It is 4:00am and I can’t sleep, so rather than toss and turn, I get up and write. Not sure why this happens, but many of my ideas for writing tend to occur at about four in the morning. When it comes time to hitting the letters on the keyboard, I am just transcribing words … Read more
In my May 2019 blog, I presented three modest proposals for national elections, sports championships and ending wars. To date none have been adopted, but I have confidence that they will surface for active consideration in the future as the sound logic behind them commands attention. I now have another modest proposal to offer for … Read more
Here is something new below! What you are reading is a story presented as a script for a recording like an old time radio broadcast. We are experimenting with embedding sound in the script, which you can call up by clicking on the highlighted script cues. This format is the same as I used for … Read more
When two experts discuss a topic in which they both have mastery, they have no problem understanding one another. But if someone not trained in that same subject should happen to overhear the experts’ conversation, the eavesdropper might conclude the others were speaking Greek – as in the expression “It’s Greek to me.” I have … Read more
I have been retired from business for a great many years now, but when I was employed as an Application Engineer and subsequently Product Manager of Computerized Cardiac Cath Lab Startup and Production for the Honeywell Test Instruments Division in Littleton, I felt I needed a title. After all, I was dealing with high ranking … Read more
I am a surviving remnant of the “Do Nothing Generation” of the 1950s. We were born to parents caught up in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Perhaps more by mistake than on purpose as it was tough just to put food on the table for yourself much less for a new mouth. That may … Read more
I don’t know how many of you either restore or buy cars from individuals who have restored them, or you buy cars at auction. I restore cars, and I am very selective in what I choose to restore. I am sure that you have a strong preference for what is of interest to you. This … Read more
If you did not fall asleep in your English lit class or cut class to go for a ride in your hot rod, you may have come across this writing of Jonathan Swift and his book, A Modest Proposal. To save you the effort of looking it up, I will show you the Wikipedia synopsis … Read more
THE AGE I LIVED IN Sometime after the Paleozoic era, I used to design medical instruments. Most of the instruments were one-off special purpose designs to support aerospace medicine research. Would you believe one of the designs were brainwave amplifiers to record implanted monkey brains while undergoing zero G stress in the “Vomit Comet” airplane? … Read more
Thanks to my hard working Virtual Assistant, Kelly Johnson, you will get this blog at precisely 12:00:01 on April 1st. I am not sure if she stays up late and uses a stop watch, or if she just uses a special computer program. Sometimes it is hard to tell what goes on in this high … Read more