Category: Journal

  • Where the Red Fern Grows

    I am setting aside a few titles in which I will eventually post some guitar music posts. This is one of them. I have my Phone set up now as a second webcam on my fretboard and my strings I have replaced with color coated DR Neon strings that correspond with Rocksmith+. My Onn webcam…

  • 1967

    There was a joke that I heard as a child. It was an Aggie joke. It was used about Thomas Baron and his family when I had heard it. He was with Americorp. Someone told me the joke around 73, Did you hear the one about the Aggie who died chasing the train across the…

  • Grace of God

    What I would like to have done in my life – At 13, West Point Cadets on Choir Tour staid several days at our home arranged by our neighbor, the most prominent attorney in the state and his friend, the Governor. What I would have enjoyed doing is trying to heal the hurt from the…

  • Birthstone

    We were landowners back to the 1100s of around Hanover, Germany. Our family line served God, and the local Lords of the area. We were a family line of exceptionally high IQ and our Family Crest noted it. And our family line has ended with me.

  • Delorean

    Sometime near the 80s my father offered to buy a $30,000 Delorean for me. I politely thanked him anyway. My girlfriend gave me her 1984 Mustang. And later I bought a Daytona. My father offered to buy a house for me, but he did not. I paid my way through college on Voc Rehab until…

  • Real Life

    I was 230 lbs and my a1c was 16. My daily sugar was 500-600. My triglycerides were 940. My cholesterol was 240. I started walking two hours a day around the block so I could stop when I needed to. I walked 8 miles a day for 3 years. My weight is 150lbs. My a1c…

  • PG

    Eddie and I lived a PG life, just to say in that I never tried drugs and I always staid sobber. I smoked cigarettes as a kid and qiut at 22. But I know what the effects of drugs are and I don’t like them. And I don’t like what the lifestyle does to my…

  • West Point Cadets

    As a child I did not stay at home and when I was, Eddie was always with me. Eddie’s father had worked for my father. I asked my father once, I know you are a millionaire, can you buy Eddie for me so I can always be around him. And he did. I never was…

  • Memories

    So I have a new theory about my memory recall. I am going through integration intentionally so I can tell you my story. I think I retired in 2019 and it then became my hobby to recall the memories that I had set aside that contained personal information. My treasures.

  • Ice Cream Man

    Other wize known as Red Socks 😉 Cartoons…

  • Transient Portfolio

    I have pieces of a short part of something I worked on as a child that discuses kids who watch, hand movements – hands that move too quickly, sudden sounds…. ..transitive passive. transitive active. Wherevere you go I go. translating emotions into words and motions into meanings. and this was the working title but I…

  • Disneyland

    Disneyworld’s Pond at Epcot are modeled after its a small world. The languages are the different centers around the Pond. Its a small world after all, Disney’s idea to develop the world through the capitalism of the United States. And using Disneyland as a model to learn how to design the needs of the communities.

  • .0001

    My mother had told me that I had an IQ higher than anyone else in our family. That it was in the .0001 of the top 1%. My father had scored the highest Raw Score on certain tests in the military. The military groomed him for a position as a Military contractor. In WWII he…

  • Cousins

    I attended a specialty school. During the day we had normal classes but the classes were organized around performance tests and the students were placed by their abilities. In my class the teachers invited Highschool students over to teach us French and other languages. And in the evenings at the homes of the Highschool kids…

  • Soccer

    I went to a specialized school for Geniuses and for rehabilitation after a very severe accident as a 7 year old or more like a 6 year old. What I remember was that they were intent not just on raising Managers of Sears, but Brady Bunch Kids. They wanted to awaken kids to life. And…

  • Vaguen

    I contemplated how to approach my site, and I decided each entry should stand alone and not try and address the issue of my past directly. Now I want to change that a little and share as friends. I see the two poems, California and Father’ House as completing my Work. So I want now…

  • Through the Tall Grass

    As a child I think we talked. My neighbor had arranged West Point Cadets on Choir Tour to stay over at our home. My mother later put wallpaper up in my room of red and white toy soldiers in my room that I loved. I was twelve. Later I took a job in the 80’s…

  • An Apple a Day

    At seven I was injured severally.The left side of my head hit a concrete floor from five feet up on the left cortex and the left side of my face was torn open from some construction. I was appointed a social worker in the hospital by the Chief of Staff. My mother had stopped on…

  • Diabetes

    Six years ago I saved my life. I was 59. I did not buy a Corvette. I lost 100 lbs. And dropped my a1c for the last 4 years to 5.5 from 16 and my Sugar Level from 500 to 90 and my Tryglecerists from 940 to 160, and my Cholesterols from 240 to 160.…