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Grizzly

They call me Grizzly

About Me

I'm an EMT/DTO working for "The Star" in the North Texas DFW area. I've been married for 5 years now to my wonderful wife Angie. She's awesome, she has also given me the greatest gift of all, two kick ass lil rugrats! I've got Shawn Dragon who is 6, and Trinity Marie who is 4. Both are smart as all get out.
In my spare time, I dig going out to party, I'm Scottish by birth, blood and upbringing so I tend to throw back a beer or two quite often, and yes I do wear a kilt.
I also have been learning for the last 4 years on and off how to play the Bodhran, its a hand drum that you use a stick called a tipper to play. I don't suck, but I am very far from good.
I'm the kinda person you either get along with really well, or hate a whole lot. Kinda depends on the day?
I've been praticing/studing martial arts of various styles since I was about 6 or 7 years old, and began teaching at the age of 15. Since then I have moved on to teach other things, especially in the EMS area. I currently teach alot of CPR, I've been brought to the dark side and have become a big fan of scenario based training (never thought I'd say that when in school) and I train people to driving Ambulances, before they goto another trainer to learn how to work in our system.
Some day, many many moons from now, I'd really like to take my teaching to the next level and start teaching on the college level (prolly in the area of EMS), I spend alot of my time studying, so someday I may consider writing something down and showing it to people, and I'm getting better at speaking infront of crowds, so who knows, maybe a talk or two? I have big goals, just gotta work towards 'em.
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My Interests

EMS, motorcycles, history, going to renfaires, partying, playing with my kids... Not quite in that order.

I'd like to meet:

I dunno... We'll come back to this later?

Music:

The Rogues, Gaelic Storm, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Nine Inch Nails, and tons more!

Movies:

I fucking love horror movies, I like lots of other stuff too!

Television:

If it ain't on the History Channel, or Discovery Channel, I prolly don't watch it.

Books:

LotR, Medical stuffs, and almost anything history

Heroes:

My Wife, lots of others... We'll re-address this at a later date.

My Blog

Connor "Grizzly" McRaven

This is a work in progress that I started a few months ago... I'm not that great of a writer but I was bored and started it.... Tell me what y'all think, and I'll consider someday finishing it ;) Anyw...
Posted by Grizzly on Fri, 16 May 2008 11:11:00 PST

What is honor worth?

What is honor worth? If you say you live your life in an honorable way, and try to make sure you always do the honorable thing, is it worth waiting even longer for something you want very badly? Somet...
Posted by Grizzly on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:54:00 PST

Liars, Posers, and such....

Why do people feel the need to lie about who they are or how they feel about something? I can understand someone not "going into great detail" about something, we all do it... But why lie? Why say som...
Posted by Grizzly on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:45:00 PST

Do you swing?

For those who keep asking stupid questions that they already know the answer to, see the below link. This is Angie/Kyla's (aka my wife) myspaceYes... We do... Don't like it? Get over it... It bothers ...
Posted by Grizzly on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:09:00 PST

Its official!

Yep, its official, I've been "officially told" I am crazy.... Oh well ;-)Time to stop stressing about being crazy, and stop skitzin about what everyone else thinks and stop feeling like crap and start...
Posted by Grizzly on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:39:00 PST

Darkness and salvation.......?

To my friends, you know who you are... Thank you for your guidence, than you for your friendship. It is 100% invaluible to me and I am greatful to have it.    
Posted by Grizzly on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:52:00 PST

Reflections thus far...

I find myself sitting here in a very reflective mood today.... Oddly, it seems like the only time I write a "blog" is because I'm in one of my "reflective moods" and yet again, here I find myself, typ...
Posted by Grizzly on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:54:00 PST

Ponderings and thoughts.....Wait thats the same thing!

So the last few days have been weird... and to top it all off I've had lots of time as of late to reflect on life as a whole.... I've been with the star for almost a year now and looking back on the c...
Posted by Grizzly on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:47:00 PST

surfing partnerless row again...

yeah buddy thats good times... o.O O.o ok no more sarcasam..
Posted by Grizzly on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:44:00 PST

Another bites the dust........

Inu has passed from this world to the next.... Rest In Peace
Posted by Grizzly on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:25:00 PST