Driveway of Doom
November 24th, 2009
I had put my car in park, leaned back in my seat, and finished listening to Dream Weaver on the radio before I had to take the long walk up our steep driveway to the house. My sports car wasn’t able to make it up the steep incline due to how low it was to the ground, making it necessary to park at the foot of the driveway. My wife had an SUV, and of course she didn’t have much of an issue, rarely did she have to practice her mountaineering skills. Every time I exited my car, I’d look up the drive way and wonder what the original owners must have been drinking to build a house on the side of a cliff; then, I would realize I must have been drinking the same concoction when I signed the lease. Anyway, we were moving from Arizona to Massachusetts in late summer and we failed to fully consider the hill with snow and ice on it. My daily commute to and from work, carrying the groceries to the house, and just trying to do nice things for our children were made much more difficult because we rented the house on the hill.
Serving in the Navy, I wore a uniform and a pair of hard soled, patent leather shoes to work. The shoes were ok for walking around office spaces, but didn’t offer much traction (Read the rest of the article…)
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Launch or Dinner?
November 16th, 2009
Contemplating our own death is something we humans do, we wonder how our life will come to an end. Some would argue that religion and the thought of an after-life were created only to ease our fear of the inevitable. We all hope for a peaceful, painless demise, perhaps to slip away while in a deep sleep without any indication of its coming. But, lets face it; most of us will feel the breath of the grim reaper just before our passing, and it will terrify us. If we find the breath to have been just a warning and the end didn’t come as expected, we claim some earthly luck or divine providence, and in our future we heed the warning by not repeating the action that put us so close to becoming worm food in the first place. However, today, we won’t be afforded the luxury of surviving death; today we will die. You see, regrettably, (Read the rest of the article…)
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Veterans Day 2009
November 10th, 2009
Tomorrow is Veterans Day. To help commemorate the day I suggest that you start your two minutes of silence at 1100 (time that major hostilities of World War I were formally ended on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918) that you donate to the Soldier’s Angels Project Valour-IT campaign. 100% of your donation to Project Valour-IT will be used to purchase laptops and other technology that will support recovery, provide independence, and freedom to our wounded Warriors.
H/t SJS
Your gift will leverage technology to help those who sacrificed so much, assisting them in living a better life. (Read the rest of the article…)
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Broadside for Valour-IT!
November 3rd, 2009
HA! You have to love Navy Recruiting cartoons done in good taste by famous cartoonists! Jeff Bacon, author of the Broadside cartoons, published his latest work to help support the Valour-IT fund raising campaign. Gahh, enough with me talking, read the comic strip!
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The Valour-IT Auction
November 1st, 2009
Last night you gave out about $30 worth of candy to a bunch of little kids – how about today you pledge at least that like amount to our wounded warriors? Either use the widget in the sidebar or go to this very special E-Bay auction where you can bid on everything from autographed baseballs to beautiful lithographs, all profits will go to our wounded warriors via Project Valour-IT! Here is the link! (Read the rest of the article…)
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