A bit of a mental excursion from this and last week’s events:
Remember: Meat is murder… tasty, tasty murder.
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Ham Radio Operators
A bit of a mental excursion from this and last week’s events:
Sadly, not nearly enough Hams are like this (seen here). Though I might know a couple of Geeks who may show an interest.
Time to start working on my upgrade from General to my Extra ticket.
The Lady Ann
January last year, my step mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. My father immediately selected a name for his newest woodworking project in her honor…and assigned himself the task of having it in the water before the inevitable.
The Lady Ann sat, waiting for her master’s hand to finish her sails and rigging–while mother Ann takes her Master’s hand late Friday in the presence of her husband and sons.
More of a mother to us both over the years than we ever deserved.
Goodbye, mother.
Though late, The Lady Ann will find the sea.
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*I originally put Thursday here. With everything going on, I’d completely lost track of the days. Today (Monday, as I update this) we’ve had to address a number of the more painful arrangements: funeral, obituary, and later today, we’ll need to select her plot in the cemetery. I even suggested to my dad that we assume some preplanning for him and choose a pair of plots in the cemetery that they both liked… and he finally agreed.
No Post on Sundays… and…
And now, no Post on Saturdays.
So, if they go through with it, you can be sure that they’ll also kick the price of stamps up, too.
Lies — Damned Lies
Go check it out at Stranger’s.
He briefly quotes an article… which I’ll quote even less of here:
“Some speakers called for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-caliber magazines that allowed killer ***** ***** of Newtown to shoot 20 children and six educators in a span of about six minutes.”
Yes, I removed the shooter’s name.
There are no such things as a “high-caliber magazines”.
Additionally, the Connecticut shooter most certainly did not use any sort of military-style rifle for his executions. There have been accounts that the coroner’s report indicated that all murders were committed with handgun calibers; and we know that the police retrieved an EBR from the shooter’s conveyance.
And, by all accounts, he had far more than six minutes to accomplish his evil acts.
the rest of me 