Well, it would appear the circus is now over. The former executive officer of the carrier Enterprise can remain on active duty despite a finding that his job performance aboard the carrier fell short of standards, a Navy board of inquiry decided Wednesday. Capt. Owen Honors was brought to the
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Still here!
The lack of posting is not a good thing-but it cannot be helped. I have been on the go since I got here. Pix to follow from my trip to the mountains this weekend.
Continue readingPlusses and minuses.
Arrived in Bucharest/ The trip had good things to recommend it and bad things to forget. On the plus side , I got re-routed through Houston, since my flight to DC was not going to make it in time. (Weather and FAA delay). So I got put in Business Class
Continue readingFufilling one’s obligations
Which means-that despite recent presonal economic news, life and work goes on. Accordingly, I will be getting on a plane today and flying the long three leg route back to Bucharest, there to work for a month, before moving on to (insert bleak future prospects here). Why not just tell
Continue readingChecking all the blocks
At the agency I work for ( well, at least for the next month or so)-they were ranked in the bottom in terms of being a “good place to work”. Havng watched their new contracting strategy-I tend to agree whole heartedly. And unforuntately real change to this agency will not
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The job hunt continues:
Continue readingWhy don’t we ban it here?
Finally, people are waking up to the fact that its time to tell the short sellers to go home: A European market regulator announced Thursday night that short-selling of financial stocks in several countries would be temporarily banned in an effort to stop the tailspin in the markets. The move
Continue readingIt probably beats investing these days……
Another place to put your money: Earlier today, a plane flew over S&P headquarters trailing a banner that read: Thanks for the downgrade, you should all be fired. Fortune has learned that the person who paid to fly the banner is a Midwestern broker, who woke up last night with
Continue readingThe 7% solution
In two weeks-my savings and investments have lost almost 6% of their value. Money that it took me years to cobble together-gone. At least for now. But it could have been a lot worse-A LOT WORSE. Fortunately, I got some good advice and have invested in some pretty strong stocks-so
Continue readingI sure wish I could remember this.
It would save me a heck of a lot of pain and suffering. ( Stolen from Spike).
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