We won’t be posting for a week or two while some carpentry is accomplished on some structural members.
Considering the fact that the daily average number of visitors here is 13, that shouldn’t leave too great a hole in the blogosphere.
Anticipated posting absence is 10 to 14 days.
Interesting cleaning techniques.
In my youth, working on aircraft, I learned of the practice of cleaning jet engines with crushed walnut shells, a practice I understand that has been pretty much been overcome by technology.
before I’m in jail again.
Well, it seems an apt comparison anyway.
L3-4, and L5-S1. More of same. Again. Yet. Still. Crap.
Think poked, prodded, stuck, cut, and ripped, sometimes without knowing it until the after-effects occur, and sometimes while fully awake and able to savor the present-time effects.
From Orlando Sentinel.com
Royal Caribbean, Celebrity will refund customers fuel surcharge
posted by Jason Garcia on Mar 10, 2008 6:18:17 PM
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum will announce a settlement tomorrow with Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and subsidiary Celebrity Cruises Inc. in which the cruise lines will refund $21 million worth of fuel surcharges that the companies levied even after travelers booked their vacations.
I don’t think it much of a stretch to use a person’s choice of friends, advisors, and mentors to make judgments about how that person thinks presently and how that person is likely to think and judge in the future. After all, those are chosen influences on one’s life. I remember counseling young airmen in years past, and in defense of their excessive use of alcohol they quite often told me, “Well, everybody I know does it.” OK, well, maybe you just need to chose others with whom to spend your time and you’ll realize your behavior is not really the norm in society. You have simply chosen your friends and examples poorly.
Ambulance Driver has a really nice story of what happened in a class he was teaching today and it’s very much worth a read.
Way to go, folks. Officers and enlisted, from operational reports to personal agenda, you’ve pretty much covered all the territory.
Good grief.
11 Aboard Navy Sub Disciplined for Fraud, Cheating
Saturday, March 08, 2008
No, that’s not a typo. It is massage, not message.
Hey, if you’re in the Morgan Hill area of California and want a massage, drop by
Massage Envy Morgan Hill
1049 Cochrane Rd Suite 150
Morgan Hill CA 95037
Don’t know Morgan Hill?
Think south of San Jose.
Mascots
When in high school I was a stage manager for each of those years. That got me into all sorts of maybe-related-maybe-not activities. One stands out in my mind and I was reminded of it a little while ago, thanks to one of my sons sending me a URL link with the suggestion, “Thought this might interest you…”
Our first one:
“Olympic excess” is probably my best phrase I can apply to it (a smidgen short of fraud, waste, and abuse).
Remember all the hullabaloo (that’s not over yet) about some foreign governments telling London to go pee up a rope regarding their congestion tax (uh, “fee”? “surcharge”? whatever…) And the discussions about air quality, global warming, et al.?
Go here to get a free card from the postal folks. May as well get something back from them, right?
You get a free greeting card that you select online and you can even upload a picture for embedding in the card. The picture can be rotated to fit, too.
Not too comfortable with the ever increasing collection of things that need to be secured, and already having run out of space to do it, I’ve purchased a new safe, and I’m patting myself on the back for my selection, though Zack had a bit to do with it. I gave him my parameters, asked for a recommendation, and his suggestion was one of the two I’d pretty much settled on already after some research and comparison shopping.
Another performer, wouldn’t ya’ know…
From Times Online, March 3, 2008:
Marion Cotillard ‘in shock’ over 9/11 row, but will not apologise
Marion Cotillard, the Oscar-winning French actress, will not apologise over remarks she made describing the 9/11 attacks as a conspiracy and believes that the comments had been taken out of context and misunderstood.
See the Evening Standard for the full article, and be sure to read Mayoral Candidate Am’s comment.
US embassy owes £2m in unpaid C-charge bills
Benedict Moore-Bridger
03.03.08The US embassy in London owes more than £2 million in unpaid congestion charge payments, having branded the levy “illegal”.
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they will sleep at night.…
and the slight variation,
…I have about made up my mind that laws are like sausages — the less you know about how they are made the more respect you have for them.
…
Saturday night I was at Universal Studios Orlando for their Mardi Gras parade and festivities, VERY much diluted from the real thing.
Afterward, passing behind the crowd at a concert, I head a musician introduced.
In a post 911 world, America cannot afford to have a president whose name is forbidden to be spoken for fear of reprisal from those who are reminded of his early religious training. And it cannot have a president who is reluctant to utter the name of a fellow candidate because he doesn’t want to appear to be drawing a negative connection between that man and a mad dictator who put people feet first through plastic shredders and gassed thousands of others.
Read here.
A new and very different conference on global warming will be held in New York City, under the sponsorship of the Heartland Institute, on March 2nd to March 4th — weather permitting.
I’ve been waiting for over a week to read all about this conference in the mainstream media and to see interviews of attendees on the boob tube, but not much has been forthcoming.
And the one before that,
and the one before that,
and the one before that,
and the one…
