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From the “Love Thy Neighbour As Thyself” Dept:
Eleven years ago (well, at least in a few more days!), I unlocked the doors to this house for the first time and started what has been my last move of this rather itinerant life. I did the sums of all of the PCS (permanent change of station) and other moves through the years and figured out that I was averaging about one move every year I’d been alive with this 40th move. And if…
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From the “Heck of a Way to Spend Grandpa’s Birthday” Dept:
After yesterday’s excitement, today’s fun was collecting Katie for school and then making a quick run to the car hire place on Capital so that I could have a vehicle whilst Nicholas continued on to work at Leith Toyota. When they say that hiring a car is far more expensive than it has been in the past, they’re not joking. There’s hardly any inventory and what’s there will cost an arm and a leg at…
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From the “Basil Fawlty Truly Appreciates the Day I’ve Had” Dept:
The day started out lovely. OK, it was a bit chilly this morning and Darth Ruud has been particularly evil of late frosting up due to the temperatures dropping into the 20s with high humidity and it appears that the defrost cycle is either not kicking in to melt the frost or it is not handling the amount of frost on the coils. At least that’s not an emergency and it’ll be mended soon enough.…
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From the “Sometimes the Jokes Write Themselves” Dept:
This gallery responding to a recent tweet from WRAL was pretty much shooting fish in a barrel. Finding amusement in this world isn’t hard and sometimes the jokes just write themselves… 🙂
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From the “May Your Light Multiply And Fill the World” Dept:
This evening marked the beginning of Hanukkah which is the Jewish “Festival of Lights”. It was surprising learning that it is actually one of the minor holidays on the Jewish calendar given the visibility it gets in the media during the festive season. Hanukkah has it’s roots in the re-dedication of the Second Temple after the Maccabees successfully defeated the Greeks where there was only enough oil to light the lamps for a single day…
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From the “Understanding Is Not Required, Only Obedience” Dept:
This post is my take on the recent verdict returned by the jury in Kenosha where Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges against him. Before I get into my opinion on this subject, I did a deep-dive on juries in general looking at a very brief history of how they came to be and a detailed discussion on trials by jury as practiced in America. It’s a long read but it was well worth…
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From the “Is It Too Late For a Bench Trial?” Dept:
Last week, a Kenosha jury returned a verdict of “NOT GUILTY” on all charges in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse who was facing charges in the prisoner’s dock relating to his role in killing two men and wounding a third during the unrest that followed the shooting of Jacob Black by the Kenosha police. My take on that particular case will be written presently but I want to concentrate on first exploring the notion of…
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From the “Happy Tryptophan Memorial Day” Dept:
If you asked my Grandpa Williams which holiday on the calendar was his favourite, Thanksgiving was top of his list hands down. To be sure, he did enjoy Christmas and Easter and the others but Thanksgiving was the one he truly looked forward to and not just because of the massive turkey feast. If there was a holiday that captured the essence of his soul in terms of how he approached each day and not…
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From the “And Here’s The Payoff Pitch…” Dept:
Today’s gallery is exactly why I love shooting in the autumn and as much as I love those two Japanese Maples in front of the house, Fortitude’s colouration will easily be my favourite. Only five days after the previous set of shots and Fortitude is in full-on red colour saturation. These were taken just before noon so the sun was overhead and occasionally peeking through the leaves which gives a lovely backlit texture to the…
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From the “Don’t Hold Back, Tell Us What You *REALLY* Think!” Dept:
On the way toward Clayton on US-70 to drop the kids off after collecting them from school, I couldn’t help but notice this BMW in the overtaking lane. At first, I didn’t really think much of it but as he got closer, it was clear that the driver has had about all they can stand of the average North Carolina driver’s propensity for sitting in the overtaking lane and going well slower than posted speed.…
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