January 2010 - Argghhh!

...they're reliably consistent.Some quotes.1. Speaking of candidate Obama: "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."*2. Speaking of a girls basketball team: "That's some nappy-headed hos there."3. Speaking of a long-serving US Senator: "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems...

If yer a fat auld phart about to attack it at dusk and the drifts are 3-5 feet high......

After no Medals on the 7th, and 31 Medals on the 8th, today we have three. Two naval lifesaving Medals from 1876, and one posthumous award from Vietnam.Interim Awards, 1871-1898.HANDRAN, JOHNRank and organization: Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1852, Massachusetts. Accredited to: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 206, 15 February 1876. Citation: For gallant conduct while serving on board the U.S.S. Franklin at Lisbon, Portugal, 9 January 1876. Jumping overboard, Handran rescued from drowning one of the crew of...

As if to make up for yesterday, when no Medals were awarded, there are 31 Medals, covering 4 wars today. 27 of them from one campaign during the indian wars.Indian Campaigns. 26 Medals to soldiers of the 5th US Infantry, with an outlier to a soldier of the 22d US Infantry, pretty much all for the same campaign against the Sioux in 1877.BUTLER, EDMONDRank and organization: Captain, 5th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Wolf Mountain, Mont., 8 January 1877. Entered service at: Brooklyn N.Y. Birth....

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Depending on your proclivities... there's a nice picture of the Italian Centauro, there's a nice closeup of an Italian soldier... and then there's that *other* Italian soldier....

I've got a pretty good job, in that aside from the hard-date deliverables, time is pretty flexible, as long as the work gets done. Yesterday was one of those days where I actually had a "gotta be there at a certain time* meeting, with an officer of the firm I work for, to discuss an assessment I'm doing on one of their staff. We're a techie kind of firm, so we have an online tool for this. This tool is a little finicky, especially if you're not behind the corporate firewall ...

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