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Wayfaring Stranger…

Decided last week that cabin fever was settling in and I needed to get out again, so I sorted through the various events and places on my “gotta do this sometime” list and eventually settled on A Plan. In Four Parts. Part One: catch the time machine back to the …

San Jacinto Day, 2014

Once again I headed over to the San Jacinto Day Battle Re-enactment. Once again, the Mexicans held to their old failed tactics. Once again, the Mexicans lost. Badly. I talked to a couple of the survivors after the event and they told me they were hoping to deploy some secret …

Back to Work….

I hadn’t planned on learning anything much Saturday. I had thought about another run to the Renaissance Festival, or for a bit it looked as if I might wind up at Wings over Houston. No real budget for that, though. I spent half an hour checking schedules for the Book …

Rumors of our demise…

Greatly Exaggerated. (Cue Monty Python guy … “I’m not dead yet.”) Trying to learn things and find focus points and niches, and keep the rent paid at the same time. It’s, well, interesting. And busy. But every April, I make it a point to visit the San Jacinto Battleground Monument …