Debate’s over!
And we all know what that means…… Joe Biden heads back to his hotel room, cracks open a beer, talks with his advisors-and then, when the rest of the herd is gone, our boy Joe takes a long draw on his...
View ArticleSo that explains it!
Why Lehman brothers went down the tubes: Watashi to Tokyo reports that Lehman Brothers is one of a series of companies that have failed after renting office space inside Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills complex,...
View ArticleOn the plus side…..
Of having all my stuff here now. My CD’s are back! Which means I can load up the CD player and drive down the road listening to all my old favorites. Gotta do some major muscle movement for the S.O....
View ArticleTrue to form…….
Guess I should give my Cubbies some credit. This year they waited till October to rip your heart out. Normally they do it in late August. The Cubs-bringing you disappointment for 100 years.
View ArticleUngrateful.
Warning Notice! Unhinged, emotional, non-factually supported rant follows! Greetings from Filthadelphia-home of a baseball team that is going to the NLCS. As I transited airports and changed planes,...
View ArticleNo time left for you…….
A song from the Guess Who and also a comment on my day. Talk about that 500 point drop among yourselves. Back tomorrow.
View ArticleAnother long day……..
And the market continues to sink. But John McCain says that he can take the bailout-that the greedy bastards on Wall Street don’t give thanks for-and use it for mortgages. And then he thinks it’s ok to...
View ArticleTaking a stroll down memory lane……….
Another day another 600 points. So much for building up my war chest to return to Nihon. I wish I knew what to do about that. The advice to not panic is not working at this point. However, today was a...
View ArticleWatching old movies…..
Finally , got my man-cave put together . So rather than blog, I watched old movies as I cleaned it up. My plaques are up, shadow box mounted-I’m still hunting for a place to put the table I got from...
View ArticleThe road to perdition…..
Spike found this instructive slide show. Of note is the scary similarities to the Japanese “bubble” which burst in 1991. They are still recovering from that. It is worth you time if you want to see how...
View ArticleWelcome to 1973…….
Now if only I could be 16 again In 1973, the Vietnam war came to an end for the US, the Arabs started one in the Middle East, and the stock market lost half its value and the world went into a world...
View ArticleLetter from Mom.
Today was busy and so at the end of it, the S.O. and I went out for a well deserved Mexican dinner. Today was the day I had to tackle all the stuff that had come from my long term storage-which had...
View ArticleTravel time………
Greetings from Tucson. Long day today as I had to get up early for some teleconferences, meetings, and get some reports out that should have been done yesterday. (Got to unpack and drag the S.O. to...
View ArticleIt ain’t over till its over…….
Greetings from the B terminal of DFW. Waiting to catch a flight back to Hicksville. We finished up early today. Sad-I had hope to visit the boneyard. However thanks to events I need to be back at my...
View ArticleThe silly season……
Only 17 days till the election-and November 4th could not come a day too soon. If I were Barack Obama though, I would be having nightmares about this picture: I hope that his political instincts are...
View ArticlePoint well taken………..
Curtis, in disputing my analysis of the Republicans usual approach to countering the Democrats, hit upon an interesting observation: He noticed I had lost my “old joie de vive of [my] old self”. I’d...
View ArticleScanner is broken
Was going to post some pictures from the Voyage of the damned. Except my Lexmark all in one-is not so all inclusive. Printer and copier functions work-scanner won’t budge. Another Vista problem?
View ArticleThere goes the Aggie vote………
Something else for Bullnav, to give Aggies grief about. When you lose a town that is to the right of Atilla the Hun….the times they are a changing.
View ArticleWhy you should not get too drunk in Kyoto….
Because you could end up being entertained by this.
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