As you know I have an Instagram account. I post breakfast in the morning, and dinner in the evening. Along with the food I give advice based on my 87 years of experience, The account has to be one of the friendliest […]

Sometime around 1970 Martha decided she needed a car. As usual I was little help to her. She searched around and came up with a 1960 Corvair station wagon. It had been driven here from California by a guy going to school […]

Most of the Christmases during the time I was growing up except one are all like a rerun of each other. I have already covered the one different one earlier in this blog. The rest of them are memorable not for anything […]

Monday, I had an experience that really opened my eyes. I had an eye doctor appointment that day and it went well. I had no diseases and no change in my glass prescription. That was the good news. I realized i was […]

I assume you all have read how Martha and I met. It is still very firm in my mind. Shortly after that meeting, there was another event at Purdue. It was the Sadie Hawkins dance. This is where the girl invites the […]

On my Instagram account I keep getting asked how and where Martha and I met. I will just post it for everyone. It was at Purdue University, and some of the staff threw together a small impromptu party at Cary West which […]

A little over a week ago we got our first real taste of winter. It started snowing Saturday night and continued into the early morning. Depending on where you were and where you measured, there was between nine inches and a foot […]

During my early years at Sundstrand Hydraulics, I was involved in some joint meetings between the Engineering Department, and the Manufacturing Engineering Department. These were always interesting because they gave us a two-sided view of the problem and led to many successful […]

When I was working for the Bell Telephone Laboratories in the early 60s, I worked in the coin telephone department. My boss was a guy by the name of Harold Hershey. Harold was an engineer from the city of Hershey Pennsylvania. His […]

When I was growing up in southern Indiana, I heard of a sport called hockey. I knew nothing about it, but was intrigued about it. I went to the local library and read every book they had on the subject. There weren’t […]