From a conversation regarding an on-site meeting last week when the temperature was in the mid-nineties and Mary Ellen was dressed for a forthcoming presentation meeting.
Mary Ellen is Principal Architect with Scearce Rudisel Architects in Warsaw, Indiana.
Gary Brooks Faulkner, an American construction worker detained in Pakistan on what authorities said was an armed solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden…
Mr. Faulkner sold his tools and set out to right wrongs on his own solo mission. Go Get’im Gary!
“Our military has not been able to track Osama down yet. It’s been 10 years,” Scott Faulkner (Gary’s brother) told reporters in Denver. “It’s easier as a civilian, dressed in the local dress, to infiltrate the inside, the local people, gain their confidence and get information and intel that you couldn’t get as an American soldier, Navy SEAL, whoever you might be.”
Read the entire Washington Post article here.
April 23rd was Career Day at Culver Community Middle School. As discussed here earlier, I volunteered to speak as a Landscape Architect since April is National Landscape Architecture Month. The schedule called for me to speak to five different groups of kids in 20 minute time slots.
Speaking for 20 minutes wasn’t really a big deal, though it was hard to decide what level of detail would be interesting to 7th graders. Of course the nightmare scenarios were 1) a sea of blank staring faces or; 2) a horrible reinactment of “Are You Smarter Than a 7th Grader” with me as the brunt of the joke. As it turned out, the worst part was a planning mistake on my part. I was right that 20 minutes of material wasn’t a big deal, but by the time I was doing the third presentation I began to forget whether I was repeating myself since I remembered saying it before to the previous group. By the end, I also realized that I wasn’t used to talking that much! My throat was actually a little dry and scratchy.
The political season is well underway. We’re only a couple of weeks from the Primaries and the rhetoric is already high. I have high hopes for some of the candidates I’ve heard from. I recognize the same B.S. from a lot of the others. I hear that this is the most important election of my life… among other hyperbole.
I plan to vote. In a few cases, I plan to vote for someone I think will do good things. In other cases I plan to vote for the lesser of evils, just as I have done in most elections. I’m hoping the mood of the Country is such that we hold them to their promises this time around.
