Category: Shorts
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The Best Things About Guam
Reading Time: 2 minutesOh man, this is supposed to be a short post so all I’m going to get to do is list the things I liked best about living on Guam for 3 years. First, of course, is the sun, sand, warmth and beaches. It’s a tropical island. How many people do you know… Read more
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Administrative Specialist
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter graduating Basic Training, I was shipped off to Technical School at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi to learn how to serve the Air Force as an administrative specialist. It’s a routine job that the Air Force needs just like a high powered executive needs a secretary. Without admin specialists, the guys… Read more
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The Lost Birthday
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you haven’t read last Tuesday’s post about my enlisting in the Air Force, please detour back to that now. Here’s the link. The 5th day of Basic Training also happened to be my 26th birthday. Of course, no one knew it was my birthday and I wasn’t about to tell anyone.… Read more
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Crappy Service
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHave you ever noticed that service in a restaurant is really lousy when the restaurant isn’t very busy? Randy and I think this is almost universally true. It’s interesting to us because it’s counterintuitive. You’d think that when servers aren’t busy they’d give you more, not less, of their attention. But… Read more
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A Swelling of Pride
Reading Time: 2 minutesLee Greenwood’s iconic song Proud to Be an America always brings a lump to my throat, especially this version, linked here. Even watching it again now raised goose bumps on my arms. As a citizen and veteran of what is still the greatest country on earth, there hasn’t been, for the last… Read more
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A Crafty Triumph
Reading Time: 2 minutesExcept for knitting and crocheting, I don’t enjoy crafting anymore. But when Kristine showed up with this little box, made out of the bottom of a 2-liter coke bottle, I was immediately enamored. It is so cute, so functional, so versatile. She paid something like 20 bucks for it. Next time I… Read more
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Like An Old Friend
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYears ago, during the era of VCR tapes, we recorded a comedy skit from Rodney Dangerfield’s comedy club. The comedian, named Bob Nelson, had a schtick about a college football team introducing themselves. We must have watched that short bit about 100 times back then, laughing (which is really good for… Read more
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A Bloody Mess
Reading Time: 2 minutesI went to lunch yesterday with my Airplane Girls. We had a great time, as always. Randy was at home working, by himself, on some of the “behind the drywall” modifications for the guest bath tub to walk-in shower conversion project we started this week. I knew things didn’t go well when… Read more
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Thank God I Live in Florida
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe waved good-bye on Wednesday morning to Kristine and Gary. Kristine was practically vibrating with excitement that she was going home, where her Christmas decorations were still up, to a predicted 5 inches of snow on the ground. Gary, who wouldn’t mind at all living in Florida, was not nearly as excited… Read more
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Love
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLove is in the air. All You Need is Love God is love. Love makes the world go round. How sweet it is to be loved by you. Live, love, laugh. Have I told you lately that I love you? With a love like that, you know you should be glad.… Read more