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Restart…

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I have not written anything on my blog for quite a while. About a year. Seems the way with a lot of blogs. I’ve actually been doing a lot of work on the blog recently. I moved the blog back to Movable Type. WordPress was not what I wanted. I put a new graphic design … Read more

Memorial Day 2010

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We attended a very nice Memorial Day event in Santa Cruz, which is a bit surprising. Freedom is not free. The price is non-negotiable. Each generation pays for the freedom of the next generation in blood. Memorial Day is a day to celebrate that purchase while honoring those who paid for it. US Navy Petty … Read more

Happy Thanksgiving!!

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The Holiday season is here and I home to participate. I’m pretty excited about that. I get to play Christmas music until after New Years. I love Christmas music. Soon we’ll watch What A Wonderful Life. Then we’ll watch White Christmas. Those are the traditions at my house. I am Thankful. I am thankful that … Read more

Movable Type vs WordPress

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I have used Movable Type installed on my own webhost for 5 years or so. After several false starts on WordPress I decided to make the switch. Maybe. For several years I really liked Movable Type. I could manage the design of my web site using html and css. Movable Type took my html and … Read more

Switching to WordPress

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After some years of running on Movable Type, I’m switching things over to WordPress. WordPress is far more widely used and supported. There are more plug-ins, more templates, and just more support in general for WordPress than Six Aparts’ Movable Type. So, Six Apart, it’s been good knowing you.

Man’s Condition, at least in the West

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So the final conclusion would seem to be that whereas other civilizations had been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions and providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. … Read more

Still trying to get back to FOB Hunter

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I am still trying to get back to FOB Hunter. Remembering a photo I saw from back near the beginning of the war, I have resorted to sitting out on Route 6 with a cardboard sign that says FOB Hunter or AWOL. We’ll see how successful I am. It’s got to be at least as … Read more

Sabers complete transfer of authority

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Apparently, I now work for the Sabers. 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry has returned home to Fort Hood, Texas. I worked with them for seven months. The 1-9 CAV built FOB Hunter. When they arrived on the abandon airfield of Qal At Salih there was nothing there but a few runways, some taxiways, several hangers that … Read more

Back to FOB Hunter??

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I am still at COB Adder. With luck I’ll be back at FOB Hunter tomorrow for the final push to finish this tour. It’s been a good break. I am looking forward to getting back to my team. Reading their reports for the past week it looks like things are nicely busy down there. Looks … Read more