This book contains a series of light and mostly humorous vignettes that narrate incidents and activities in my life at Fordham College, in the U. S. Navy, and in between. Included are: how I explored Fordham, both above and below ground; my part in the New York City art scene circa 1950; my adventures on several hitch-hiking trips; my summer as a union pipe fitter; another summer spent climbing the fuel pipes at the Bethlehem Steel Company; how I may have had too many credits to graduate, but won the University Poetry Contest anyway; how I had to prove I'd been baptized in order to get married; how I learned engineering and helped invent a new missile at the Martin Aircraft Company; how I completed three Navy schools, became a father and an Airborne Combat Information Center Officer; how I became known as the king of cumshaw; how the inspection team found too many light bulbs and all the electronic spare parts on the east coast in my repair shops; how I won a sewing machine playing poker in Iceland; how I brought home furs from Athens for my mother, my wife, and a neighbor, as well as a gown from Paris for my baby daughter; how I took an art tour of Pisa, Florence, and Venice guided by one of my fellow officers; how we operated our detachment out of the Hotel Royale in Naples; how our plane was forced down in Algiers by the French; how we took a tour of the island of Gozo despite engine failures in two of our boats; how we partied at the taberna in the village called "Village" and hunted for the ruins of Atlantis in Souda Bay on Crete; how I helped invent Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School, getting a masters degree in the process; how I traveled across the US with Steve, age six, visiting caves of ice, staying in a cowboy bunkhouse, watching a shoot-out, and conversing with a talking bird.