In the section below I am including things I like to do or see.
Phoenix Comicon 2013
Phoenix Comicon 2014
Phoenix Comicon 2015
Phoenix Comicon 2016
I went to Phoenix Comicon 2013 over the Memorial Day weekend (5/24-26) and enjoyed the experience with about 55,000 of my closest friends! The thing that strikes me about the entertainment people who come to these conventions is how sincerely nice they tend to be. These people often say that they really appreciate the fans and fully realize they get to do some of the fun stuff they do because of us out here. They are often amazed at the affect they have had on people's lives 5, 10, 15, and even 20 years after their shows were on the air. This was the 4th one of these I had attended (all the ones since they moved to the Phoenix Convention Center) and each one has been bigger than the year before. I have been to 7 as of 2016. For 2016 the attendance was 106, 096. It's come a long way. The Phoenix Comicon (now called Phoenix Fan Fusion because San Diego threatened to sue over the name) web site can be found here phoenixfanfusion.com/ . The whole Covid 19 thing caused 2020 and 2021 to be cancelled, but I am hopeful for 2022. Update: 2022 didn't go so well. I got Covid just in time to not be able to attend (yes, I was vaccintated and boosted). That blew the tickets for me that I had been holding for two years :-( . I gave them to my son and grandson so they could at least attend one day of the event (grandson had a good time :-) . Now I am hoping for 2023 where once again I have tickets that I bought in advance. Hope for the best!
Phoenix Comicon 2013
Phoenix Comicon 2014
Phoenix Comicon 2015
Phoenix Comicon 2016
I went to Phoenix Comicon 2013 over the Memorial Day weekend (5/24-26) and enjoyed the experience with about 55,000 of my closest friends! The thing that strikes me about the entertainment people who come to these conventions is how sincerely nice they tend to be. These people often say that they really appreciate the fans and fully realize they get to do some of the fun stuff they do because of us out here. They are often amazed at the affect they have had on people's lives 5, 10, 15, and even 20 years after their shows were on the air. This was the 4th one of these I had attended (all the ones since they moved to the Phoenix Convention Center) and each one has been bigger than the year before. I have been to 7 as of 2016. For 2016 the attendance was 106, 096. It's come a long way. The Phoenix Comicon (now called Phoenix Fan Fusion because San Diego threatened to sue over the name) web site can be found here phoenixfanfusion.com/ . The whole Covid 19 thing caused 2020 and 2021 to be cancelled, but I am hopeful for 2022. Update: 2022 didn't go so well. I got Covid just in time to not be able to attend (yes, I was vaccintated and boosted). That blew the tickets for me that I had been holding for two years :-( . I gave them to my son and grandson so they could at least attend one day of the event (grandson had a good time :-) . Now I am hoping for 2023 where once again I have tickets that I bought in advance. Hope for the best!
Here is the first quilt top I have sewn. I started it before my health incident at the end of August 2013 and finished it about a month after that. Below is a larger version. My wife, Susan, was very patient with me and helped me pick out all the fabrics and showed me how to sew everything. It's actually way more straight than it looks in the photograph which kind of distorts everything. The picture below is after quilting and adding the binding so that it is complete. I finished it just the week before Christmas in 2013.
That's me below showing off the finished project.
Below is an antique radio club swap meet I attended in 2013.
My kids took me on a flight in a B17 for my 65th birthday (April 2017). Yes, that's the B17 that crashed back east a couple of years later. That was a very sad situation. Still, we had a good time on our ride and I am very glad we did it.