Headed "home" - tomorrow starts a new year.

a tale of two...

...careers. 

Just found out that Lt Gen Clarke is going to be the new ANG chief. That is a shame, he just barely got his feet wet at 1AF. It certainly was nice to have someone in the position who could really handle NORTHCOM tendencies to dive down rabbit holes and instead keep us on track to do the real missions.  His bio reads that he was commissioned as a distinguished graduate of ROTC in 1981 - so was I....

Go Hawks

SEAHAWKS, YAY! PATRIOTS, BOO!  I really wish Brady could have pulled that one off.

Did the Free's open house.  Ken has put some great work into that house and Judy always hosts a mean soiree.

Touch20

Spent a portion of the day installing a new kitchen faucet from Delta with touch activated technology.  Something is not right as it sometimes just goes on and off by itself.  Definitely having to look at the installation again, but dad and I made sure to follow the instructions step-by-step, to the letter.  Fortunately, the handle still works by itself to make sure the flow is shut off.


Also a great deal at the local hardware store.  Apparently the Puget Sound Energy is substantially underwriting distribution  of LED lighting tech.  The have 2 packs of 8 watt LED bulbs for regularly about 39.00 on sale for 25.99 with a instant $20 rebate, so $5.99 a pack.  We tried a couple and they look a lot more like 75 watt than the 40 watt equivalent they are claiming.  I bought 6 packs to bring back with me - don't have to worry about them getting crushed since they are LEDs.

Trying to open a new IRA account through E*Trade today from Seattle.  Even though I have two accounts with them already, they still need my driver's license and social security card faxed to them. If there are people who travel with a copy of their social security card with them, I am not one of them.

Back to the Felt

My first live poker tournament in a while.  Lost when my pair of 8s got beat in a race againt AK.  made it to 42 of 86 entries, My nephew Ross made it to 24 - should have gone farther but had 4 running suck-outs to go from big stack to out in less than a circuit...

Never odd or even

I like a good palindrome, a phrase that reads the same frontwards and back, such as "Madam, I'm Adam."  They are flaunted as an indication of language mastery and were independently wrought in many ancient languages from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, etc.  But significant numbers can be palindromes as well

This morning at 1:21:02 am was the second which had a full combination read both backwards and forwards. 2012-12-12 1:21:02 = 201212-1-212102.  Actually, by that logic since the 0 in 24hr clock format (0121L) won't fit (01 would become 10), that implies a 12 hour clock and means that this afternoon at 1:21:02 pm