Far East Cynic

It ain't over till its over…….

Greetings from the B terminal of DFW. Waiting to catch a flight back to Hicksville. We finished up early today. Sad-I had hope to visit the boneyard. However thanks to events I need to be back at my cube tomorrow, pounding away at Power Point. None the less I stand

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It ain’t over till its over…….

Greetings from the B terminal of DFW. Waiting to catch a flight back to Hicksville. We finished up early today. Sad-I had hope to visit the boneyard. However thanks to events I need to be back at my cube tomorrow, pounding away at Power Point. None the less I stand

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Travel time………

Greetings from Tucson. Long day today as I had to get up early for some teleconferences, meetings, and get some reports out that should have been done yesterday. (Got to unpack and drag the S.O. to where she wanted to go yesterday). Then to home and have the S.O. take

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Letter from Mom.

Today was busy and so at the end of it, the S.O. and I went out for a well deserved Mexican dinner. Today was the day I had to tackle all the stuff that had come from my long term storage-which had been in boxes for 8 and 1/2 years.

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Welcome to 1973…….

Now if only I could be 16 again In 1973, the Vietnam war came to an end for the US, the Arabs started one in the Middle East, and the stock market lost half its value and the world went into a world wide recession. Oil prices doubled. I also

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The road to perdition…..

Spike found this instructive slide show. Of note is the scary similarities to the Japanese “bubble” which burst in 1991. They are still recovering from that. It is worth you time if you want to see how your company is going to use its cash in the next year. “Every

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A prescription for John McCain………..

Just released:

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Watching old movies…..

Finally  , got my man-cave put together . So rather than blog,  I watched old movies as I cleaned it up. My plaques are up, shadow box mounted-I’m still hunting for a place to put the table I got from my squadron, a long time ago in a galaxy far

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Taking a stroll down memory lane……….

Another day another 600 points. So  much for building up my war chest to return to Nihon. I wish I knew what to do about that. The advice to not panic is not working at this point. However, today was a good day. On the way home via Philly airport,

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Another long day……..

And the market continues to sink. But John McCain says that he can take the bailout-that the greedy bastards on Wall Street don’t give thanks for-and use it for mortgages. And then he thinks it’s ok to treat my health insurance from my employer as income. For that there are

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