Random travel…

Still bouncing around Aussie land… Got a down day yesterday, and spent the day with Julie, her family and Shooting Buddy, sadly I wasn’t able to catch up with any of the other WA shooters.  Miss 12 was participating in … Continue reading

It’s ‘that’ time of year…

Down under for some meetings this week and next week, and spring has sprung… In Western Australia the winds are blowing off the land to the water, reversing the normal wind patterns, and with that comes ALL the damn flies … Continue reading

Pandora’s Box is now open for business…

Well, the Dems have done it now they exercised the ‘nuclear option’ in the Senate… Today’s Democrats have grown up in the Saul Alinsky tradition, and on Thursday they proved it with a partisan vote to break the Senate filibuster rule for … Continue reading

50 years ago today…

Approximately one minute after this picture was taken, at 12:30 PM CST on Nov. 22, 1963 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas… Ironically, that was a Friday, and today the 50th anniversary is also a Friday. I … Continue reading

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I are a millionaire…

Apparently sometime last night (Australian time) I passed the 1,000,000 view plateau… I know I’m not a big league blogger, but to me this is still amazing… And almost 700,000 visits!  I never figured I’d get anywhere close considering that … Continue reading

Memories…

Bill put up a post HERE about ‘marking time’ in our lives… This is one of the ways the Navy tends to do it, is the inevitable patch collection or picture from your co-workers, crew or bosses… This particular one … Continue reading

Gun sales, California edition…

It appears not everyone in Kalifornia is listening to Pelosi, Feinstein et al… According to California Dealer’s Record of Sale there were approximately 818 thousand  guns sold in 2012. Around 75 hundred applications in that same year were denied. Right … Continue reading

‘Humor’…

From back in the day, courtesy of my old Radar operator… 🙂 Sir, I am DJ Johnson and I would appreciate it if you could tell me what It takes to be a fighter pilot in the US Navy. What … Continue reading

It’s the #$%^& door…

Whew, scientific proof, what a relief to learn this! Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was? Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses. Psychologists … Continue reading