires the right frame of mind. As you can see the Cap'n don't mind gettin' in the right frame neither.



After a day or two the expedition finally reached the Arctic Ocean.



The Cap'n travels on......



And on and on for what seems like an eternity



until he finally arrives at the North Pole. Now, I know what yer thinkin' this ain't no pole it's a rock. Well back in the day (last Saturday) pole was a euphemism for rock. The point is that nothing should diminish this extraordinary accomplishment



But what's this ?? oh no !! Cap'n Willy has foolishly drank all of his supplies !!! how will the Cap'n ever make it back ??



Hurray !! the Cap'n is saved !!! Yes it's true !!! It's the beer store at the end of the rainbow !!!!



Back on the road the Cap'n is A ok for home !



Well friends there you have it, the brave and daring Cap'n made it to the North Pole and back. Stay tuned for further adventures