Roadtrip(s) – Q1’16

February 9

What a crazy past few weeks this has been!  It’s been an interesting time of change that has encompassed a full-range of emotions from professional enthusiasm to personal reflection. First of all I would like to thank my wonderful wife for her terrific support and patience. Our life this past month has consisted of lots of car travel, hotel rooms and many other impromptu activities. From a personal reflection standpoint it’s…

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Plumas Pines Annual Golf Tournament – 2015 Edition

June 11

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Friendly Familiar Faces This past weekend a group of 50-60 guys made our yearly trip up into Plumas Pines /Graeagle, California for our annual golf outing.  This year was the 21st Edition of the event.  I have personally been attending for roughly 6-7 years and the core-group of golfers are long time friends going way back.  It’s really great to…

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Narita Airport (Tokyo) food display

The photo below is fairly typical of most food places in Japan.  They have nice displays like this that makes ordering easy for foreigners.  You just point to what you want!  This was a restaurant in the Narita Airport in Tokyo.

September 2
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Summer Breeze in Japan

Japan in the summer When it takes half-a-day of travel (~12 hours) to get somewhere, and half-a-day of travel back (~10 hours because of a nice tail-wind) there must be lessons-learned and experiences to share.  Taking into account the obvious items such as the travel itself and those experiences, there is always something particularly special when traveling to Japan.  This week I was fortunate to travel to the great country…

August 2
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KISS ‘Room Service’ for 10 hours!

July 21

Dressed to Kill is the third studio album by American hard rock band Kiss, released on March 19, 1975. It was produced by Casablanca Records president Neil Bogart and the band itself as the label’s financial situation at the time did not permit the hiring of a professional producer.

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