Archive for May, 2020

All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Again

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • May 30th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Like everybody else, the pandemic is “top of mind” 24 x 7 for me. I’m writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

None of this is new. Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion …



Memories: Cigar Shopping in Dublin

By From http://www.musingsoverabarrel.com/ • May 30th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The other day, while listening to a CD from a pub band we saw during our last trip to Ireland, I started looking through the photos I had taken in the Emerald Isle. Some of those photos brought back memories of the tobacconists we visited while in Dubl…



Another Interesting Stout and Cigar Pairing

By From http://www.musingsoverabarrel.com/ • May 27th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

After a long-waited IDPA match on Saturday, I sought out another cigar and beer pairing with which to relax before dinner. Looking through the bottle reserves in a dark basement corner, I came across a bottle of Ommegang My Watch Has Ended Imperial Bro…



This is why why your 401k is doing ok

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • May 26th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Like everybody else, the pandemic is “top of mind” 24 x 7 for me. I’m writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

Ok is a relative term. If you left your diversified …



What’s Next?

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • May 25th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Like everybody else, the pandemic is “top of mind” 24 x 7 for me. I’m writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

What's Next?

This is an excellent article about a post pandemic world …



Finally. Some Shooting. Finally.

By From http://www.musingsoverabarrel.com/ • May 25th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

It’s been a while, for sure, but I finally got to enjoy some shooting activities this weekend when the monthly IDPA match at the Cavalier Rifle and Pistol Club resumed after a break for the Wuhan virus. I hadn’t shot for nearly three months, and my ran…



Democrats just paroled a white supremacist murderer

By From https://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 25th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Virginia Parole Board, controlled exclusively by democrats, just paroled a convicted killer who murdered a 68-year-old man because the victim said he would date someone who wasn’t white.It was just a couple weeks ago that the same corrupt de…



Memorial Day in a Pandemic

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • May 24th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Like everybody else, the pandemic is “top of mind” 24 x 7 for me. I’m writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

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Every year on 9-11 the names of the victims* are …



Let’s see if this still works…

By From https://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 23rd, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

After almost nine years and moving to a new server, it’s always good to test.



A Fine Cigar and Ale Pairing

By From http://www.musingsoverabarrel.com/ • May 23rd, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

When the work week was done, and Friday dinner complete, it was finally time to kick off the holiday weekend with a cigar and a beer on the deck. I had recently come across some 2013 bottles of Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale in the basement, and had already…