david98014May 11, 20151 minWest Point and Cadet Benjamin O. DavisThe U.S. Military Academy at West Point has named a barracks after General Benjamin O. Davis, ’32, the second African American to graduat...
david98014May 6, 20154 minSo Long DickAn old family friend passed away about six weeks ago. Last weekend I flew to San Mateo, California and attended a memorial service for hi...
david98014Jul 24, 20142 minAshlandFor the first time in about ten years, we visited Ashland, Oregon and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We enjoyed two Shakespeare plays, ...
david98014May 23, 20141 minBengazi ThingCongressman Adam Schiff (D., California) has been named by minority leader Pelosi to participate in the most recent inquiry into the deat...
david98014May 21, 20141 minSpiesThe indictments of Chinese People’s Liberation Army officers by the United States for stealing industrial secrets suggests that there is ...
david98014May 19, 20142 minQSOBack in the days of telegraphy when operators transmitted dots and dashes to form letters and words, they came up with a shorthand for di...
david98014May 18, 20142 minGeneral Ham I AmThat’s the General Class Amateur Radio Operator, the next level above Technician which I passed about a month ago. I figured I would reac...
david98014Apr 30, 20142 minHam I AmI 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 ...
david98014Apr 20, 20141 minGame of Thrones Oh MyI 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...
david98014Apr 12, 20141 minStorm in the DesertI 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...
david98014Mar 12, 20142 minDisappearedThe four-engine plane carried 15 persons, nine crew and six passengers and nary a trace was ever found. One passenger, a Chinese-American...
david98014Mar 1, 20142 minCrimea and CzechoslovakiaThe crisis in Ukraine over Crimea has launched news producers into warp drive to find analysts, commenters, commentators, talking heads, ...
david98014Mar 1, 20141 minRokuuuuu!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 ...
david98014Mar 1, 20141 minTwitter and CrimeaI learned how to follow topics with the use of hashtags. In this case #Crimea will bring up every tweet involving the crisis between Russ...
david98014Feb 27, 20141 minMore Twitter, No More TwitterI’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 p...
david98014Feb 26, 20141 minTwitterI am experimenting with Twitter. I don’t have a particular need for tweeting, but I felt compelled to learn more after an emergency in th...
david98014Feb 3, 20142 minAnticipationRemember when, for two weeks in December, the truck pulled up in front of the house to deliver that package from the grandparents? That w...
david98014Feb 2, 20142 minI 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 sho...
david98014Jan 11, 20141 minFamily GatheringI attended the funeral of my cousin Al in Colville, a small town in northeast Washington. Colville is in the mountains not far from what ...
david98014Jan 5, 20141 minPassingsMy 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...
