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Monthly Archives: October 2012

Big Bombers

I spent a few days visiting the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola and the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial in Mobile.  I’ve always been a big history buff, and I make the trek to the Naval Museum at least once a year, and more often if I can make it.  I can highly recommend […]

If Only . . .

Are you happy?  Being content at work is important; not being happy with what you do every day, or not liking the people you work with can negatively impact your ability to do good work and even cause problems with your health.  I’m not talking about the normal short-term problems we may have at work.  […]

Caught in the cookie jar . . .

There’s a story I heard – and I don’t know if it’s true – about the process of capturing monkeys in the wild. The story goes that the hunter will mount a jar with a narrow opening, and drop some of the monkeys favorite fruit or nuts into the bottom of the jar.  The opening […]

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