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My long-time friend Barry, on our little sailboat Saturday. We were out on the Sassafras River for about 6 hours. We couldn’t have had nicer weather – even the wind cooperated!! Hope that everyone has a nice weekend!

and we don’t run from our problems. We had an accident in the Gulf a month ago.  Eleven people, engaged in the same industry as me, lost their lives in an oil-rig explosion that also damaged the well and led to a large oil spill.  This has been happening as long as we have been…

Today, I received some good news.  My position at the refinery will continue through the ownership transition and start-up of the facility.  After a long six months, I have a certain job.  I was at work today when I received the job offer.  Just one problem – the remaining work force will be cut in…

I’ve just finished my seven-day shift break, so the title of this post does not mean that I am overworked.  We do have some household stuff going on that involves work, thus today’s snappy title. First, happy four months old to Anna.  Details here. Yesterday was my lovely wife’s first real day at her first…

Happy Mother’s Day!  That’s tomorrow, sure, but I just wanted to get that in there.  Special wishes to my daughter – a mom for the second time this year, and my lovely wife, who will be missing her boys tomorrow, along with my own awesome mom – who bears much of the responsibility for teaching…

Our new shed arrived last week and is now in place.  I’m keeping my motorcycle in there now.  Yesterday, I cut the grass and left the lawnmower in there, too.  No more dragging the mower up and down the basement steps.  Woo Hoo! Today, we put window boxes on the shed and filled them with…

Spring time! Time to start paying attention to the outside of the house.  We haven’t done a thing with the backyard since we moved in last summer.  The inside needed a lot of work, so our time and efforts were directed there.  Here’s a picture of our back yard from last month, before we started…

I will do my best to follow the title and not mention health care on this post. So, what’s been up? We bought a shed today.  We’ve been checking the shed stores and we have not been able to find a model that fit our needs.  For starters, it needs to look nice. I also…

Our nation has been dragged, kicking and screaming, into a fundamental revolution in our approach to medical care.  The government is ultimately going to be in charge of health care service allocation – the desire of that power is what has been behind the legislation and the bare-knuckled fight to push it through Congress against…

from the Three Stooges short, “Men in Black”.  Very appropriate tonight. Our House of Representatives has spoken.  The yes vote was 220 in favor of the government takeover of our medical system, four more than necessary – there were no Republicans voting yes.   Politicians are now in complete charge of our medical system.  If…