Chief No Feathers

When times were bad and jobs were hard to come by, I got a job in a book warehouse. It's the only job where I had to take math and English tests to get the position. I swore to them that I had graduated from high school, but that didn't matter - I had to take the tests.What we did was get cartons of books, and then using hand-held computers, find the aisle, the shelf, and then the space to put the books in.It is hard, at least for me, to let all this knowledge - literally - go through my fingers and not try to grab some of it.When times were bad - from The Lost Colony of Roanoke to Dresden and THE GREAT DEBATE.

Another day on the Yukon and life amongst the original inhabitants

I was invited to be a guest on an American aircraft carrier (the USS Kitty Hawk) at the head of its own Battle Group while the Cold War was "warm" -but then after being at sea for two days (somewhere out in the middle of the Pacific), the Captain of the Kitty Hawk summoned me and "requested" I am assuming the reader knows what a "request" from a United States Navy Captain actually means] me to serve the U.S. Navy. I did. This is also how Shih Tzu puppies and coyotes are related to and intertwined with World History. So with " Dang ] it - this time I'm going to connect the dots", you know you are in for a ride - so get a nice cup of tea, sit back, . . . and savor the trip.] Shih Tzu's 1 - Coyotes -0- This ain't just another puppy story.]