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I warned you that subsequent postings from 1972 would include an inordinant number of photos of me. My Dad had just gotten his Yashica TL Electro-X camera in early 1972 and was itching to create some serious picture snappage. Naturally, I, being just less than six months old, had to have been quite a novelty to the new proud father, so there were tons and tons of beautiful color slides taken of me in all my beautiful baby glory. In this posting are some of my favorites. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed posing for them… Read the rest of this entry »

Just one day before the world’s tongues were abuzz about the untimely death of super-whatever Anna Nicole Smith, a man of infinitely more character and wisdom passed away on February 7, 2007. Bob Cline was my Dad’s first cousin, being the son of my Grandma Range’s brother Ira. As far as I recall, I never got the chance to meet Bob. I had talked about making the trek to his hometown of Evansville, Indiana on several occasions to visit with him, but like many things we plan to do, it never happened. Read the rest of this entry »

I decided to throw caution to the wind on the evening of Thursday, February 8, and meet up with my friend Jason Heaton to participate in the tournament of champions trivia contest at MacGillicutty’s in Kettering – despite the ridiculously early flight I had to catch the next morning…and the fact that I was not completely packed (and I had just been to trivia at Cadillac Jack’s the night before). The net result of this is that I only got at most three hours of sleep before I had to get up at 3am and do my last minute packing. Read the rest of this entry »