What exactly is this "owilybug" thing about?

No doubt, many are wondering about what an "owilybug" is. Indeed, many must be curious about what it's been for many years now. I will attempt to explain this, yet it will probably remain one of those things you really just had to be there for. So, here goes:

In 1997, at the inaugural summer of Castle Rock Hostel in Edinburgh, myself and Sheralee MacDonald, one of the receptionists at the hostels, had the opportunity to join several employees from the other hostels to go on a start-up tour company's trip to the Trossachs, a mountainous region near Stirling in Central Scotland. The tour consisted of a 5-hour hike up to Ben Venue, one of the higher peaks in the area. Furthermore, this was Sir Walter Scott country. Perhaps possessed by a diluted form of Sir Scott, impromptu, ummm..., "poetry" began. One of the so-called set of stanzas went something like "O wily bug, o you art thou so wily...". I would like to say that I could blame it on the altitude but, let's face it, Ben Venue just isn't big enough. Indeed, it was probably a result of actually getting out from behind the hostel desk for the first time that summer. As a result, owilybug.ca was born. Silly? Yes. But there you have it.