That’s Not Why We’re Here

Visiting my daughter and her family over the holidays, we all came down with the same illness. It was pretty bad and we were all sick for a week. I am the world’s worst patient. It seems this is especially the case when I am visiting my kids where I want to be the helping … Read more

Larry Frame

Larry Frame was born to a teenage, unwed mother on 17 August 1954. Shortly after his birth he was taken by an adoption agency. HIs mother was still in high school. My guess is that the decision to put Larry up for adoption was not hers. I do not know a lot about how Larry … Read more

Growing Up to be Cowboys

When I was young I wanted to be a cowboy. They told me there were no cowboys left in the world; I believed them. I was 37 years old when I discovered that they had lied to me. Saddest day of my life. I love cowboy culture.
At the end of May I left my job at Clover. Using money from Roku stock I will be moving to Montana to start a technology consulting firm that will help ranchers and livestock growers use and manage technology in their operations.
There will be new challenges but I will finally be living and working among the ranchers and cowboys.

I’m the village idiot…

This is the basic argument of all things political in America today. The naked arrogance in both tone and content makes any civil discourse about the given issue all but impossible. The deep partisan divide is as much a grassroots movement as it is a problem inside the Beltway, in fact what happens inside the Beltway may well be a reflection of this grassroots phenomenon.

Restart…

I have not written anything on my blog for quite a while. About a year. Seems the way with a lot of blogs. I’ve actually been doing a lot of work on the blog recently. I moved the blog back to Movable Type. WordPress was not what I wanted. I put a new graphic design … Read more

Man’s Condition, at least in the West

So the final conclusion would seem to be that whereas other civilizations had been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions and providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. … Read more

Happy Mother’s Day!

My wonderful wife of 21 years 18 years and 8 months ago gave me a beautiful daughter who has been My Little Girl ever since. 4 years, 3 months, 17 days later this lovely woman delivered a baby boy who by his very existence reminds me daily that he, his sister and their mother are … Read more

CVHS Class of 1978 Reunion

I graduated from Crescenta Valley High School in 1978. One of the many things I will miss as a result of the upcoming deployment is my 30 year reunion. I’m actually rather bummed about that. I was looking forward to going. I was looking forward to talking to old class mates and hearing what life … Read more