In the 1970s, I worked off and on at an Auburn, Alabama pizza restaurant. There was an employee there; I’ll call him Tom. He was a lot older than the rest of us.
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Month: June 2020
6 a.m. Blues
When I worked at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, in the early 1980s, members of my department sometimes flew to Dayton, Ohio, for meetings at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. For our return flights, we had a choice of either a 6 a.m. or a 9 a.m. flight back to the Macon, Georgia airport. We always chose the 9 a.m. flight, arrived in Atlanta around 10 a.m., changed planes, and would arrive at Macon around 1 p.m. The majority of us would return to work for the rest of the day.
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Math Team
For much of my life, I’ve been good at math. I’ve rarely been consistently great at math though I’ve had fleeting moments of greatness.
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I Want To Bang On The Drum All Day
My fiancé and I were planning our life together. We were getting married soon and discussed houses, children, religion, careers, and much more of our future. It was a thrilling time.
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Burning Down The House
A previous wife and I bought a house and planned to spend time working on the place before moving in. We still lived in a duplex we owned. We had buyers for the duplex and were going to sell a few days after buying the house. The buyers agreed to let us live in the duplex another week or so after the sale.
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Turn It Up
In the summer of 2007, I was the guitarist with the John Bull Band of Montgomery, Alabama. John is a roots/blues singer who has performed in the Montgomery area for many years. That summer, he booked the band to perform at the grand opening of a Bass Pro Shop store in nearby Prattville, Alabama.
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