@kdfrawg I had a feeling you'd approve. :-)

@kdfrawg In other unexpected news, I heard that the eldest son of our friend Musa recently completed his basic training for the U.S. Navy. Apparently Musa comes from a family with a tradition of naval service.

@kdfrawg It was either a mistake or gross incompetency of the stupid kind.

It's been quite a morning…

My boss came in to find that our IT vendor remotely deleted her Microsoft Office installation overnight. So all of her high-priority stuff had to be handled by yours truly, and I'm just now getting to my own work four hours after getting to the office.

It's going to be a long day.

The local news station in Santa Barbara actually posted this. I'd roll my eyes hard if I could stop laughing long enough…

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It's nothing too exciting, just something that I thought was cool. :-)

I bought myself a present. I'll post a picture when it gets here. I'm leaving it at that for now. ?

This status update from Russian Post is giving me a mental image of my package trudging through the snow under the floodlights as the gates swing open in Vorkuta. Or crossing the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin.

Yes, I'm a child of the Cold War.

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God bless the British.

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I quite agree. I'm sure I could be very healthy living on broccoli, steamed fish, and tap water, but life is too damn short and I've already given up alcohol and tobacco. A man has to have some vices, so I'll give up my artificial sweeteners when they pry them out of my cold dead hands.
// @kdfrawg