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Blogging has become a mostly miss (as in hit or miss) affair for me. Usually a prolonged burst of blogging is triggered by these sort of declarations but this is part of a larger "sea change", if you will. Just sitting down to do this gives me the sort of mild heebeejeebies that homework used to... Sign in to see full entry.

I have lost the interest in blogging I once had. The old "get up and blog" has "got up and went". Is this a software malfunction, or a wetware malfunction? To be honest, about once a day I get an epiphany for a blog but I can't remember it later. I think. Sign in to see full entry.

When the dollars started to dry up last year, our department's response was fast and decisive: cut back the paper supplies. No more pens, highlighters, or special envelopes required to do the job.No cellophane tape. No White-Out. However, after a couple years' asking, we suddenly get six of our... Sign in to see full entry.

The math: 24 hr day, minus 12.5 for work; minus (in my case)1 hr round trip commute; minus eight hours' sleep (yeah, right); minus one hour to get up, get dressed, feed the dogs, pack lunch and supper; equals: Ninety minutes' free time with spouse or to take care of home affairs. (Mind you, we are... Sign in to see full entry.

Not doing much while doing very well in most aspects. Focusing on home. Soon switching to 12 hr shifts, on a two week on-off rotation. So, how are the rest of y'all holding up in the "new economic reality"? Sign in to see full entry.

Barak Obama is elected. TV interviews with African Americans yield one after another saying "Now we have someone in the White House, things are going to get better". I had coworkers voting for him admittedly because he and they are black. Now the Honorable Ms Sotomayor is up for Supreme Court... Sign in to see full entry.

....to Los Angles! Make sure to include lots of heavy woolen, mispaired, or Dollar-tree stuff, canned goods without labels, freeze dried squid... Now you know what it is like after disasters when individuals send (sometimes "dump") material donations to a disaster area. Sri Lanka burned tons of... Sign in to see full entry.

A good riposte in defense of free speech, except I have a strong suspicion that George never let someone highjack the mike and start hosing and heckling other people in his paying audience. In fact, I do not remember this happening even once in his fifty or so years as a public figure. He also knew... Sign in to see full entry.

Mind you, my local organizers will know only if they read it here, but without burning any bridges, I'm out of the disaster preparedness business (as if I ever was IN it after the Air Guard). If ther's a disaster I'm available, but I'm not feeding into the ego stroking and gamesmanship. Four and a... Sign in to see full entry.

I was thinking the other day at work about the fact that many of us have access to the lives of so many other people; however, after a short while all we see are the snags, the irritants, the little knots halting the weave. I was "in" the emergency medical website I frequent and was stricken by the... Sign in to see full entry.