I am not dead.  The life issues are being worked on and in a hopeful way.  I'm sorry if any of you were concerned about my well being.

  Last Friday at about noon CDT a major complex of severe thunderstorms struck.  Following closely after that was an extremely rare… Read full post »

  First let me apologize for jumping the goodbye gun.  When I posted goodbye I was under the impression that I was to move out of our house and wouldn't have access to my computer or the net. 

  I met my wife a long time ago.  I very likely… Read full post »

  Well kids, it's disaster afterall.  I've loved being a part of O/S.  I hope to find a way to check in from time to time.  I'm not the most popular guy here, but some of you seemed to like me. 

Remnants of a shattered life

Leave me in a… Read full post »

  Well,  not a lot of interest in me but to those who wasted five minutes,(that they'll never get back) heres the skinny.  My two truths and one lie are as follows;

1.  I climbed Mt Hood.

2.  I spent an evening in a bar with Ray Sawyer. ( the eypatch… Read full post »

I can't quite figure out which things would get the nod for anyone else.  In turn I think that I'll try to stump the rest of you.

1.  I have climbed Mt Hood.

2.  I spent an evening at a bar with Ray Sawyer.  (the  guy with the eye patch… Read full post »

  So I'll give this a shot.  I'll try to make it as dirty as I can.

         Hot supple skin glows

      Smoothly shining in the dim

    gently touching my soul

  Does that work? Read full post »

  I know that no one is overly fond of personal or maudlin postings, so I'll warn all now that this is either going to be one or both of the above.  I've been with my wife for a long time.  I love her.  She is my alpha and omega.  No… Read full post »

A new blogger, Exigent, in his bio would appear to hail from Freedonia.  Leading me to watch a few scenes from the Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup.  There is a song that I feel describes almost perfectly the country that W, and Dicks dog and pony show wanted to install in… Read full post »

  The A.P. is reporting that the Taliban are within 65 miles of Islamabad.  The news is barely reported, yet the consequences of an extremeist Islamic group controlling a country that is in posession of a multitude of nuclear weapons is grave.  The secular government of Pakistan h… Read full post »

  The frightening parallels between the birth of the third reich and the direction that the republicans and their allies on the extreme religious right are taking today deserve to be illuminated.  It's sad that so few of the generation that personally fought against fascism are left no… Read full post »

  This may be the all time most redundant title in my short history here.  That I don't like him should be obvious to anyone who has read my blog or the comments I've left on other people's.  I don't dislike him because he belongs to the republican party, I don't dislike… Read full post »

  This story has been brewing for a while now.  It is difficult to know just how to go about it.  My brother Bill died last year on June sixth, three days after his 47th birthday.  He had a metastized pheochromacytoma.  That's Greek for Little Brown Tumor.  It is a cance… Read full post »

  I'm really sorry that this post is necessary.  After reading the commets posted by conservatives on my comments on other peoples blogs I felt that maybe I could provide them with a reality check.  I know that few will read this and most of those who do will bleat like… Read full post »

   After the adventure in Alexandria I had two days of washing airplanes in the sweltering tropical sun.  The soap that is used to wash them is a very alkaline, slimy mess that will make you howl like the hounds of hell if it gets in your eyes.  It was important… Read full post »

  As I picked my way through various wire service and internet news this morning I saw that the great Karl Rove had declared that the vice president was a "blowhard"  and a  "liar". The full quote as reported by AP is as follows: "He’s a serial exaggerator. If I was being… Read full post »

  It happens that while I was cruising the Med in defense of our country that an unusual event took place.  Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty.  During this I had the good fortune to be a sort of hostage for Anwar Sadat.  The Kennedy was the first u.S. warship… Read full post »

  I suppose that it's clear to those who know me here that I've been a supporter of president Obama since he was a senator.  I'm a shameless social liberal and proponent of leagalizing cannabis.  I do volunteer work for a domestic violence program and am an avowed non-violent.  I'… Read full post »

  When I was a teen, I didn't know my father.  He was always in the family I just had my own take on who he was.  It turned out that I was wrong.  Like so many men of his generation he was bound by society to be a "man".  He… Read full post »

  Last week was an amazing one for me.  My brush with death went gold, well at least it was an EP and made the cover for a little while.  I felt like Sally Fields at the Oscars, you liked me.  Once again thanks to all who read it.  I welcome… Read full post »

  It took me a while to pick one brush with death out of a few that were noteworthy.  I spent a few years in Uncle Sam's canoe club.  I was technically an avionics man, as any Navy vet knows this doesn't mean a lot at times since everyone gets assigned… Read full post »

  This puts a guy like me on the spot.  So many eras, so many genres.  I have to sift the silents from the sound.  The color from black and white.  Comedies, dramas, documentaries, musicals ad infinitum.  What is a "favorite"?  Is it the film that made you laugh the… Read full post »

Sorry about the title folks, if I had titled it Bob has a mental illness how many people would have not even looked?

I read posts from others on O/S who are talking about mental illness and as a person who has one I think that it is time to let… Read full post »

  I have to note here the fact that all of this is about as true as my memory will allow.  We now continue with our story.

  High school was the place where I spent some of my time, the rest I spent in search of adventure.  I was to… Read full post »

  I don't know you, I am unsure why the anniversary of your birth is so important to so many people here.  That being said, I want to wish you a happy birthday too.  I don't need a reason.  I am sure that you deserve it just for being you.  My… Read full post »

A great headline on Yahoo's home page says that "Marijauna linked to Testicular Cancer" pretty scary for those who do the weed and have testicles.  Needless to say I jumped right in to the article.  I don't know how many folks are familiar with Yahoo news, but the articles are generally… Read full post »