As always, the Middle East, where I live, is full of “interesting” news. The most important item, in my view, came a few days ago. The United Arab Emirates decided to make a normal peace treaty with Israel. The two sides are formalizing relations and looking into various mutually beneficial trade , commerce, and health … More Extortion Politics
One of the things one does when confined to quarters by COVID19 is to rummage through drawers and shelves. I was doing that when I came across a letter of thanks I received over 30 years ago for a job well done. I was the team leader/project manager for a software project for CITICORP bank … More I Saved This Letter
Being under house arrest has limitations. Essentially, as a retiree in the section of the population considered at high risk. that is my situation. But even prisoners need some kind of exercise. There are both physical and mental challenges to help keep us in shape. I regularly find myself doing sudoku puzzles and mini crosswords, … More Corona Exercise
As many of you who read this already know, I’ve been writing a book. The book title is “The Easter Egg Fleet”. It has been under development for a long time. This post is going to cover a few of the reasons why. I started writing about American ship camouflage in WWI because I was … More Meet a Struggling Author
I recently re-opened my home photo studio to take pictures of ship models that had not yet been shown. Here are some of them
One of the ways we avoid extensive contact with the outside world is by ordering our groceries for home delivery. We have two places we order from. One is our local small food store. We order from them by phone, and they deliver it almost immediately. The other is a large chain store supermarket that … More On-Line Groceries
My wife took out the vacuum cleaner to clean our living room rug this morning. We have a Shark brand cleaner. It says it never loses suction or power. But that wasn’t her experience today. She could see the machine was not picking up anything from the rug. The built in container for dirt is … More Dog Hair! Yucchh!
Why those cities? Because I’ve heard that the “Defund the Police” movement has managed to get those places to discuss the idea of cutting police budgets. The entire concept of trying to achieve gains against racism by cutting the budgets of the people who are expected to uphold the laws is simply mind-boggling to me. … More I’m Glad I Don’t Live in Minneapolis, Seattle, or New York City.
A couple of years ago I wrote about how women helped with camouflage in Word War One.Today I want to go into a little greater detail about one aspect of that. When the US entered the Great War as a combatant her armed forces were not fully prepared. Troops needed to mobilized (drafted) and trained. … More USS Recruit – 1917 version
My children all got together and bought me a special present for my last birthday, a 3D printer. Of course I had to make room to place it next to my computer. We bought another small table. I assembled the table and put it in between the old computer table and a little book case. … More A New Toy
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