It’s Thursday morning at the Bay Pointe Hospital (I don’t know why they added the “E” to Point) I stop by the lab to pick up the results and they can’t be found. Hands were scratching heads, Tagalog is flying around the room at the speed of light. Pandemonium has taken over; my blood pressure […]
A Note from My Doctor (Part I)
Over my lifetime the US Navy and I has spent a fortune on my teeth I can’t speak as to the Navy’s reason but mine was simple; I kinda’ liked them. The pleasure of eating an apple or corn on the cob and a good steak was never a bad thing for me. Over the […]
An Ole Friend has departed
The taillights were flickering into the dusk, as our New Ole Honda departs its mountain home for the last time, a tear wells up in my family’s eye, and then we all turn to the New-new Mitsubishi and we smile. New cars sure smell so good. The pre-sold deal fell through, but we all knew […]
The Quest for the New Ride
As I mentioned last week my Auto Loan was pre-approved and I could start looking for the “NEW RIDE” Denny the car salesman was sitting at Mitsubishi Car World on the Subic Freeport as I came through the door, I was the same the type of customer I dreamed about when I was selling Dodge […]
It Has Served Me Well
A year ago I wrote about maybe replacing my 1996 New Ole Honda Civic, but then fate raised its ugly head and I had to have the engine re-built. Then as luck would have it, I now owned a car with a new engine that still looked and ran good. I was stuck between that […]
It Got Me Thinking
My friend passed away last month and I attended the wake. He was a retired Navy man and we were both hired by Military Sealift Command the same day in January 1993.as merchant seaman. This is a story about those left behind. He had no idea that at age 61 he would have a heart […]