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Normally I link .. and get out essays when I have time and energy. This week, internet access will be limited. I’m going to try to reverse the trend and write more essays and push links to next week. If I do post links there won’t be many.

Cheers

Well, we’re back from vacation … and I’m flying out to the LA area on work for the next two weeks. I should have time to blog but posting and any writing (besides the hopeful essay I write on the plane) will be probably relegated to the evening hours. I should be able to participate in comments throughout the day after today however.

OK. I’m back on the left coast, working very very early hours (well, not so early today as my flights got me to my hotel kinda late to get up early today). Links will be posted evenings for the next two weeks. I’ll try to keep up with comments.

Oddly enough, I learned on the flight over I need to get back to essay posting. I started an essay and half-way through it I’d argued myself out of the thesis I’d started with. Essay writing gets me thinking about issues more clearly and more of that is needed. So, perhaps that’s good news.

OK. Regular blogging will return tomorrow … and later tonight I’ll finish and publish the gun control article I wrote half of two weeks ago flying here, I didn’t finish it on the plane … and didn’t have time to finish it until tonight.

On the way to the left coast …. it’s likely that link posts will move to the evening. I’m going to try to write a post en-route.

Cheers!

At job site, links tonight (and replies to comments).

Just so ya all know

After putting out fires at work, now travel … and I’m running late on that regard.

Anyhow, links, posts and replies to comments tonight. Sorry ’bout being tardy.

I’m traveling today. I’ve done the research now for tonight’s post on Star Wars and religion and will have a “double” links post in the morning.

We’re vacationing (at my girls request) in Florida (in the summer!?) … near Destin (Panhandle, Gulf beach).

Off to the left coast am I. On business. The unusual aspect to this trip is that “go live” is scheduled for Monday … and the site is far enough from transport that travelling back on Saturday, returning Sunday didn’t make sense. So, I’m staying the weekend. We’ll see what I find on the weekend in California.

Hopefully the flight isn’t very full. That’s always nice (for the passenger, not so much for the airline).

I have not. Vanished that is. I’m at a job, near Chicago but far enough that I’m not staying at home, starting early finishing late … and the hotel has iffy connection. Anyhow, I’m collecting links, probably alas a monster post of stale links will be posted later this week. Maybe tonight?

Links will either be later tonight or a double set in the morning (hotel bandwidth is horrible).

Customer emergency calls me on the road today. Links might be doubled up tomorrow if I don’t get some free time after a long drive and a fire to deal with. Links tonight if I’m in a hotel, otherwise … if I’m driving back late, likely not.

Sunday night I was directed to fly out for an emergency service call with the East Coast customer at which I’d been during the last two months. Daytimes have been busy and during the evenings Internet has been very very (repeat the “very” for a while) sluggish. Anyhow, I should be home Thursday night at which time … life will resume.

For now, I’m going to try to catch up on sleep and read on the Kindle, at least there the page turns don’t take 3 minutes.

Travel delay, finally (really) the NJ job is up and running and I’m leaving the site for more occasional remote support. Because of yesterday’s snow conditions I felt a later flight time might have a better chance of not being delayed. I’ll post links in the early afternoon if matters go as planned.

Done. Back home … to return by flight for a few days next week. But I get home for family, class, church, and a CSO concert … and a belated birthday celebratory dinner. 

For those who might be curious, I got 69 mpg for the 340 miles I drove Thursday evening … and 60 mpg for the 500 today … for a 63.3 aggregate. Not a whole lot better than the way out (which was just under 62). The reason for the drop today was the temperature was 15 degrees lower and the pavement was wet for much of the drive from the various snowfall regions. During the drive Thursday the average was 74 until I hit the snow. By the time I gave up it was down to 69. During the evening the temperature dropped (and was got colder as I progressed West). 

I’ll catch up on comments and do links this weekend well. 

There is an saying, attributed commonly I believe (without resorting to Wiki or Google) to the Chinese, “May you live in interesting times.” Well … It was offered at work because of snow conditions in Northern Indiana perhaps I should postpone my drive a day or so. I Googled, and didn’t see much.

Well, Northern Indiana was OK. Central Indiana not so much. That part of the drive was “interesting” but while traffic slowed to 40 or so for about 20 minutes of the drive the three or four cars in the ditch were unoccupied, indicating that the occupants had already been eaten by bandicoots. Uhm, I mean that traffic safety personnel marked the cars and transported the affected individuals to warmth and safety. Eastern Ohio and Western Penn on the other hand with night falling and lots of blowing snow was a bit more ridiculous. Lots of cars off the road, many still with occupants. I have driven longish distances on snow covered roads (Green Bay to Chicago in a storm for example). This was some of the worst conditions I’ve experienced. In the blowing snow the roads were mostly OK in Pennsylvania on I-80 (in Ohio prior to Youngstown on there was significant buildup on the roads) but the visibility was quite bad. Most of the traffic on the roads were trucks. One thing I’ve never seen, the truckers all kept flashing their emergency lights when conditions got bad. Most of us car drivers followed suit. 

Anyhow, I’ve stopped a little West of where I’d planned to be … but will be in Jersey in the late morning. 

Oh, links won’t come out tonight. Sorry. I’ll do a double length post in the morning.

… or something like that.

Today begins a long business trip … which because of its duration and proximity in time and space to the holidays and my parents home … means I’m driving and going to be away from home (Illinois/Lemont) for about a month. Today I’m driving and hope to make it most of the way to New Jersey where my parents live and the job site are located. Wish me luck. Links + comments and maybe I’ll have time for a post.