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Re: Tell us about Randy? Where is he? Glad to hear Randy is doing well
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Original posted on 2-5-2007 at 05:59
RE: Tell us about Randy Mac Where is he?
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Originally posted by Bruce R Leech
what is the deal if you are who you say you are then tell us about Randy.
| Quote: | Originally posted by Keri
.In Northern Baja the papers would be Baja Times and Gringo Gazette north. Both are also online,k . PS You should really open a new thread for both of these subjects. I think you would get a better response.,k
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Originally posted in another forum earlier today. Moved at suggestion of Keri to a new topic.
Thanks Keri.
SexyArcher
Hello Bruce and Keri,
I have been cruising this site reading many posts, doing research on Baja California, and I found the above post by Bruce so I thought I would fill
you in on Where's Randy Mac and tell us about Randy.
He's alive - doing very well living and working hard in his home town. He's planning a trip to Baja Mexico later this year.
I have been doing some research on Baja in this forum and found your post and some others asking about Randy. What has he been doing this past 18
months.
Below is a partial news story I wrote about my best friend Randy Mac. It explains what he has been busy doing since 2005 after he got very sick. The
full news story can be found on West Kootenay Unplugged web-portal.
Randy or Rusty to me has a meaningful life focus now. His lengthy road to recovery after battles to recover his health this past 18 months are a story
unto itself. That's Part 2 of my story. A story of mans determination to repair his health...one day at a time-
Rusty tells me he longs to return to Baja but he's very busy these days and he's waiting until later this year to head south to Baja Mexico for the
winter.
SexyArcher
See a partial version of the story in next post with link to full story.
[Edited on 2-5-2007 by sexyarcher]
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Similar Grown Up style MySpace type social networking web-portal in development for Baja California, Mexico
A MySpace Social networking site for West Kootenay Grown Ups – WK Unplugged
Similar Grown Up style MySpace type social networking web-portal in development for Baja California, Mexico -BajaUnplugged
PART ONE
Social networking has been great for the kids, but not of much use to grownups and business - until now. With West Kootenay Unplugged's new web-portal
MySpace-for-grown-ups at a early adopter/innovator beginning, these days you're either Plugged In or left out in the West Kootenays and on the web.
-- At Cafe Americana in downtown Trail, B.C., Canada, two 40 to 50-something men anxiously await the arrival of Randy Mac McCallum, one of the West
Kootenay's most sought-after Web 2.0 savvy technology developers. It's 5:47 on a Thursday afternoon, the day McCallum gave a 1 hour and 20 minute
presentation at the request of the City of Trail Promotions committee, at City Hall, with a plan to meet and discuss the West Kootenay Unplugged
web-portal with some early adopter site members afterwards.
The cafe is closing, just as McCallum arrives, his cell phone clasped in one hand as he walks toward the table dressed in brown dockers, brown shoes
and a hunter green sweater with a funny looking logo embroidered on the right arm.
McCallum is harnessing the power of social networks for local West Kootenay area residents and has plans to promote the new web-portal to area
businesses. That's "WK Unplugged" as in not Plugged Into corporate control, the small one man company that McCallum founded and now manages 7 days of
the week, besides his technology consulting business which keeps him equally as busy.
More of this story on Wk Unplugged...
Wait until you see what he has developed for the Baja news web-portal!!!! BajaUnplugged.com I think you'll be pleased if you love the Baja. And
Randy says it will be a free member site. Planned soft launch date - May 2007.
For the full story on Randy go to WK Unplugged at:
http://www.westkootenayunplugged.com/index.php?option=com_my...
by the SexyArcher - a personal friend of Randy
[Edited on 2-5-2007 by sexyarcher]
[Edited on 2-5-2007 by sexyarcher]
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My handle. Where did it come from?
I get asked all the time so here goes.
The SexyArcher handle was given to me by Randy late last year. Besides all his other sites, he's busy building me a news web-portal for my Archery
business. My handle - the SexyArcher
I don't know where he finds the time to do it all.
Randy also signed me up to read the Gringo Gazette online. Is this the gringo newspaper everyone reads?
These forums seem to be very popular. I've learned so much about Baja already just from reading the posts on this forum.
Later,
SexyArcher
[Edited on 2-5-2007 by sexyarcher]
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(yawn)
| Quote: | Originally posted by sexyarcher
Randy also signed me up to read the Gringo Gazette online. Is this the gringo newspaper everyone reads?
These forums seem to be very popular. I've learned so much about Baja already just from reading the posts on this forum.
Later,
SexyArcher
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Well there goes your credibility.
