So here is the latest rant. Why is it that no one under the age of 50 can remember anything. I thought lack of memory was an old person thing. I have short term memory issues, as in a few seconds minutes and hours ago. Usually they are things like grocery lists, or web sites I heard on the radio and immediately forgot. My issue is that I am teaching young engineers how to do my job, in case I ever get tired and retire. When I give them something to do and describe it to them, they can't remember what I said yesterday, much less last week. How can you work in a technical field and not have any recall of facts, formulas, etc?

I went in for my usual cup of coffee this morning, and ordered a large one. I have been going to the Atlanta Bread company on Carl Vinson for a while. I started after Starbucks opened and charged 2 bucks for a cup of coffee. What rally bugs me is that I can't go in and order a large coffee, I have to order small, tall or grande. In case anyone wonders, grande is spanish for large, large is redneck for large. I am tired of the new language, tall, grande, venti at Starbucks. I left California to get away from Spanish, now in WR I need to order in spanish. How much longer before we have to order in chinese. May not be much longer, at least at Walmart.

Today I am going to bitch about people that don't have any pride in what they do. I work in military electronics, and continually see tasks done at the 60 to 80 percent level. What really pisses me off is that this level of accuracy and completeness is accepted as normal. Contracts are let as cost plus and contractors screw things up and are paid to fix them. It appears that sloth, laziness and incompetence are marketing strategies. I cannot fault the contractors for using this strategy, but the government (leadership????) appears incapable of managing the taxpayer funds assigned to them.

Today as I watch the snow fall in the deep south, I cannot help but wonder about Global warming. The whole concept has been promoted by Al Gore and other liberal politicians and supported by collegiate researchers. What I really wonder is how these left wingers are going to use "Global Warming" as a reason to get another hand in our pocket.