Category Archives: Looking Around Me

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]  Original: September, 2000 I guess – if you have slogged through my blabberings – that you might believe that my sense of humor is almost non-existent. You probably think I am an old fuddy-duddy … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]  Original: 8-24-2000   I got bombarded today. Every news channel in America was slogging over the details of a television show on CBS that is named Survivor. It seems as if the show is over … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]  Original: 6-28-2000    Betty and I just got home from a 2400-mile driving trip around Texas. We did it in 6 days. WHEW! Averaging 400 miles each day was really difficult at our age. But, … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]  Original: 10/25/1994 All of my life I have been interested in the recording technologies. I know when it all began. In elementary school – about the 2nd grade (1949) – one of my teachers … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]   Original: 10/24/2000 I had one of my weird (although frequent) flashbacks yesterday and decided that it might make an interesting rambling. One of the fortunate things about growing up in Corpus Christi was our immediate … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]Original: 10/6/2000 I have a hobby of playing around with little CCD (Charged Coupled Device) television cameras and I have installed a fairly sophisticated security arrangement around our house. I have four cameras strategically placed around … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]Original: September 1998 It seems as if the Internet has become something like a living creature – growing and evolving into who-knows-what. Almost every TV commercial now has the DOT COM proudly displayed, prodding folks … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?] Original: November 6, 2001 This is one of my blabberings about how I perceive things of beauty. I hope I can explain it succinctly. Music is typically enjoyed by most people. Some of us … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]Original: April 13, 2000 Long, long ago in a far away land, lived an old man and an even older woman. They loved each other for a long time and after marrying and raising four … Continue reading →

Rating 4.00 out of 5 [?]Original: March 2, 2004 During the 20th century (I lived through more than half of it), America went through several distinct periods where morality (or the lack of it) was at the center of public … Continue reading →