North Farnham Freeholder

I don’t usually do these personality quizes and I really didn’t watch the series very much. However, this is the character I would say I identified with the most on it. Interesting…..

(originally posted several days earlier)

(Originally published several days earlier.)

Don’t get me wrong, I understand how to play poker — and several of the variations.

What I don’t understand is it’s popularity. It’s not like it’s something new. I was playing poker over a quarter of a century ago — and quit when it put my young family in financial difficulty.

It was in the 1970s—cold war time period—and I was on a missile submarine in the North Atlantic. It was a three month patrol, 90 days without any way for the individual sailor to communicate with anyone not on the ship. We could receive five family grams during the patrol — 20 words, and censored to ensure there was nothing upsetting.

There wasn’t a lot of entertainment available to us for distraction. We didn’t have video games, DVDs or even VCRs. We had movies after the evening meal, but if you were on watch or asleep you didn’t get that. Most guys brought some books and there was a tiny library with a few more.

A lot of the time, for some, was filled with (more…)

This photograph is of a unique ferry is in Mamouth Caves National Park in Kentucky. We made a side trip to the park on our way home from Springfield, Massachusetts in July 2004. The ferry ride isn’t very long and, obviously, it can’t accomodate many vehicles.

(originally published about three days earlier)

I’m not much for watching television, nor for watching professional sports, least of all proffesional wrestling.

Given that I haven’t paid any attention what soever to proffesional wrestling, I should be surprised at least a little bit that it ranks so high in popularity for internet searches, but I’m not.

The last time I watched any was several years ago and several states north of here, visiting my family back home. There out on the prarie in a little house in a small town I sat with professional wrestling in front of me in all of its glory on a big screen TV and my dad and brother sat there and watched hour after hour. Not me.

As a teen in the seventies, I actually went to several professional wrestling matches. (I guess they’re called matches, or are they shows?) It was fun at the time, but it was also obviously just entertainment…. and I don’t see the fun in make believe fights.

But there’s money in it, and lots of fans. Here’s some links:

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
WWE on Yahoo Finance
Shows on UPN
WWE Shop.com
WWE Corporate Website