Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy. (your mileage may vary)
September 11, 2011
commentary, geek, Personal 911, blogging, weird coincidence Leave a comment
My previous post did something interesting.
After I posted it, but before going to the page, WordPress sent me this little message:
This is your 520th post. Hip! This post has 911 words.
911 words. On 9/11. I doubt I could deliberately do that if I tried!
September 11, 2011
commentary, Gay, Personal Bass Lake, Ducey's, fun weekend, Kampout Fresno, LGBT 1 Comment
Friday morning (well, just after noon, but way morning for me), as I’m in that kinda-asleep-but-kinda-not condition that you get to experience if you don’t wake up to an alarm clock, I heard the text-message chime go off on my phone. At first, I try to ignore it, after all, I’m still “asleep”, but my curiosity got the best of me, and I pick up the phone to see what was up. Ted sent me a message, saying “pack your bags ur going to bass lake for the weekend!!!!!!”. Well… you can’t argue with something like that, so I started packing.
Here are some pictures and details of the weekend.
September 11, 2011
geek, News Ground Zero on Mars, NASA, Opportunity Rover, WTC metal on Mars.Spriti rover Leave a comment
NASA’s Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, carry pieces of metal recovered from Ground Zero. Both rovers are equipped with identical parts. This image, provided by NASA, is of the rover Spirit, and was taken by the panoramic camera on February 2, 2004. The piece of metal with the US flag emblem is aluminum recovered from the World Trade Center, after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Image: NASA. Click on the image to go to the NASA site.
September 11, 2011
commentary, geek, Humor, Personal amateur radio, sexy ham, Ted Freitas Leave a comment
So a few minutes ago I’m checking out the stats page for my blog, when I see 2 hits from the search engine term ‘sexy ham radio’. I really had to do a double take on that.
This image is closer to the reality of ham radio. ‘Sexy’ is not a term I would generally attribute to it.
There are a few exceptions, of course.
For instance, THIS is a sexy ham radio operator…
September 6, 2011
commentary, Humor, Personal 54, another year older, birthday Leave a comment
Oh, crap. How did that happen?
Well, I suppose it beats the alternative!
Perhaps the focus should now become how high can I get that number?
It was Monday, BTW.
Thanks to all who wished me a Happy Day.
September 4, 2011
commentary Christopher's Story, online publishing, Saturday Leave a comment
Well, that was a complete waste of a Saturday!
I woke up a bit earlier than normal, and was looking through my emails when I saw one recommending a story site on the internet, and one particular story. I checked it out, and started reading at about 1pm. It didn’t look to be too long of a story, although it was listed at 33 chapters. Now, “chapters” on online sites tend to be a few paragraphs, so I thought I could knock that out fairly quickly. I’m a fast reader, and can burn through a story pretty quickly.
Bad idea.
August 28, 2011
commentary, Personal afternoon in bed, lazy sunday Leave a comment
I’m being lazy today. I was lazy yesterday, too. Friday wasn’t very hectic, either. All in all, a decent weekend.
August 26, 2011
geek East coast earthquake, NASA, shuttle damaged Leave a comment
August 13, 2011
commentary, Personal birthday revelations, Closeted children, Mothers, Wanda Reeves 1 Comment
Today is my Mother’s 72nd birthday. (This photo is from about ten years ago) After a nice visit, where my niece, and then my nephew and his family stopped by, I was saying goodbye, when Mom said something that kind of stunned me.
“I’m just sorry I wasn’t a better mother for you. Maybe then you wouldn’t have been so… unhappy.”
I don’t recall her ever having mentioned anything to give me a hint that she might have felt inadequate as a parent, and that I might have suffered as a result.
As I was leaving, I told her, of course, that she was the best, and there was no doubt of that. Especially, I said, if she were to compare herself to some of the mothers of people I knew growing up. Some of them were real witches! I told her that if anyone ever thought of her as a witch, it could only have been as Glinda. (Interestingly, The Wizard of Oz came out in the same year Mom was born. Coincidence? I think not.)
As I was driving home, it occurred to me that she might have been carrying this burden of thinking herself inadequate for some time. As that thought process worked it’s way through my head, it collided with several baggage cars of my own personal freight train. In no particular order: I had never noticed that she might be feeling like a failure as a mother, that I come across as “unhappy” or at least seemed that way to her, now or in the past, and that she might be feeling responsible for my difficulties coming to terms with my homosexuality.
I think we’re going to have to have a talk.
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Safety First: Don’t Sext and Drive – You’ll Make A Mess!
September 14, 2011
Jim Reeves commentary, geek, Humor, News Dinuba, Road 80, road construction, sexting, Tulare County, visalia Leave a comment
Always good advice. We got a bunch of calls about this sign after it appeared on Road 80, north of Visalia. Construction is ongoing, the formerly two-lane road being upgraded to four lanes between Visalia and Dinuba. Nobody’s quite sure who’s responsible for the message, but the sign itself belongs to a contractor working on the highway. It was finally taken down. Probably a good idea, no telling how distracting (or suggestive!) it might have been!
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