• Just a thought

    FB STRING Are you freaking kidding me? Swift / Flood water rescue is hard enough, and doing Dive Rescue in those types of waters is even worse, and I am…

  • Just a thought

    I have heard a few stories of those that are under-prepared for the storms throughout the country….tragedy in fire where a colleague of mine was a volunteer firefighter and a…

  • response to a posed question

    QUESTION: The subject of employment (or lack thereof) and its connection with education and/or skills has been coming up A LOT lately. So… I thought I’d ask: Do you have…

  • unfinished thoughts on Autism

    anxiety is not autism….however it may be a symptom within the classification to determine autism…we do not have empirical, collected or observed data that helps truly describe a prevailing pattern.…

  • OCEAN results

    I’m a O84-C79-E53-A57-N3 Big Five!! Stumbled across an OCEAN test for personality, above is the link to my results. Though it was worth saving somewhere. #2013 #Personal

  • 2013 – Catching up – France trip with family

    It was a long trip, but overall good. It was a hot and humid trip. Liz and Dennis were welcomed to France. I think Strasbourg was a bit long for them in the 1 bedroom apartment hotel with a pull-out couch/bed for Dennis. I do think it was needed for us as a family as I tend to travel weekly M-F for my work. I am happy and content that they were able to come and spend time with me in a foreign land.

  • quick thoughts for follow up later

    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/tv-station-tries-and-fails-to-use-copyright-to-hide-its-racist-news-blunder/#p3 An old friend of mine posted this. below follows my initial thoughts: the sad thing is this is an isolated example (amongst MANY) that was aggregated by another source,…

  • Simple Update

    So, I have added some better images to the front page photo roll. Just click on home to the left to return to the main page. Should you like to…