I could do without computers
Really, although I’ve been in the ‘computing business’ since 1978 and involved with PC’s (or microcomputers as they were called back then) before that, I could very often well do without the bloody things. We’ve all been there. A perfectly fine and proper working (Windows) PC suddenly won’t start in the morning. Eerie DOS error messages [...]

Grumpy Tales
My good friend Miguel often calls me grumpy, a name that until recently I myself attached to quite a few people older than me. Since I am rapidly growing older myself, or so it seems of late, I guess I’m as grumpy as the next old guy. That is if you think 57 is old. [...]

Getting on……
….. in years, that is. Turning 57 today! There were times that I thought 57 was ANCIENT. Actually, I still think so… LOL! I’d rather be thirty again, know what I know now and live according to it. Alas,that’s not the case for any of us. So we get wiser when it doesn’t matter much anymore. We [...]

I should learn to turn down people
Actually, I’ve done a training course on similar things, way back when. Something about ‘Monkeys on your Shoulders’.  Trouble is, I can’t say NO to people. So I take on more work than I can handle… almost daily. That’s also intensified by the fact that I like so many things and CAN DO so many [...]

Lizzie exists !
Yessir, she’s for real, NOT just a ‘thang’ in pictures or ‘promise’ on Flight Simulator X. How do I know? I CLIMBED IN a few weeks ago…… that was just soooooooo coooooool! (If you’re an aviation freak, that is…. ). Nina and I headed out with our friend Didier, in the borrowed (ex-Didier) Cessna Cardinal RG…. it’s [...]