My friends Don and Teody are in from San Diego for a few months and have a house a few minute walk up the street from me. When they visit they’ll normally stay for a few months but Don must make trips to Japan and Korea as part of a working contract. (BTW Don is […]
Change is Still Upon Us! (THREE)
Friday 13 October (My Navy’s Birthday) I was off to Taft Avenue in “MANILA” and the reason was omitted but I called to get the information, and spoke to Ester and asked if the nice folks in Houston TX. Had an idea that the Philippines was an archipelago made up of 7,107 islands (At high […]
The Eyes Have It
OH my GOSH Paul, you have a *cataract in the back of your right eye but your left eye is fine with no debilitating cloudy crud growing on that one! OH joy, I shouted, “I’m blind in one eye, and can’t see well with the other, and I just don’t give a crap with either!” […]
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 […]