Way back when….
When I only had one goal in life and it was this: Carrier Landing-Home Video – The best home videos are here I actually got some time in the S-3, both at the ship and flying cross country from Jax to...
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Obama must be doing something right when he is able to piss off both his supporters and the die hard extremists who believe him to be the Anti-christ and a Muslim. By picking Rick Warren to give the...
View ArticleThey still have to go back home…….
The Russians that is-across the North Atlantic in the dead of winter. Came across this pretty cool video of how the transit might be like. Admiral Kusnetsov and a Slava CG taking water over the bow....
View ArticleAnother year gone…………
And it finds the S.O. and I still together, on the wrong side of the planet, and wondering what the next year will hold for us. My father is coming here tomorrow for the Christmas holidays-so posting...
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My secret confession…….
Was out at Barnes and Noble today, getting some gift cards for my son. (Never shop early when you can put it off to the last minute!). I came across the Christmas gift for me: Yes , I am ashamed to...
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One of the things I have always marveled about, when it comes to the hymn Silent Night, is how many languages it has been translated into. In the spirit of Christmas Eve, here is a cure little anime of...
View ArticleSad news from Tokyo……
Ai Iijima, who was an AIDS activist and former television personality was found dead in her condo in Shibuya yesterday. The body of the 36-year-old, who retired in March last year from a lucrative...
View ArticleChristmas Eve……..
I’ve just finished wrapping the last little presents I could hide from the S.O. She already has the big one-a pearl and diamond ring that is sort of a Christmas / Anniversary of Being Together present....
View ArticleAnd I thought I was bitter…….
About getting screwed over by the ex-wife. However, from LA comes a case of a REALLY BITTER ex husband: COVINA, Calif. (AP) – Stinging from an acrimonious divorce, a man plotting revenge against his...
View ArticleThe best laid plans …always go astray.
And in the process scare the stuffing out of me and the S.O.-as well as my sister and my father. Yesterday started well enough. We had decided that it might be a good idea to get out of the house. The...
View ArticleSailors save the day………
At Shinegawa station in Tokyo: “He walked off the platform like he saw an invisible step,” said Brice, of Rogersville, Tenn. “He hit the rails and it sounded like something was broken.” Caballero...
View ArticleClosing the books……..
On the year of our Lord, 2008. We put my father and sister on the plane yesterday and on the car ride back to work, I did a lot of thinking. About how much had changed for me and for my family this...
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Shin Nen!
Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu! Kore kara mo yoroshiku onegai shimasu! (Congratulations on the new year! In this year too, please favor me!)
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Don’t you mean Takashima?
And by the way its located in the Sea of JAPAN! Don’t try telling that to this bunch of Texans. Wonder how many Texans drive by in their F-150 ‘s and wonder , ” Is that somewhere down by Waco?”...
View ArticleLiberation Theology………..
It pains me greatly (I’ve been OD’ing on John Adams DVD’s today) to give pause from my narrow commentary on the various and sundry musing’s on my life-to jump back into the fluid waters of political...
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She may be picking up some bad habits…….
The S.O. that is. In a sign she may have been in the United States too long, the S.O., who could never cuss in English as little as 8 months ago, has now become fond of using the term “F**king...
View ArticleRoad trip……
Greetings from the foothills of the Rockies. Out here for 3 days on business. In one of my more misguided moments-I agreed to bring the S.O. along. Now -after a long day that began at 5 am she is in a...
View ArticleA bad news morning…….
I got up early yesterday-one of the disadvantages of being out west is that the “home office” is already at work and the items of interest that need to address have already begun to fill your in box by...
View ArticleHome……..
We got back yesterday night with a few extra hours in DFW that I could have done without. Now I am trying to squeeze in a post between the ever present demands of the S.O. that I do house things-this...
View ArticleTen days notice….
For the man who will go down as one of the worst Presidents the United States has ever had. We the People Everywhere, USA January 6, 2009 President George W. Bush 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington,...
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