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Every man needs a goal……
Spent the day house hunting with the S.O. At this point-a root canal is starting to look more than a little attractive. You know its bad when I feel like envying Tiger…………
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Damn Internet Explorer 9! For some reason there is an issue with typing a post in Word Press with my theme and Internet explorer nine-which I upgraded to, because I wanted to be able to pay my electric...
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Trying again.
Well, I think I might have fixed the problem induced by IE-9, but it required a good deal of research and experimentation. And who at Microsoft thought putting the tabs needed under the ALT key-is...
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Stuttgart 21
Today I had to drive across southern Stuttgart to continue the long and laborious process of getting set up here. Thanks to the miracle of my new GPS-I was able to find a pretty decent route that took...
View ArticleMada 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...
View ArticleSo you think you are having a bad day?
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...
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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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