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Late Comment: As if anyone needed an additional reminder of the bald-faced hypocrisy of elected Republicans; on February 25, 2014, 41 Republican senators voted against allowing a bill that would have expanded medical, educational and other benefits for veterans to move forward. Their claimed reason was that they wanted to include riders on this bill that would increase our chances of going to war with Iran. In other words; finding ways to create more dead and injured troops in yet another vanity war.
I honestly do not understand how any veteran, or any person who really does respect and support our military, can support the Republican Party. Note to Republicans: If you don’t want to pay our troops, don’t make wars that get them killed!
Thanks Ron. We had a great time with you and Winnie! You guys are great hosts. We definitely wont let so many years go by between visits from now on. The boat ride was wonderful! Our whole trip was fantastic (except for the hospital stay in Colorado). It was so much fun spending time with the family in Indiana and Tennessee. We have some pretty terrific nieces and nephews (and grand nieces and nephews)!
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[…] down on the road three times over the past 45 days. In two of those three events my venerable 2004 Rodeo died right at a stoplight intersection at or close to the front of the line. In those events, I […]
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[…] to China, married, then came back home and filed for her spousal visa while she waited in China. The visa process took 20 months and the direct intervention by the office of Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS). It was a brutal, […]
[…] result of our first four visits are documented in attachment one (1) with enclosures 1 through 4, letter of complaint to the Commissioner, Virginia DMV, on December 6, 2006. Please note that as of this date, I had not received a response […]
[…] present wife, Winnie, entered this country legally as my wife. After an Internet courtship I traveled to China, we married, then I came back home and filed for her spousal visa while she […]
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[…] protection. People are protesting cops because the cops are killing people, arresting people, and writing citations leading to expensive fines without just cause. These behaviors didn’t start yesterday and every cop on the beat damn […]
[…] also celebrated Chinese New Year on February 19, a Thursday, ringing in the year of the Goat (or Sheep depending upon how the Chinese word is […]
[…] on December 28, 2008, I had my latest letter to the editor (LTE) published in our local newspaper the Potomac News. […]
[…] morning I did contact my financial advisor and discussed Sunday morning’s incident with the home nurse. Our agent became noticeably upset over my description of the event, and […]
[…] to be the background environment of the problems Winnie and I had with the local DMV and the visiting home nurse incident last […]
[…] Winnie packed. She managed to put all the gifts in the medium wheeled duffle bag she used for our European adventure last year, along with some of her clothing. I looked at the number of bottles of fish oil pills, […]
[…] basis over an eleven year period for family visits. My more memorable trips were made with the MG Midget I briefly owned, but ghosts of my frequent commutes are everywhere along the I-5 […]
[…] as I like, but enough) for some fishing and fun. I also got out on my little fishing kayak “Arrau” quite a few times, actually more often than “Sea Dragon.” Kayaking has become a sport I […]
[…] check on me. On top of the many angry “honks” I received from drivers going around me, I had an ugly encounter with a member of the Prince William County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department who actually threatened me with arrest for “blocking […]
[…] the school re-opened triggered another bittersweet memory; I had placed one of my vending machines at this school just two weeks before Katrina, and that vending machine was one of two I never saw […]
[…] one that actually offers promise of a future. We bought a second house and jumped back into home improvement on steroids. I rebuilt my boat “Sea Dreams.” Winnie went back to China for a family visit while […]
[…] I chronicled in “The DMV Wars” in this website, Winnie was treated with complete hostility while attempting to gain her […]
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[…] pays well enough so Winnie and I can indulge in some personal fun stuff. I got my power boat “Sea Dragon” out quite a few times this past summer (not as often as I like, but enough) for some fishing and […]
[…] Two weeks after my first backyard Indian Arrowhead find, I found several more. April is a busy outdoor clean up time for me and it was while weeding in the same area where I found the first, several more were unearthed. One arrowhead find is no big deal, but finding several in one area means something more was going on in that particular spot. Possibly some kind of religious ceremony was held in my backyard hundreds to maybe thousands of years ago. This could explain the earlier chanting heard that I wrote about in a previous story, Indian Arrowhead Spirit. […]
[…] photos are included in this story, for more please go to our Katrina Photo Gallery. This hurricane was a major Life-Altering Event for everyone who experienced it. This article and […]
[…] morning of September 16, 2013, when a shooter walked into Building 197 and killed twelve people. I was on the Navy Yard at the time, but thankfully not in that building. Afterwards the building was closed to perform approximately […]
[…] another small experiment not work out so well this past week. A little smaller scale than trying moped commuting, but still an experiment. This time, we tried keeping goldfish in traditional Chinese […]
[…] garden is doing really well this season despite a bumpy start. Planting season had arrived while Winnie was still in China caring for her mother, so with her permission via e-mail I picked up starter plants from Lowes and […]
[…] over here?” to be in the same league as “Hey Bubba, watch this!” As posted in my last diary, my wife and I decided to stay in Gautier, but with friends living on higher ground one mile south […]
[…] those posts can be found in my “Katrina Diaries” category. I also wrote an extended story “The Year of Hurricane Katrina” around the one year anniversary that rolled a lot of those posts together and tried to make […]
[…] Winnie and I have a considerable amount of experience in home improvement. My expertise goes back to my teen years and I’ve been involved with projects (some of which involved contractors) on each of the five homes I’ve owned. Winnie used to help her uncles pour concrete and lay tile roofs back in China, and has worked with me on all our home improvement projects starting right after hurricane Katrina. […]
[…] own a rental property, a 1950’s vintage home that Winnie and I renovated several years ago. Recently we had to replace the over-the-stove […]
Yikes, trying to comment and somehow ended up in your WordPress control panel. That was weird!
So anyway, found someone that’s owned a few cars like me,although I have ya beat by around 20 LOL.
