No internet access for a day or so. We are off to check on the S.O.`s apartment. Picture posts tomorrow evening.
Continue readingDennis Hopper RIP.
Dead at 74. I have always been a fan of his. Spike has a pretty good piece on his life. He was a unique actor who brought a voice to many of us Boomers.
Continue readingTadaima!
That`s what you say when you return home in Japan-coming in the door to let the S.O. know that you are home. So I`m letting Japan know I`m back even if it is just for a week. Trip over was OK. We flew out to LAX, then the next day
Continue readingNo surprise here…….
Tomorrow begins the Memorial Day weekend. The S.O. and I are on the first leg of a pilgrimage to the correct side of the International Date Line. With the exception of one glorious week last year-this is my first time back to that location in two years. TWO YEARS! That’s
Continue readingThere goes the neighborhood…..
Seems Sarah Palin begrduges members of the press-the same freedoms she espouses elsewhere. Can somebody explain to me how this isn’t a despicable thing for Palin to do? She describes McGinniss as the author of “the bizarre anti-Palin administration oil development pieces that resulted in my Department of Natural Resources
Continue readingVatican Rag
First you get down on your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect, And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! Do whatever steps you want, if You have cleared them with the Pontiff. Everybody say his own Kyrie eleison, Doin’ the Vatican Rag. Follow the link to see pictures
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When a Canadian understands the Constitution better than a lot of Arizonans or teabaggers do: I haven’t objected to the new Arizona “papers please” law, SB 1070 (PDF), on the basis that its racist, although it probably is. I object to to it because it violates the Supremacy Clause (Article
Continue readingWe suck…….
I work with two other retired Navy guys. Because of where we work we have insight into a lot of current Navy news and events. Plus-all of us travel to Navy facilities. We have a saying when we read something particularly atrocious -and for some reason we are reading a
Continue readingBack home
For a short while anyway. This week will be a busy one as we prepare to make the Haj-no, not that Haj-but a pilgrimage back to familiar and far better scenery. For today however, it is off to work. I tried an experiment of sorts uploading a whole lot of
Continue readingA pretty full day.
“Qualifications?” “Stampeding cattle”. “That does not sound like so much” ” Through the Vatican?” For some reason this guy objected. (Link to pix to follow when I get back home this weekend.) But I did get to play with my Digital SLR today-and got some pix from the Sistine Chapel
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