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This is not the kind of change I want to see.
Bad news from Hong Kong courtesy of Spike. Wanchai disco Laguna will be closing. Their final night is tentatively January 9th. The building was sold and the new landlord has refused to renew their...
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Happy Boxing Day!
Which, if the world looked the way I wished it would: Would be a global holiday!
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Le Trap.
A great memory of mine was the opportunity to fly from a French Aircraft carrier-and get to experience the way they do business. Over at another blog, about three years ago, I wrote about the...
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Natalie Portman is pregnant. Can’t shake the weird feeling this might not work out well for the Empire…
View ArticleChasing ancestry.
The S.O. and I set out on a car trip today. We just arrived at our hotel. We spent the day looking for my Grandmother’s house that was located in a very small town in southwestern Georgia. ( About 3+...
View ArticleThe inventory……..
And so the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Ten comes to an end tonight. I am not sure how I feel about it’s passing quite yet. The fact that it closes out the first decade of the 21′st Century and...
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The New Year Arrives.
And it is the year of the rabbit you know: Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu! Kore kara mo yoroshiku onegai shimasu! (Congratulations on the new year! In this year too, please favor me!)
View ArticleWhy it matters……..
A theme I have harped on consistently, is that the world we live in is changing. We no longer have the luxury of doing "business as usual". It is why I have so little patience with climate change...
View ArticleThere is always a record.
Slow new years day today. We've been watching Alabama play-and taking down the tree. I may need to head for my first nap of the New Year. I did, however, stumble on this blog of "Texts from Last...
View ArticleWork always gets in the way.
Of everything fun. This will teach me not to answer my phone. First day back at work and just got a HUGE project dumped in my lap. Blogging will be light. What was the number of that truck driving...
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Ow! Ow! Ow!
In at 7, out at 8-what is wrong with this picture? And before someone asks, " How does this square with your statement, 'You like your company'? I do like my company-but like a girl from the Nana...
View ArticleUnbelievable.
Completely despicable. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by a gunman at a public event on Saturday. There are conflicting reports about whether she was killed. The Pima County, Ariz.,...
View ArticleOnly in Alabama…….
Shooting? What shooting? Judging from the front page of the Shopping Mall USA fishwrapper, there was no shooting yesterday. That story was tucked down at the bottom of the front page in the lower right...
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I feel Curtis’ pain…….
Scott Adams sums up Curtis’ dilemma in reading this blog ( I’m Dilbert in the cartoon):
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The end of the line……
But hopefully not for long. Yesterday was Laguna’s last day. Anyone who has ever made the walk up and down Jaffe Street and Lockhart Road in Hong Kong, knows how sad a development this is. As Spike...
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It is a blessing
To be holed up inside the house because of this: I needed the time to get caught up on this project. I spent most of the weekend holed up in my “man cave” writing draft after draft of a proposal and...
View ArticleOld News
It has taken me a little while to get around to this-but I did not let want to let it pass by without a comment. Long time readers here may have noticed that the number of posts about my former...
View ArticleRejecting the equivalence argument.-Part I
This post is a direct response to Phib’s post at his place. When I get this project over-I am going to do a long post on why the argument that heated political rhetoric does not beget violence is...
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