I posted a new NVAA story.
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I encourage you all to go visit
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...will be late.  Probably won't post it until near the end of the week.

Now I pack to go back to NoVA.  Happy New Years, folks. :^)

I can’t speak for what happened at the meeting, but a bunch of us decided that we’d go for a ride in the Chesapeake. We rented ourselves a nice small boat and went out. It was a nice day. The wind was steady and the sun shiny. Then, all of the sudden, the clouds rolled in and the water started getting choppy. We were tossed about like a cork. The ( Read more... )

Thursday is Pearl Harbour Remembrance Day.

One of the things I remember most about my Grandpa is even when he could barely shuffle or hear, couldn't see, and would forget what day it was, he'd be out with his Veteran's groups and Rotary and whatever and getting people to sign petitions to make Pearl Harbour Day a national holiday.  I was always ( Read more... )

Soemthing to amuse us all through our respective day.  Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Make your own here

I'm not going to comment on today.  Too many people use it as a soapbox for their own political diatribes.  Today doesn't need mine.

This, I take it was not purchased at Tiffany’s?
No.
Actually, it was purchased concurrent with-well; actually,
it came inside a...well, a box of Cracker Jacks.
I see. Do they still really have prizes in Cracker Jack boxes?
Oh, yes.
That’s nice to know. It gives one a feeling of solidarity,
almost of continuity with the past, that sort of thing.
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The Problems with the Galactic Republic

At the beginning of the Star Wars epic, most of the galaxy is governed by the Galactic Republic. The Republic is controlled by a Senate, which is, in turn, run by an elected chancellor who's in charge of procedure, but has little real power.

Tens of thousands of planets are represented in the Galactic ( Read more... )

Right about this time 37 years ago, Humans set foot on the Moon for the first time...

...so when are we going back? Or better question, when are we going to Mars?