For years I’ve heard the ratio was 7 to 1, but I recently found out that is not it at all. According to the interwebby thingy this is the equation: For the first two years, a dog year is equal to 10.5 human years. After that, each dog year equals 4 human years. This calculation […]
Tuesday Afternoon
Here in the Philippines there is never much talk about space in relationships, unlike in the Western World, where it becomes a demand. How many times have you heard: “I need my space?” How much more space does your lady friend need? I was a merchant seaman gone for 4-6 months at a time, now […]
Park it somewhere
Is an old Navy expression (At least that was the first place I heard it) as you file into a space, some Chief will be shouting; “Tighten it up shipmates, park it somewhere!” and somehow we all fit. We were all sitting at Texas Joe’s on Valentine’s Day and it was crowded. The lot was […]
Remember Me
I e-mailed Bob Martin, you might know him as “Mindanao Bob” but I know him as “Fearless Leader Bob” but anyway I e-mailed that guy and told him I was knocking on deaths door. I’m talking viral flu not bottled flu. I informed him about my life hanging by a thread and there would be […]
Pipe Dreams
Day dreams pipe dreams or whatever you choose to call them they are still dreams. Winter sets in; you are shoveling snow out of the driveway to head out into the pitch black freezing morning to get to work on time. To pass the time forging through the snow with 5,000 other drivers all going […]
It Happens
Albeit as I get older it happens more than I care to admit, s senior moment, it slipped my mind or the old Navy term “Major Brain fart” But here I was on Saturday morning ready to send an article to Fearless Leader Bob, and when I opened my LiP Pending folder a blank page […]