If There Really Is a Santa Claus, Shouldn’t He Be *All*-Knowing?

How am I — how is *anyone* — supposed to trust this guy to be an objective arbiter of good-bad when he lacks the self-awareness to openly address is inadequacies? Plainly, *plainly*, someone who “knows” whether someone has been bad or good during the course of a given year *should* also know what gifts said

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My New Recurring Nightmare

I’ve had this dream like three times in the last couple months: I’m on vacation. The vacation’s a week long. It’s day six and I realize I haven’t done anything yet and I start getting panicky about how I can cram enough into the last two days of the vacation to not feel like I

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Happy Guy Fawkes Day, Marine Corps Birthday, *and* Veterans Day

Sorry, got way behind on my holidays. And still haven’t firmed up my Pearl Harbor Day plans. I gotta out-do last year. If that’s possible. bkd

I Have a Photos Section Now

(See tabs at top of page.) If I manage to find all the photo pages I used to have on the ol’ BootlegSports side, I’ll post ’em there. Otherwise, I may or may not. Only time can tell. bkd

My Cell Phone Is Broken

Probably from ingesting too much sweat on Tuesday. Or just too much humidity. Or from its own sense of personal dehydration. This is, in a way, a dream come true. And it turns out there’s no T-Mobile location on the island of Kauai. So if you need to reach me, email and I can send

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Has the Googlemonster Forgiven Me?

Just saw that I’m starting to get search engine-referred traffic from Google again today. I never should have doubted. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother Wait till they merge with the Feds. You’ll see. bkd

Criteria for Determining My New Home Town

Not outrageously expensive to buy a home; national average would be a good fit — a real estate market conforming to fundamental values would be a huge, huge plus. Traffic isn’t a disincentive to do things. Low average tax rate. Relatively respectful of the second amendment. A lot of easily-accessible, worthwhile, pretty outdoor opportunities (mountains,

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Biking through the Marguerite Triangle

There’s this one spot on Marguerite Parkway where, when heading southbound, my bike’s speedometer just stops working. All instruments register zero. They don’t blink, just — the speedo stops recognizing that the bike is moving. Only happens the one direction and not the other. Between La Barca and Olympiad. It’s pleasantly unnerving. And I suppose

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Happy Flag Day; 48 Stars = Older Glory

In case no one else has said it to you yet, Happy Flag Day. Thought this’d be as good a day as any to post a photo of one of my favorite recent acquisitions: Got this last fall off of eBay. I still don’t get why you capitalize days of the week but not names

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Memorial Day Greetings

American WW2 Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands