A nice trip to Tarlac then two weeks later they did send me to a Manila clinic in Alabang City, a six-hour drive from Bataan. For some strange reason my daughter and her husband wanted to come along once more, and with my Granddaughter also joined us, I was pleased. It was miserable, 6 hours […]
Electronics, Are Really Messing Up Their Lives
My knowledge on the subject of Electronics, I would like to say is vast. Yes, I would like to say, but that would be a bald-faced lie. Sir Bob would reject this article as “Fake News” and I’d be run out of Bataan on a rail, if we had tracks here, more than likely it […]
Change is Upon Us! (One)
This is going to be a three-part series, but I’m not going to submit them in a row, I’m going to stagger them, the reason is that even I get bored with the same thing for three weeks in a row so why wouldn’t our readers? Five years ago under a previous administration when I […]
Coffee in the Philippines
First I’ll be honest; coffee wasn’t exactly my number one priority in the 70’s and 80’s as my ships came in and out of the Philippines. As I remember Navy Issue coffee was once the finest coffee you could get. I retired in 1986 so I can’t speak to the quality of the coffee after […]
Unicorns Frolicking in Their Front Yard
In 1963 the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles issued me a Drivers License after I had passed both the written and driving test, on the crowded streets of Boston. I even had to accomplish a three-point turn on a narrow neighborhood street while driving a standard shift 1954 huge straight eight Pontiac convertible (My Brother […]
Calendars and Clocks and Other Useless Stuff
There was a time in my life when my daily activity was ruled by clocks and calendars. This was I had assumed is normal until I retired from the Navy in 1986 down in Puerto Rico that was when I realized just how much calendars and clocks had controlled my life. The following day (Post-retirement) […]