Canada Major

~Toronto native, J. Richard Blickstead

The world is full of characters-this guy is one of them. My good friend Rick "Major" Blickstead is truly one of a kind. As an example, I don't know very many people (over the age of 12), who will pull down to a set of young guy swim shorts and "dive" off a diving board into a swimming pool surrounded by 50 or so folks, most of whom he'd met only a few hours hence and then swim several laps while alternating between the breast and the back stroke. And lest you think "so what", I should share with you, he was the only person in the pool!
I could go on, and probably will at some later date. Right now I'm going to post this, copy and paste the link to an email, and fire it off to my long time Canadian friend, Major. Right now he's likely in the middle of some serious thinking, but once he sees the email and clicks on the link, I'm substantially confident he'll chuckle "a bit", say something about my heritage under his breath (in the pejorative of course) before posting some ridiculous response to his name sake post, using the Canadian humor of which he is so terribly fond. Major, you are a piece of work my friend--that's why I like you so much---you Hoser!
I'll keep you posted on any news worthy developments involving "The Major"....oh, and Major, if you read this I wanted to let you know the Hogue knife you gave me is being put to good use. I keep it in my leather tool pouch and use it quite often with good affect. While I'm using it I think about my silly Canadian friend and smile as I recall the story behind that darn knife. Cheers to the power of suggestion!