Made it home in one piece, glad to have made the trip, but TWO conventions back to back wore my tired old ass out!!! TL;DR Writer’s Cantina is a very small but very professional con! Limited spaces and time this … Continue reading
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Well, I’m out in Salt Lake City for Writer’s Cantina for a few days. Lousy flight out, we ‘bounced’ all the way from DFW… but I met up with Jonna and Mike at the airport and gave them a ride … Continue reading
Woof… Draggin’ ass, but I’m home in one piece. AAR to come tomorrow, but a combo of bad beds, lousy conference chairs (EVERY #$#@#% convention), and forgetting my muscle relaxers (again!) just wore me out. TL;DR LibertyCon was good! Busy, … Continue reading
Playing my song again… Off to LibertyCon in Chattanooga for a few days. Here’s my schedule, and this year I can actually get to see some panels ‘I’ am interested in! Blogging etc. will be light until next week! Go … Continue reading
After eight months, all is well, again! NASA announced Friday that its Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is over 15 billion miles away from Earth, is again fully operational following technical issues that arose in November 2023. The agency said it partially resolved an … Continue reading
Flying spiders on their bingo cards??? Enormous, invasive Joro spiders could spread across the Northeast, a study says. And they’re not expected to disappear anytime soon. Since their initial sightings in Georgia in 2013 and 2014, their population in the … Continue reading
Electronic/cyber warfare is the ‘new’ norm, but this one is a ‘old’ trick… U.K. authorities have confirmed that a Royal Air Force Dassault 900LX business jet transporting Grant Shapps, the U.K. defense secretary, recently experienced GPS jamming while flying near … Continue reading
Another volcanic eruption outside Reykjavik (this is the THIRD time). A state of emergency has been declared in Iceland after a volcano erupted for the fourth time since December, spewing orange lava into the air. “Warning: An eruption began in Reykjanes,” … Continue reading
Fun times on the road… Kinda sorta… Got a chance to go to the Naval Aviation Museum in P’cola for the first time in 10 years, LOTS of changes, and a nice tour by one of the employees (thanks to … Continue reading
Again… Got to take Jonna and Kortnee to a pretty good BBQ place last night… Going to be busy, so little posting and even less commenting. I should be back in battery on Monday. Go read the folks on the … Continue reading