It's early...

When I got up about half and hour ago, the kids were already gone. Shannon and Huntur are on their way to California, to visit Shannon's folks for a week. God speed them on their way.

I'm seriously thinking of taking a quick shower and heading on "downtown" to the Riverside restaurant to join the local ham radio crowd for their weekly breakfast. It's nothing formal, just an opportunity to greet one another and chew the fat (and some breakfast).

But... if I am to go, I'm going to have to get moving.

Cheers...

From a Libertarian Party op-ed...

An excerpt:

...United Flight 93 passengers Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Mark Bingham, and Lou Nacke.

These four men realized that terrorists planned to crash their plane into the White House or the Capitol. If that was allowed to happen, hundreds of people would die.

So with a quiet declaration -- "Let's roll!" -- and armed only with courage, these passengers struck back against the terrorists.

We don't know exactly what happened in those final, frenzied moments. But the plane swerved, dipped, and then crashed into an unpopulated rural area in Pennsylvania.

These four men didn't wait for anyone's orders. They simply took a quick vote and took matters into their own hands. They saved countless lives in the process.

Perhaps General George Patton was thinking of these heroes when he said: "It is foolish and wrong to mourn these men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived."

Cheers...

No breakfast...

It turns out my VAIO's clock is about 5 minutes slow, so by the time I got ready to leave for downtown, it wasn't really worth while going, because by the time I'd get there, order breakfast and wolf it down, it would be time to leave to go open the store.

So, I spent about 20 minutes or so learning a little more about MySQL. I'm struggling with creating users with various access rights, so I don't have to keep accessing the databases as the root user, but there is something I'm missing.

Cheers...

Words that keep coming around...

Let every nation know. . .whether it wishes us well or ill. . .that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1/21/61)

Cheers...