West Point and Cadet Benjamin O. Davis
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has named a barracks after General Benjamin O. Davis, ’32, the second African American to...
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So Long Dick
An old family friend passed away about six weeks ago. Last weekend I flew to San Mateo, California and attended a memorial service for...
Ashland
For the first time in about ten years, we visited Ashland, Oregon and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We enjoyed two Shakespeare plays,...
Bengazi Thing
Congressman Adam Schiff (D., California) has been named by minority leader Pelosi to participate in the most recent inquiry into the...
Spies
The indictments of Chinese People’s Liberation Army officers by the United States for stealing industrial secrets suggests that there is...
QSO
Back in the days of telegraphy when operators transmitted dots and dashes to form letters and words, they came up with a shorthand for...
General Ham I Am
That’s the General Class Amateur Radio Operator, the next level above Technician which I passed about a month ago. I figured I would...
Ham I Am
I am now officially KG7LEA for the next ten years! A week ago I took and passed my amateur radio Technician Class exam, one wrong answer...
Game of Thrones Oh My
I saw the first episode of the first season of Game of Thrones As of this writing I have finished Episode 8 of Season 2. Or is it Episode...
Storm in the Desert
I note with some concern a series of stories about the Nevada rancher locked in a struggle with the U.S. Government over his payments for...
Disappeared
The four-engine plane carried 15 persons, nine crew and six passengers and nary a trace was ever found. One passenger, a Chinese-American...
Crimea and Czechoslovakia
The crisis in Ukraine over Crimea has launched news producers into warp drive to find analysts, commenters, commentators, talking heads,...
Rokuuuuu!
I looked back and realized that I did not finish my adventure with my new Roku box. To replay, I ordered a Roku 3 to replace the Roku so...
Twitter and Crimea
I learned how to follow topics with the use of hashtags. In this case #Crimea will bring up every tweet involving the crisis between...
More Twitter, No More Twitter
I’m not going to quit Twitter, but I doubt that I will spend time tweeting nor will I assemble a following. I can get all the important...
I am experimenting with Twitter. I don’t have a particular need for tweeting, but I felt compelled to learn more after an emergency in...
Anticipation
Remember when, for two weeks in December, the truck pulled up in front of the house to deliver that package from the grandparents? That...
I don’t know, Roku?
I often consider what normal features of daily life would be incomprehensible 20 or even 10 years ago – smart phones, tablets, online...
Family Gathering
I attended the funeral of my cousin Al in Colville, a small town in northeast Washington. Colville is in the mountains not far from what...
Passings
My cousin Al died this past week from cancer. He was three years older than I am and is the second cousin my age to die in a year and the...
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