Goodbye Captain Bob
Have you ever had something weighing on your mind and it required action on your part to make it go away? Are you like me, with a busy everyday and think I’ll take care of it after I do this which turns into tomorrow followed by a whole slew of days filled with inaction on the matter? It’s a sloppy way to do things, yet understandable in today’s hurried world. Yet still, when I look in the mirror, shame shame. For me, this something wasn’t a thing, it was a person, a far-flung friend of mine, Captain Bob. I made his acquittance in the beginning of 2011 when he sent me an email. He was a reader of my blog, and I used to be a writer of a blog. (I’m trying to be a writer of a blog again.) He asked what kind of airplane I flew and he told me what kind of airplane he flew. I answered him promptly, and we have been friends ever since. Bob was a cool cat. Apparently, in his early days he was in the trucking industry and hence, enjoyed reading about my exploits on the road. Lucki...