Among The Joshua Trees

Category: Life

  • Something on the mind

    Well since all are pretty much aware that the youngest daughter is with child, a grandson who is due in September, there is some decision making in regard to the lad’s naming. Missus ORPO is pushing for his middle name to be the same as mine which is as most know is Mark. It is…

  • On the passing of Captain McCain

    I have been watching the “conversations” about John McCain on The Book of Faces since the news of his passing broke in the news media and I must say the some of it upsets me. First, yes I did vote for him in 2008. No regrets there. Good, that is out of the way. John…

  • Social Media Update

    I have given up the social media, ie, Facebook and Google Plus. I was spending far too much time on it. I even cut into the time I should be sleeping. My other blog, Old Retired Petty Officer is now decommissioned as well. I am debating to upgrade this blog but I have not made…

  • Recent thoughts…………….

    It keeps going through my head…………. What is down the road with the possibility of cancer, again………………. Sometimes the images are going at almost the speed of sound………… Appointments are made and it is the waiting game………….. Yes, I am scared of what may happen………… I should put trust in Hashem to see me through…

  • About last Thursday…………..Life It’s Ownself……

    This is what I posted at Old Retired Petty Officer this morning……. About Last Thursday But for the sake of not using links all the time here is the entire post……………………… On this past Thursday the 13th of April………………. I had an appointment with the neurologist at the Sepulveda Veteran’s Ambulatory Care Clinic in North…

  • Memories of a Time When I was a young man.

    This past Saturday, the ship that was my first duty station began it’s final journey. The Good Ship Independence was towed from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard enroute to the breaker’s yard in Brownsville, Texas. I reported aboard her in January of 1974 as a fresh faced 19 year old kid from the Montana Prairies.…

  • More potassium stuff

    I am off of the potassium supplement along with the water pills. After finally getting to see my outside doctor, no more of either of these. I have to go back in 4 to 6 weeks for a follow up. Blood was drawn, again…….. I’may fed up with getting holes poked in my arms😝😝😝😝

  • Eyes Of A Stranger

    It may seem strange but lately when I look in the mirror………………it’s not me. I have a few ideas about it. One is the aging process….but I have dropped 16 pounds since January. I am a small person to begin with……………….It may be the really shitty working hours and the screwed up sleep cycle or…

  • Tiny House?

    Someone had this up on a Google Plus post yesterday………….. 5 years, 6 months, 6 days of sleeping in these…………..

  • Life Event

    Life event/Milestone. It’s official. I am a Tool Room Attendant. No more flight line or jets for me. The foot issues enabled me to obtain a reasonable accomodation to get off the line. For the record: ACC on 83-1120, 80-3666, 80-0584 and 88-0445. DCC for a time on 88-0456. It was a good run. Father…

  • Desert Sunrise 21 August 2015

    I left the house earlier than usual as the sun does rise later in the latter half of August. I was lucky enough to catch the sun as it broke above the mountains to the East. I got a few of the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains to the East with the Grey Light Of Dawn…

  • Firing Up The Wayback Machine……………….aka, Where I Come From……………….

    A couple of links to The Missoulian concerning Havre, Montana, the hometown of this Old Retired Petty Officer……………………”H” is for Havre as the paper says…….. The old Post Office is where I registered for the draft in 1972 after graduation and turning 18. We did it in person those days. The Selective Service Office was…

  • Changes

    Update on the physical conditions of yours truly. The flight line is beating the hell out of me and it’s time to find something else. I went to my Doc yesterday. The feet are making things damn difficult. He wrote a note for my bosses to find me another job at Edwards due to my…

  • Daughter Amanda and Eldest Granddaughter Bailee

    Bailee is 14 and she has finished with Junior High School and this coming Fall she will be a Freshman in High School. Father Time is reminding me that I am not a kid anymore.

  • Yeah. Another one of them anniversaries………….that are getting far too regular……………..

    Oh Shit, I’m getting old moment…………. 40 years ago today, I finished my first deployment to the Med on Independence with the ship’s arrival at Pier 7, Naval Station Norfolk on a very cold, rainy and windy day. I was all of 20 years old.   It seems as though anniversaries like this are hitting…