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Continental Additions

Travel is one of my personal joys.  Joy to discover. Joy to experience.  Joy in appreciation of many things natural or man made.  Here are some glimpses from our various continents.  Enjoy. Street in Seville, Spain Shedding Light, Seville, Spain Working out in Bali?  Indonesia Enlightened in Java, Indonesia What do you think? San Francisco, CA USA Seat of learning, Stanford, CA, USA Mt. Tamalpais, CA, USA Andean Adventures, Peru Washington Monument, USA Good ole Abe. Washington DC, USA Smoke on the Water, Big Island Hawaii, USA Waterfalls in Hawaii, USA

Five books recommended by the homeless guy on the corner

There is a trend for media outlets to publish some nonsense that might sell their less than worthy content.  To that end they take some high flyer (who may or may not be one but they think so) and decide to publish a list of books that he or she recommends (that they may or may not have read or recommended) in hopes that their subsidiary business who published those books might also thrive. I decided to imagine what the local homeless would recommend if I asked them to do so for their less erudite but abode occupying brethren. Here is a best five list - Lost and found - the complete guide to the idea that finders keepers. How to make the most of nothing - Not having a home is a boat load of work not required. Inventive scamming - how to come up with weird and wacky signs to earn a lazy day's income. When I woke up it was gone - Belief system that curses others for all that you don't have or own Spit - the art of aggravating the entitled.

A good day to hear hard

Not unlike a loud Bruce Willis flick it was a very good day to be out by the waterfront and listen to some hard rock.  As in the loud booms created by the flying fighter aircraft of the US Armed Forces as part of Fleet Week celebration.  You cannot hear yourself speak as the display dazzles the million plus audience mere feet away from the screaming hardware overhead that costs millions. So this being a fine autumn weekend a work colleague and I decided to check out the aerial acrobatics and air power display by the American and Canadian navies.  This is an annual tradition here in San Francisco where for almost 30 odd years the armed forces and public get a chance to interface and learn and appreciate some of the challenges of and awesomeness of the American military. The air show is the most watched and admired part of the entire three day long celebration.   It varies each year in terms of overall hardware displayed but always ends with the grand finale of the Blue Angels squad

On being First

First of all  we learn when we are young that in case of an accident there is First Aid.  The aid that is delivered first.  If it is a real serious accident you look to First Responders to arrive and help. It could be your mother or it could be a bunch of people driving a truck with lights on.   Your parents always want you to come first.  In races whether of the rat kind or grass kind. If you want the best experience when traveling you try to go First Class.  As in ahead of all available choices of comfort.  First. Then there is this whole idea of being a First Lady.  As in the female spouse of the most important man in the country aka the President.  El Presidente himself.  POTUS if it is America. Personally I think its all bogus.  But hey what I think does not matter.  It is for the readership to decide.  Now we here in the USA have ourselves a possibility that for the first time a lady will be President.  A lady who once was a first lady.  Now she will be ahead of the firs