Category: Just Me

If ever anyone asks me why I want to keep my guns, all I have to do is point to this very incident. Me and Ennie and sitting on the front porch, not touching a crime scene, waiting for the police to show up. It has been...

Today, while I was at work my house got broken into. Ennie came home and pulled into the driveway for a second and someone called and she had to go pick something up. I got home a few minutes later and the rear window was open...

I have to say that I am more than a bit thrilled that Fernando Alonso won overall at Le Mans today. (tomorrow over there, whatever…) He’s won at Le Mans, like I said. He’s won Monaco. All he has left is the...

There are few things that scare me. For the most part things aren’t scary. I can control them and predict what they’ll do. People, on the other hand, are scary to me. But one of the things that do scare me are...

Anthony Bourdain was one of those rare people in the mainstream entertainment industry that was genuine in their views of the world. He didn’t sugar coat things. He had been going to both the best places on the planet as...

In what has become the annual tradition – the birthday post. The past year was one of change and turmoil. Some things were good, more seemed bad. My friend is no longer, that’s the worse of it. But I’m still...

I was giving the political climate some thought of late. Well, honestly, I’ve been thinking about it for a hell of a long time. I will admit that I have a visceral aversion to what has been dubbed “Social Justice...

There’s much to be said for owning something. When the thing you own stops working it’s on you to fix — and that’s not a problem at all. The problem exhibits itself when you have responsibility for...

We just watched an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s show. He went to Newfoundland. It’s one of those things that just takes me back to that ill-fated trip up there to the Rock. So many of the things just struck the same...

I just realized as I was sitting down to write something that this is going to be post #3000 on here. There are other posts on the trip.vec.com site as well, but that one’s basically closed — just archives at this...