25 Yards
I have re-verified that you don’t want to be a ‘bad guy’ within 25 yards of my location when I have a Beretta 9mm. ‘Nuff said? I thought so. (No actual bad guys were harmed in determining this information.)
Continue reading →Category Archives: Work
Mandarin Chinese Kicks My Butt
A new perk at my job is the opportunity to study languages using the online software Rosetta Stone. I figured I’d give it a try and signed up for an account. I’m not good with languages (despite a reasonable grasp of American English). I have 3/4 of a year of … Continue reading →
Weekend Productivity
A very good weekend. I accomplished all the writing tasks I set out to accomplish. I have a review steeping. I’ll pull it out in a couple days and polish it before sending it off. I finished looking at a friend’s project and sent comments back. Finally, I finished this … Continue reading →
C-Span
I’ve been trying to stay low-key today. While waiting for the Pistons vs Cavaliers game to start at 2:30 this afternoon, I channel surfed and listened to C-Span for several hours of last Thursday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on General Hayden’s nomination to head the Central Intelligence Agency. I don’t … Continue reading →
In Town
I survived a lovely week in Dayton. The shorthand of what I was doing was attending a class on administering our international officer programs. In the evenings, I graded about half of the 77 papers I collected from our current group the Friday afternoon before I left. I still have … Continue reading →
Out of Town
Gotta go get some class. Be back on the 12th.
Continue reading →Anemic?
Tess Gerritsen blogs about writer’s anemia. “Real anemia leaves you weak and exhausted and pale. Writer’s anemia is much the same — except that the pallor shows up on the page. Your writing loses all color. Your plot feels dead. Your characters wander through the story like ghosts of themselves.” … Continue reading →
MilBlogs
If anyone has been following my MilBlogs subgroup in the sidebar, you’ve noticed most of the bloggers have rotated back to the States, and the blogs have either gone dormant or moved to new, Stateside-oriented, blogs. I will probably look around and find current in-theater bloggers; however, the DoD has … Continue reading →
Major (retired) Carrol Woods
Major Carrol Woods, a Tuskegee Airman and former Prisoner of War spoke to one of our research seminars today, and I was fortunate to be able to listen. Major Woods presented a matter-of-fact commentary on his experiences growing up on the farm near Valdosta, Georgia. He talked about his early … Continue reading →
Ender’s Game
I’ve had Orson Scott Card‘s Ender’s Game in my TBR pile for a year and a half. Since I have the opportunity to have lunch with him next week, I dug down and read it. I was missing a darn good story–as is likely the case for numerous books in … Continue reading →