The "Old" Country…

One of the sidelights of the Italy trip was a chance to have dinner with an old friend who is on ‘assignment’ to Italy for a couple of years with his company.  I met with he and his wife at … Continue reading

A bit busy…

Sorry for the light posting and commenting… We took a bit of a different approach into Tokyo this time, as far as I could tell from listening to the controllers, this is the ‘new’ standard approach… On the road for … Continue reading

Ohhh… I ‘KNOW’ better…

To do list: 1. Aspirin… 2. Find head, reinsert brain, reattach… 3. Get number of Sake truck that ran over head… 4. Find elephant that crapped in mouth, shoot same… 5. Aspirin… 6. Get tattoo on forehead- You are NOT … Continue reading

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly…

Well, THAT week is over… The Good- A three bedroom beach house on Kauai… The view from the porch… and somebody was sitting in MY chair… The Bad- Nobody to share it with… The Ugly- We were going in to … Continue reading

Friends and Acquaintances…

Well, another day, another @#&* airplane… sigh… Actually this will be a trains (from Yokosuka to Narita), planes (Narita to Dallas) and automobiles day (Dallas to home)… It’s been a weird month as far as running into old friends and … Continue reading

How old is Grandpa???

Stay with this — the answer is at the end…It may just surprise you!One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events.The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, … Continue reading

On the Road again…

Just a quick blog- It’s really interesting signing into the blog from here… Most of the character sets come up in Japanese language (Kanji), with a few things coming up in English… You either have to visualize the boxes with … Continue reading