July 2009

Boating on the Gulf of Mexico

July 27, 2009

When I was around 14 I had an opportunity to visit my Uncle John who lived in St Petersburg, Florida. This was a somewhat interesting proposition, since I really didn’t know him. He and my mother (his sister) got along well enough, but with my father and my uncle both having military careers it was [...]

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Darmstadt Fines and Rides (two types)

July 24, 2009

I was at a club in Darmstadt, Smuggler’s Inn, and having a good time. Nothing unusual there, just my normal hangout while I was not out on some construction assignment. Smuggler’s was a combination rock/dance/disco with a live DJ all the time. It was pretty cool actually. Thinking about the arrangement, it was built around [...]

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Five New Jersey Mayors and Three Rabbis walk into a bar

July 23, 2009

sometimes it’s like the headlines come out of a bad joke book. ~~~~ Five New Jersey Mayors and Three Rabbis walk into a bar. The bartender says “We don’t serve mayors and rabbis here” The Mayors and the Rabbis look at each other and ask “Why won’t you serve five mayors and three rabbis?” The [...]

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DateLife 1997

July 16, 2009

It’s an odd title to this, just because I don’t know what to call it. 1997 was the year that I got my associates degree from RACC. Going to school part time for about 3 years or something like that made me really step back and think ‘what the fuck am I doing with my [...]

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Online ‘Dating’ and wasted time

July 15, 2009

Oddly enough this is one experience that I hadn’t put into my ‘to do’ list for this blog. Maybe it was because I blocked it out of my memory, or maybe I just ‘sort of’ forgot it. It’s been a while, so either way doesn’t matter. I met my wife ‘online’ and we are happily [...]

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Arizona Cliff Diving. Sort of…

July 9, 2009

At some point in my life, I think it was around 1984, I went rock climbing with my oldest brother, Chad. I don’t know what I normally call him here. These are all true stories, but the names have mostly been changed to protect the, I don’t know, ‘innocent?’ Most of the people I associated [...]

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Drug use: bad. Big Pharma: bad. Mongo: good

July 7, 2009

I recently revisited Chicago and had to take a stroll through my ‘old neighborhood.’ Now it was only my old neighborhood for a few months, yet it still held an interesting place in my heart because of all the bizarre history that occurred within a relatively short period of time. I got to the apartment [...]

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