Not that I’ve been posting a lot lately, but I’m going to be mostly offline for the next 7-10 days. We’re getting ready for one of those "Major muscle movements" that occurs every 18-36 months in the life of a government employee in my line of work.
The most ironic irony I can think of: Discovering that you’re allergic to Kleenex tissue.
What are some of your most ironic ironies?
If this is true, then I pray Mr Phelps doesn’t end up having severe health problems later on!
***Update: H/T to Anwyn (and apologies for forgetting in the first place!)***
It appears that the highly-desired Cloak of Invisibility that my Dungeons and Dragons characters were searching for over 25 years ago was finally found in a lab at UC-Berkeley.
No wonder Ug the Barbarian-Ranger never found it, it wasn’t in a dragon’s lair–it was in an ivory tower!
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I was a bit surprised to read Georgia had moved troops into South Ossetia and Russia had in turn moved troops in and had started bombing Georgia (CNN, FoxNews, Johnson’s Russia List (via e-mail)).
It’s like Bizarro-Kosovo/Serbia.
Mr Gary Patriquin is sponsoring the 2008 Heroes Run in Lockport, IL in honor of CPT Travis Patriquin and service members killed in Iraq. It will be 9 Aug 2008 at 0800. It starts at the Lockport High School, 1323 E. Seventh St., Lockport, IL 60441.
You can choose from a 5K run or a 1.5 mile walk. Registration is $15 and proceeds will go to both The Travis Patriquin Family Trust Fund and the Children of the Fallen Soldier Relief Fund.
If you would like to make a long-range donation, you can donate via PayPal. Just go to PayPal and enter Mr Patriquin’s e-mail address (gary112251 — at — America Online – dot – com). Proceeds donated via PayPal go to the Family Trust Fund for his three children.
If you have any questions about the run, the trust fund, or Children of the Fallen Soldier Relief Fund, you may contact Mr Patriquin at 1-815-483-4830.
Thank you for your consideration!
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15 Aug 2008 Update: The run looks like it went well. Thanks to all who participated or donated!
This was a fascinating way to get the day started at the Gathering of Mustangs and Legends.
Personally, I think the ground crew needed to catch it before it hit the ground. Otherwise, very cool!
We experienced an earthquake here in our home in Japan last night. It measured 6.8 on the Richter scale. Luckily, no one appears to have died in the quake.
Since no one died, I can say I’m glad to have been through it. Call me insane. Natural disasters (or natural near-disasters) don’t really frighten me, and this is probably not much of a surprise to anyone, least of all my friend the LifePundit. I regard them as problems requiring solutions, if it becomes severe enough to warrant.
Starting at about 0026, a pretty good sized jolt hit the house, followed by some wobbling back and forth. It knocked a few glasses over and kicked a book out of the shelf. It also toppled my wife’s stereo speakers.
Initially I thought a large construction truck was driving down the street. This was common last year as a new neighborhood went up in the lots next to us. They shook the house a little bit. However, when my wife bolted upright and said "Earthquake!" and started to grab the family heirloom, I shouted a triumphant "YES!" I finally got to play in an earthquake! No more sleeping through the little 3-point-somethings the New Madrid Fault offered or even the 4.X on the California Central Coast back in 1995. This wasn’t exactly the big kahuna, but it’s about as big as it could have been and not have been deadly. In any case, it was all over within short order, only about 45 seconds of shaking.
Since I’ve always wanted to experience an earthquake of decent size and no one got hurt, I’m declaring victory with regard to this objective in my life.
I once saw a blog quote generator come up with something to the effect "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." I need to get in touch with the author of that quote and set him/her straight on both counts.
I’ve done a reverse MacArthur. I have returned from the Philippines.
As it happened, I rolled home and straight into an exercise! I’d like to say I swapped my ‘Battle Rattle’ for a chemical defense ensemble, but rather the chemical defense ensemble went on underneath the Interceptor body armor. Mercifully it’s been a cool June here in northern Japan.
It certainly was fun to get a few flights in, too, even if the weather obscured everything but the Pacific and the Sea of Japan.
Now back to the grind!
