Promises, Promises
A group of friends made our 27th year in a row into New York today to see a Broadway play. After a superb lunch at Vice Versa we saw Promises, Promises. It was certainly easy to identify with the vintage. The play is based on the 1960 Billy Wilder film The Apartment that starred Jack […]
Fatboy On The Road
The motorcycle trip had been in the planning stage for months and this week it was to happen. It would be one of the biggest adventures of all time for me. Not as exciting in some respects as the very light jet trip from Brazil in October. Not as long as the many trips I […]
Solar
Alternative energy — sources that have no undesired consequences unlike fossil fuels or nuclear energy — are renewable and are often thought of as “free”. There are billions of dollars being spent on alternative energy but there clearly are benefits compared to conventional energy sources. The alternative sources include biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric the tides and […]
Civil War
The summer would not be complete without reaching the goal of finding 100 geocaches since we started geocaching in 2003. I had mentioned “clever” in the last post and today I found yet another example of clever thinking by some very dedicated people in Pennsylvania. There were two multicaches that I was fortunate to be […]
The Classical String Quartet
The first story about music here in patrickWeb was called "Running with Mozart" and it was published on August 17, 1997. There are quite a few other music related stories since. Some are about concerts, some about my conducting experiences, and many about the digital music. Most of us think of MP3 or iPods when […]
