Mostly stories about humorous or interesting things that have happened to me.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to define thee,If I were to lose that Ring, in the darkness she would bind me. J.R.R. Tolkien (slightly modified) Ari and wife 1/3 were speeding west along I-10 in their ’88 Mercury Tracer hatchback. The cargo area in the back was full to the brim with suitcases. The back seat was full with a three year old toddler and a two month old baby. They were about three hours out of…
I’m a published author! Woohoo! I can’t believe it. I actually conceived an idea, wrote about it, finished writing about it, had it edited, did re-writes, did more editing, and published it! It’s been two years in the making but among the many other DOA projects I started, this one is finished! I know I’ve talked about working on this novel a few times before, but for the newbies I’ll just post my book summary below. A man and his…
By the title of this post you might think I was going to tell you a story about catching someone in a military uniform that they didn’t earn. Nope, this is a different stolen valor story. My valor was stolen by a 20something year old dude who ran the local arcade in my hometown. Our fulltime RV life has brought us back around to my hometown of Marshall, TX where we are hanging around mooch docking off my parents for…
I finished my novel! Woohoo! I’ve already written a number of short stories and kind of a running memoir, and I’ve even started several novels, but I have never finished any of them. Until now. Just the other day I wrote the words The End and it took me a minute to realize what I had accomplished. It’s been over a year in the making. Sometimes the words flew from my fingers at an alarming pace. Sometimes I had to…
Right now the LeeLander is landed at my sister’s house in Arlington, TX. I took the dogs for a walk the other day and discovered a little playground nearby. What was even nicer is that it was gated so I could let the dogs off their leashes. As we neared the combination slide/junglejimmy thing I saw something hanging underneath. What could that be? I continued to walk closer to the junglejimmy thing. It was some sort of bag hanging there….
Hey everyone. It’s been a week since we started our RV life but I know you are probably getting tired of reading posts about us and the LeeLander. So I decided to put up another poll to let you all decide what I write about next. I’ll leave the poll open through Thursday. See below for your choices! You can also drop me a comment to let me know why you made the choice you did. Who knows? If your…
Let me start off by saying that I had NO culpability in this tale. I know that is rare when I or my actions are usually front and center in most of the crazy stories I tell from my life. Not this time though. I was just an observer. BTW, this story was voted on by my readers as the one they wanted to hear next. The vote actually ended up being a tie between this story and another one,…
I’ve decided to let the readers decide which post I’ll make next. Also, I just figured out how to do this poll stuff so I wanted to show off my ever increasing blog super powers. I’ll leave the poll open for a few days and abide by the results. You can also drop a comment and let me know why you made that choice. So make your choice. DO IT NOW! Sorry, that seemed a little pushy. PLEASE, DO IT…
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…
Do you remember where you were during Hurricane Hortense in 1996? Probably not, since that storm never made landfall in the continental U.S. I, however, was not in the continental U.S. in September of 1996 and I remember that bitch well. I was in the Navy and serving a shore duty tour at the Fleet Technical Support Center in Mayport, FL. As a radar technician it was my job to go to ships that had broken gear and help fix…