Advent 2024- Peace

I have been relatively inactive on my website. Facebook is a minefield and a ing restricting my FB involvement to family and first person friends and concentrsating on adding content to my own website.  One of my passions is video and drone flying.  Recently I...

Cheers

So I ran for 31 years relatively injury free.  This included three not-so-great marathons in Buffalo, Toronto and Ottawa.  I finished them all my best time being 3:56 and some change.  I’ve never been able to let go of this wonderful hobby, if you will.  In 2011...

Strange Times

We share something globally in these days. Something we have never seen before. The looming threat of a rogue virus that will be another game changer. Every once in a while these events take place and we are never the same. People are talking about a new normal. Dr....

Football Is My Life … NOT!

I love it and this afternoon, I’ll watch it. Sometimes I am intensely glued to the screen and other times it is just white noise. The intricate plot of a well written movie requires silence and total concentration as the viewer tries to predict the outcome....

The Dance

After a person does certain things long enough, they become mindless.  As a Pinkerton security guard in Bethlehem, PA, I worked the graveyard shift at a Champion Spark Plug factory.  Combine the routine of rounds every half hour with the cloudiness of a mind that...

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers....