Author Archives: BBRiley

It’s time for vacation, wahoo! When I say that to my middle aged sons, they roll their eyes and make some snarky remark about how I’m retired and on vacation everyday. Let me clarify. I am semi-retired. Yes, I no longer get up, get in the car and drive to a job for five daysContinue reading “Road Trip: Captain’s Log 071821”

I enjoy watching the television game show “Jeopardy.” Almost every night at 7 p.m. I sit and watch as three contestants provide questions to a slew of trivia answers about a wide variety of subjects. It is amazing how quickly and accurately they can come up with the correct answer. These contestants are playing forContinue reading “What is Trivia?”

A disclaimer before I begin. Baseball is my favorite sport. I have favorite teams in other sports but baseball is my first and only true love of a sport. I root for my favorite American League team and my favorite National League team and I just love the game. So much so, I have playedContinue reading “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”

Recently news broke that the reality show, “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” was coming to an end. For me, that was the second best news report I’ve seen this year, only second to the Covid-19 Pandemic coming to an end. As far as I’m concerned, both were abject disasters, documented everyday on television and socialContinue reading “Reality Sucks”

Nowadays when someone finds out that I served in the Army so many years ago, I will get a “Thank you for your service,” in response. It stirs up a lot of memories. Wow, what a difference from when I actually served. There was this little conflict called the VietNam war going on when IContinue reading “Thank You For Your Service”