Yesterday morning was spent teaching some local high school students about power boat safety and handling. One of the local high schools has a boat operations class; one of their former students arranged for two of the classes to take a field trip to the Orange Coast College Professional Mariners Program. The students were divided…

This past weekend we celebrated Memorial Day; a day when we remember the soldiers who served for and gave their lives for the freedoms that we citizens of the United States of America enjoy. I feel for the families that have lost loved ones in any war or “action” that the U.S. has been involved…

This past weekend was spent at home in Scottsdale Arizona. Friday night I attended a concert in the desert at the Botanical Gardens; I saw Kim Weston perform. It was a great night and a great show. The sunsets in Arizona are just phenomenal! The pastel colors becoming a bright orange, it is just incredible….

This week began on Sunday, just because that is what the calendar states. Sunday was a great day! I took my partner, Grace, around Terminal Island in San Pedro Harbor on her dinghy. We saw sea lions sunny themselves, big container ships and small personal vessels. It was a great day on the water; we…

This past weekend I spent some time with an old friend at her house. In her early Seventies, she continues to work, even though she retired twenty years ago. She enjoys what she is doing and it keeps her mind young. I understand this and I feel that I will be the same; always working…

I realize that I really do function better when I have some sort of music playing in the background of my life. Music gets me moving and puts me into a more positive state of emotion. It reminds me of people, places and so much more. I have seen a lot of great concerts in…

Today I sat a table with several other people, working out processes for a warehouse and warehouse management system. When you have people working together to find a solution, a common goal, looking at things differently and having a resolution that everyone can agree on, that is a wonderful thing. It is too bad that…

This title can mean several things. I am well. Well, what now? I fell down the well. Apparently sailors are not very adept in using a large vocabulary, which is why Port means several things as well as Log. I guess it would matter on how the word is used in a sentence before you…

What to be grateful for today? My health? Well, yes, except I apparently have COVID; but I feel fine. I could be grateful for my wealth; not monetarily, but what I do have is plenty for me to be happy. My family and friends? I am always grateful for them. I guess what I am…

If you are from Southern California, LA County south to Tijuana, that title looks perfectly normal and sounds so when spoken out loud. I love my brother’s last post, he brought some of the pain onto himself but he realized it, took ownership of it and found a great version of Gimme Shelter by the…

Today I worked with a client in the Houston area of Texas. The have had a software program for over two years that they have not really used. The biggest reason for not using the software was that the hardware was not working correctly, blaming the software for this. One of the first things that…