My Desultory Blog

RichC | February 10, 2019

I enjoyed the warm sunshine and working on a few project on Encore this past week. It was a delayed trip due to a flight cancelation, but thankful my schedule is pretty flexible. It would have been nice to stay longer and to have had Brenda with me, but "ya got to do what you […]

Category: Archive, Misc, Sailing | No Comments »
Tags: encore, florida, fort pierce, harbortown, hatch, idiom, lewmar, sailboat, sailing, sunrise

RichC | January 20, 2019

A quick piece of advice for those who are in the habit of shopping online … especially if you are used to using Amazon and their Prime shipping. I’ve habitually price products since Amazon isn’t always competitively price with other online vendors, BUT my advice is to remember just how dependable and reliable shipping from […]

Category: Advice, Marketing, Shopping, Tools | No Comments »
Tags: advice, amazon, idiom, oil, online, shipping, Shopping, tap magic

RichC | September 1, 2018

Some interesting results using my birth town and the "number of 90 degree days" in a New York Times "tool" which I interpret as wanting to alarm us into action over the "human induced climate change" projections. If you haven’t already dug your heels in with an opinion (likely influenced by politics either way) … […]

Category: Energy, Environment, Nature, Politics, Science, Weather | No Comments »
Tags: carbon, change, climate, cooling, emissions, global, grain of salt, idiom, idioms, interactive, nytimes, warming, weather

RichC | July 23, 2018

When I think of “SUNSHINE,” it almost always lifts my spirits … even if it is a song with a “go away today” line … and dealing with a challenging time for many in the late 1960s and 70s. Still with all the depressing Vietnam War news and anti-war music, having one country folk song […]

Category: Memories, Music, Video | No Comments »
Tags: folk, idiom, jonathan edwards, music monday, musicmonday, protest, sunshine, war, youtube

RichC | August 20, 2017

Dar Jones, an out of state friend of ours regularly checks my blog and mentioned that I’ve been lax in my grand-parenting duties in updating photos of my granddaughter Annalyn … at least as a new grandfather. Personal items and photos are likely the only items of interest to her on my blog (HA!) Since […]

Category: Archive, Personal, Photos | No Comments »
Tags: annalyn, drew, facetime, family, granddaughter, idiom, katelyn, pineapple, pool

RichC | September 17, 2015

Last night’s second GOP debate on CNN at the Reagan Library wasn’t bad as debates go. The current frontrunner, the attention grabbing Donald Trump did one thing for the Republican brand … he got generated attention. His grade school behavior buffoonery brought far viewers to  the stodgy GOP and that alone could help Republicans ideas […]

Category: Audio, News, Politics, Tidbits | No Comments »
Tags: audio, candidates, cnn, debate, gop, idiom, mp3, political, reagan, republican, words