My First Post.

This is really just an expansion on the “About Me” in my profile.  These are solely my opinions and they should not be “interpreted”, but accepted at face value.

I'm a sexagenarian.  Although my wife says I put too much emphasis on the first three letters.

I love dogs of all kinds.  I am especially fond of hounds and retrievers (with the odd teacup Chihuahua, named Sandy, thrown into the mix).

I love to tell jokes.  Love may make the world go round, but laughter makes the ride more fun.  Laughter makes tragedy easier to accept.

In the past, occasionally, I’ve been told I’m a Reactionary and a Redneck.  I’ll accept both titles.

Being a Gemini is probably why I’m usually a logical person … subject to emotional outbursts.

I had a cancerous tumor removed from the side of my head in January, 2008.  I had a squamous cell cancer removed from my forehead in December 2009.  No cancer since then.

I got a new piece of hardware implanted in my chest in May, 2010.  It  keeps my heart going pitter-pat.  Just looking at my wife makes it go pitter – pitter – pitter – pat.

Sometimes my writing may seem a little scattered.  I think that’s usually because my fingers can’t keep up with my thoughts.

Our three boys, their mates and our three grandchildren are a great source of love, pride and joy.  Our granddaughter is the first girl born in my blood line in four generations.

Most of the time I like computers.  Sometimes I get frustrated when they do something I don’t like or are unwilling to do something the way I want.  I’m the user … I’m the boss, so I build my own spreadsheets.

I will probably catch some flack for this … I detest the people(read scum) who write viruses.  I think they should have their fingers removed, one-finger-at-a-time.

            I’ve always been a Sci-Fi buff since reading the “Time Trader” series as a child.  I like to think about the future and how it can be better than the present.  I was scared by George Orwel’s “1984”, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” when I first read them and I am still scared by  the prospect of them becoming fact instead of fiction.

I like living in San Diego.  Can’t beat the weather.

I love going to Palm Springs, riding the Tram up the 8,600 feet to Mt San Jacinto.  We hike for a couple of hours on the mountain and come down to have lunch at Hamburger Mary’s.  Can’t beat a Proud Mary and a 22oz Fat Tire after the thin air and exercise.  Maybe it’s just the exhiliration of still being able to do it at our age.  It’s an accomplishment worth bragging about.

My wife likes Las Vegas.  Walking along The Strip is a different kind of hiking and lunch or dinner at Margaritaville is the tradition there.

We both enjoy going to Temecula and visiting the winerys, especially Ponte.  We met Joanne and some other new friends there.  We only see these people every couple of months, but sometimes that’s best for friendship.

If you read the comic “Plugger” by Gary Brookins, I would have to say: “I resemble that”.

This is my first attempt at this and I think I’ll close it out before I start getting maudlin or too verbose and ruin things.