October 2023 Forty-three posts

20-Oct-2023

Icons

IFTTT via-instagram

1
19-Oct-2023

Listening to my Dad’s stories of Army life in Vietnam is a richer experience with props. Here he points out the fruit cans and grenades used together as boobie trap; and describes how he and his unit used the C-4 plastic explosive from a Claymore as cooking fuel. Never at night; you can’t put out the light if you needed to. The explosive would explode if you tried to extinguish the fire. From the Army Museum.

IFTTT via-instagram

1
19-Oct-2023

Reston Y

IFTTT swim2023 via-instagram

1
18-Oct-2023

Arjay

IFTTT via-instagram

1
17-Oct-2023

Music / Concerts I love music and have always loved music. I have seen a fair number of concerts. I created this post in 2014 as a “page” on this site, but really, it’s a point sample of a moment in time. And it deserves to be part of the blog. Barry Manilow, Orange County Beastie Boys, The...

concerts memories music
17-Oct-2023

Virginia Tech outsells UVa here in Roanoke. At least in ceramic football snowmen.

IFTTT via-instagram

1
17-Oct-2023

I think this cat doesn’t appreciate the view.

IFTTT via-instagram

1
17-Oct-2023

Hide All From… Facebook is made of people, and at present Facebook empowers people to share lots of what I would consider garbage. Disturbing or disgusting or alarming items which the amplifying person things are funny or entertaining or informing. The thing I get most from Facebook is that people’s opinion about what constitutes useful writing and imagery...

facebook social-software
15-Oct-2023

Return to Salem

IFTTT swim2023 via-instagram

1
15-Oct-2023

I am going to try to bring some stickers (assuming they arrive in time) of this fella to the @lowerpowered Meeting of the Mats meet in OB on October 29th. In the meantime I merged him with a wave photo I had in my library. #MatSurfing #SanDiego #OceanBeach #Stoke

drawings IFTTT lowerpowered matsurfing oceanbeach sandiego stoke via-instagram

1