I used to love baseball. I used to play fast pitch softball on a church team. I know all (well most) of the rules. I grew up thinking it was the all American sport. What happened? I now watch a few professional games through the season. I start to tune up when the pennant races start. I become a real fan again during the world series. But I don’t know how much longer I can stand...
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Playing Possum
I just spent three days at Possum Kingdom Lake a.k.a. “PK” about 90 miles west of Fort Worth, Texas. The reason was one of those “manager retreats” some corporations use to “recharge” their present and future leaders. A good chance to have face to face relationship building between far flung and local team members. A good experience overall even if we didn’t have any time to spend on the lake itself. The lake is a result...
Continue reading...I just finished checking my email. Because of my public expose from various web pages and web sites I operate, I receive a huge volume of email, hundreds per day. 98% of that email is total spam junk. My filters do a great job of trashing that part of it but they are not perfect. I do scan the spam pile very quickly before final annihilation and very occasionally I find something I do want to read. The...
Continue reading...Gone Fishing
We don’t work all the time. A group of TACers went up to Lake Texoma on the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma. The rains we have been having did not let down, even for this day. The date was June 28, ’07 at Soldier Creek Fishing Camp. The rain didn’t stop the stripers… or us! Here is the “bucket o’ fish” from one of the boats and there were several bucket’s off-loaded per boat....
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