A shorter update…

I have an extensive book review I’m still working on, so we’ll go a little bit shorter here.

A couple news items to note, anyone who thinks that “Change” was needed, I hope you understand that change is currently attempting to break out of a recession by spending and taxing.  Oh, and if that wasn’t bad enough, we’re going to bail out thousands (millions?) of homeowners who got themselves into bad predicaments, for any of various reasons.  I haven’t yet decided if I feel much pity for any of them, as an overall whole I don’t.  I’m tired of hear people saying, oh, they were forced into it.  Not sure who forces you to not read the terms of hundreds of pieces of paper you have to sign before buying a house.  If I was putting myself at the mercy of a bank for 15-30 years I sure will know what I’m signing my life away for and the terms.  And, I thought we were getting a more environmental-friendly president, at the rate we’re spending money we’re not going to have any trees left because we’ll need them all to print the never ending flow of cash.

I am, however, thrilled by the President’s nomination for FEMA Administrator.  My old boss, W. Craig Fugate, current State Director of Florida Division of Emergency Management, will be confirmed in a few weeks as the new chief of FEMA.  Craig brings a new philosophy that is unlike the normal bureaucracy of federal government.  His mindset, is don’t tell me it cannot be done, find out what you can do to change what you usually do to get the job done.  He bases it on the saying, “Failure is not an Option” from the Apollo mission.  I hope he can employ this ideology at FEMA and also some of the concepts we’ve been working on for the Florida Catastrophic Planning Initiative (http://floridadisaster.org/catastrophicplanning/).

I know I’m going to be a bit distracted for the next few weeks as March Madness has just begun.   I’m thrilled though, I’ve figured out that I can run my computer, (i.e.: online television shows, live basketball coverage, other stuff) through an HDMI cable and project HD images from computer to television!

My work schedule is also quickly heating up.  On the docket right now: a week in Los Angeles (week of Mar 30); 3 trips to Vegas (Jun 1, Jun 30, July 14) and there are many more coming down the pipe quickly.

And now I’m out to return to watching the games.