I am surrounded by death. It fills my thoughts, keeps me company, and encourages a dark sadness that permeates my world. My mother is dying; her cancer has spread to her brain and spine. It won’t be much longer now until she passes from this world of pain and sorrow to a better place. Beyond this terrible fact, I worry about the coming turmoil that I believe our nation faces. I worry that I will not be equal to the task of protecting my wife and son. My thoughts are often dark, and I fear that stress and sorrow are even now killing me.
I share this not to gain your sympathy, but to create a dark back-drop on which I can describe my thoughts of Easter this year.
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A few months back, one of my brothers-in-law brought up amateur radio as a way for the family to communicate in the event of any situation that caused a lapse in normal communications. When he started telling my wife about how easy it is to pass the tests for licensing, I got interested. Long story…
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My life has been filled with stress lately. I honestly feel like I am nearing the capacity of my stress tolerance; something will have to give soon. My parents are now both travelling in wheelchairs when they go out, which adds a new level of complexity to travel plans when I shuttle them to appointments…
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Here it is, late at night on Thanksgiving Day 2011. We had a wonderful meal, which Sue prepared on short notice after our plans to eat out at a restaurant fell through. It was a quiet day around the house with ample opportunity to think about what is most important in our lives. I thought…
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Cory and I made the drive down to Castle Rock on Saturday for our second trip to Appleseed. The weather was kinder to this pair of computer nerds, though that bright shining thing in the sky still scorched us mercilessly. Neither yellow jackets nor biting flies could dissuade us from doing our best on the…
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Cory and I attended our first Appleseed event this past weekend. We’re both giving the experience a thumbs up review and have already made plans to attend the next event in September. I can honestly say that Appleseed is a great way to learn the history of the battles at Lexington and Concord, especially for…
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Cory and I are going to attend the Appleseed shoot in Castle Rock this weekend. I’ve been looking forward to this for the last couple of months. Now it’s just a matter of packing everything up and loading the car. We leave Friday evening after work and will be there through the weekend. For those…
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I’m slowly getting adjusted to the stress…er…environment in my new job. Actually, I’m having a great time, I’m just worried about getting up to speed and being useful in a very technically demanding team. I’ve been working on SharePoint Server for more than a year as a writer, and I am continually struck by the…
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I’ve been working hard for a long time now to take care of my aging parents. Long time; that seems like an understatement, but in fact I think it has really just been the last few years now. Things have been escalating, though, and are becoming harder to deal with emotionally. I’ve made the comment…
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I have just been reborn in my latest incarnation at Microsoft, or something like that. I’ve just started my first real vendor position, working with the SharePoint Online team as a programmer writer. So far it looks like it will be a great job, although there is a lot to learn about their environment and…
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