18 Thursday Apr 2013
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It’s been a lousy week in many respects.
When an Elvis impersonator trying to kill the President is the least interesting news story of the week, you know some shit went down.
— Andy Daly (@TVsAndyDaly) April 19, 2013
15 Monday Apr 2013
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2nd Amendment, astroturfing, concealed carry, government, gun control, politics, self-defense, social media, Twitter
I’m not normally a huge Twitter user. It has its uses, and I admire certain masters of the art, but I don’t have the always-on mentality to constantly stay in the stream saying witty things. For one, my job doesn’t allow me the luxury of carrying a cell phone (or even Internet access); for two, I don’t want to be always plugged in, always looking for the next clever thing to tweet.
But for a brief evening, I tried it out.
14 Sunday Apr 2013
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This was the third unplanned stop on route to Yakima, but this cloud formation was too cool not to stop and document. I wish I had a camera capable of doing the panoramic stitching thing.
13 Saturday Apr 2013
Posted in craft
No process pics, just the finished work. This was a semi-rush job for SSG Huggie Bear, our company Readiness NCO, who was having his last drill with us prior to being transferred to another unit.
16 Saturday Mar 2013
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I submitted a short story to an anthology contest yesterday.
I wrote it in 2006, during a particularly rough period of our deployment to Afghanistan–the first piece of fiction I had written since the third grade. It was followed by two more banged out in rapid succession, tying up a story arc. No one but my wife has seen these.
15 Friday Mar 2013
Posted in craft
In addition to a few books that I thought his library needed, I decided to make my father-in-law a little card carrier to help spread the word about his business, Custom Wooden Workspaces. I somehow managed to forget to take any pictures of the finished product, but you can see it in progress here.
15 Friday Mar 2013
Posted in craft
It’s been a while. I haven’t been entirely lazy, but I did sort of disconnect from the Internet for a while after my last trip to Yakima in early February.
While there, I did nothing terribly exciting, but I was prolific. Trying to use up some of the oil-tanned leather I’ve had since last August (when I first got started), I decided to make up a bunch of smaller notebook covers. I’d bought the notebooks for the purpose at Office Depot in December, in case I needed last minute projects for unforeseen Christmas gifts. Turned out not to be the case, but since I had them…
