Summer Is Here

Let’s Talk Weather You know it’s summer here on the Texas Coast when you step outside before sunup and the humidity settles around your shoulders like a heavy damp cloak. At daybreak

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It Seems Like I’m Neglecting My Muse

General Muse Over the past week it has seemed as if I am neglecting the daily muse here at Coffee Muses…What with experimenting with WordPress 3.0 on a couple of

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It Is The Second Anniversary Of My OTC Freedom

For over 35 years one of the defining events of each year was the opening of the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. During much of that time, OTC was the

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Today Should Have Been My Day

Planning Your Life My morning email brought me this… Gary, here is your schedule for: Thu Apr 22, 2010 All day Thu Apr 22 Retirement Day Gary Boyd I don’t remember

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If I Only Had The Day To Play

I’d spend it at the battlefield this weekend… Bugle calls and thundering cannons will fill the air Saturday at the old San Jacinto battlefield — the site where Sam Houston’s

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Today Should Have Been A Great Day Of Goodbyes

For most of the past decade I had picked today as my last day of employment with Freeman. Earth Day 2010…The fortieth anniversary of the defining idea of my generation

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Musing In On A Sunday Morning – The Videos

This morning I spent some time with some friends, old and new, via YouTube… First it was my buddy, Fred First‘s Slideshow presentation of the images in his second book

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