Archive for May, 2009


Lightning on the Tarmac

After we landed yesterday afternoon, about half the people on the plane made it off before it started thundering and lightning. That of course shut down the airport which also kept us inside the plane, because we weren’t using a jet way, just walking out onto the tarmac.  So the lightning had stopped, even the [...]

STL = Ghetto

Why are the majority of government sites that I travel to in the ghetto?  Philly was ghetto, Jackson was more or less ghetto, Montgomery is kinda ghetto.  Now I’m in St. Louis and it’s in the ghetto.  I got lost and ended up in some DOL Jobs center and I thought I might actually get [...]

Bedford Springs

My job and much of my life revolve around some kind of technology yet I love going to places that are ostensibly free of technology.  Where the technology has been blended into the background, there only to perform its purpose. The Bedford Springs Resort is more than 200 years old but there is a flat [...]