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Continue readingThe S.O. and I drove up to Frankfurt yesterday. To have lunch at a restaurant named Fujiwara. It is in Sachsenhausen which is across the Main river from downtown Frankfurt. Nihongo is spoken there. In fact-it is spoken more than German. It was worth the trip. For those who don't
Continue readingAs a Disney stockholder, I have great hopes for the merger of Star Wars and Walt Disney. However as a bonafide SCI-Fi fan-I also can recognize that this merger has a great possibility of screwing up a time-honored legend. The picture below probably explains it well:
Continue readingOutgoing Director, LTG Patrick O’Reilly, issues some final guidance to his senior staff: Laugh if you must-but trust me-similar conversations have occurred in real life there……
Continue readingAt least every one who goes into the service. Laugh if you will-but when you are at the beginning of the journey, you always imagine yourself doing something great, unique and hero-worthy. Its only later that you realize that the heroism comes from a lot of you doing both routine
Continue readingNo reason you can't set your own records while watching the Olympics. And one benefit of being able to watch the Olympics on BBC-is half these items are never said by British announcers. For those of you stuck with Bob Costas…….well, it sucks to be you. Drink up!
Continue readingIn honor of "Support Chick Fil A and its pompous evangelical CEO" day-I did the only logical thing. I got on a plane and left the USA. This evening, I will have a beer and a roast beef sandwich, or maybe even some Fleischkase prepared by those heathen, socialist, Germans.
Continue readingIn the middle of a hectic work / travel schedule. Have a trip to elsewhere in Deutschland on the horizon, immediately followed by a trip back to the Whining States of America. Part business-part familial pilgrimage. In the interim-between going back and forth to both work and the doctor-I got
Continue readingI survived mine:
Continue readingPoor John Adams, the poor man never gets his due. Our 2nd President may have saved America more than a couple times from its own worst influences, but he never gets any credit for it. Tea Bag America always would rather misquote his successor than give the man from Quincy
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