Story time! Back when I was in the Navy I did a lot of scuba training – for obvious reasons… That whole submarine, underwater, living near the ocean thing. Anyway, once I got out I didn’t have much call for all of that dive training. Not a lot of ocean…
The 80’s were a pretty wild time, and despite the rainbows and day-glow the decade had a bit of a dystopian undercurrent that showed up in the pop culture of the time… The cartoons we watched, comics we read, and lots of movies of the time were typically based on…
Had a little excitement in my neighborhood this afternoon in the form of a small wildfire in that wooded area in front of my house. I was working from home today, and after lunch I heard what I thought was a trash truck outside followed by some yelling and the…
I was listening to Space Radio this morning on the way into the office and Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World” began playing… It’s a very poignant song and one of my favorites in their catalog along with “Save a Prayer”, but the bridge really stood out: Papers in the roadside Tell…
Listening to "Flashback" by Morgan Willis
A few weeks ago I signed up for this virtual adventure / exercise thing called “Conqueror Virtual Challenges”, and then walked the length of Hadrian’s Wall on Northern England in a bit over three weeks… Hadrian’s Wall is 90 miles. I averaged 3.75 miles a day even with all of…