Boning Up On Asia At this moment I am somewhere over the Pacific Ocean on a JAL flight from LAX to Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Since I had only ever flown into Narita Airport in Tokyo, and that was last about 17 years ago when Kim and I went over for a half-business, half-leisure trip that took us to Tokyo and Kyoto, I assumed that Haneda was the new airport for the city. I was…
NOTE TO READERS – GOD WILLING, I AM IN THE PROCESS OF CROSSING THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE HEADING TO SINGAPORE, SO BEFORE YOU START GETTING MY MUSINGS FROM THE ASIAN CONTINENT, I AM POSTING THIS APPROPRIATELY TITLED STORY ABOUT MY EV TRUCK, WHICH I AM LEAVING BEHIND TO REST FOR THREE WEEKS. BRACE YOURSELVES FOR MY IMPENDING TRAVELOGUE. Range Anxiety I’m confused about my EV truck and probably other things. I got into EVs seven…
So, So Tired I am not so-so tired, I am so, so very tired. Just as I finished my deposition yesterday and wrapped up a three month expert witness blitz that had me putting in over 180 hours, a reasonably brisk pace for a semi-retired guy, I have not been able to just take a deep breath and relax in anticipation of my upcoming travels to Asia. What has stolen away my well-deserved “School’s Out…
Super Duper We just watched Super Bowl LVIII. That means the first Super Bowl was in 1967 and it was between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. It was a rout in favor of the powerful Packers of the NFL, whereas the Chiefs were from the expansion team AFL. It’s all about the NFL these days and there are five teams (Patriots, Steelers, Cowboys, Broncos, and 49ers) with more than the six…
Tax-Us or Texas The World Economic Forum at Davos started fifty-three years ago but has really gained momentum and notoriety among globalists in the last decade. I have never attended (when I was in my corporate prime and realistically a candidate, Davos was not yet a must-do) and now I doubt I ever will go (now that I am a mere bystander and observer of the world and decidedly not a mover and shaker), but…
Mailing It In For most of the last fifty years, I have voted by finding my local polling place and going there most often in the early morning to vote. Truth be told, while I have never missed a presidential election, I probably voted in only 80% of the mid-term non-presidential elections and I would estimate only 30% of off-year local elections and almost no primary elections. I have no excuses for the fall-off for…
Body Image We went to go see the movie Argylle on Sunday. It was Kim’s choice and falls somewhere in that genre of action and/or spy thriller movies that have campy comedy as a significant undercurrent. The gist of the plot is that a female author of spy novels, a woman who is a homebody who is basically non-athletic or even adventuresome, gets caught up in an espionage plot by virtue of the world supposedly…
The Perils of Postponement A big part of every news cycle these days is a review of the calendar that we face in 2024. The calendars that bear most of the interest are the political process calendar of primaries, Party Conventions and elections (including the ballot printing and finalization calendars) and then the legal process calendar of Donald Trump, including his four criminal trials and countless civil trials and all their attendant appeals and motions…
The Hill of Life This morning we are having a brief respite from the rain and with the sunshine has come a desire to squeeze in whatever yard work I can do since in a week I will be away for three weeks and the garden will go untended. I’m having Joventino come back next week so that we can give it a final touch up before we head out as well. Last night I…
The World at Large As we prepare for our big SE Asia trip a week from now, I have a lot on my mind. The range of topics that are swirling in my mind little pea brain that suffers from too little capacity and too much thought turnover and too much caring about shit is vast. I’m not sure where to begin, so I will just stumble forward. We have had Buddy now for seven…