<p>After spending 20 years in the U. S. Navy Reserves, I retired as a Commander. They let me make a speech.</p>

phone memo to myself - October 2004

Beginning in 1984 and off and on, up to 2016, I made a series of audio recordings, first with a boom box cassette recorder, then with a telephone answering machine, then with a mini-DV camera, and finally, with an iPhone. 

For most of that time I was drunk.

Theme song: ”Whoa Dude, Whoa” by Gregory Pepper