Posted 6-11-19 Today my early time at (normal) work shortly will be interrupted by another aspect of my job: disaster preparedness. For you that do not follow the blog daily, I am an IT and management professional primarily, but also have a passion for disaster prep and recovery work. I am a member of a…
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A Box-in-One
Posted 6-10-19 A day after seeing my St. Louis Cardinals get SWEPT by the CUBS (#@!&^%) and fall below .500 (this means they have now lost more than they have won) and seeing the St. Louis Blues, attempting to finally win the treasured Stanley Cup in hockey and being the only modern team NOT to…
Forgetting the Past
Posted the day after the D-Day Anniversary Some of you may be unaware, but my bachelor’s degree was not in information technologies, the landing spot of my career. My BA was in History from Missouri State University. When I received my original credentials, I was already lamenting the fact that teaching history was such a…
D-Day: Never Forget It
Posted June 6th On June 6th, 1944 Allied troops launched the biggest amphibious (land, air, sea) invasion in the world’s history when they sent over 160,000 brave soldiers onto the beach at Normandy, France to fight back the Nazis. (Note: the town of Springfield, Missouri, in which I work, had just over 160,000 residents at…
Not Guilty
Posted 6-5-19 Sorry for a topic rerun here, but, perhaps selfishly, part of why I write is for me. I am writing this to me…and you are welcome to jump on the bandwagon. 😉 Guilt is like the stealth 20-pound mosquito of the caregiver’s world. Life circumstances have prevented me from swinging by to see…
Stigma and the Brain
Posted 6-4-19 “The single most important barrier to overcome in the community is the stigma and associated discrimination towards persons suffering from mental and behavioral disorders.” – The World Health Organization Stigma is a mark of disgrace that sets a person apart from others. When a person is labelled by their illness they are no…
Mom, the Valuable
Posted 6-3-19 What’s with the ugly painting? Stay tuned… Have you ever wondered makes something valuable? I will spare you economics lesson wrought with talk of supply & demand, scarcity of resources, the time value of money, and the like. As the recipient of an MBA and a wonk for such, I can tell you…
Mom, the Piano Player
Posted late 6-1-19 Here are a few attempts of playing a couple days ago. I am not going to embed them, but they are private YouTube so others won’t happen upon them. Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Video 5 It is hard in one respect to hear mom struggle playing, saying “I…
Mom, the Rearranger
Posted 6-1-19 I am going to have to switch to weekday-only posts for a while. My home internet is smelling a lot like the 1980’s Internet. Prodigy internet seemed so fast at the time… 🙁 If something comes up in the meantime, I will still post on the weekends, possibly from a different locale. I…
The Empress’ New Wheelchair
Posted 5-29-19 Overconfidence can be displayed most clearly in one of two formats: An arrogant, Emporer’s New Clothes kind of way where nobody would dare correct you; a mistaken (or forgotten) sense of one’s own abilities. Mom’s unit has none of category one, but one such lady in the second category, presumably. Ms. F is…