_{* This actually started life as an email to a friend and then I decide it would make an interesting post.} 

My weekend ride turned out to be quite an adventure.  We had a great ride down to The Dalles, OR.  The highlights for me were Lyle Canyon/… Read full post »

In the moments after the news of the latest terror incident broke, this one in Norway, there was an immediate assumption that Muslims were behind the violence. Within minutes, one Facebook friend posted a link that said that a rise in rape in Norway corresponded to a rise… Read full post »

Last fall I had the good fortune to spend a week in Amsterdam.  I fell in love with that beautiful and amazing city. 

On the morning after my arrival, I was up very early due to my body adjusting to the time difference. … Read full post »

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When I was Air Export Manager at a freight forwarder in Portland, our biggest customer was a conglomerate who owned several well known ammunition manufacturing companies. During my tenure, I exported hundreds of thousands of tons of ammunition to locales… Read full post »

I love cars; always have, always will. I love semicolons too.  Did I use it right?  

At some point in my mid 20's, I counted all the cars I had owned or part owned and it came to something like 30. At this stage, codgerism, I couldn't begin… Read full post »

 I watched several episodes of “Hoarders” over the weekend.  Now those are some seriously fucked up people.  They fill their houses with garbage, or as they call it, “collectables”, until their house is no longer habitable.  According to the pro/… Read full post »

_{And you want to make fun of Mormons for their underwear?}

In Brandon’s Big Gay Blog, Brandon Burt talks about coming out as Gay in the LDS culture.  As you might guess, it was not easy and there was little acceptance from the LDS culture… Read full post »

_{Worlds Largest Thermometer, Baker, CA.  Image by yours truly.}

Hot August Nights is a Neil Diamond album, easily the best record he ever made and certainly his last decent album before he became the King of Tack and Easy Listening.  There is also a big car/… Read full post »

We can all use a little distraction these days, which must be why we’re so interested in where LeBron James will wind up when so many of us clearly have our own job searches to contend with.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of/… Read full post »

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Remember back around 1974 when self-serve gas stations were just coming into vogue?  I worked in one-a them other stations where you pulled into the spotless drive and a uniformed me sprinted… Read full post »