Nice you could mention Baja in there somewhere. How come nobody replied?? Should you ask?? Do your homework sexy.
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Yawn II,
You sound pretty much like a windbag
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What is this?
Everybody throwing punches, spitting, being nasty and I wasn't invited?
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Sexy
| Quote: | Originally posted by sexyarcher
Hello Sharks,
I posted the partial story to let Bruce and a few interested people know about him.
I'm here to do research on the Baja, not see if anyone responds to the partial story I wrote about Randy. Now some people who have asked about him
have been updated.
Based on your response, your elite nomad status, and how you treat some people on this board - I can tell this site has gone to your head. Do you
even have a life besides this forum?
Later swim bladder,  
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I guess that's because I take people at face value. I try to treat "posters" even-handedly. I'm honoured that you noticed.
I don't understand your post really. I'm sorry I offended you. I was a bit quick to reply. Maybe Randy or his brother could clue you in
If you knew this board as well as some(which you're probably lucky you don't:lol
you would underdstand my position better.
Now Dennis on the other hand.........
No, I have no "other" life... I eat sleep and breathe BajaNomads.
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Randy Mac pretty much disappeared right after Doug (the owner of this site) made him a special forum and put him in charge of contributing to it... No
explanation I saw, he just was gone. You are the first news that he is still alive that we have heard...
As for The Gringo Gazette, it's junk news for the most part... The Baja Times actually has some decent articles along with the tourist ads. Both of
them cover mostly Tijuana to Ensenada stuff, rarely going beyond the tourist centers... To most of us on Baja Nomad, that is hardly an example of what
this 1,300 km. long peninsula has to offer.
Good luck on your research, you will find more on Baja here in the various forums than in a tourist paper!
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Aw, Sharks ........
You're doing fine. Has your BajaNomads tattoo which spans your back healed enough to go out in the sun?
Sexy .........
Too bad you are out of circulation range of the Gazette. By reading it on-line you miss the best and most useful quality of it.........cutting it
into five inch squares and stacking it next to the toilet.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Randy Mac pretty much disappeared right after Doug (the owner of this site) made him a special forum and put him in charge of contributing to it... No
explanation I saw, he just was gone. You are the first news that he is still alive that we have heard...
As for The Gringo Gazette, it's junk news for the most part... The Baja Times actually has some decent articles along with the tourist ads. Both of
them cover mostly Tijuana to Ensenada stuff, rarely going beyond the tourist centers... To most of us on Baja Nomad, that is hardly an example of what
this 1,300 km. long peninsula has to offer.
Good luck on your research, you will find more on Baja here in the various forums than in a tourist paper! |
David, I think that the reason Randy dropped out was due to something a tad more personal. I'm not one to kick a dead horse but I think it had
something to do with JR and Randys' brother and multiple health issues. Even Mods(and their brothers) need to evaluate what they say about fellow
Nomads.
BTW Sexy, I've never been as callous(no matter what they say) as Randy to anyone ever on this forum. When I screw up I face the music & feedback.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Randy Mac pretty much disappeared right after Doug (the owner of this site) made him a special forum and put him in charge of contributing to it... No
explanation I saw, he just was gone. You are the first news that he is still alive that we have heard...
As for The Gringo Gazette, it's junk news for the most part... The Baja Times actually has some decent articles along with the tourist ads. Both of
them cover mostly Tijuana to Ensenada stuff, rarely going beyond the tourist centers... To most of us on Baja Nomad, that is hardly an example of what
this 1,300 km. long peninsula has to offer.
Good luck on your research, you will find more on Baja here in the various forums than in a tourist paper! |
David,
Thank you for the newspaper update. Randy paid for a 3 month subscription to the GG for me to compare it to all the other news outlets focusing on
Baja. He didn't have that good an impression of the GG either, and pretty much said what you said but wanted me to read a few issues just the same.
I'll mention the BT paper to him, so he can get me a subscription for my research on Baja.
As for Randy dropping out of this forum and many other things in his life back in 2005. Simple explanation: severe health issues. He didn't know where
he was for a period of time, had to be hospitalized with blood clots, and bed confined because of lymphatic system failure from being poisoned earlier
in the year. The doctors thought he had NH lymphoma cancer and still test him regularly. He had a tough battle in 2005 and his health started to
improve in early 2006. He said that being online was not a good place for him to be when he was not all there, and his posts are proof that he was
lost in space - as he calls it.
