Hillsborough: How did this wind up in Ybor?
The other day someone found a Patriot Missile at a scrap yard over in Tampa (a quick ride over the bridge from here).
Airman Lucas Mefford, a member of MacDill’s ordnance team, said the missile still had its rocket motor and guidance system. He said it appears to have been a training model.
“It’s pretty rare to find a Patriot,”…
A terrible pall has enshrouded my weekend.
It started with a ring of my doorbell. An unassuming man with a pen and a composition notebook was standing at my door, clad in his company t-shirt… a tree service. He allowed as how they were working on a tree down the street, and noticed my tree. I was immediately suspicious, but I listed to his spiel. We get these kinds of solicitations all the…
This is one of a handful of entries that have been sitting around gathering dust. I wrote this a little over a year ago, but never got around to posting it…
The base is loud enough to mix a drink, my head hurts, and I have to pee. Routine bodily functions are not usually fodder for sharing, but I’ve really gotta go and the men’s room is out of order.
So I’m sitting outside…
There are times when a bad memory serves me well. I’m grateful, because there are so many other times when it doesn’t… like this evening, when my wife asked me to take out the garbage for the second time.
“Yeah, don’t worry Cheryl. I’ll get it.”
Three hours later, when we’re going to bed…
“I thought you said you’d get the…
Sure, driving stories are a dime a dozen. If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone complain about traffic or bad driving, I could pave the street with them (the nickels). They might be kind of slippery in the rain though.
But this is more than just a story about driving. This the kind of story that leads to prejudgements… when an anecdote seemingly confirms a stereotype. I’m…
After a few days of neglect, I checked out the site this morning and noticed I got my first irate comment. My heart is a flutter with excitement. It’s got it all… colorful language, insinuated questions about my integrity, righteous indignation… hoo wee!
Not only am I not going to delete this comment, I’ve made it easier for you – the reader – to find it and…
I just watched two guys beat the living shit out of each other on TV. You know that thing where they combine a little bit of martial arts, boxing, and wrestling? I don’t know the rules, but I got the impression there weren’t any. There was a third guy in the ring masquerading as some kind of official, but it didn’t look like there was much for him to do but get out of the way. It…
No, this is not an homage to Jim Henson’s famous muppet, although little Kermie was my favorite.
I don’t recall how it happened, but my wife got on Al Gore’s email list, and we’ve had the pleasure of some one-way correspondence ever since. I’m sure we didn’t do anything special to get on the list. The only qualification was probably an address… and…