Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Afghanistan again.
Friday, January 25, 2008 OK, it's deja-Viet all over again I know, I know, amateurs talk tactics and professionals talk logistics, but both are going on here in a way. NPR reports the USA chides its NATO partners for coming through with less than their promised levy of troops, when the U.S. has come...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
A re-post
Monday, October 16, 2006 Hurry up....hurry up.....hurry up... "You're going to get back on that horse and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight and away we're going to go, go, go!". (Hurry up...) "Did you lose your mind all at once, or was it a slow, gradual process? " (hurry up, hurry...
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Friday, February 8, 2008
The subject of one of my "Lost Blogs": Zora the self-made superhero
Be sure to read the bottommost part of this, a 2003 "update" on our heroine! http://www.audiojournal.com/zora.html Well, more of a secret-agent, except that, if you consider what she went through and the self control she showed, maybe you have to be some sort of extra-human, or,or, Uber-girl, or...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
My Coworker's Dog Rassled Coyotes!
What was it that set him apart? I know what got him set apart: A taste for rubber. Not just everyday rubber, mind you, but automotive rubber. When you drove up to their cabin in the Sierras and went inside to visit, if Barney was loose, you could depend upon emerging later to find that the red-tick...
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
The point at which I definitely decided to get out of firefighting
as a profession and go back to college: Out at 2 AM for a false alarm. Riding the tailboard back, a fifteen minute drive. Driving about thirty miles an hour. Not so bad, except it was November, the ambient temperature was about 12 deg F., we were driving into a fifteen mile an hour wind, and, as I...
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
There are heroes...and heroes.
Let me begin by saying that this has nothing to do with the eponymous TV show. Further deponent sayeth naught. That having been said, let me ask for comments about heroes and heroism. What is it? Who can be one? Is it permanent like a tattoo, or does it fade; if the latter, how fast? What is owed a...
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Friday, December 28, 2007
One more time,asking in each blog about reactions to the new Blogit feature
I'm asking in each of my blogs, what do you think about the new feature? This is sort-of market research, but also getting a reality check as to whether I have such material to offer. I would of course post infrequently to the pay spot versus the other one(s). So, what would you give up or pay to...
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I have been procrastinating...and life "intrudes". (Metablogging/excuses)
Just a virtual steadying breath before I stumble into this again. I am toying with the idea of "metablogging" in blue so you can brush by the commentary and this sort of mental "navel picking". Something small to begin with, I think.. NOTE: I just lost nearly half an hour's work when my thumb...
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Eric Sloane's Christmas note (in his book "A Reverence for Wood" © 1965).
During the holiday season, when we blaze our yards forth with electricity derived from buring imported oil, it is ostentation which is king. Even in 1965, when the absence of so much electric plug and display-house BLING made holiday ostentation much harder, he wrote this passage: "... most farmers...
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A new blog for the end of the year...Let's test Majroj's memory?
The basis for this new blog, as recounted in the description sidebar, is that I lost every graphic, text, and related file from the harddrive of our original Dell desktop. I remember the incidents and scene I had preserved on it. Instead of either bemoaning what I lost, or posting and hoping both...
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