Veterans Day

Thanks to all my fellow Rangers & Paratroopers. And thanks to all have ever served.

Early November Haiku

rainy morn

snowy afternoon

autumn blues

What I'm Reading Today

Betrayer Of Worlds 

by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner

A prelude to Ringworld. I'm truly enjoying finding out  about events that lead to one of my all-time favorite books. Highly recommended.

Common Sense

I've decided that common sense seems so rare it may now be a super power.

Clapton

Make the best of  the situation
- Eric Clapton

Back in the Saddle Again

Yay!
Again I'm working in a bookstore!
Books A Million
120th & L in Omaha
Come on over and visit!

Ponder This

Firearms have been around for over 400 years, yet it is only in the last 20 years that people have begun shouting "gun control". Why then, only recently, has this become such an issue? Moreover, why are there more mass-murderers than at any other time in our known history? It is not because weapons are more powerful -- 200-year-old muzzle loaders have a much greater force-per-round than today's "assault rifles". It is not because weapons are semi- or fully-automatic -- rapid-fire weapons have been available for most of the last century. It is not due to a lack of laws -- we have more "gun control" laws than ever. It IS, however, because we have chosen to focus on "gun control" instead of crime control or "thug control." It IS because only recently has the public become complacent enough to accept, by inaction, the violence present in our society.
- Kevin Langston, Tuesday, 29 October, 1991

Pondering: Always Connected?

Recently this came to the fore when a friend of mine called to ask if I had seen her husband. He hadn't answered his cell phone. She was a little frantic. He had to work later than expected. His battery was dead.

Has anyone else noticed some people assume terrible things have happened when a different someone doesn't answer their cell phone? Death, accident, jail? Sometimes I just don't feel like talking to anyone. Usually when I'm reading.


Many years ago I called my pager an electronic leash. Occasionally I now think of my cell phone as an electronic ball & chain.


Forehead slap: A few years ago a buddy visited me at work and asked me to call him when I was finished with my shift. I told him I couldn't because the battery in my cell phone had died. He pointed at the land line five feet away.

Survive

Flooding, Wildfires, Stupid Government

Been putting together my home stash of food and water. Again. I've let it slip. Compalency will get one killed.

Restocking my BoB.

• Reconfiguring my LBE. It'll be set up for 72 hours. Kinda like when I was soldier.
• Rucksack will be good for a week of surviving. Me and the cats. Odd, now I have to keep the cats alive. Never worried about others before( 'cuz they were prepared).

Congrats!

Two great friends of mine were married a week ago.
Congratulations to Michelle & Bill!
I wish you a long and loving life together.

I Agree

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

Now snow? Again? 
TANJ DAMMIT!

I believe spring has sprung.

Finally.

70s? Then 2 inches of snow? 60s? Snow coming again tonight?
Mother Nature sucks.
OK, I said it. Bring it on B&%$#!

Weather

Tired of Mother Nature teasing me with springlike weather one day and then freezing the next. 

Hurry spring, hurry!

New Year -- New Post

bwah, hahahaha


I crack myself up



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