*sigh* No, I didn’t win. As I write this (late morning, Thursday, Jan 14) three winning tickets have been identified for yesterday’s obscenely large Powerball grand prize of $1.5 billion. Had...
There isn’t anything profound or radical or even very thought-provoking tonight (it’s 7:45 PM MST as I’m writing this), but I wanted to take a few of the remaining minutes of...
Category: adventure, AFROTC, blog, Drill Team, Historic Route 66, Penn State, Uncategorized Tags: Girly Camping, IHRA, Laconia Bike Week, Plying Through Life, reunions, Smokey the Jeep
(In which our intrepid, although ill, road warrior braves the perils of commercial air travel to return safely home.) When I drove from Pittsburgh to State College on Thursday, I noticed...
Category: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, museums, Penn State, Reunions Tags: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, Penn State, railroad museum, reunions
Hello, and welcome to Day 3 of the reunion saga. In previous episodes we discovered that my reunion started in Chicago; that I can easily order too much food for a...
Category: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, Penn State, Reunions Tags: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, Penn State, reunions
I was going to put all of Saturday’s events in one post, but then I realized I had a lot I wanted to say about the reunion dinner, so I decided...
Category: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, Penn State, Reunions Tags: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, Penn State, reunions
The Big Day! Saturday morning was another lazy time for me (I seem to do that a lot these days…), but I finally roused myself and went off to meet everyone...
Category: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, Penn State, Reunions Tags: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, Penn State, reunions
Since Friday was mostly a “free day” for me, I decided to be lazy. I had originally intended to meet with some people from the Athletic Department, to find out what...
Category: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, Penn State, Reunions Tags: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, Penn State, reunions
As usual, I’m behind the power curve. *sigh* But maybe this group of posts, about the reunion last weekend of some of the Penn State AFROTC Drill Team and Honor Guard...
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I’ve mentioned the possibility of an AFROTC Drill Team / Honor Guard reunion a couple of times (here and here) with the hope that it would actually happen. Well, it will!...
Category: AFROTC, Drill Team, Honor Guard, Penn State, Reunions Tags: Nittany Lion Shrine
I don’t know how I got on the subject, but yesterday I started thinking about milestones and/or defining moments in my life. (Maybe the fact that the car crash that took...
Category: children, death, divorce, graduation, Huguenot High School, marriage, milestones, Penn State, retirement Tags: children, death, divorce, graduation, Huguenot High School, marriage, milestones, Penn State, retirement
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