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 […]
Our neighbor Judy, who lived across the street, and is the mother of Tommy who had the run in with our dog, drove our kids crazy. She was always on their case. One week she stopped me to explain that while Martha […]
It’s been so long I don’t actually remember when Mike and Julie bought their two boys, Andy and PD new bicycles. I can’t remember if they were ten speeds or twelve speeds. Anyway, they rode the heck out of them. After about […]
On our annual week of golf one of the concerns was meals. Top priority when we got there was a trip to the supermarket. We created quite a vision. Eight guys with two or three carts pillaging the local Publix. Chips and […]