Open source, procurement, and gov tech.
For the past two days, I had a brief but undistinguished career as a roadie 1 for the Rolling Stones. For reasons not worth explaining, I was asked to work on the crew setting up for the Thursday Stones show here in Charlottesville. Because I’m stupid, I said “yes.” (Both my mother and I tend …
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I just called the Red Cross to check on my impending deployment to the Gulf. I was told that they’re not assigning departure dates to anybody, they don’t know when future relief teams will be leaving, and when they wanted me, they’d call. Argh. Their relief coordinator is deployed right now. He’s the one who …
Yesterday, I drove down to the Red Cross and signed up for a three-week stint down in Louisiana. Sometimes, a body gets sick of talking and wants to start doing. I returned this afternoon for my Mass Casualty training session prior to my Friday deployment. Four other local folks were there for pre-deployment training. We …
Caught mid-swing. Photo by John Athayde.
She said “yes,” again. Photo by Justin Hankins.
It was a year ago yesterday that I blogged our engagement, promising a wedding in a year’s time. First thing Friday morning, Amber and I leave for North Carolina for the big day. We must get our marriage license before the end of the business day, and then Saturday we set up for the wedding. …
I got an e-mail from a fellow (non-political) blogger yesterday, in which the writer pointed out that we’re on opposite ends of the political spectrum, indicating that perhaps this might be a problem for me. I suspect that I’m inferring more than was implied, but this is a recurring theme in my life. I often …
My mother just pointed out to me that I share a great great great great great great great great great grandfather with Lynn Cheney. I’m not really sure what to do with that information.
There are a pair of birthdays today. It’s nancies.org‘s seventh birthday, with the site having launched on July 31, 1998. And it’s my twenty seventh birthday, with me having been taken out of beta on July 31, 1978. To be fair, there’s a third birthday today — my twin brother, launched eight minutes prior to …
I’m mighty proud to announce that I, John Behan and UVa’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership are holding the first-ever Virginia political bloggers’ conference, The Summit on Blogging and Democracy in the Commonwealth. The day-long event will be held at the Doubletree in Charlottesville, on August 27, from 9am-4pm, followed by an informal evening of …
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