Every so often I still get to attend a wedding as a civilian, with nothing expected of me other than to eat, drink and be merry. Happy occasions, each and every on of them! Unfortunately, being an addict, I just can’t leave the old picture box at home and I still end up snapping a few pretty pictures… just cause I can. As you can imagine, this doesn’t do much for my popularity with the missus. Nope… Doesn’t sit well with her at all. Women have this wonderful skill… They can quietly whisper something like ... Read More >>

So, back when I was in Nam… (Always wanted to start a story like that!) we visited the Kolmanskop Ghost Town, just outside Luderitz. Not exactly the same as taking shrapnell from a granade or crawling through the bush looking for Charlie, but still! It was my first Ghost Town and my first trip to Namibia. My first tour of duty, if you will… Namibie, or as I like to call it, “the hottest freakin’ place on earth!” has a strange and unusual beauty to it, but it’s not for the faint of heart. You know the ... Read More >>

Some strange things trigger the strangest of thoughts. I sat down for some much needed introspection this week and started thinking all manner of… well I’ll tell you what the thinking was about in a bit, but the strange thing was where it started. I woke up with the theme song of DALLAS stuck in my head! WTF? seriously? DALLAS? Man, I tell ya, if that doesn’t make you sit up and take stock of where you are in life and what the hell it is that you’re doing, nothing will! Now, I have a tendency to worry about what ... Read More >>

Got to see The_Nephew again a little while back. Little bugger is getting mighty big now! Snapped a few photies of him “playing” — aka putting everything he can lay his little hands on in his mouth! Yeah, they’re weird that way… presumably his line of thinking goes something like: “hmm… a ball. what does that do? lets try getting that bad boy in my mouth…. nom nom nom”. Its a pretty economical line of thinking too. Works equally well for any other object he can pick up, really. Less ... Read More >>