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Chafe

The LTC asked why, and I said change. For now I’m still rather attached to home_DC, and still carry my house keys. I can’t decide if this is a good thing, or a bad one, or perhaps it is of no import whatsoever.
My patience for silly people, or at least their exasperation for the small [...]

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D_Day 2

I have found the internet. It was not hiding under the bed as hoped, but at a balmy 86F isn’t awful at this time of night.
Horrible jet lag, afternoon-evening naps, bouts of social anxiety and disorientation.
It can only improve/continue.

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Yelling loudly when no one is listening

I listen to and read all these valiant verbal warriors railing against the weaknesses of their elected leaders, shaking their fists on their lunch breaks, commenting on the pathetic nature of their representatives or during their supposed work hours. All this rage must take a great deal of work. It can’t be healthy, to constantly [...]

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SWA isn’t just 737s crossing the nation cheaply

Looks like I’ll be winging my way to the land of SWA for a few months, maybe even 6 (the official orders will be for a year, which I think is bone chilling) to do my current job in a land of sand.
Last year I volunteered as did a number of other people, including [...]

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Out Stealing Horses, in continuation

Still reading Out Stealing Horses, and still incapable of describing how in so few words he can construct mental landmines with such perfect balance.

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A call to reason, through a different prism

One of my greatest frustrations with supposedly intelligent/educated/thoughtful people in America is that they usually lack the knowledge beyond their own subjective experience or desire to understand. History is a lost concept to so many, which gives rise to impatience and a failure to appreciate that time is a variable they actually do need to [...]

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Everything you can learn erroneously from bloggers

EVERYONE in NYC has big pecs.
EVERYONE with body hair in prodigious amounts is a slut.
EVERYONE who is IN is bitter and amusing.
EVERYONE hates vegetables unless they came from a chic farmer’s market.
EVERYONE is filled with righteous anger.
EVERYONE is living in an attic in Nazi occupied Holland.
EVERYONE is blissfully happy.
EVERYONE is miserable and has to share. [...]

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Dodging raindrops no more

I can walk without feeling flustered in the rain now, or at least attain acceptance of the state much more quickly. Before I had to stop when in a dry place, wipe my glasses, and hope it was dry when I got back out, or that the cloth would miraculously dry before then.
I did [...]

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Persistence

I recently replied to someone who noted they’d deleted all their data before departing their last place of employ. I realize the logic behind it, though it’s a logic that rests on a very limited set of variables. Data is persistent, it doesn’t go *poof* when you hit delete, or when you empty the recycle [...]

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