Is it Year in Review or Year End Review? Either way, let me warn you before we get started. I should have said a bottle of Whine, one of those big magnum suckers, because if you read further you are going to get drenched in it. You’ve been warned, proceed at your own risk: I was reading some of my old posts the other day and came across one I made in my first year of blogging. It stated that…
This is a story about one of those times. Sometime around aught 03, I thought that would sound cool but it just doesn’t have the same ring as it did when people were talking about the 1900’s. Let’s try again. Sometime around 2003, I was working in Oxnard California as a civilian technical representative for the Navy. This job required a lot of travel to work on ships in different port cities. I got a two week assignment to work…
As promised, here’s the Humor in Uniform story that was selected by you readers and a virtual coin toss. When I was in the Navy and deployed to the Mediterranean Sea back in 1992, we stopped for a port visit in a little city called Cagliari on the island of Sardinia. We were only going to be there for two days and I had duty on one of those days so just one day of liberty for me. I’m sure…
It’s no re-creation of some great work of art. It is a re-creation of some great film fun. BTW, that’s the HYOB helping me out. I’m ready for the steel plate in my head. Catch you down the road!
You guys remember the 100 Year Old Beer right? If not, click the link and refresh your memory. If you never knew about him, click the link and find out about this long term acquaintance of mine. You all caught up now? Good. Let’s proceed. When I wrote about my fermented friend before, I had a plan to drink him with my bigger (quite often fermented) friend Rich one day. Well, as you probably know, my traitorous liver has now…
When we last left our intrepid sailor he was trapped in a spooky old elevator at a hotel on Martinique island during a hurricane. Halfway between the first and second floor all the lights in the elevator went out! The elevator came to a stop and there I was in darkness. What was I going to do? There certainly wasn’t an emergency phone in this ancient elevator. I didn’t know if power to the hotel had been knocked out by…
What does the year 1920 have to do with this post? That’s when Prohibition started in the United States. My own little prohibition started a bit later. It was a year ago this month that a preliminary test suggested I might have a liver disease. I made the conscious decision to abstain from alcohol until a more thorough diagnosis could be made. If you’ve been following, you know that several months later it was confirmed and I could never drink…
Holy shit snacks! I won a major award! No, it’s not a leg lamp. Nothing as fragelay as that. It’s a Liebster Award! What’s a Liebster? Good question. Sounds close to lobster, which is funny because the person who nominated me for it can’t even eat lobster. It’s not a lobster though. Here, this might help explain. The Liebster Award is an award that exists only on the internet and is given to bloggers by other bloggers. The earliest case…
In a few days it will be July 4th, American Independence Day, and that reminded me of a story. I recently posted another story about friends I met through a local BBS. This is another tale from the BBS. But first, I’m writing this on July 1st, which is Canada Day. A few of my few readers are Canadians. So I’d like to acknowledge them. OK, back to this American tale. It was 1996 in Jacksonville, FL and the BBS…
Just recently went through the hardest break up of my life. This is how it went down: Me: We need to talk. Beer: Uh oh, this doesn’t sound good. Me: There’s no easy way to say this, we can’t see each other anymore. Beer: No! Why not? What have I done? Me: It’s not you, it’s me. Beer: Yeah, I’ve heard that one before. Me: No, in this case it literally is me. Beer: What you talkin’ about Willis? Me: If we…