Just making it up as we goes along

I've just been over to Jannie Funster's place

Jannie Funster

leaving esoteric Finnegans Wake quotes.
I spent an inordinate amount of time reading the infernal thing and am desperate to
find some use for those temps perdu.

Also I've been reading some of the father related comments from the kelp

Alex Shapiro, Kelp

So I thought I might as well remember all of mine, being as how I usually remember Mercer at this time of the year.

So in order of appearance;

Palmer, Phillip Carrol, Cowboy, pole climber for Puget Sound Power and Light (Reddy Kilowatt's gang)

Johnson, Harold Orville, Farmer's son, small appliance repair, boxer, homosexual.
taught me an interesting difference between hollywood fighting and the real thing.
Coast Guard during WWII had a plaque in the shape of Iwo Jima.

Mercer, Dean Chabreau, Fire boat pilot, Navy veteran, Pharmacist's mate on the California, survivor of the pearl harbor attack.

Billman, ?,? Didn't ever get to know him, lived on Billman street in N. Las Vegas.
Had some amazingly delicious scotch.
Mom's fantasy rich guy. Didn't last long, turned out to be human, I guess.

Father-in-law,
Col. William Chenoweth, survived the Bataan death march.
Met him only once, lived in San Antonio. (nice river walk) (is that all there is to the Alamo?)

Bob Means, humorist, air traffic controller, German-American Bund until Hitler started sounding weird, brewer, painter, author of, "All in all, a good Life" a tribute to his heroic wife Lois, who never was my mother-in-law.

I lift a pint ta yez all!