Greetings airmen, I sincerely hope all of you are doing well. As I mentioned last week, Valerie and I took the Amtrak train from Boston to New Haven, CT, last Sat. to go visit our son Scott, his wife, Katie, daugther Taryn and the lastest member of the Fortier clan, son Logan.
As you’ll recall, Logan arrived on the 31st of Dec. and we had yet to make his acquaintance, what with Val off to Colorado for her annual Jan. visit. So it was time to take care of that important business. As you can see we didn’t waste a single minute getting acquainted with the little guy. That’s the proud grandfather up above holding him while his Big Sister looks on affectionately. Babies are a true blessing from God, and our entire family is so happy with Logan’s arrival.

Of course babies aren’t just about playing. There’s also the important matter of feeding them, as Valerie was only too thrilled to help out with that. As grandparents it is impossible for either of not to hold this new generation and not remember when it was their parents we were holding and cuddling not so long ago. Babies grow up so fast. You blink your eyes and their off to school. Then college. Then married and with babies of their own. And the miracle that is life keeps rolling along. Logan is our sixth grand child. God, I pray we have lots..lots more.

On a sour note, a good pal wrote me a few days ago to inform me that a hacker had taken over his website and shut it down so that neither he or his friends could get on and chat.
I have such a difficult time trying to imagine the mind of such a cruel act. It is wanton maliciousness and utterly senseless. What bothers me is the phony self-image hackers of themselves, ala some kind of hero-rebel little guys battling the big conglomorates. For some,that may actually be true. But when someone purposely destroys a small, intimate, friendly site for no other purpose than mischief, that isn’t heroics, that base evil. Shame on all of them.

I don’t often recommend books on this log, rather leaving that to my bi-weekly Pulp Fiction review column over at the Paperback Bazaar site.
But this week I posted the review of a really fun book I wanted to tell all you airmen about.
It’s an anthology series called KOLCHAK- The Night Stalker Chronicles and put out by Moonstone. 27 all new stories focusing on the hero of the late TV series that starred Darren McGavin and was a personal favorite of mine.
The book is available from Amazon.com and Barnes & Nobles on-line. If you like weird, twisty yarns, give it a try.

And that wraps it up for this week. Weather man says we got a major North-Easter storm heading our way for the weekend. Better go check the snow-blower. Ron, over and out.