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...
david98014Jan 3, 20142 minHow are you listening?Rather than get into a TLDR situation, I’m going to break things up. How to listen to audio books and podcasts. Most listening these days...
david98014Jan 3, 20142 minWhat are you listening to?As posted here before, I have begun to explore audio books in addition to hard copy books and e-books. In the past month or two I have...
david98014Dec 29, 20131 minHe survivedAccording to the South Whidbey Record, the man spent fifteen minutes in the water and was rescued. Huzzah to the first responders of...
david98014Dec 27, 20131 minIsland DramaYesterday afternoon Matt noticed something odd on the bay, properly called Holmes Harbor. There was an aluminum boat with an outboard...
david98014Dec 24, 20131 minBlog FodderIf you follow the annual Christmas letter you are familiar with Lorraine’s quote of the year. I start collecting them for a year before I...
david98014Dec 24, 20131 minWhere is Norman Rockwell when we need him?I got up at 6 a.m. to discover gifts on the front porch deposited by Santa’s helpers in the brown trucks. Saturday Evening Post of the...
david98014Dec 22, 20131 minHoliday TraditionAs a youngster one of the rituals exercised by my mother was, “David, would you go find some chairs please?” I then had to go about the...
david98014Dec 21, 20131 minIsland LifeLast night I was minding my own business here on Whidbey when the living room lit up with flashing red lights. This happened once before...
david98014Dec 19, 20131 minSelling and BuyingToday I bought and I sold via Amazon.com. I tried to buy toys for my grandsons the old fashioned way, but when I got there, the toy store...
david98014Dec 17, 20131 minJoshua MondayWith two of us, one can keep and eye on him while the other works remotely. Joshua has not one, not two, but three wi-fi networks at his...
david98014Dec 15, 20133 minWhat are you reading? Hearing?I usually have two books going at once, one a work of fiction and the other some kind of history book. With the Kindle I can have three...
david98014Dec 14, 20131 minThe Neighbor LadyIn my history projects I get to talk to a lot of retirees about their memories. In addition to important facts and clarifications that do...
david98014Dec 14, 20132 minThe MillI really need to get better at blogging. That’s a good New Year’s resolution, but I’ve never done New Year’s resolutions. My newest...
david98014Aug 1, 20131 minAsylumEdward Snowden, the fugitive NSA contractor, has been granted “asylum” in Russia. Does anyone grasp the irony of this? Does he think he...
david98014Apr 4, 20136 minFictionAmber’s Bunker The only light in the bunker was from the ends of cigarettes. Hidden from the sun, the mud at the bottom never dried and...
david98014Mar 27, 20131 minMy videoIn 1963, I heard a single by the surf rock band, the Marketts, called “Out of Limits”. I like the fast paced, heavy bass of the music and...
david98014Mar 26, 20133 minHome MoviesI just completed a couple of desktop home movie projects, another genre of the technology revolution. I was a participant in the growth...
david98014Mar 24, 20132 minCaliforniaI am posting this from the lovely California coast south of San Francisco. I grew up in California, moved away at age 18, came back at...
david98014Feb 19, 20132 minA funny thing happened to me on my way to the forumOne thing I like to do is participate in online forums (fora?). These are the discussion groups. Back in the early days of the Internet,...
