Halloween

It’s 11:46 and Jessica and I still have an hour left of prep tonight for our party tomorrow. We’ve got a bit of prep to do tomorrow but most of the hard work is done. It will take us a few hours to get into our costumes – it should be fun. More [...]

The new normal

Last Thursday I went under the laser and got my vision corrected. Most people that get corrective surgery get LASIK and notice immediate results. Due to the thickness of my cornea and the military’s restrictions on LASIK I got PRK, a surgery that requires much longer recovery times. At the moment, I am sitting [...]

Yes, I can be petty

FDR said

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

To me, that seems [...]

Pests

Earlier this summer I had an encounter with a swarm (albeit a small swarm) of yellow jackets that were angry because I was in their territory. I responded to the threat with a large amount of caution and a yellow jacket trap that I placed in my front yard. Over the next month or [...]

Palin was a dumb pick? No foolin!

The last line is all you need to read if you’re skimming.

Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush’s reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president.

Dowd proclaimed that, in his heart of hearts, McCain knew he put [...]

Dumb crap

I’m in the military and I tend to not think about what I give up. I go to the desert. I put myself in harms way. I work in an inherently hazardous job. People would like to kill me for who I am and what I do. I work odd and long hours. I [...]

If only this was a drinking game

McCain probably won’t win the election unless something drastic happens in the next 20 days or if we experience the pain of the Bradley effect. If he should win and later die because he is…. old…. we could see Palin as President. Yes, it is frightening.

Check out this website. Every time she says [...]

10 of This to 1 of That

10 things I would like to say to 10 different people right now:

1. You make work not seem like work.

2. I don’t care what you believe in, we don’t. We are happy with the way we live our lives.

3. I wish that you could see your life through my eyes. [...]

Two weeks until I go under the knife

I finally got a chance to head to the naval hospital in Bremerton for a pre-op consult. I’d been up for almost twenty hours by the time they started some of my tests so it took a few times to get the results right. If I had been working on dayshift, I wouldn’t have [...]

Financial meltdowns of the past

The current financial meltdown isn’t the largest nor the first of its kind. We’ve had our fair share and we’ll probably have them in the future. Neatorama has a great list of them that includes highlights like

The Panic of 1907 Wall Street crash of 1929 Great Depression 1973 Oil Crisis Black Monday Savings [...]