His many rambling downright out there forum posts on BN that he pointed me towards two days ago paint a very clear of why he dropped off this forum,
and off the web for a period of time. He wanted me to read them so I knew about them, as many were about me. I'm the lady that he met back in April
2005, and I have read all his posts. I cried for hours after reading them. I'm the cancer survivor and we have pretty much looked after each other
this past 18 months since we met.
He had to learn to walk properly again, so he could hike again. In the summer of 2005 he couldn't speak clearly, hold a fork or a knife to eat at
times, and had trouble holding a coherent conversation for many months. He would disappear for days into the bush, and was always wandering off track
into never never land when we tried to speak with him, and when the dis ease within his blood subsided after blood treatments he stopped shaking
violently and his health improved. He is now too coherent and articulate in conversations, and has the ability to mezmerize the many people he meets
with his thoughtfulness, charm and eloquence.
He wants to start drawing, cartooning and practicing magic again, but doesn't have the time. He's always busy volunteering and helping people with
something, besides doing his own things, work, and spending time with me.
When he was very sick he would think he was in the Baja at a beach he called Elreqeson. I would like to learn more about this place?
He mentioned you David K. And speaks very highly of you and your knowledge and love for the Baja. He mentioned someone named Jrbaja and an older
gentleman named Skeet and always spoke highly of both of them. He said Jr was like the alpha male on the board, and from what I have read, Randy was
right in saying he was always entertaining and outspoken. Randy was very saddened when he heard of his passing.
He did mention Sharks Baja today when I asked him about him. Randy speaks highly of Sharks and said he helped Randy when he had severe sun stroke back
in 2005. and credits him with telling him to take two aspirin and get help. I remember that day when we almost lost him from the sun stroke fever.
He is very busy now, very happy and focused on his passion for his work. He just finished a talk on personal development where he volunteers his time
to speak with troubled youth in the area. Of note is his message to them at the end - where he quotes Maslow, 'At the heart of our journey humans
should try to recognise ourselves and one another as human beings and not human doings because if we don't we become detached from each other and what
it means to be human. Leading a good fulfilling Life is about making good choices.
And then at the end, he always says, 'The only humans you have to impress is yourself, and that choice is yours.'
I'll check back here in a month or so. Managed to find what I came here for, and now I have to get back to things.
Take care David, and all the best Sharks. Life is too short to make enemies. You can never have too many new friends.
Cheers, and I envy you in all that warmth and sunshine.
SA 
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A kind reply indeed
and I wish good health to Randy and you too. It was a shame he did not return to Nomads to right what was wrong. He is a very talented man. Sounds
like you guys are a hit. Thanks for taking the time.
SA...You should MAKE HIM take the time.
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Sharks Baja,
I think your not so right with your assumption about this. If you are talking about the messed up song he posted about Jr it's our way sometimes of
some Canadian humour about Americans.
He apologized to JR in a PP and when Randys' brother posted and aggravated it again without trying to do so, perhaps you took things wrong. Randy
mentioned this to me today, and is not worried at all about what you think. He said he only needed to know that JR wasn't upset and he wasn't. Or at
least told Randy he wasn't.
And I do remember when it happened back well over a year ago. It was about the time he was really sick and a day or two before wandered off into the
bush hiking for days on end.
JR and Randy had a good relationship, but they also had some differences of opinions at times on BN.
Perhaps YOU should evaluate what you say about fellow Nomads.
I have found many of your posts downright rude to others. That's my take and just the way I read things online! Like you said, tell it like it is and
at face value.
Perhaps if Randy wasn't so sick back then things might have been different in some of his posts before he dropped off these forums. By being more
clear to people, which would require him to be healthy, you might have found that Jr and Randy never were peeed at each other. He dropped off this
forum not because of JR or anything he posted, but because of his health.
Nough said, Take care in all that sunshine. And enjoy life. That's why they make windshields bigger than review mirrors. Reflect on the past, look
forward to the future.
SA
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But I'm American. What would a Canadian know about what's rude here, eh?
Oh wait, that was the idea of the "poem",hehe. Live long and proper.
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I know it's just my highly developed sense of cynicism but, this all reminds me of the doct/sackmeister episode a while back.
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I thought the same thing.
Anyone heard of another nut case lurking out there[Dr Elias Renteria Segoviano]?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sexyarcher
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Randy Mac pretty much disappeared right after Doug (the owner of this site) made him a special forum and put him in charge of contributing to it... No
explanation I saw, he just was gone. You are the first news that he is still alive that we have heard...
