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Speaking of love and romance
Its a pleasure to see a lawyer talking about alternatives to marriage and the inevitable pain, our fucked up divorce laws bring with it. “When I was a child,” Diana Adams began, “I had a doll house...
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Nothing will ruin your day like a collision at sea. Or a grounding. This business of firing CO's at a drop of a hat is getting out of control. Not every mistake needs to be published by public...
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Dresden ( and a bit of Poland).
A couple of weekends ago we went to Dresden. I found the trip remarkable for a couple of reasons. 1) I never imagined in my youth, that I would ever be in what was once "East" Germany, and 2) I was...
View ArticleNews you can use
Sorry for the lack of postings of late. I am going through a triple whammy of trying to get ready for a trip, dealing with the day to day fun at work, and also starting an online class, which is going...
View ArticleSometimes they actually get it right.
On the road again-its been a month since I traveled and those frequent flyer miles are not going to earn themselves you know. Nice train ride up to Frankfurt this morning on a beautiful day. And I was...
View ArticleRumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Greetings from the lounge in Chicago. Sitting here waiting for the jump back across the Atlantic. Should have posted more-but just didn't feel like it. This week was my birthday-so it put in kind of a...
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
And once again-I am not ending it staggering out of an Irish Pub on Nathan Road. Sigh. But I did buy a 4 pack of Guinness on the way home today-which I am drinking now. And thinking about Irish Women,...
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You try to be a good soldier….
And what does it get you? Kicked in the teeth that is what. Our completely dysfunctional workplace has struck again. A project I had devoted some 7 months of effort to-has been done away with. The...
View ArticleI got nothing.
There is lots going on right now-not so much of it good. I have what could be termed a pretty solid case of writers block coupled with what could only be described as "the blues", being depressed and...
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Disconnecting
The S.O. and I are in the middle of moving to a new house. Sadly, its not the move I wish was I making of some 5000+ miles back to the promise land of Asia-but less than .1KM down the street. As a...
View ArticleMission accomplished?
I wish more bars had WI-fi here, this growing need to decamp to Starbucks to get any internet stuff done is killing me. The S.O. and I are in the new house. We were able to get the satellite in and...
View ArticleCatching up
What with the move and all there has been a lot going on. The travails of getting ready for the move kept me from commenting on some of the really stupid things that have happened in the last month....
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Erik Erikson is just effing stupid!
Getting the daily cappucino-before I go to have my what has become an almost weekly fight with Deutshce Telkom. I surfed over to John Cole's place to see them , quiet properly, mocking the latest bit...
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The impeachment of Barak Obama
It’s a double whammy of depression, of late. On a personal note-the ongoing churn at my place of employ is making the ability to enjoy the choice location more than a little problematic sometimes. As...
View ArticleAnother domino falls……..
They seem to be going after every one. Officers, civilians, CPO's and now Petty Officers: SAN DIEGO — A fourth member of the Navy has been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery in a...
View ArticleAdvancment by IG complaint.
In Star Trek's alternate universe, people moved up in the Terran Empire by assassination. Over here in this universe, it appears to be happening via the vehicle of the IG complaint: News about the...
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More than little familiar………
Scott Adams has to be spending his days at our office: There is a serious point here. Travel always is the first thing that gets cut-even when its not the root cause of the financial problem. Our new,...
View ArticleUh excuse me, this is what you said you wanted.
Remember in the run up after the Gulf War, when the first big push for dropping the combat exclusion laws started and women said they "just wanted to be treated like the men". It seems someone did not...
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Greetings from Berlin
When you are depressed, what is the cure? Road Trip! Currently in Berlin, seeing the sights and admiring the construction on going in the "East". This is a city undergoing loads of change. Since it...
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Vindication!!!!! In other words, today, I was proven right after all. The...
Yesterday and today were really good days for me-even though I had just gotten back from a long drive back from Berlin. ( Pictures and narrative to follow). As you get more seasoned in a profession (...
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