When the Smoke Clears

Me: Sir, do we have a budget for this? I can make it work on the cheap, but we’ll have to teach a couple of Spec-4s to get things running. Or I can institute some controls and user interfaces, but making it easier will raise the cost quickly and add some complication to the setup.
Sir: [...]

Newsflash for all my fine friends out there:
My laptop just did a total Acute Panic Disorder crash, everything locked up, music playing the same .5 second over and over, no mouse movement, nothing, for 5 minutes. I had to do a manual power off and reboot that took nearly a WHOLE MINUTE. Nothing was [...]

One year ago today…
My life changed.
I went from talking of patriotism, honor, love of my country and the principles of our founding fathers to signing away my life, if necessary, in service to the Constitution that organizes that country.
It is not to say that those who do not join the military are not [...]

When I was in high school, I was the dog.
I’m a little more reserved now, more the hippo, but still ready for a good time.

So my class reunion was last weekend. I managed to make it. It’s the first one I have ever been to.
Because this was in the 20-year range, and because our school was so small, 4 years of classes got together to hold the reunion. A total of about 100 of us graduated in those [...]

Taking a few moments to breathe and bring a few folks up to date:
Once again, I say, “One weekend a month my @$$.”
In our last episode we encountered buxomly women at the grocery store. In the meantime I’ve had my annual visit to the Lumberjack competition in West Virginia with my friend the [...]