Friday, June 17, 2022

My first “big trip” was in the summer of 1967

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Summer, 1967 I was a college sophomore on break from UNO, LSUNO at the time, and working at my Dad’s shoe store, ShoeTown, in Metairie, Loui...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

It was like flying with the geese or swimming with the dolphins.

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  So, as is my want, I ride a bike. We live on a defunct golf course, a victim of golf’s waning popularity and a global pandemic. The bad ne...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

"Cool Hand Luke" is an allegory

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  Cool Hand Luke is an allegory. Luke is the cog that wasn’t machined accurately. The chain-gang prison and the society it represents, is t...
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Monday, July 19, 2021

by the time we were some six or seven blocks down 32nd Street, the first (bus stop sign) was clanging its way past our location, being dragged behind a pickup truck on a length of steel chain

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So I became Safety Director of Louisiana Transit Co., Inc. in late 1975. Our Operations Manager, Byron Kohoutek (like the comet, if you’re o...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

What happens when you can't run as fast as an old, fat, diabetic.

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  What reduces stress? Running What about walking, biking, swimming, playing a musical instrument, petting an animal, hugging a cow, etc? Fi...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

TJ and the Shovel

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Our 2003 Yukon XL drips oil. The rear engine seal in the 5.3 litre V-8 is notorious for leaking. Expensive to fix. So it drips oil. Not much...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Why results matter

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People hate Trump because he’s not an idealist, he’s a realist. The thing that matters most to the Donald is results. He’s also no...