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Hello Churchill Class of '89! July 18, 1999 Wow, has it really been 10 years already? Ten years since graduating from high school?! It only seems like a few years ago, surely only three or four at most, since we last ran through the training routines of Mr. Duncan's P.E. classes, or asked Mrs. Hunter for help in looking up a book on a particular esoteric author for that research report Mr. Ogan assigned at the beginning of the term (and was to be turned in the following day). . . more . . . Back to top W h a t  i s  T h i s ? February 24, 1999 A big bee, of course! The Jollie Bee! There's a fast food restaurant chain here in the Philippines called "Jollie Bee" that serves things from hamburgers and spaghetti to corn beef and eggs. They're fast, efficient and the food is pretty good and economically priced. But why a bee for a mascot? Oh well, one could as the same question about another famous fast food chain that has a clown as their mascot! Back to top Fireflies October 1998 I saw something very beautiful one autumn evening here. During a stroll around the neighborhood, I got my very first close-up look at fireflies. From a distance they looked like tiny green embers floating gently amid the leaves of a big tree, glowing brightly for a moment and then fading away only to flame back to life a second later. They're a lot smaller than I imagined them to be, about the length of my thumbnail. They're actually kind of cute. Well, some of you out there may have seen tons of these glowing bugs before, but I didn't see any where I grew up so it was neat to just stand there and watch these critters with built in flash beacons float around flashing their neon green lights. Back to top Oatmeal and CNN October 1998 I was eating breakfast one morning, and as is my usual custom, I was watching CNN so as to be an informed, responsible citizen of this globalized world we live in. It suddenly dawned upon me, as I was sitting there at the diningroom table slurping merrily away at my bowl of instant oatmeal, that I was total entralled by the whole packaging of CNN. I was sucking in whatever they were flashing on the screen . . . more . . . Back to top Subic Thoughts September 1998 Since the Philippines has such nice tropical weather, it also has nice big tropical sized critters. Not a day goes by when something with four, six, eight, or a billion legs scurries alongside the wall (inside or outside) of our house. . . more . . . Back to top