Posts by farmerart

I just filled up my car for probably the last time this winter in France. The equivalent price was just over $9.90/gal(1.88 euro/litre)!! Events in Libya have hit gas prices in southern Europe. It is…

I am coming back to North America at the end of March and I have about a week to kill before I get back into my old business. I have excellent local knowledge about Toronto…

My winter vacation and the accompanying divorce from my North American SC hobby has had me musing on this subject. In my real life before retirement (but soon to be resumed) I was a player…

<p> I am writing this blog from Scotland. Retirement boredom followed me to Europe for this winter vacation. An old oil patch buddy from Canada now running a company operating in the North Sea talked…

In my short time in this hobby I have met and had trysts with many dancers, even becoming infatuated with one of them for three months. (She turned out to be nothing but a pinhead…

I am very disappointed with what you guys are posting on review boards or on discussion boards since I left North America for my winter vacation. I am living the life of the celibate ascetic…

Back to money again. I once ran out of US$ in an American SC and tried to interest dancers in my mighty Canadian dollars. I tried to explain to the girls how easy it was…

On my New Year's sabbatical in Monaco with a lady from Saint Raphael I committed a serious faux pas in French while we were dining in a fine restaurant. I used a word in describing…

Sitting at home with a tasty bottle of Latour begat some serious musings about my time in the SC culture and my life in general. In late 2009 I sold the company that represented my…