Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

We have returned. The car has been unloaded and that's as close to unpacked as I'm getting tonight. Tomorrow everything reverts ba...

Youngest Son will be meeting his birth father for the first time today. I'm not quite sure how that will go, and even less sure of how...

Youngest Son and I hit the road bright and early Monday morning heading to Jacksonville FL for Thanksgiving. Middle Daughter and Son In La...

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

from an old fat retired squid. Thanks for your service, be it 2 years or twenty.

So I was reading through a thoroughly enjoyable Attack of the Correiakin on Brad Torgersen’s Facebook page where he was destroying a troll ...

So it was a pretty good election day for the Republicans, not so much for the Democrats. The Republicans picked up eight seats in the Sena...

Old NFO has a new book out. Get it for your kindle here , or if you prefer the hard copy, here .

As Autumn rolls in with its cool days and chilly nights it's getting about that time. Yes, you know what I mean...SOUP SEASON! So with...

This was waiting for me when I got home. I have been transferred from USN-FLTRES (Fleet Reserve) to the retired list, so when I sign my name...

Youngest Son's biological father wants to contact him. With his permission, I have passed on the phone number. Youngest Son is upset...

Tomorrow we pick Pop up and take him to Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell FL, where he will rejoin his wife and his only child.

We're having a bit of liquid sunshine here in the Sunshine State. Grandson's football game is tonight. I sure hope the lightning g...

We have finally gotten everything clear to get Pop to the crematorium, we are waiting for the coroners signature and then we can finally lay...

The inevitable has happened. Middle Daughter called early this morning with the news, Pop has passed without ever regaining consciousness fo...

Reports of Pop's demise are somewhat exaggerated. He is not well, he has suffered a stroke, but he has pulled back from death's do...

I got the call a little over an hour ago, Eldest Daughter is on her way to Gainsville. Pop (Laura's Dad) is in the hospital and not expe...

Happy Autumn!

So in our last installment I mentioned the transmission whine. A look on the forums suggested that, given the symptoms, the problem was mos...