Darth Vader, RIP
My memory may be faulty, but wasn’t Dick Cheney a decent enough guy before he went to work as George W. Bush’s VP in 2001?
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
What’s going on in my life
My memory may be faulty, but wasn’t Dick Cheney a decent enough guy before he went to work as George W. Bush’s VP in 2001?
I recently sat for a three-hour Zoom interview with Robert Hoeting, a Dutch friend who follows my blog. He’s starting a podcast featuring pilot interviews and our talk is the first installment: the subject being my experiences in the U.S. Air Force and flying the F-15 Eagle. We covered a bit of my personal history as well, stories I haven’t shared with anyone in ages.
It’s Halloween, which you may remember is also my birthday.
Between the 17th and 19th of October, Donna and I were in Las Vegas for our granddaughter Taylor’s wedding.
In the mid-1980s, my son Gregory, then a student at the University of South Florida, used to ride with me from Tampa to Clearwater to visit the original Hooters, where we’d park our motorcycles and go inside for wings and beer.
I recently sat for a three-hour Zoom interview with a Dutch friend who follows my blog, Robert Hoeting.
Paul’s Thing and Crouton’s Kitchen were inaccessible for a few days and I apologize. Bandwidth exceeded, whatever that means. Fixed now. A friend runs the server on which my blogs reside, and I’m lucky to have him because he understands these things and is patient with me. I thank you, dear readers, for being patient […]
Happy Labor Day to my American readers.