Well That Didn’t Work

Alternate title: Where I was.

This absence was two years in the making. My wife spent countless hours planning this, and forcing me to go to stupid timeshare sales pitches. So where was I? I was in Europe for the past three weeks. I will spend a few bytes over a few posts detailing my trip. The reason for the lack of posting? We all know how the EU feels about freedom of speech, so I wasn’t about to access this blog, lest I find myself in some European prison because some Islamist or Eurofag took offense at something I once said on here. I had originally scheduled a bunch of posts to cover things during my absence. I usually do when I am travelling. In this case, my scheduled posts sat there and didn’t post, showing a “failed scheduled” status. WordPress glitch, I suppose. For that reason, the posting on this blog didn’t happen as it was supposed to. The “OPSEC” post was scheduled for the last day in March. It didn’t post until nearly a week later. I didn’t know that until I was airborne over the Atlantic on my way home.

The planning for this trip began two years ago. The time share pitches were through Hilton. It seems that you get a lot of Hilton Honors points if you sit through sales pitches for their timeshare product. My wife would use those points to get us all sorts of things- more on that later, but it turns out those pitches (5 of them in total) wound up saving us about $8 thousand, and we didn’t even have to spend any money on a time share. I guess it was time well spent. My wife is good about finding deals like this.

The time for the trip began with a flight to New Jersey. We left the house and our cats in the possession of our trusted house sitters and headed off to the Orlando airport. As usual, air travel was horrific. We were supposed to land in Newark, but we were stuck orbiting in the area due to unfavorable winds for about 15 minutes. Then it seems the pilot must have only put five bucks’ worth of gas in the plane, because we had to divert to New York’s JFK to get fuel. We were informed the fueling would take about 3 hours, and we were free to leave the plane and drive to Newark, but our checked bags would have to stay on the plane to be retrieved later. We decided to stay.

After fueling, the plane took off and spent an hour flying the eighteen miles to Newark. In all, our original plan to arrive in the hotel in Jersey City by 6pm was thwarted- we didn’t get to the hotel until nearly 1am. I will continue the story tomorrow-

OPSEC

For reasons I can’t yet discuss, I won’t be able to access the blog or its website for the next several days. All will be explained then, but no comment approval or posting until at least April 6.

I have a couple of pre-made filler posts scheduled for the next week, but that’s it. See you all on the other side of the hiatus.

Oops

It looks like at least one frequent reader has figured out who my current employer is and sent me an email about it. I recently posted something that apparently had too many details in it, and that someone was able to figure out which hospital I was talking about. For that reason, I had to take the post down, as I don’t want to risk that someone who matters can get me in trouble. Sorry for the inconvenience.

2026

With this first post of the year, I want to wish a Happy New Years to all of you. I worked last night and got home late in the evening. It was an exhausting shift, and that means I was in bed asleep before the turn of the new year.

This past year was a huge one for both me and the blog: I posted 527 times, and the blog saw more than 2.4 million post views, which is more than 4600 views per post.

Personally, I did pretty well. I earned 3 board certifications and finished my MBA. I am doing that because I realized what a disaster of a dumpster fire my place of employment has become, so I decided to do something about it. That’s what all of us should do: If you don’t like your job, get a better job. If you can’t get a better job as is, then do something to make a better job more likely.

Let’s see if we can make this year a good one. I’m going to start the year by spending my day applying for new jobs. I already applied to three of them this morning. One thing I have discovered during this job search is this:

Employers are using AI driven ATS(Applicant Tracking Systems) to screen applicants. These systems look for very specific things, and automatically reject applicants before the application is even seen by human eyes. The key to getting your resume to a decision maker’s human eyes is to tailor your resume and application to that ATS. So the I have begun using my own AI system, pasting my resume and the job requirements into the system, and letting the AI rewrite my resume to match what the ATS is looking for.

Let’s see how that works.

Hey Miguel-

Please contact me by email or commenting to this post. I am unsure if it was you who posted a recent comment, or it was an imposter. The link in one of the comments attempted to download a file that was blocked by my antivirus because it was infected with a virus.

Granted

Sigh. This is in response to the comments that I have been getting from several people, one of which seems to think that he has a right to post here, and anything less than allowing him to make a complete idiot of himself and fill this blog with nonsensical trash without any real evidentiary support is Jew sponsored censorship. Since his posts are long, rambling screeds about how the Jews are the ones keeping him down, and how everyone but him should be out there, taking up arms. I’ve resisted posting his bullshit because I didn’t want to make him look stupid, but he insists.

So without further adieu, here is SoSoRuss in all of his Fedpoasting glory:

you haven’t put up every comment I made, seems some of them disappeared while trying to explain there are other options, funny eh. I commented hard on Jews frankly because look at the shit they are creating everywhere and now this starts? I unfortunately continue to see the same comments and thinking on every blog with no change in views which will lead to nowhere. Maybe that’s my issue, frustration. I see the same views that Repubtards are our friends when anyone with a brain knows they are not if you are anywhere right of center. I have been just trying to convince folks to think for themselves. As to always pushing kinetic, that’s not true. 

Really? There have been at least three different posts where you have accused people of being sheep for not getting violent- this month alone. Here is one, here is two, here is the third. People who REALLY want to get their violence on don’t talk about it, unless they are morons, or are FedPoasting. Your posts glow.

