Duke

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

-Viktor E. Frankl

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(A little duplication from last entry) Back around Christmas I started feeling “off.” Weird intangible “not quite right.” I chocked it up to age/whatever crap was going around. A few weeks l...


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October in General

I’m working from home – such a ridiculous luxury but also a sign of the times. A medium size subsidiary of a very large corporation couldn’t just come to a screeching halt because of some damn ...


February 07, 2025

Snapshot 020725 in General

I am no good at writing long form narrative entries anymore. I have been trying to catch up since October with no luck. So, I decided on a short form narrative with just one subject (flexible)...


October 07, 2024

For a Little While in General

For a Little While I woke up late – I mean really late for me. At some point over night we lost power just long enough to reset all the electronics – including my alarm clock. I have blackout...


September 28, 2024

Joya in General

For the last year, every three weeks I had the privilege to sojourn to the other side of town to the hospital in which I was born. Luckily work allows a fair amount of flexibility regarding med...


September 23, 2024

For a Little While in General

I woke up late – I mean really late for me. At some point over night we lost power just long enough to reset all the electronics – including my alarm clock. I have blackout curtains and blacko...


September 20, 2024

Been a minute... in General

It’s been a minute since I wrote here. Been a long year. I started chemo almost a year ago and have 2 more infusions. I am looking forward to not feeling like shit 50% of the time. Had 2 mel...


December 25, 2023

Wintersong in General

Well, this is the first thing I have done on this new computer. My old Dell abruptly stopped functioning, because of some Microsoft update. Then every time the computer tried to start it said th...


October 13, 2023

Sign of the Gypsy Queen in General

Sign of the Gypsy Queen I always loved the bass work in that tune. And the feelings of being who I was at the time… Well dear diary, It’s been a while. Life generally is good. I have a good job...


September 24, 2023

The War Was in Color in General

She does a great job explaining some of the feelings I felt about this song when I first heard it in the fall of 2006 – 17 years ago. Song Review: The War Was In Color by Carbon Leaf Posted on F...


September 04, 2023

He Went To Paris in General

Through 86 years of perpetual motion If he likes you he’ll smile then he’ll say “Jimmy, some of it’s magic, some of it’s tragic But I had a good life all the way” -He Went to Paris, Jimmy Buffe...


August 14, 2023

Sunday-Monday in General

Saturday I was up this gorgeous coastal Maine summer day before 6am. I had an appointment to get my annual extortion inspection sticker renewed at 8am. Darling Ford is less than a quarter mile f...


August 07, 2023

Trip Around the Sun in General

Trip Around the Sun “Yes I’ll make a resolution That I’ll never make another one.” Well, I’d say I can add cancer survivor to my list of accolades. But I don’t know if I survived. Friday my alm...


July 12, 2023

Star Me kitten in General

Star Me Kitten Work Remains a constant. Certainly not the most challenging job I’ve ever had, but remains a bit confusing and frustrating. If you peel back the layers you see how this system ha...


June 22, 2023

Audrey in General

I hope all is well in your world. And happy birthday. Today the weather suits you, my angel. I’m doing well, if a little lonely. Pathetically I still pine for you. But as long as you are happ...


June 14, 2023

Bounce in General

This will be quick. I signed all the documents so an “under contract” sign should go up in my front yard any day now. It took all freaking day, I kept “e-signing” documents only to have them s...


June 12, 2023

Cats and Dogs in General

Funny phrases that come to you. In all officers meetings and all aircrew meetings at the end of the meeting the skipper would call out “Cats and Dogs.” That was everyone’s opportunity to chime...


I don’t write here much. My brain is tired, and while I have a lot to talk about I rarely have the energy by the time I leave work. Work is interestingly exhausting… No two projects are the same...


May 06, 2023

Always Somewhere in General

Two months at work and I am finally doing something with someone hanging over my shoulder. Boss is trusting she trained me well enough to do some things on my own. No two days are the same. Wher...


April 11, 2023

Battle Rhythm in General

I first heard the term “Battle Rhythm” in ’94 when we were flying in Bosnia. It, in Naval Aviation parlance refers to the fitting of all the requirements of fighting a war into a 24 hour day and ...


March 21, 2023

Learn My lesson By Now in General

Week Two Into the second full week of actually “working.” Word I get is it will take me a few months to be able to work on my own. It doesn’t matter how smart or experienced you are. This is so...


March 07, 2023

Commence the Adventure in General

First Day of three of orientation. Half of tomorrow I have to find something else to do on the clock, because the briefs are all Union oriented, and I am not allowed to witness. Wednesday I go i...


March 01, 2023

The Show Must Go On in General

In 1991 I was in training at VAQ-129. It was a miserable time. I had absolutely no control over my life. I was a slave to the flight schedule. We lived in base housing. Three-bedroom two bat...


February 28, 2023

Big Log in General

My love is in league with the freeway Its passion will rise as the cities fly by And the taillights dissolve in the coming of night And the questions of thousands take flight When I wore a young...


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