Bumper Snicker

Saw a bumper sticker on a car ahead of me in traffic a day or two back. It said only

1.20.09

Took me a minute, but I finally figured it out and laughed out loud. It’s the date of the end of the House of Bush.

Can’t be too soon.

The Good Stuff

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If you’re new here, you may not know this about me: I’m an atheist.

Yep. And here’s where you find out why.

A reader on another blog I frequent, Unscrewing the Inscrutable, posted a comment that got me thinking about it:

It does seem to me that most of the people here have some problem with christians and christianity beyond that toward other religions and superstitions. And I am willing to hear if or even why this may be true. […] I’d really like to hear. And it’s ok to be blunt.

My answer was:

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Just testing.

Still learning how to use all the bells and whistles of WordPress. Wealth At 10 Below 

Here’s a pic of a blue jay I took recently. It’s on my Flickr site, and the thingie I just downloaded allows me to link to those photos and show them here. 

If you click on the pic, it will shoot you over to where the original is. Cool plug-in!

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Day 14 – Too Much Hank

Weighed myself at the gym today, and I’m down about 8 pounds. So I’m losing about four pounds a week. Is that good?

I know I feel different. My workout today really felt good — I powered through it, and upped several of my weights for next session. I can really feel the mass difference in my arms and shoulders. That 8 pounds is 8 pounds even with this increase in muscle mass, so I think I’m down a good 10 pounds, if we’re just counting padding. Continue reading “Day 14 – Too Much Hank”

Dumb as a Post

yoko.jpgAn old cowboy friend used to tell me stories of the time he was hired to teach mule packing to the U.S. Army.

Mule packing” is when you load supplies onto a mule, using ropes, tarps and rigid boxes or special canvas bags, to carry them into roadless wilderness areas. Yeah, it sounds weird that the Army would want soldiers to know such things, but if they’re called upon to conduct quiet operations in remote mountainous or wilderness areas, it might be the only way to take food or weapons along in amounts larger than individual soldiers can carry.

Like a lot of things that sound simple but aren’t, there’s an actual technology to mule packing — keeping the load balanced, limiting the total weight, tying the proper hitches and knots, and even quite a bit of mule psychology. 

 

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