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The Past
Tomorrow is Veteran's Day (also Bea's birthday - I miss when I would get the day off to help her celebrate) and I have been asked to speak to a group of students in my school about my experience as a veteran. It's something I haven't really talked about before, now that I think about it. I've told stories about specific instances, but I've never ( Read more... ) -
Interesting
I had wondered about the efficiencies of small, distributed power systems.
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I feel like that monk in the joke
You know, the one who took the vow of silence where he could only speak two words once a year and spent all of his time complaining ( Read more... ) -
I declare war
Today it was the chickens - 8 beautiful laying hens dead in the field. First day I'd let them out to free range in weeks. Went out with Bea to shop for a nice living room chair for her - first time she'll have spent any of her National Board check completely on herself. When we got back, a big pile of feathers by the back steps. As I looked out ( Read more... ) -
This life isn't easy
I walked out the door this morning @ 7 to go to my $10/hr weekend retail job & saw 2 large dogs/coyotes running away from the goat pen. I ran over & my fears were quickly confirmed. Stormy, due to kid in February, had been drug underneath the fence and killed. Her sister Drizzle, due to kid in May, was alive, but would not get up. She had been ( Read more... ) -
Let's see..two + two = world domination
So, I was listening to NPR this evening and the Deutscheland NewsHour or whatever it's called was talking about the Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean. I've been following these news stories for the last several months and I've pieced it all together. Let's see - we've got about $30 million US in ransom, we've got a ship of 33 Ukrainian ( Read more... ) -
Best Laid Plans
Saturday morning, Bea and I lounged around for quite awhile and finally decided we would go South and do some shopping. As we getting ready, Rowan comes knocking on the bedroom door complaining that her wrist really hurts. She and sister were playing around and, basically, Willow sat on Rowan, Rowan tried to stop her and had her right wrist ( Read more... ) -
Violated
Our house was broken into again. Last time was about 6 years ago. Missing = my laptop, digital camera, and all of my firearms. Not missing = credit cards that were sitting in the open, checkbook, new MacBook that was sitting on the kitchen counter, desktop, gaming systems, or TV. Just my stuff. The police officer said it looks like it was ( Read more... )