As to me posting that Republicans are our friends, you are missing a few screws. I am the one who is always saying “Just because Democrats are the enemy doesn’t make Republicans your friends.”

Here are a few other things you have said (just in the last three days) about me being a part of the “Jewish conspiracy”:

By doing this on this specific subject, you are “appearing”, I didn’t say are but give a appearance of it, to be joining the list of the sites/groups/GOV/Corps etc. who must protect “Gods Chosen Ones”

On me demanding evidence to blame “the Jews” for the Charlie Kirk shooting:

By making a standard that pretty much no one can meet without a made by the commenter themselves video confession from Netanyahu or his ministers about yes they control congress with money or child porn vids or yes he did order the genocide of women and children because yes they kill babies because they are considered a enemy also or yes his HIAS group is coordinating the illegal migrant invasion from the Darian Gap with money given to them from us?…you will plant a seed in folks head that someone has contacted you to influence you also or offer money or lawsuits to shut down debate? I am NOT accusing you of that.

I just think IMHO of all topics discussed. This is the wrong hill to take a stand for. You would be better served and get less shit for by coordinating a GO Fund Me for Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, the kind,honest and peace seeking Somali princess, for Senate. FYI, Pls consider that a joke to lighten up the mood:)

Note that you are trying to insult me, then claim “just kidding” or “I am not accusing, just sayin what others might think”

Then you posted that comments on here should be up for a vote:

I get it, your blog your rules. But please hear me out and I hope you will allow this comment to post to see if I’m the nutcase by popular vote.

No one gets a vote on what comments I allow. This is MY website. Now, I am giving you a bit of a break because you are a long time poster. This is your warning, and I am doing it publicly, because there is no way to email you on this.

Any more insulting me, even with thinly veiled comments trying to equivocate your comments, any more urging people to commit illegal and violent acts while you yourself do nothing but sit on your ass commenting on the computer, and you will earn yourself a ban. If you want to have a blog exposing sheep and your conspiracy theories about Jews, I will sell you the server space, and you can post whatever you wish. You just can’t do it on my blog. That isn’t censorship. You can say what you wish, but not on my dime.

To the other parties that have been spamming me with “Jew this, Israel that” by pointing out that the flag of some Jewish group that existed in the Weimar republic looks like the Antifa flag isn’t evidence that the Jews killed Charlie Kirk. Saying that all of the confusion around the Kirk shooting is obviously a Mossad op to sow confusion isn’t evidence. Those comments are merely conspiracy theories and won’t be permitted without evidence.

It feels like I am moderating a debate between 15 year old boys who just discovered their dad’s computer password.

Look, I do my best to maintain a comment section that permits an exchange of ideas, but it is a fine line between ideas and crazytown. I also try to keep people who appear to glow, or want to cause trouble, out. It’s time consuming, and there are a handful of posters who cause 80% of the issues on here.

This is the last time I want to say this- comments about Jews or Israel killing Charlie Kirk that are posted here without evidence can, and probably will, cost you a permanent ban. ESPECIALLY if they come with comments about how “the Jews” have silenced me with threats or money.

I am tired of the bullshit.

Accusations

A few notes in reply to some emails and comments.

I have received a few comments and emails, where the author requested that I don’t publish them. I will honor that, but I will answer them in a rather general way.

My rule against commenting on “it was the Jews” without evidence is because it seems like this is the knee jerk response to people who simply want a scapegoat, evidence to the contrary be damned. Note that my ban on accusations against Israel and those of Jewish descent wasn’t a blanket one. All I said was they won’t be allowed without supporting evidence. Linking to another blog where the author espouses theories on how the Jews did it, but without evidence of his own doesn’t make it evidence.

Having such a rule doesn’t make me a “dirty Jew” or anything else. Stop with the foolish accusations. Seriously.

I had someone else tell me that my experience as a nurse means that I don’t have field experience with shootings and I am just there to monitor bandages that field medics put on. That is false. I have been in emergency medicine for over 36 years, but have only worked in a hospital as a nurse for less than 5 of those years. Before that, I was an EMT and a Paramedic for more than 25 years. I was an instructor and a tactical medic. I worked for a contractor that trained Air Force PJs before they went to Afghanistan. For those who went to the Florida Blog Shoot, you will remember that I gave the attendees a quick and dirty “stop the bleed” lecture.

All of this is nonsense. You are acting no differently than the idiots who claim Trump staged his own assassination attempt. Make your theories fit the evidence. Don’t make the evidence fit your ideas.

Problems

I am aware that some of you have tried to setup accounts here. I will look into it when I get a bit of spare time. I am trying to migrate another blogger to my server, take care of honey-do lists, complete MBA courses, blog, and somehow find time to work, sleep, and take a crap, so it might be awhile.

I used to enjoy playing Falcon years ago. I decided to play DCS in the near future, or at least when my MBA is done. I dropped $2700 on a new computer, but I won’t have time to try out the game for a few months yet. Still, for you computer nerds:

  • AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2GHz (5.0GHz Turbo Boost) CPU
  • 1TB Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD
  • 2TB Gen4 NVMe m.2 SSD
  • 360mm AIO Liquid CPU Cooler
  • NVIDIA Geforce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GDDR7 Graphics Card
  • 64GB DDR5 RAM 6000 RGB Gaming Memory
  • 32 inch 4K monitor
  • WinWing Orion 2 HOTAS and Rudder Pedals