Read most of your R. Garwood story. Geez that sucks.
[…] against her both as institutional discrimination, and personal discrimination against her that infuriated me. I have frequently made the observation that in the year I was born, both of my marriages were […]
[…] also been busy with my Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) certification program. I’m really enjoying the classes for their format and for the chance to meet interesting people […]
[…] remember Winnie entering America for the first time in Los Angeles International Airport. After a 20 month struggle, she finally obtained her visa on her first try at the US Consulate in Guangzhou and purchased her […]
[…] is the second part of Armand’s story about traveling in Albania. In Part I he discussed his first trip there with a private aid group originating in Naples, Italy. At […]
[…] bunch of stuff again. Our current home improvement project is more of the same. As detailed in a previous story; in January 2016 we embarked on an ambitious home improvement project of replacing all the worn out […]
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[…] took a shot at a timeline a couple of weeks ago in an earlier post, for just five days worth of events. Since then I spent some time researching and working with new […]
[…] had to run errands away from the house several times these past 30 days, and when I do I’m wearing a medical mask and rubber gloves. Winnie has created headgear out of clear plastic (which used to be the […]
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[…] up a nice collection of books on submarines, most of which I lost when I was flooded out during Hurricane Katrina. But with the help of my cousin Roger, an avid book collector and used book dealer, I was able to […]
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[…] more than driven – probably the least amount of driving I’ve done since I purchased my 1977 Chevy Luv almost 44 years ago. The downside to reduced mileage is the battery running dry. At first, the […]
[…] made a quick trip to my friendly neighborhood auto parts store in Winnie’s Nissan (which hasn’t had the same battery issues) and picked up a new battery. This battery […]
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[…] have two anchors for my 18-foot 2010 Bayliner 175BR runabout “Sea Dragon.” I normally only carry one, the Bayliner-provided fluke anchor that came with my boat, unless I plan […]
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[…] didn’t use our Bayliner 175BR “Sea Dragon” at all last year due to peak zombie apocalypse. So we promised ourselves this year would […]
[…] become hooked on kayaking this season. She convinced me to bring along our inflatable kayak “Nemo,” a 12.5 foot Sea Eagle 370 so we could use it. I really wasn’t sure we would be able to inflate and launch while at […]
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[…] our kayaks often this past season. Once Winne was comfortable kayaking on her own she would use our Trophy 126 “Arrau,” and I used one of our Sea Eagle inflatables. My Jeep Cherokee was in the body shop for several weeks as a result of being hit from behind […]
[…] we kayaked off our Bayliner 175 “Sea Dragon” we used the Sea Eagle 370, designed as a comfortable two-seater kayak. It took a bit of practice […]
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[…] Back then, when the Masters of The Universe crashed the world economy, Winnie and I were able to purchase a second house. It was in bad shape, and we spent about one year renovating it. But we turned it into a home we […]
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[…] owned this house since October 2008. After extensive renovation we rented it out as income property. All told, we rented to five different families over the past […]
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[…] Sunday Winnie and I were working in our backyard doing some still-moving-in stuff. It was a lovely 60 degrees, sunny, and we weren’t even wearing jackets. The weather […]
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[…] packed our Sea Eagle 370 inflatable kayak for this trip, with every intention of paddling salt water. So the next morning we headed back to […]
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[…] Boating Hacks: Sea Eagle Skeg Guard: A quick “Do-it-Yourself” project to make an improved storage skeg guard for the Sea Eagle 330 and 370. This guard prevents the skegs from permanently bending over while the boat is stored. […]
[…] Which defeats the purpose of having a safety light. Another issue is for those of us paddling inflatable kayaks. Suction cups simply don’t stick well to an inflated kayak, and mountings that require clamps […]
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[…] and snorkeling around beaches. Winnie’s only prior experience with snorkeling was from our boat in the Potomac River. But snorkeling in clear tropical oceans is a bit different then in the muddy […]
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[…] Master Chief (CMC) sort of reflects the differences between submarine and surface ship crews that I answered for another question recently. In both positions, their roles are to handle enlisted personnel Issues and act as the enlisted […]
[…] Sea Dragon is a 2010 Bayliner 175BR sterndrive runabout. Winnie and I purchased this boat new back in July 2010, a few months after I sold my first boat Sea Dreams. The longer we’ve owned this boat, the more we love it. After the excessive work I put into Sea Dreams, for the first several years of owning Sea Dragon I paid professionals to do the maintenance. Gradually, I took over more maintenance myself. Largely because I wasn’t happy with the level of care versus prices I was getting gouged charged. […]
[…] Winnie and I purchased this boat new back in July 2010, a few months after I sold my first boat Sea Dreams. The longer we’ve owned this boat, the more we love it. After the excessive work I put into […]
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[…] with grasses, but still clear enough to paddle through. Winnie and I quickly set-up our tandem Sea Eagle 370 Nemo and paddled downstream going […]
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[…] own a rental property, a 1950’s vintage home that Winnie and I renovated several years ago. Recently we had to replace the over-the-stove […]
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[…] of our new home is a too-small driveway for both the boat and our RV. So, we’ve opted to keep Sea Dragon stored at a local marina. I think this will work out ok as I’m getting tired of towing the […]
[…] for closing, which focused our planning on what to haul down for that trip. It made sense that our boat and hardshell kayaks would be part of this first trip. We also made an advance three-day scouting […]
[…] which focused our planning on what to haul down for that trip. It made sense that our boat and hardshell kayaks would be part of this first trip. We also made an advance three-day scouting trip to locate a […]
[…] recently purchased RV quickly proved very useful in moving. Winnie’s Nissan Versa isn’t capable of pulling any trailer loads, so our first trip was made using our Jeep […]
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