The cramped weekend
Dateline: in the Shire, Indy, 2 October 2005
Home four days in a row and it goes by in a flash. We just never seem to get our s-t together living in this tight environ, and making sure all four kids make all their different schedules happen is just plain hard as we are constantly working the house thing and putting together all the new networks that we lost when we moved. Established connectivity is incredibly valuable. You move, you lose.
Going through this move makes me even more desirous of pushing for more reform of military personnel systems that put military families through this sort of discombobulation so regularly. I don't know how officers can stand it through a 20-year career.
Spend this weekend trying to cram in as many family activities as possible, to include some vigorous go-karting yesterday at a local track and a church social today. Trying to work all such personal connectivity right now, because next week will be a bear of travel, with five speeches in four days, spread over 4 states.
Here's the some catch-up:
■ The sacred cow of "national assets" is finally on the SysAdmin chopping block■ The caboose discovered in America, readily recognized in China
■ Murdoch: kingmaker of connectivity in Asia
■ Putin reaches for more in Russian energy
■ Domestic B.O. is K.O.'d by Overseas