My wife and I have been doing our taxes the last couple of nights and have been a little frustrated at how income tax has gotten out of control. If the government were to ONLY do what they are supposed to do, then maybe we would not dread doing our taxes. All the government needs [...]

I finally got an identification script installed on the simplex node at my house this weekend.  This will help make it legal where it can comply with FCC rules requiring it to give call sign every 10 minutes.  Now I can leave it on the air where I can access the IRLP and Echolink with [...]

Most people that I run into in my daily life will tell you that it is not a good idea to speak about politics in the work place. I can’t say that I disagree with this policy because it almost always degenerates into an argument. This results in a hostile work environment. Even though I [...]

Anyone that knows me, also knows that I love weather.  I took this shot from my front porch this morning while the fog was clearing.  The fog was much thicker about an hour earlier but it was too dark to take a good picture.  My wife and I took a scheduled day off to relax [...]

I have virtually lost any connection to a hobby/career in the IT industry that I was pursuing relentlessly for years. Over the last couple of years we have been focused on buying a new house and the two years before that I was in college. Two years before that I was dealing with growing teenagers [...]

I just wanted to wish you a Happy Valentines Day from Sunday and I.  This is our 22nd Valentines Day together and I can say that I have never been so happy.  God has really blessed us and I really hope that you are are just as blessed as much as we have been.  Unfortunately [...]

My first election was the 1984 Presidential election so I have been around for a while. Over the years as we have approached an election we have been confronted with an absolute Communist Democrat or a Republican that has no principals and just stands on the fact that he or she is not a Democrat.  [...]