Happy Hour

"IF A LIFETIME CAN BE LIKENED TO A DAY, THEN THIS IS HAPPY HOUR!"
BUCK PENNINGTON

Mother, Mother Ocean

Mother, Mother Ocean, I've heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
In your belly you hold the treasures, few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred year's too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late

Yoda

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker

Counted the Stars

Counted the stars on the 4th of July
Wishing we were rockets bursting in the sky
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind
I have these pictures and I keep these photographs
To remind me of a time
These pictures and these photographs
Let me know I'm doin' fine
We used to be so happy once upon a time
Once upon a time
But the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
And the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line

""SOME SEE A GLASS AS HALF FULL, SOME SEE IT AS HALF EMPTY, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO’S DRINKING MY RUM."
Rumbear

Sunday, May 30, 2010

From the past, Darkly?


The left one is from my first cruise to the Med aboard USS Independence. Taken in about November of 1974.
The one on the right is from Boot Camp in San Diego in the Fall of 1973. The Navy was in the process of going to the coat, tie and combination cover uniform. That lasted until about 79 or so. I went back to the jumper uniforms in 1981.

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3 comments:

Buck said...

And the women swooned... ;-)

Monday, May 31, 2010 10:12:00 AM
Glenn Mark Cassel said...

Some of them did. Including a VA VA VA Voom!

Monday, May 31, 2010 10:41:00 AM
Barco Sin Vela II said...

That port side photo is pretty swayve deboner!

The Boot Camp Pictures are always kind of dreadful.

Ah, to be a proud non-rate E-2 with no real responsibilities, dem were da days!

Monday, June 07, 2010 1:45:00 PM

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