It was 1952 when my Dad bought our first power mower. It had a two-cycle motor, and it had an eight-teen-inch blade. They did not have two-cycle oil back then; we just mixed 30-weight car oil with the gasoline and hoped you got the mix close enough to allow it […]
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If you live long enough, you will discover that life is like a rollercoaster. You will spend part of your life climbing mountains, some time with a view from high, and the rest dealing with curves and drops that may take your breath away. You will experience times when you […]
If you live long enough, you will experience days when you feel depressed and that you are no longer in control of your life. It is like taking a fall and knowing it will hurt, but you do not wait until you hit the ground to begin worrying about how […]
During the 1960s, many major oil companies had a large presence in Houston. To name a few, Gulf Oil, Humble Oil, Texaco Oil, Shell Oil, Mobil Oil, Sinclair Oil, Phillips Petroleum, and others had offices in downtown Houston. Senior management in those corporations had a significant influence on the Houston […]
The Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) was the original name for the Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA’s center for human spaceflight. The Gemini Program was the first spacecraft missions that were controlled by MSC. There were twelve Gemini missions between April 1964 and November 1966. I started working at NASA […]
During the last few days after the “storm of 2024”, with the whole area around here without power, I spent much time just sitting and thinking. My generator powers my entire house, so I had electricity; however, Comcast was out until yesterday afternoon, so I had no internet or TV. […]
As we go about living our lives each day, we do a lot of different things without much thought given. Most of our decisions are short-term and require no serious evaluation of options. We are going through our daily routine. As we get older, we tend to remember the bigger […]
It was July or August, and the year was around 1971 to 72. I was working for First Continental Mortgage Company in charge of the Computer Services Department. Some of the other department heads wanted to get as many of the employees as possible to go on a fishing trip […]
A couple of weeks ago, I was cleaning out a closet in a bedroom so that one of my granddaughters could live with me for a while. That closet had been a place that collected a lot of stuff that had little value, but just never made its’ way to […]
I was fourteen when I began working at the Amoco Service Station located at Little York and Bauman Road. I had worked at a grocery store prior to that job, but working with cars was a lot more fun for me. I got interested in cars in the early 1950s […]