Welcome to Hendo's Twisted Mind

Yay - 2022 is in the rear view mirror and we’re on to 2023 - hopefully a welcome change. As previously threatened - it’s my one, and...

Well my-oh-my - what’s this? A post to the blog? Wonder if the website even still works. Yes - several months after my last reassurance...

Just when you thought you were safe - that I had gone the way of 99% of the start-up blogs and given the damn thing up….I’m back…and...

I know, I know, I know - it’s been like forever since I’ve posted anything to the blog but rumors of the demise of either me or the blog...

My heroes have always been cowboys And they still are, it seems Sadly, in search of, and one step in back of Themselves and their...

I awoke with a profound sense of sadness today - happy to wake up at all - but feeling like I had been gut-punched after watching the...

Hands down - no doubt about it - Thanksgiving has almost always been my favorite holiday - I say almost always, as I’m sure that as a kid...

I am so sad that wearing a mask to battle COVID-19 has become a political issue. I am sad that in the name of politics we will discard...

I’ve struggled at times to not let my posts become political diatribes - and I’ll do my best not to let this one fall into that category....

I need to add a couple of disclaimers right up front about this post - first, I’m a retired guy living on a pension and investments and...

One of the things I miss the most about life in a pandemic is travel - I had assumed I would spend the majority of 2020 being at home...

While on a deep dive through the wrinkly grey matter of my brain the other day it occurred to me that for the biggest slice of the last...

I’m a proud graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School (don’t ask me how that happened) in Tacoma, Washington. When I attended it was grades...

For the vast majority of you I would imagine that you won’t be finding yourself traveling Highway 50 (the Loneliest Highway in America...

Who are they kidding? I don’t know exactly when this happened - when a perfectly adequate swamp got gentrified and became the China Lake...

For good or for bad - one of the first decisions that I made when I decided on going to college in Bellingham, Washington was that I...