Gloria and I at Walt Disney World Christmas 2004

My camping rig at its old home. That is the old owner in the doorway, killing spiders or cleaning. 

April 30, 2005

This is my first post to my new Blog. It will be a combination of a tradinational Blog in that I will be sharing interesting links from the web and a journal, in that I will be telling you whats up with me, at leastr toa certain exetnt, I am after all someting of a private guy.
I haven't found spell check on this thing yet, I'll do the best I can, but with these fat, slow fingers, you'll have to put up with the errrors.

What got me thinking about starting a blog was the realization yesterday that April 30, 2005 is the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Fall of Berlin, I.E. the day Hitler committed suicide and the 30th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0429/p06s01-woap.html

That strikes me as a weird coincidence, but I have no idea what it means, if anything.

Remember the song & story about Casey Jones the railroad engineer? Well, that is a true story of him dying in a crash and today is the 105th anniversary of that event. http://taco.com/roots/caseyjones.html.

Today was also the opening day of the 1939 world's Fair http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/39wf/frame.htm

April 30th is also Willie Nelson's birthday ! http://www.willienelson.com/

I'm not a fisher but I heard today is opening day for trout season .

What a day, huh?