▼
Friday, July 29, 2022

If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By --Kurt Vonnegut Book 23 of 2022

›
 This short book is exactly what the subtitle promises in the inimitable style of Kurt Vonnegut.  The title quote is also the theme of the b...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

To Have a Good Life, Keep Making New Friends

›
In 2011 I trained with these aircraft fuelers for three weeks. I thought I was going to Afghanistan with them. I didn't.  They did. They...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

PanzerMuseum East Gift Shop

›
The Gift Shop at Panzermuseum East, Slagelse, Denmark, is crowded with uniforms, gas masks, models, spent brass, radio equipment, flags and ...
Friday, July 15, 2022

The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry S. Strauss. Book 22 of 2022

›
I listened to Barry Strauss on a history podcast and wanted to read this book.  History for me is contingency constrained by geography grabb...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Back to Packing Individual First Aid Kits (IFAKs) for Ukraine

›
  #RazomforUkraine volunteers at the end of the day Saturday. We set a new record of 3,063 IFAKS made and shipped in one day. After a month ...

Tank Museum Designed as a Warning: Panzer Museum East, Denmark

›
Most military museums, particularly tank museums, display the best and most lethal weapons of their country. Part of the intent of these mus...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

A Brave Woman in Trumplandia

›
  This morning I was riding east from Lancaster toward New Holland borough, one of the towns that ring the city of Lancaster.  As I rode I p...