At one point in my career the president and owner of the company I worked for stopped in my office and told me he wanted me to produce a training video. My immediate response was, “No”! Instead of asking why, he just […]
Martha and I would sometimes take a week in Orlando during the winter. We would drop the kids off with the grandparents and head south. It usually took us two days to get there. We would stop in Chattanooga Tennessee. See Rock […]
One year my grandson Andy was going to a hockey camp in Minnesota, so Julie and Stacey decided we should take grandpa camp on the road. So, we rented a cabin on a lake Chetek in Wisconsin, and Julie would drive up […]
As a rabid tv watcher I also watch for the things that make watching not as enjoyable. As you read this don’t check the total accuracy of my numbers, but they are in the ballpark. The first thing is how many minutes […]
I carried a cell phone around for customer service issues for seven years after I retired. It was during this period when the doctor decided they wanted to do a colonoscopy on me. The preparations were bad enough, but when I got […]
Back in 1964 I got involved with boat racing. A friend Than who also worked at Bell Labs and was originally from Michigan had been at it most of his life. I bought a 10′ runabout and a Mercury KG4 engine from […]
Martha had been in UW Madison hospital for about a month, and I got a call that I could come pick her up and bring her to Wesley Willows for rehab. Oh boy was I excited. I jumped into my car and […]
The golf group I had the privilege of belonging to was similar to many such groups. We would get together for one week a year, but strong bonds were formed that carried through the other fifty-one weeks of the year. We would […]
After I retired in 2003, Martha and I decided on a fun item to add to my life, Grandpa Camp. The grandkids could come and spend a week with me. My job would be to teach them all kinds of things. These […]
When my older brother younger sister and I were in grade school back in Evansville Indiana, our dad traded a vacuum cleaner for an old upright piano. It belonged to the Bagby family next door. I remember how they laid 2x10s in […]