Category Archives: Stories of my life

And now, the larch… and today’s picture for Mr. Eric Idle… who now chats with me on Twitter…

I am not making this up. Not only is Mr. Eric Idle of ‘Monty Python’ fame still following me on Twitter, but we have actual chats. It is still sort of freaking me out. It is too awesome. I now have, … Continue reading

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Just to update you on my ongoing plan to tweet to famous people until they tweet me back just so my 20-something daughter thinks I’m cool we can now add Ron Howard to my list…

Ron Howard ‏@RealRonHoward 1h1 hour ago @ArthurBrowne1 thanks   Oh, and Eric Idle is still following me, and seems to be enjoying all the silly pictures I have been sending him because he keeps retweeting them and they are being … Continue reading

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The long and sordid tale of how and why I started stalking celebrities on Twitter and how it led to me being followed by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame and Dana Carvey from Saturday Night Live…

It all started, as a surprising number of things in my life do, as a harmless joke. A little more than a year ago, when my older daughter Jessica was still in college, I found out that she was on Twitter. … Continue reading

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Holy crap… Eric Idle is following me on Twitter…

Details to follow…

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I went back in time… part 4…

These are the last of the pictures that Uncle Bert took at the civil war reenactment. I love that one. He used a Photoshop filter to give it the sepia tones of the old photos from that era. I still … Continue reading

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I went back in time… part 3…

Yup… they actually let me put the explosive primer caps into the top of the cannon and pull the lanyard that ignited the charge and set off the gunpowder inside the cannon. That is the actual cannon that was used during … Continue reading

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I went back in time… part 2…

Ten points if you noticed that I am not wearing any shoes… They didn’t have any size 15 shoes in the bins of spare uniform parts where they kept extra stuff for temporary volunteers like me. So I fired a … Continue reading

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What did I do yesterday??? I went back in time…

We went to see a little civil war reenactment in Vista, California yesterday, and I got recruited by the Richmond Howitzers. I have actually been thinking about joining one of these reenactment groups for quite a while, but I was … Continue reading

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I made a new friend yesterday…

Oh… sorry… wait… you got a little something in your teeth… and that really isn’t a good picture… There she is, my new buddy. I had to get up at four in the morning to drive my youngest daughter to … Continue reading

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Even more shameless self-promotion…

I just went into a little custom T-shirt shop near my house and ordered a shirt with this original design… I had it printed on a white shirt, so that is just about what it will look like. I threw in … Continue reading

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