realmarkeology

I got a job with a #Dell computer reseller. Fly for training to #Miami. Meet executives. Everything is going great. This was a brand new program. Much of it was on the fly & to be determined. Fly home. Wait 3 days for what we were going to do. Write biz plan and get list of Indiana colleges & universities. I'm ready. I get a call. They've reorganized territories and don't need Indiana after all. It's going to Missouri or Kansas. I'm told that my network & email access were being terminated as of this meeting. I joked (as I'm wont to do in stressful situations) exaggeratedly say "Big difference that is going to make." They were actually offended. Oh well. They had a problem with it and as this sentence clearly states; it was their problem. Not mine. They already fired me. What are they going to do? Take my birthday away? Two days after my termination, I received my network ID, email address and such. For a job I was already le...

After the Pelosi landing in Taiwan, I actually thought China might have blinked. Hard.  Now I'm not so sure my original theory from March isn't a factor.  Russia moved a large portion of it's materiel West. Losses were higher than expected.   That led me to consider the extremely large amounts of money & equipment to Ukraine. We know a lot is unaccounted for.  Russia & China are watching our capabilities & technology and trying to develop counter measures. We are doing the same with the hypersonic missile guy who came here from China this year.  The media is pushing too hard for a story that doesn't line up with ANY reality that I've been looking at and seeing.  Ukraine blows thru our stock piles of high end weapons.  Some make it to unfriendly hands.  China eventually joins Russia in Ukraine. Russia could try to use it's Eastern Navy.  The open Borders.... still confuses me. It's purposeful, so why?  It's not about voti...

One thing I wish people who "know" me; was that they REALLY understood one key fact.  My positions, whether political or social... nothing has changed over the last 10-15 years. I've never claimed to be correct; but would defend not being wrong (yet with an open mind), happily adjusting my position accordingly. Thoughtful reflected core positions rarely require change. The world has changed. Big time. And while everyone was looking at their phones and following the crowd, I stopped a long time ago. I just have had to yell a lot louder to get everyone's attention. That time has passed and a new one is coming whether we want it or not. I don't have any guesses as to what, where, who or when.  There are multiple "wars" being fought behind the scenes. I think that is why everything is so chaotic. The world prefers simple, easy to categorize problems. It makes them feel like they know the answer. And they do.  To a problem that doesn't exist. Meanwhile, t...