Today's post starts with the perils of our dog, Rocky, who has been limping since we got home since the day we returned from LibertyCon. Since we worked all the days in between, we didn't get him to the veterinarian until today. The Vet said something was wrong with a right rear toe, and needed … Continue reading Of dogs, toes and tempers
Category: Social Issues
Sabbatical Update: Good Deed Punished
Well, the past week was the extreme of lack of schedule. All due to one person we attempted to help, and who we may have helped, or may have ultimately merely enabled. I ran across this person as an acquaintance while out biking, developed a correspondence, and ended up months later helping him after he … Continue reading Sabbatical Update: Good Deed Punished
Fitness Update: Viral Reboot
For those of you who. are regular follwers of "Be Swift Be Precise" you will have notice a real oddity this past "long" weekend: The blog has gone postless for three days. This breaks a string of unbroken posts for at least two years or longer. The reason, quite simply, relates to my physical fitness, … Continue reading Fitness Update: Viral Reboot
The Thesis
Since I began my Master's degree in January 2014, I have spent a significant amount of time blogging about various classes and reading for my degree. But I've taken a break from the program for almost a year, due to work considerations. Yet today, I am suddenly back in gear. Starting the class late, but … Continue reading The Thesis
New Year’s Cleaning
They Say New Year's is a time for resolutions. And Monday is supposed to be my fitness update. Both of which might get some mention today. Both of which, from the Fitness perspective, will get more detail next Monday. But today, I'm going to talk about New Year's as a time for cleaning. There are … Continue reading New Year’s Cleaning
Choose to be angry
( Note: All the date references in the below post are done present tense; i.e. from the frame of when they were originally written, and not when I finally published them. This article was drafted in bits and spurts, so no date reference can be deemed to help one figure out the exact day or … Continue reading Choose to be angry
Communication: Understanding or Power
(Note: Those reading this post will hopefully note that it reflects an attitude generally in opposition to my normal one. Not that I think it untrue, or not worth saying, but that it is difficult and painful to paint in these colors for very long. Nor do I think it constructive to do it for … Continue reading Communication: Understanding or Power
You don’t want me to focus
I've come to the conclusion that, exterior veneer aside, I am not an easy-going sort of person. I can be very focused and intense. I can also obsess. Fortunately I can usually snap out of it. But my melancholy temperament, welded to an overwhelming positive outlook, leads to something far from Pollyanna-ish, occasionally very overwhelming … Continue reading You don’t want me to focus
In Defense of Freedom
This is a very interesting video, discussing the dangers to freedom, and the true exercise of freedom, in a place far removed from the borders of the United States. And yet, in a way, this land, and in example of freedom, owes much to what it learned from the American experience. We might consider it … Continue reading In Defense of Freedom
Clean up: the house, the refrigerator
Today's task was getting the movables out of the addition, the "play room" that had its wall bashed in by the tree. But that put me in mind of our refrigerator, and the drawers on the bottom, and shelves in the door, stacked with items not getting used. So we also cleaned out the shriveled … Continue reading Clean up: the house, the refrigerator
At The Rainbow 