Van Cleef’s First Law Never underestimate the power of a draft memo. Van Cleef’s Second Law If you want to get anything done, don’t get a life. Van Cleef’s Third Law A CPU’s initialization time is inversely proportional to it’s speed.
Continue reading →Back in 1975, the USS Tripoli (LPH-10) visited Busan, South Korea. While there, I visited a Roman Catholic priest who was assigned to a local parish. I spent the weekend with him, meeting parishioners and attending Mass with them. After Mass, an elderly lady approached me and handed me a roll of silk. When I unrolled it, I found this image; This image is hand painted on silk. The flowers in the background are formed into the shape of the … Continue reading →
Military Brats are one of the main categories of Third Culture Kids. Since we tend to live in what we called “little America”, on the military base, in military house and attending military schools, we don’t get the same level of exposure to the culture and people of the country we are “visiting”. What we missed most was exposure to the US culture of our time. Today, given modern communications technologies, that may not be much of an issue. However, … Continue reading →
Back in 1964, the economy wasn’t doing too good. As a high school graduate, with a “college prep” background, I couldn’t even get a job in a supermarket. My parents didn’t have enough money to allow me even to attend a state college. Eventually, I gave up job seeking and decided to join the navy. At one point, while in high school, my school counselor had arranged to get me an appointment to the Coast Guard Academy. Working with the … Continue reading →
I can’t think of the number of times that I need a place to record a story. My old personal web site is currently dormant and needs rebuilding to make it a decent blog site. So, given that I was working on rebuilding the Boatswain’s old journal, I figured this would be as good a place as any to try and capture some of mine.
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