Random Thoughts…

As another trip winds down, and the holidays are ramping up, I can’t help but compare what his happening today with my memories as a child in the 50s… It seems to me there is no longer any real ‘feeling’ … Continue reading

Superstitions and Old Wive’s Tales…

One can only ‘wonder’ where some of these came from… -You must get out of bed on the same side that you get in or you will have bad luck. -Many people believe that washing dishes and doing laundry on … Continue reading

Meh…

If it’s not bad enough that ‘we’ are putting up Christmas crap well ahead of Thanksgiving, apparently the Aussies are now doing the same… And they don’t have an intervening holiday to mitigate the sales pitches… Talking to the hotel … Continue reading

Strange people…

A catch up from yesterday and today… This ‘dude’ sat and played the SAME song on the headset for 2.5 hours at the loudest setting he could get… In other words, everybody around him got to ‘enjoy’ the song too… … Continue reading

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