Monthly Archives: November 2013

I don’t believe that Australia should be expected to apologise for reasonable intelligence-gathering operations, just as I don’t expect other countries or other governments to apologise for their reasonable intelligence-gathering operations. —-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Indonesia has recalled its … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s post I was obviously intrigued that some jobs reward people who are ruthless, i.e., who lack or ignore compassionate feelings for others. (I would skip the term “psychopath”, and obviously not everyone in those professions are that way.) … Continue reading →

Traits of a psychopath — shallow emotions, stress tolerance, lacking empathy, coldheartedness, lacking guilt, egocentricity, superficial character, manipulativeness, irresponsibility, impulsivity, and antisocial behaviors such as parasitic lifestyle and criminality. I just read an article entitled These Are the 10 Most … Continue reading →

Andy has done the annual maintenance and repairs for the snow plow, and he’s stacked the branches from the trees he cut up for firewood. The piles will be burned in bonfires later in the season. He’s also gradually adding … Continue reading →

I was expecting a package Thursday from UPS, our usual courier, but when I checked the internet Wednesday to see where it was, the site said: That’s the first time we’ve ever seen that. We had always thought of UPS … Continue reading →

When Kaitlin was young one of Andy’s favorite sayings was, Smart people are a dime a dozen. You have to learn to be effective! It’s too bad Obama didn’t learn that earlier. Apparently he’s trying to undo the damage from … Continue reading →

When we were inching our way through New Mexico — because of the poor condition of the tracks — this fall, the sleeping car attendant warned us that the Amtrak Southwest Chief route might be changed. That would mean Lamy … Continue reading →

When we were inching our way through New Mexico — because of the poor condition of the tracks — this fall, the sleeping car attendant warned us that the Amtrak Southwest Chief route might be changed. That would mean Lamy … Continue reading →

It turns out it was just as well Joe and his crew couldn’t come up today. Andy and Peter found a design flaw when they looked at how to attach the plumbing to the panels. It turns out they’ll have … Continue reading →

It turns out there was a miscommunication about the distance between the two rows of cross pieces — the ones on the top row were two inches too high. So the guys had to spend the first half of yesterday … Continue reading →