Archive for December 2020
2020 an “Interesting” Year
I think this sign says “Welcome to 2020”. I had a great boss years ago, Jack Callahan. One of the first things you learned, working with Jack, was what the word “Interesting” meant to him. It meant that he hated whatever you had just said or proposed…as in “Don’t ever bring that up again!” You…
Read MoreA Memorable Christmas
This fits in with my new book, My Pretentious Memoir. Christmas in about 1965. Everyone was coming to our house for Christmas and a fancy meal. My Aunt Mamie was coming and she had already written me out of her Will. I liked her, but she wanted to control me and that never went very…
Read MoreEruption on the Big Island…the adventures continue
Boom…just like that, we are back in the lava business. Kilauea volcano just exploded, sending a column of ash and debris some five miles into the sky. In just two days, it completely boiled off a sizable lake of acidy water and filled it in with live liquid lava…some 500 feet deep already and covering…
Read MoreMy Pretentious Memoir -Part Duex…a new book by an old guy…me.
Here we go again. Another book. More fun. Something for the Christmas stocking. My Pretentious Memoir- Part Duex is a follow up to my best selling What’s Left of Don. That book focused on my adventures. This book focuses on my misadventures. I think most of us feel we are pretty screwed up human beings…but…
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