The important thing is that
Tammi was still blogging as of 1937 her time , which I believe means she's past
the worst of it. You need to drop us all a line, lady (or add a new post) so
that we can be sure...
Best of luck
to you, and batten down the hatches. You're in our
prayers.
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First
day back at work today, after my "lollygagging in the land of the kama'aina," as
a certain junior officer would have it. It was pretty much
awful.
We usually have a senior staff
meeting on Mondays and Thursdays at 0900 - I deliberately selected my return to
work day as a Friday to avoid having to catch up on two weeks of work in the
hour and half prior to the staff meeting.
But no - the Chief of Staff elected
to throw an "alert" staff meeting this morning, which ran on until nearly 1100.
So when I finally got back to my desk, I still had over 400 emails to sift
through. Not to mention the over 2000 naval messages waiting in the queue.
Message traffic is how corporate Navy talks to itself "on the record," and while
many, in fact most of those messages neither required my attention or
acknowledgment, some did. And sometimes it's tough to know which are critical
and which are chaff, without at least scanning the subject matter and body.
That pretty much sucked. Didn't get
it all done before the whistle blew, so now I've got to go in on the weekend,
just to catch up.
But - I still
wouldn't have traded that time with the family for anything.
Yeah, it was worth
it.
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Took
SNO and his GF, along with her brother to the skeet range after work. GF and the
brother are wonderful folks, both, as I may have mentioned. liberal activists
and vegans. Which makes for some interesting conversations at dinner, or since
we're all polite people, holes in the conversation, sudden, awkward pauses that
no one knows quite how to fill.
But
the had a blast shooting shotguns on the skeet range, can't wait to do it again,
and I couldn't help feeling a mischievous little
frisson
at exposing them to the pleasures of gun
ownership, and employment. SNO and the GF are at this moment sharing quality
time on the porch in the time-honored ritual of post-round shotgun
cleaning.
It's delicious, in a sort
of guilty
way.
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The
skeet range is just south of
NAS
MCAS Miramar, and of course there were FA-18's in the landing pattern. I found
myself scrutinizing them between shots with professional interest, but for maybe
the first time without a trace of envy. This was a fact I noted in a detached
way with a certain degree of surprise.
One day at a
time.
Baby
steps.
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I'm
not even going to mention the governor of New Jersey.
Just wanted to clear that up.
In case you were
curious.
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Interesting
op-ed today in the WSJ in
re the Novak Exception to the 1st Amendment and what
the impacts might be down the road. A lot of the mainstream media were
apparently keen to insist that Novak to give up the goods on his source for the
Valerie Plame outing. That was back when the assumption was that someone in the
Bush admin was Criminally Culpable in passing her name to the 4th Estate. Now
that subpoenas have been delivered to
Time's
Matthew Cooper, NBC's Tim Russert and the WaPo's Walter Pincus,
well:
"...suddenly the
eyebrows furrow and talk turns to the threat to the First Amendment,"
adding
that, "(T)hose who only now decry
the implications for First Amendment freedoms are coming very late to the
game."
Sauce for the goose, and all
that.
Worth a read, even though you
might have to
register.
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R.I.P.
Julia
Child . As a gourmand I fall woefully flat in my culinary appreciation
skills. The Hobbit is a fabulous cook, but sadly her talents are wasted on me.
My only real objective when I sit down to a meal is that it not make me actually
ill, and that upon completion I am no longer
hungry.
Still, Mrs. Child brought the
joys of French cuisine (which are not insignificant, whatever else you might say
about their provenance) to the lumpen American masses. And she lived to nearly
92 eating and drinking all of those things which we are reliably informed by the
condescending class are horrible for
us.
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Good for them. I hope they take second place,
overall.
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." - John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friederich Nietzsche
