No beating around the bush today, mainly because absolutely nothing happened yesterday worthy of note other than a Red Sox comeback victory which has been exceedingly rare for over a year. Let’s plunge into today’s continuation the memory rummaging with photos mined from the basement storage bins:
FAVORITE
PANAMANIAN AND PARTIES
Wife Garbed up for Panamanian Folklorico Dance, 2001 
New Years 2004, Neighbors' House, Fairfax VA 
NYC with War College Buddies, 2001
Towers Came Down 6 Months Later
Beloved Aunts and Uncles Thanksgiving 2002
FAVORITE
SON
Next Year Kids Took Over Table
Early 2000s Great Aunt's House 
Sneaking Chocolate 
Signature Salute Late 80s, Grandma's House 
High School, Early 2000s, Fairfax, VA
FAVORITE
DAUGHTER
Cub Scout, Ft Leavenworth, KS, 1996
1st Day of Kindergarten, Washington, DC, 1988 
High School, Ft Campbell, KY, 1998 
Freshman Dorm Room, Boston University, 2002 
Senior Year
SON
AND DAUGHTER TOGETHER
With Soxfather and Namesake Nephew
Sliding in NH 
Christmas Pose Kansas 1995 
Slave Labor, Washing Car, Annandale, VA 1987 
Wearing Dad's Shirts Atop Mt Monadnock, Early 90s
FAMILY
Trip to Mt Rushmore, S.D. 1996
Mom Comes to Hawaii, 1994 
Great Aunt and I, Keene Pumpkinfest Mid-2000s 
Great Aunt and Soxfather Visiting Fairfax, VA 2002 
Wife Delivering her Patented Hugs to Namesake Nephew
ANCIENT
HISTORY
Because They Are Family, Keene Friend, Soxfather, & P.C.R
BAsic Training, Ft Knox, KY 1978 
Leaving Germany March 1980 
With One of My First Mentors 1980
He's the Father of a Very Famous Actress
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| Me (Standing) with Great Aunt and Lisa Late 50s |
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| Dad 1971 |
Lunch on an Italian Patrol boat, Peacekeeping Mission
Sinai, Egypt, 1994
Welcomed Home from the Field, Ft Campbell, KY 1998 
Crystal City, VA Office 2002 
Retirement Day 2005
MISCELLANEOUS
Same Day with Virginia Musquetera
Cutting Down Tree as a Completely Unqualified Lumberjack
Mom's Back Yard, Early 90s
Eating First (and last) Shawarma, Tiberias, Israel 1995 
Visit to Jerusalem 1995 
Wailing Wall, Jerusalem 1995
Two
movies fell in my A-Z effort, both keepers, Big Trouble in Little China (Kurt
Russell and John Carpenter – always for the win) and Birdman (fascinating movie,
in the how the hell did they do that category)
Keene Comes to VA, Keene Friends 1 & 2
Pittsburgh College Roommate 2002
RECURRING CHARACTERS:
ABFA – Amazing Best Family
Athlete - my daughter
in law; BR3 – Blog Reader #3 – granddaughter
#3; BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel -
second granddaughter; Cantankerous Friend – friend since grade school who likes to argue
about everything, poses as radical leftist to attract women; Connecticut
Riverboat Captain – another close friend from high school, renowned sailor
of the big river; Curbside Girls – close
friends of my daughter acquired during her single days in Brooklyn; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Favorite Panamanian - the wife (of
course); FBR - First Blog Reader -
first granddaughter; First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Kindergarten Friend – friend
since kindergarten whom I reunited with after many years; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two close friends of my wife –
her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd Musquetera (musketeer); Namesake Nephew –
son of Great Aunt and Soxfather named after me; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member; PanaGals – female relatives /friends
of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin
Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife accumulates wherever we
have lived & their spouses; Pittsburgh
College Roommate– high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in
Pittsburgh; Riggins - also known as
the Grandpuppy, son's dog; Soxfather
- my brother in law; Tia Loca – wife’s younger sister; Wingman – my
son in law; Wingmom – Wingman’s
mom, of course
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