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Since last February we have got nothing more than a couple of really light sprinkles. The entire lawn here is brown. The bamboo is dying and the coconut trees here are not producing any milk. This is the driest drought I've seen since I moved here 18 years ago. It's either raining like hell and floo...

The tickets I bought this year are one-way tickets because I don't know how long I'm gonna be there. It also leaves open the possibility of flying someplace and seeing you and your family. I also have three brothers that live there in Michigan. I just might stop in there and see all of you at the sa...

Got a place in Seattle only $8,000. for three months. That is fully furnished from shit paper to full size frig. 20 min cab ride to the VA. flying to Manila on the first of July, over night then long hull to Honolulu four hour layover and then the flight nonstop to Seattle. Business class to Honolul...

How are you gonna do that with a wife and three kids to support? Don't get your ass in an uproar. I still don't know for sure if they're gonna bust my chest open or not, and I haven't even found a place to live in Seattle yet. Most places are more than I got so WE might be sleeping out on the sidewa...

That was the second time that Doc. told me that. I got the next appointment with him this July 18th. in Seattle.

Headed for Seattle again this time in July. This time on a one way ticket. Don't know how long the recovery time will be. I got only 40% chance of surviving the surgery, with my health issues and old age (77.5). I have 18 stents and diabetes. Doc sase there is no more room for any more stents. He sa...

Home in about 6 hours. Manila the big city sucks. I got through the 5 VA appointments, yesterday. Without getting escorted out. Of course changes in the meds. Five days in Manila is five days too many. Be glad to see the hairy kids.

I made a joke about her sticking a fist in my eye. She did not take it well.

Show showing your age Gene.

By the way, I bought your book over Amazon and read it. You are lucky to have lived so long!! Rough and tumble as you were! :lol: Gene Gene, I have definitely dodge my share bullets. I'm not Superman, but I seem to have been pretty good at dodging bullets. I am currently working on another and righ...