Pushing Snow Weekend

 "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."- Friedrich Nietzsche

The Laughter of Wolves

 "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life:  'The Lord of the Rings', and 'Atlas Shrugged'.  One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.  The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

February - Calm before the storm

"The purpose of life is not to be happy.  It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you lived." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compressor Update and Alternator tragicomedy

 "Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age" - Seneca the Younger

tHe cHinESe hAckED OUr tELeCoMs!!!! OMG!!!

"Wealth is able to buy the pleasures of eating, drinking and other sensual pursuits-yet can never afford a cheerful spirit or freedom from sorrow." - Gaius Musonius Rufus

Apophis

 "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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My dog, the astronomer

 "Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old." - Jonathan Swift

What's up - January 2025

 "Everyday life presents itself as a reality interpreted by men and subjectively meaningful to them as a coherent world." - Peter L. Berger