Bio (beeoh) is a pit bull mix dog (1.5 years old) who I got because his owner wanted to send him to the pound.  He can be irritating at times, but only because of his enthusiastic love.  Last week, he began going down.  He stopped eating, lost the spring in his step, lost the gleam in
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I miss your posts.  I hope you're doing well.

My female pit bull Coco is randomly attacking my only other female dog, a Shepherd mix named Freda,  Freda is a strange dog; she  doesn't made friends with any of the other dogs, and she doesn't make friends with people either.  She's a very fearful dog, but I call her my sweet girl.  She's been with me 11 years, and I love her dearly.   But I don' ( Read more... )

On one flight, I was sitting on the left side of the plane, and there was an extremely attractive woman sitting in a middle seat one row ahead on the right side of the plane-kind of a pocket princess.  So I kept glancing over at her.  Sitting to her left in the aisle seat was a man who I took to be a Persian.  During the whole flight, he kept ( Read more... )

I joined the Air Force in August, 1962.  I went to basic training at Lackland AFB and to tech school at Sheppard AFB to be an intelligence specialist.  I was then assigned to the Strategic Air Command HQ at Offut AFB outside Omaha, Nebraska.  There, I was assigned to be a target analyst, specializing in nuclear and POL facilities in China.  I ( Read more... )

I had the exhaust system of my GMC van repaired at a shop like Meineke.  What a ripoff, by the way.  I went on a long trip, and I could hear the exhaust pipe rattling against the manifold.  Suddenly, the engine stopped, and I barely had the momentum to pull into a parking lot.  I checked everything I could think of.  Nothing.  I was lying on the ( Read more... )

skreidle recently published a link to the Ohio Department of Aging Great Depression Story Project.  In reading those stories, I was reminded of my teen years during the 50’s in the Missouri Ozarks.  We had been living a fairly comfortable existence in Overland Park, KS, when my father died.  My mother decided to move me and three younger brothers ( Read more... )

Penelope was a 17-year-old girl in New Zealand.  She was a lovely person.  I got acquainted with her on LJ as a result of both of us being libertarians.  We had some great conversations.  But now she's dead from a tumor in her brain.  It's times like this that I appreciate being an atheist, because I don't expect any good decisions to be made by an ( Read more... )

As one of a number of intelligence analysts concerned with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), I was invited on a group tour of the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in order to better understand the signs that a nation was preparing to test a nuclear weapon.  At one point, we were visiting the site of a tunnel shot that hadn't been used.  (A ( Read more... )

Here’s Sister when I first saw her.


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