"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom."                                       

                                         Thomas Paine – "Common Sense" , 1776

Somehow, modern words for this time in our nations history.

I encourage you to read the entire text at Project Gutenberg.

The small snowball cactus hiding out in the yard produced the most amazing blooms last month. The monsoons are here and everything is turning very green! More pics soon. 🙂

This is the kind of view we have from the house in Bisbee. We are at about 5400 feet up looking SOuth across the Mexican border into Sonora. The mountains in the foreground are the San Jose. The pic is from early January taken on my way to work.

At 2:00am my Tek Gang got alerted that our Sheriff’s Office had lost their network and phone connectivity. My Gang got to work on it right away and quickly found that the main router that fed all their communications had failed.

They got CISCO on the phone and had the required repair parts couriered out of Phoenix about four hours away.

3.5 Hours later the box arrived on my door and I ran it out to the SO. Opened it up and low and behold, here was a completely empty router chassis… no parts, no management engine or control module! Nothing that actually made it work.

So, back on the phone to CISCO support.

Yep, they are sending the right part this time! 4.5 Hours latter (The driver got lost…) here comes our next package!

Open the box and look, only HALF the part needed to make the fix. By now it is nearly 5 PM. and the S.O. is still down.

Had they sent the right parts, we would have been operational by noon.

It burns!! It burns!! What complete drek. Dog says that the movie “Jumper” tastes like a really bad hairball. There is no plot to speak of and that which attempts to be some sort of story line is more air than cheeze. There are some fun scenes, but nothing to save us from the bad acting and poor continuity. Even Samuel L. Jackson looks bored!

Dog says 1.5 Bones and a Breathbuster for this one!

This weekend I followed Jess up to Phoenix where it is 110 outside to see a nice little gaming convention where she is a guest of honor. Lots of very nice folks and even the Valkyrie seems to be having a good time.

Its hot enough out where I have gone to the UtiliKilt to compensate… the breeze is nice! 😉 Here’s the wear for the weekend!

Why do I have to go to the Belfast Telegraph to get American news? Why has no major American news outlet covered the resolution in depth?

Why did the Speaker of the House shoot this down?

What happened to my America?

Dennis is the man!

Why are none of the news agencies covering Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s 35 Count resolution of Impeachment against President George W. Bush tonight??? (10:32 PM EST – C-SPAN) I can’t believe it!! Is no one paying attention?

The Valkyrie and I are traveling out to Sacramento this week to see her cousin graduate. Its the first trip we have been on thats just the two of us. So far, its been great. Here we are in the TIA waiting to fly out on ExpressJet. 🙂