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June 21, 2017

Days Like These

Days Like These Awesome workout song. The tempo changes work perfectly on an elliptical, moving from the higher resistance slower parts to the higher paced parts of the song. RIP John Wetton. A...


June 04, 2017

Countdown

Countdown I was on the way home from the store when Evel came up with this one. The markers of our life. The “Where were you when?” I was a kid when the space shuttle Enterprise, the test bed f...


May 31, 2017

Boom, Like That

I canned my Facebook profile. It was getting too stupid. I bounced from PB for a while so the liberals could gnash their teeth and make pronouncements about the end of times. PB has calmed dow...


May 25, 2017

Top Gun II

(Can’t take credit for this, written by a fellow AOCS alum) Will Maverick be a pudgy 737 captain at a major airline? Member of an ALPA committee struggling against the corporate structure? Balanc...


May 24, 2017

March 2010

What I was doing at work 7 years ago. Trying to merge several databases to give answers to people who asked questions. Photobucket is giving me fits.


May 24, 2017

All Right

Somewhere I have a clip of me doing this song, about 30 seconds long and just me and the Ibanez acoustic. No percussion, no bass. During cruise in ‘99, this was my “go to bed” song. I had a ch...


May 16, 2017

Season of the Ant

I live in the end condo of a four unit building. For the most part I am pretty happy with where I live. Truth be told see no reason to move until I become infirm. Believe me, I will shuffle of...


May 11, 2017

Carefree Highway

Pickin’ up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream I wonder how the old folks are tonight Her name was Ann and I’ll be damned if I recall her face She left me not knowin’ what to do… Wednesdays a...


May 08, 2017

Sweet Jebus

Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday morning tend to be my busiest days. So Basically I have 3 1/2 day weekends. If you told 22yo me that 54yo would have 3 1/2 day weekends he would have said “sweet!”...


May 06, 2017

Generation Kill

http://www.tbo.com/list/news-opinion-commentary/dan-oshea-generation-kill-vs-generation-cupcake-20160116/


May 04, 2017

Here I Go Again

Five weeks into Private Pilot Ground School. I actually look forward to going to class, unlike the classes while getting my MBA where a half hour before I would search my brain for any reasonab...


April 28, 2017

Observation

Observation I was watching a episode of Chicago Med. A family came into the ER, the pregnant woman having problems breathing. As the staff went to work trying to figure out what was wrong it so...


March 20, 2017

Alabama Song

Alabama Song Strange winter. Strange start to spring. It was warm but windy today. I thought about going to the beach with a book. Taking a walk. Something. Unfortunately I stayed up way la...


March 20, 2017

XYZ


March 20, 2017

Survey from Online Flirt

✍ Tattoos - Nope 😷 Surgeries - Nope (do Circumcision, Tonsillectomy and Vasectomy count?) 🏥Broken Bones- Oh Yes 🔫 Shot a gun - Yes 😕 Quit a job - Yes (A story unto itself!) ✈️ Flown on a plane - ...


March 19, 2017

The Eternal Watch

Bon Voyage to those who’ve set sail We bid them farewell as we man the rail. Let us be Joyous and let us not weep For those who have now crossed over the deep. When a Sailor’s last roll call is m...


February 22, 2017

Learn to be Still


January 15, 2017

Year of the Cat II

She doesn’t give you time for questions As she locks up your arm in hers And you follow till your sense of which direction Completely disappears By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls The...


January 14, 2017

Year of the Cat

The Year of the Cat She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running Like a watercolor in the rain Don’t bother asking for explanations She’ll just tell you that she came In the year of the cat ...


January 14, 2017

Here Without You

Here Without You My youngest sibling, my sister Deb just invited me out to the bowling alley where they are in the bar doing Karaoke. The last time I did Karaoke was on cruise in ‘99 when I spe...


January 02, 2017

Same Auld Lang Syne

“Reliving in our eloquence another Auld Lang Syne.” I never really caught that line before. It’s not like it hasn’t been 36 years since I first heard that song, driving to the Auburn mall with ...


December 30, 2016

Anything But Mine

Truth be told this song reminds me of Lana. Just one night. Desperately holding on. I occasionally wonder if it possible to fall in love while you are intensely miserable. I met Lana on the...


I had turned 22 a couple of months before I married for the first time. I thought I was pretty worldly, growing up in a military family and living all over the world. Little did I know. But ...


December 27, 2016

Praying for Time

Praying For Time Apologies to all. This is going to get edited about six hundred more times as memories flood back in. I was in flight school in ‘90. You couldn’t turn on your radio in the s...


December 14, 2016

White Queen

The White Queen walks and the night grows pale… A beautiful blonde in lace will get my attention every time! When I woke up this morning I needed to piss like a race horse. I don’t generally s...


Book Description

The random and sundry. The sacred and profane. The pleasure and the pain.

Warning: I crack myself up sometimes