As for The Gringo Gazette, it's junk news for the most part... The Baja Times actually has some decent articles along with the tourist ads. Both of
them cover mostly Tijuana to Ensenada stuff, rarely going beyond the tourist centers... To most of us on Baja Nomad, that is hardly an example of what
this 1,300 km. long peninsula has to offer.
Good luck on your research, you will find more on Baja here in the various forums than in a tourist paper! |
David,
Thank you for the newspaper update. Randy paid for a 3 month subscription to the GG for me to compare it to all the other news outlets focusing on
Baja. He didn't have that good an impression of the GG either, and pretty much said what you said but wanted me to read a few issues just the same.
I'll mention the BT paper to him, so he can get me a subscription for my research on Baja.
As for Randy dropping out of this forum and many other things in his life back in 2005. Simple explanation: severe health issues. He didn't know where
he was for a period of time, had to be hospitalized with blood clots, and bed confined because of lymphatic system failure from being poisoned earlier
in the year. The doctors thought he had NH lymphoma cancer and still test him regularly. He had a tough battle in 2005 and his health started to
improve in early 2006. He said that being online was not a good place for him to be when he was not all there, and his posts are proof that he was
lost in space - as he calls it.
His many rambling downright out there forum posts on BN that he pointed me towards two days ago paint a very clear of why he dropped off this forum,
and off the web for a period of time. He wanted me to read them so I knew about them, as many were about me. I'm the lady that he met back in April
2005, and I have read all his posts. I cried for hours after reading them. I'm the cancer survivor and we have pretty much looked after each other
this past 18 months since we met.
He had to learn to walk properly again, so he could hike again. In the summer of 2005 he couldn't speak clearly, hold a fork or a knife to eat at
times, and had trouble holding a coherent conversation for many months. He would disappear for days into the bush, and was always wandering off track
into never never land when we tried to speak with him, and when the dis ease within his blood subsided after blood treatments he stopped shaking
violently and his health improved. He is now too coherent and articulate in conversations, and has the ability to mezmerize the many people he meets
with his thoughtfulness, charm and eloquence.
He wants to start drawing, cartooning and practicing magic again, but doesn't have the time. He's always busy volunteering and helping people with
something, besides doing his own things, work, and spending time with me.
When he was very sick he would think he was in the Baja at a beach he called Elreqeson. I would like to learn more about this place?
He mentioned you David K. And speaks very highly of you and your knowledge and love for the Baja. He mentioned someone named Jrbaja and an older
gentleman named Skeet and always spoke highly of both of them. He said Jr was like the alpha male on the board, and from what I have read, Randy was
right in saying he was always entertaining and outspoken. Randy was very saddened when he heard of his passing.
He did mention Sharks Baja today when I asked him about him. Randy speaks highly of Sharks and said he helped Randy when he had severe sun stroke back
in 2005. and credits him with telling him to take two aspirin and get help. I remember that day when we almost lost him from the sun stroke fever.
He is very busy now, very happy and focused on his passion for his work. He just finished a talk on personal development where he volunteers his time
to speak with troubled youth in the area. Of note is his message to them at the end - where he quotes Maslow, 'At the heart of our journey humans
should try to recognise ourselves and one another as human beings and not human doings because if we don't we become detached from each other and what
it means to be human. Leading a good fulfilling Life is about making good choices.
And then at the end, he always says, 'The only humans you have to impress is yourself, and that choice is yours.'
I'll check back here in a month or so. Managed to find what I came here for, and now I have to get back to things.
Take care David, and all the best Sharks. Life is too short to make enemies. You can never have too many new friends.
Cheers, and I envy you in all that warmth and sunshine.
SA
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Thank you and please tell Randy we are looking forward to the day he returns to Nomad with his wit and great cartoons.
Please don't be a stranger yourself... Baja is the winter home of many Canadians and they continue to visit Baja via this forum.
El Requeson is a beautiful place to camp on Bahia Concepcion. It is a sand spit that connects to an island at low tide. I first camped there in 1966
(with parents in our Jeep), then in '76 and in '85... The name means cottage cheese, oddly enough!
Photos from 1985... at El Requeson
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Randy Mac ..........
C'mon back. Post for yourself. Old friends of yours here would like to say hello.
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sexyarcher -----
Perhaps you saw the drama written by doct here a while back. It was interesting, to say the least. It is reminiscent of your self- introduction
here.
Again, we see the concerned acolyte voicing the case for the person in question, not only explaining his well-being but going to the extent of
offering intimate knowledge of the man. It makes one wonder, dont you agree?
Did he loose his voice? Did he loose his fingers? Did he loose his mind?
SA........ Ask him to respond. I'm sure his will be as well-written as yours.
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