I see the Russian language spam is out of control anyway.

I haven't posted in forever, and so much fun stuff has been going on. I just have not had the creative energy to write about it. I need to try to motivate myself, but honestly I'm not making any promises.

So I pestered a local model railroader, and Frisco (St. Louis - San Fransisco) buff into letting us join him to operate his model railroad layout. We'd met him though our work on the Frisco Fest last summer and again this summer when it was in KC. We'd seen his railroad when we went over for a Frisco Fest meeting but hadn't had a chance to run it. ( Read more... )

I really like Amazon, mostly for the ease with which you can find what you're after, and the verity of stuff they have. Yes the low prices are nice too, but that's not my primary motivator for shopping there.

This article in the Boston Review is forcing me to seriously consider if I still want to spend money with a company that does business that ( Read more... )

It has been a S-L-O-W day. Shift decided to have a psudo-Thanksgiving dinner, lasagna, up at HQ. We all got together, it was a fun time ( Read more... )

Working the Friday after Thanksgiving. Keeps me away from the stores... oh wait, I would not be caught dead in a store today!

Relativity quiet day at work yesterday. Couple of calls out of 3's. Got to go to a very interesting training from KC Power and Light. They brought a demo trailer and hooked it up to 7200V primary service, then proceeded to demonstrate what happens when you contact an aluminum ladder to 7200V. Nice arcs. It was pretty cool the demoed several things ( Read more... )

Whew, busy busy. D surgery pretty much taken care of. Mom finally released from the care faclity that was doing her short term rehab and moved into the house. I was pretty stressed with all the "looming" issues, and now that they are mostly over I feel better ( Read more... )

Holy crap, one month, going on 2 since I've posted here. I've really fallen off the world.

Unintentionally for the most part.

Things are what they are. Lots going on, lots to blog about, just no energy to blog. I'm gonna try to get started again, but only time will tell.

I'm REALLY trying to avoid letting myself start looking at political stuff. I just can take the frustration that I feel looking at our current situation. So I'm loosing myself in fiction, I've read more in the past couple of weeks than I had in the previous year or two (at least).

Having said all that, this article in the "Atlantic" well states ( Read more... )