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Mada isogashii.
Or in German: Noch damit beschäftigt. I got some interesting and good news yesterday. Namely that I will be traveling in the near future-back and forth across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean-all in...
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It could be worse. Courtesy of the Jaded Major, here is a collection of really bad days. What is interesting-I actually was witness to three of these mishaps when they happened, no lie! I’ll bet a lot...
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For the record…..
When it comes to women-I still have a quantifable case of what can be described, and is written about, of “Yellow Fever“. However, I think its important to be broadminded-especially when you are living...
View ArticleNot understanding the question that was asked.
I am no longer an active commenter over at Lex’s place-but I still take the time to peruse his scribblings, if for no other reason than to try to grasp the thinking of the “conservative” class-and help...
View ArticleOne additional point……
Concerning Admiral Clingan. The Navy is busier than snot-but good guy or bad-Admiral Clingan and the rest of the flag leadership are guilty of crossing a line that never should have been crossed in the...
View ArticleA chill in the air.
Today was the first day I had to scrape ice off the windshield-before driving to work. I am quite sure it won’t be the last. The consolation was that for the first time in 5 days-there was no fog in...
View ArticleScouting mission.
Just got back from returning the rental car. The other car is still MIA somewhere in the Atlantic. It did not take this long to get things back from Japan. So I took the car into town, dropped it off...
View ArticleUnwilling or unable……
To understand the root causes of the Occupy Wall Street protests-or why, no matter how much pepper spray or billy clubs you use-the genie may not go quietly back into the bottle. That’s not to say that...
View ArticleScience Project……..
Well, every man needs a hobby right? Regrettably, I think I may have stumbled on to one I didn’t want, namely this (very) used 1998 BMW 750IL I bought. “Y0u fucked up! You trusted an Army Major” And...
View ArticleThe week that was……
The science project is holding together (for now)-and so we took it to go down to the local Weinachts Markts. Not as big as the ones in central Stuttgart-but more a homey feeling in them. We went back...
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The party of Nein.
The S.O. and I went into Stuttgart tonight to visit the Weinachts Markt. It had only opened on the 23rd-so every thing was new and fresh-and with it being a Saturday night, it was more than a little...
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The Ja’s have it!
It would seem the Leute have gesphrochen: The people of Baden-Württemberg have spoken: In a referendum on Sunday voters backed state funding for the controversial €4.5-billion Stuttgart 21 rail...
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Haze Grey and underway?
The ex-Russian carrier Varyag is all spiffed up , with no place to go. I find the tow line attached to the stern particularly interesting. And as the article points out she is making very little wake....
View ArticleThe company you keep……
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton. Back in August of last year-I reminded Phib and others what a real...
View ArticleMea Culpa
For not posting more recently. Between moving into our house, and departing on a business trip-its been busy since last Wednesday. This trip has me covering both sides of the Atlantic and the...
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Where’s Waldo?
Was on one side of the Atlantic in Washington DC. Now I am about as far away from there as you can get. Flight over here was pretty OK-save for the fact that the services on the airline sucked....
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Next year in Jerusalem
How I spent my Saturday: Prowling the Holy City of Yerushalim! The Wailing Wall: And of course we spent a fair amount of time in the church of the Holy Sepuchre:
View ArticleFree Advice
Is worth what you pay for it.I had the unique experience a while back, of being asked for advice about life in command. That caused me to do a lot of thinking-both for good and for bad. So here for...
View ArticleFinally, its over.
The last forces are leaving Iraq. about 9 years too late-but they are leaving, thanks be to God. Now if you peruse my archives, you will find that I have not been a fan of the adventure since day 1....
View ArticleLife in the slow lane.
Got back from Israel-late but none the worse for wear. The storms in Europe delayed departures out of Istanbul, but luckily enough for me, I did not get strip searched going through Israeli security....
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