Author Archives: rickjlundeen

There have been various combinations of personnel at our yearly camping trips, sometimes it’s down to two people who hold the fort for the first day and night, then welcome the remainder of the group on day two.  One such first day was manned by Jim and myself, and it was what could only beContinue reading “Potato Salad, Temporal Sense, Trench of Fire, Nonsense”

This was another camping event, mid 1980’s, which also featured Pam, Don and myself, at least, initially. We’d gotten there a day early to stake out a great campsite, while Linda was driving up with Jim, the following afternoon. It was a pretty cool site though. There was parking on the high ground where roadContinue reading “String Shop and the Balloon Ambush”

This week will feature all the various camping adventures/stories/mishaps/tragedies that occurred during roughly a 10 to 15 year period, from the early mid ’80’s to the early ’90’s. In the coming days, I will speak of events that occurred in Whitewater Wisconsin and a nearby selection of camp sites.  There will be talk of plots.Continue reading “Camping week”

Did you turn your clocks ahead? Have you sprung forward? If so, I commend you for forging ahead in these trying, Covid-19, post apocalyptic times, and bumping up that digital number up by one. If you haven’t, you could be exposed as a Luddite, I suppose. Half of the temporal expression devices in our homeContinue reading “DST and Easter- Limbo of Madness”

Back in the ’90’s, I was the primary Coca Cola illustrator at Impact, the promotional division of Foote, Cone and Belding. This was my first and last professional full time, salaried gig and it lasted from September 1992 to April 15th, 1998. I worked with some of the kindest, loveliest people ever. There were aContinue reading “Shorty Robe weekend”

Fantastic Friday note: FF action figures I’ve always appreciated a quality sculpt on an action figure. The mechanics and design that go into action figures these days is crazy. The quality has made a quantum leap, or two, or three, since the ’80’s and early ’90’s. Back then, you’d be lucky to get an armContinue reading “Fantastic Friday – FF Action Figure Sets”

This was in the mid ’80’s, when life was carefree, meaningful job free and partially responsibility free. We can’t say for certain how it happened. We can’t say for sure where it happened, but we do have suspicions and circumstantial evidence.  I got sick. Sicker than I’d ever been. I may have either already movedContinue reading “Unwashed Vegetables of Death”

Sometime in — I want say 1981, so I will– 1981, I was turned on to an amazing little restaurant. It’s very possible it may also *originally* have been a death trap that was probably breaking health code violations, situated in a sketchy neighborhood. None of that can be proven though, except maybe the statusContinue reading “El Faro”

Not even sure what I meant by the title—I’ve re-written portions of this about 7 times while it’s been in the queue, so here it finally is. Play Ball! That might have been a better title…. So I’m curious to see how grandpa Rossi manages the Cubbies. Pretty much the  same Cubbies from last year. WellContinue reading “Lonely baseball season… I guess”

Spoilers ahead as always… but in a nutshell, the big reveal was that the Doctor is really an ancient being that predates the civilization of the Time Lords, is billions of years old, and is THE source of how Time Lords regenerate. She just doesn’t remember any of that. Anyway, on with the review…. I’mContinue reading “DWS12.10 – The Timeless Child Rating: 6/10”