The journey continues...
Down to the wire
Summer session is wrapping up for me pretty quickly. Final assignments for both classes are due this weekend, so I'm taking a day off work to work on school. I've got to do a PowerPoint (blargh!), and normalize a data set, as well as write a 600 word paper. In a perfect, undistracted world, I could accomplish all that today. I hold out hope... The Fall session starts for me in mid-September, with a course on Gerontology, which fulfills one of the remaining general education requirements. I finally got around to buying the book today, and the list price aged…
Continue reading...Something In The Air Tonight...
No, not the Phil Collins song, although I like that a lot, too. But I as I sit here in the family room with this airy bit of fluff that is nearly the fastest computer I have, I am pretty damned pleased. I liked the MBP when I got that a few years ago, but at that time, the Air was still a year away from introduction. When it came out, it was gorgeous and light ... but underpowered in almost every measurable way. Today's Air is a powerhouse. Seriously. It's not got enough moxie to be a decent virtual…
Continue reading...The True Cost
The true cost of this war is in the lives our our men and women who die doing their duty. This is a debt that we can never repay, yet we keep "raising the ceiling." Our condolences to the families and units of these fallen warriors: Sgt. William B. GrossPaniagua, 28, of Daly City, California, died July 31 in Kunar province, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. Pfc. Brice M. Scott, 22, of Columbus, Georgia, died July 31 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using…
Continue reading...OMG, Tomatoes!
Yeah, forty or more pounds of tomatoes out of the garden today. And that was after a morning and early afternoon spent working with Marcia restructuring her sewing and fabric rooms. Tired now: I made gallon of salsa, and started another lobster pot of red sauce. Last weeks was down enough to transfer to another pot. I'll be freezing that batch tomorrow, and cooking down the new batch, too. But I've *got* to do some schoolwork tomorrow, too. I wanted to mow, as well, but I'm running out of hours and days ... less than 18 months if all goes…
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