An Accident – Whose Fault?
I offered to give a friend a ride back from the body shop. He was dropping his car off to have the annoying dents (his words) removed. On the way there, I made a left turn onto a street that had a stop sign for the oncoming vehicles. To make a short story shorter, we […]
My History with Golf
The puzzling behavior of our military in the news these days reminded me of my military service in the Air Force. My memories are not what you would imagine. In fact, the things I remember after so many years surprise me too. My commanding officer when I was stationed in the Azores was a golf […]
Website Disasters
Almost my whole business life has been as a computer techie. And one significant thing I have learned that still hasn’t been learned by website (or programs for that matter) designers. The techies that built the website should never be the ones who decide it is ready for the public to use. Never. That failure […]
The Movies
My wife and I were invited by my son and daughter-in -law to go to the movies with them. The movie was REGRETTING YOU based on one of Colleen Hoover’s books. Due to being nailed to my house during Covid, I’ve been all movied out. Now I know that there are some very good movies […]
The Eternal Detour
Bergen County, especially Englewood is in a perennial state of repair. By repair, I mean digging up the streets and closing roads in such a way that to go one mile, you practically need a tank of gas. Forgive the hyperbole but it gets more than tiresome. Even worse, when they finally finish and pave the […]
Me and Hurricanes
Some of you know I have graduate training as a meteorologist and served as a weatherman in the USAF and for a while for TWA at JFK (So long ago it was still called Idlewild) When I was stationed at Dover AFB, we had several hurricanes hit or come close to the base. Forecasting their […]
Creating the Big Bang Bible
We were at Francesca and Dave’s, our granddaughter and her husband, in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. The Tennessee part has nothing to do with this thought. I noticed my granddaughter had a brand new paperback bible on the table. I asked her why she had it. She said she bought it because whe wanted to read […]
Walking Backwards
When I was in high school, I read Edward Bellamy’s book Looking Backward which at the time was interesting in it’s study of the evolution of current technology. Today it would be hysterical, even strange for the current populus studying the origins of things we not only took for granted but may now be obsolete. […]
Fake Video Doctors
I recently watched a commercial for a toenail fungus remedy where the “doctor” described her medication as containing “Trickatones” her pronunciation of triketones. I can’t imagine any doctor so ignorant of elementary organic chemistry (a basic prerequesite for medical school) that would pronounce it that way. Then I watched the same fake doctor give a […]
Chasing Chase.
I should start by saying that, for the most part, I don’t like banks. They are even more despicable for the 30 some odd percent interest they charge on their credit cards. Greed is not good. Let me tell you a story. Before my wife and I went to Switzerland to visit my son last […]