budoviking

Telecommuting is a wonderful thing. I've got the work and home computers fired up so I can spend the day on SG and actually get work done at the same time. Of course, ditching the work would be better, but at least I can entertain myself between bits and batches of drudgery.

Saturday was awesome. I'm still enjoying it- rewinding the mental tape.

Got up early and headed west to the Shenandoah. Just me. Started hiking around 9:00 am. Its right on the verge of Spring in the mountains- the ground still has a lot of frost in it, but the big melt is in full force.

Hiked circuit that included going down a steep narrow ravine...
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Time for a post of a different sort. Enough about weather and politics- strange bed fellows that they are...

If won't be long before the opening kick-off of many a football (soccer, fussball, futobol, etc.) match this spring.

Though I don't play much these days, there is nothing I enjoy more than watching a well played match. From my son's team to DC United, to...
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Could it really be.....
Spring!?!

The past few days have climbed into the 60s...but I have this suspicion that old Man Winter still has one last sneak attack planned.

So Ralph Nader is running again. WTF.

I have no arguments with his view that inside the Beltway here in DC is home of the world's most expensive brothel inhabited by prostitutes and clients from both parties.

However, in an election which is about the LESSER of two evils, his candidacy may very well insure that the biggest, dumbest bunch of whores in history get...
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"The men American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."

-H.L. Mencken

I seem to be short on original thoughts these days. Besides, most everything worth saying has already been said.

On completely different matter, I learned a new word today:

"Googledork"

According to the Washington Post, people "who troll the Internet for confidential goods."

Read the article at:
Are Online Search Engines too Good?

Regarding Dubya's appearance yesterday morning on Meet the Press, the NY Times had this to say:

"The only clarity in the president's vision appears to be his own perfect sense of self-justification."

Amen.

Freezing rain and sleet last night. Rain all day. Bleech.

Reminds me of winters past spent in Germany. Of course, there were multiple pubs within walking distance of my place there, so as I recall, I never really noticed the weather all that much...

Friggin' drainpipe from the upstairs bathroom is all rusted out and started leaking last night, all the way down to the...
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OK.
I feel better about the snow than I did yesterday evening. After about 1/2 dozen runs down the long hill by our house on my son's sled at midnight last night, I found the joy in winter again, at least for a little while...