I’ll be wearing my Red on Friday shirts while on my Road Trip. Since I have three, I should be able to cover three days of driving in style … showing my support for my troops everywhere!
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Texas Fred, over in his corner of the web, Ace in the Hole, ponders with shock and dismay as New Orleans records very high crime rates for 2007. No, really – he is shocked, and dismayed.
Ed Dickson over at Fraud, Phishing, and Financial Misdeeds has a review of what the IT crew found to be important issues last year, and a brief commentary on Lou Dobbs’ opinion of Hillary. Meanwhile, Jenn of the Jungle opens a can regarding the Iowa Primaries, and covers the importance of lawyers on No PC BS. Akinoluna carries on the theme of reviews. Stu covers the Libs’ need for confessions on Seaspook’s Rants. Doug over at Political Pistachio opines on the Republicans, or what are passing as Republicans, in the Iowa Primaries.
Bloviating Zeppelin has a strong message of appreciation for all service members, and pulls a post from Just John which perfectly illustrates the lengths to which one man will go for another. Thanks for the reminder, BZ. Thank you for your service, John.
Over at Our Sovereign Joy, Scott helps us make sense of the question, “What does it all mean?” Kasee helps us remember our Wednesday Hero over at Mail Call! Supporting the Troops. The Old Ranter is recovering from his episode with the medical community – thankfully the grief community didn’t have any dealings with him…
You want RAW truth? For those of you with strong stomaches, head over to Long Live the Republic and let Gunz point out some fun facts for you. For the very strong of mind, and Marine at heart, scroll down to Santa Boot Camp… Head over to One Loon’s Tale, settle in on the Lake, and browse the countryside for true appreciation of the Armed Forces. Bushwack closed his year out with a video of southern entertainment over at American and Proud. Sugarcat shares some holiday pictures, and feelings, on her blog.
Be sure to check out the others on my read list – some aren’t as active, and sometimes blogrolling doesn’t always update the rolls, but there is always something interesting to read.
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In the interest of full disclosure, and I wasn’t going to show you at first, I must admit that yesterday I pulled a pretty bone-headed stunt.
For those not familiar with the safety rules of a table saw, keep in mind that one of the most important rules is that you have control of the wood on BOTH sides of the blade at all times – meaning the tail side, away from the rip fence (if one is being used) and the stock side (the side between the blade and the fence). Failure to maintain control of both pieces could result in the stock piece either jamming between the blade and the fence, or, in my case, being grabbed by the blade and spun back towards the operator at a very high rate of speed and lethality, also known as “kickback.”
I was not in the correct position for handling the piece I was cutting; if I was the kickback would not have happened. I was using the table saw for a cut that I should have grabbed a circular saw for – and I paid:
Keep in mind this picture was taken well after the oozing and everything had stopped. The shirt I was wearing has a nice high-speed wear pattern on it, too. Oh, and this was a glancing impact, since I wasn’t directly behind the blade.
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Travel: I leave the fair environs of my humble abode on January 14th, 2008 (gotten used to writing that yet? me either – it took me three tries…) at about 0700 MST for a short flight to Denver International, where I have a four hour layover. Cheap tickets are one thing, only one flight that will get me to a connecting flight four hours later is something else. Luckily, I have cousins in the area, and they plan on visiting with me while I am there. If you are in the Denver area on January 14th, 2008 (two tries!), between the hours of 0843 and 1240 MST, drop me a line and I will forward contact information.
Once I leave Denver it is but a short hop to Tampa International, arriving at 1800 EST. Once I get my rental car, I’m off to my Uncle’s house, where I will visit and gather my Grandfather’s genealogy files for my other blog. I will be in the Tampa/Clearwater area until the morning of January 16th, 2008 (first time!), when I depart on my road trip home. Yes, I am driving home with the files, because they are original documents, including letters from ancestors, and there is no way I am allowing Brown, or White, or Yellow, or any of those guys the chance to misplace one or two of the boxes. While I don’t have a lot of stops planned, I will be traveling north on I-75 to I-10, then west to Lafayette, LA (bypassing NOLA, unless someone has come to their senses and decided to rebuild it where it won’t flood the next time the tide comes in a little higher than normal) where I will be jogging north on I-49 and picking up I-20 in Shreveport. Continuing west, I plan on spending the afternoon/overnight on Thursday, January 17th, 2008, in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area (TMBWitW’s adopted mama’s mother lives there, and GG is really taken with MEG. I will be delivering Christmas and Birthday photos). The morning of the 18th, I continue my travels and spend the next three and a half days crossing the expanses of Texas – OK, not really. I pick back up on the I-10 and carry on into Arizona and home. Maybe Friday night, maybe Saturday morning. Depends on how hard I push it.
I tell you all that to say this – if you would like to be a part of my “People and Places” entry/entries, with photos (if you are camera shy or blog anonymously, you will be photographed from the back), please drop me a line. I would like to meet any and/or all of you along my travel path, even if it is only for a minute or two to get the photographic proof of my being there. If you are not on the direct path, I may be persuaded to deviate slightly if there are home made baked goods involved, or a genealogical link.
Work: I spent all day yesterday surgically cutting several sheets of 3/4″ cabinet grade birch ply into parts for an entertainment center for my latest client. After only three trips to Lowes for this and that (I’ve got to start making a list!) I finally got to the point where it was too dark to make any more cuts, and I only needed one more trip to Lowes. Of course, they were closed by that time, being New Year’s Day and all. As soon as MEG wakes up and has some breakfast this morning, guess where we’re going?
Homelife: TMBWitW is up to her pretty nose in month end/quarter end/year end at her place of employment. She is also about three classes away from her Bachelor’s in Accounting. Yay! She will be finished in April, and walk in May. Talk about a party – she will finally be finished with all the crazy schedule stuff. By that time, also, the plan is for me to be working enough to support us so she can back off and maybe do CPA stuff from home while she spends much, much more time with MEG. That will be a good thing.
Gotta go – someone is waking up.
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The trees are coming along. Sara, the black lab, really enjoys digging up newly planted trees, over and over again. I, on the other hand, do not enjoy planting the same trees over and over again. Those of you who can make leaps of logic have already figured out the conflict brewing. I have found a new use for the end product of the dog’s food processing abilities. (hint: they won’t dig in their own poo)
Speaking of little helpers:
MEG was supervising the installation of the new safety gate. She says I did a fine job.
Yesterday was her first birthday, and, of course, her first official birthday ‘cake:
Yes, that is frosting all over her face. And hands. And dress. And Dad’s shirt. And Dad’s hands. What you can’t see is the frosting and crumbs all over Gramma’s floor.
In case I don’t get a chance to do so later, let me take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year.
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