Author: Ken

Why I Hate UPS

I ordered my digital camera from Amazon last Thursday. By Saturday, the UPS tracking was marked as “in transit” and was in Laurel, Maryland. For the last few days, I’ve been stewing over the...

Things In The Pipeline

Here is a short list of things going on right now: 1) My employer, the UMWA Health & Retirement Funds, is looking for 2 Benefits Specialists right now. You’d be working with union coal...

Bush’s Brain Quits

What happens to a President when his Brain quits? We’ve received word that Karl Rove has resigned. And it’s about bloody time. He and Bush helped destroy the GOP’s chances of a permanent majority,...

I turned 26 on Friday

Two days ago, I officially turned 26. It was a low-key day for me, just a day away from work with pizza and leftovers from the Cheesecake Factory the night before. On the 17th,...

Rare Praise for FBK

I recently stumbled upon the public website for Florida Blue Key, a leadership honorary at my alma mater that is rumored to be a secret society on the order of Yale’s more famous Skull...

PM4E Scenarios

I have updated my list of custom scenarios using Prime Minister Forever. Click here for the list of scenarios I’ve created. I had more custom scenarios on my previous computer, before it crashed on...

Deathly Hallows

I finished the 759-page final installment in the Harry Potter series the day after I purchased it from Borders. Without giving anything away that you can already find on Wikipedia, I’ll say it’s an...

New Blog Design

As you can see, I’ve updated my design theme for this blog at long last. There are plenty others that I like that I’m keeping available, but Cleaker 2.1 looks like a winner to...