I've been hanging with medical professionals lately. Chelsea is a Pediatric and Intensive Care Nurse, Jennifer is a Labor and Delivery Nurse and Amy is a Surgical P/A.

Chelsea is tiny and fits right in with the Pediatrics Ward, Jennifer delivers babies that aren't hers, and Amy injects clitoris pleasure enhancement drugs into older women.

They're beautiful, intelligent and successful. I'm very glad I've gotten the opportunity to know them.

I think about the time I spent down in Tampa recently, when my brain was still badly damaged. Shelby introduced a bunch of great, good looking successful people to me down there, but my memory was running in the Off mode.

Hey Shelbs, make me a list of the great people I met there and what they do!

Some folks I've met lately say they were born and raised here in Pensacola and lived all their life here.

I lived for forty years in California, almost half my life. All across the State, from the mountains to the beaches, from the big cities, to the sticks.

On my fortieth birthday I was sitting in a downtown Oakland bar. Colleen had just moved up to Kent, WA, just south of Seattle. She took my son Riley with her.

My software business was crumbling around me, and one of my Jewish partners wanted to buy me out. I said buy me a plane ticket to Seattle and give me some cash.

The next day I was gone from California and never looked back. Over the years Riley and I would travel down the coast and see people and things, but I never lived there again.