Observations 2010
Posted in: History, Medieval, Movies, Observations, Technology | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 0 | Date: 12 January, 2010
Starting out the new year right. My goal off the top of the bat is to post daily for the month of January. That being said, my biggest first observation of the year is just how much of a cluster the holiday season between and around Christmas and New Years plays on blog readership. I went from pushing close to two hundred daily readers in the first half of December to barely getting twenty some days in between the holidays. Guess that says what most of you are doing at work, eh? Just kidding. In all seriousness I did not post as much during the that time either, but I am back on a roll now and so without further ado, some of the first of my observations for 2010!
I am not sure when this will actually get published, as I am just burning up the blogging today apparently. Long story short, but I have been going through some of my last boxes of stuff that I was thinking needed to be sold on eBay or otherwise donated. If you are interested most of it has been old electronics, a few things purchased for others that for whatever reason stayed with me, the occasional model train item that has managed to slip the through cracks, some collectible cards, and a few miniatures – you can can click 
So a regular feature going on its third attempt. Lets see how it works this time. First, my sincere apologies for not posting so much this week, especially in comparison to the previous month. Hopefully I will get that going a bit better this week coming up, but I am not making any promises. Pretty much every week between now and the end of the year is going to be kind of crazy with things going on both at work and otherwise. Additionally, I have done something to my back, maybe Friday or Thursday. I can not pinpoint the action or even if there was one, but my mid-back left side especially is a bit painful and slowing me down on all these things too. Well, enough of all that stuff, lets get to some observations.
A few weeks ago I drove up to the Northern Kentucky area and met a friend. From there we headed a bit further north into the big metropolitan area of Cincinnati with the intent of spending the afternoon viewing the various galleries at the 
On this date one hundred and fifty years ago the book, On the Origin of Species was published. Written of course by that sometime honored and other times maligned person by the name of Charles Darwin. The issues that came forth from the work clearly created division at that time and certainly continue today, perhaps even more so. Given this nice round date and some of the scientific based analysis that came from that publication I thought a short blog was in order.
Anyone asking for GPS for Christmas this year? If you are I would ask you think twice about it and probably check it off your list. Consider this for just a second, most smart phones and even more then a few phones from the generation before, have a built in GPS navigation system of some sort of another. Take it a step further when you consider the GPS is a basically a single (or perhaps double) function device for at least $100 if not closer to $150 or more.
A few weeks ago I posted a rather bit of a rant on one of my other blogs about how the History Channel really had little to offer any more in the regards of actual history. You can read that over on 
As of today the 
My plan today was to take Bitzer to the vet at the first possible appointment, since giving her a couple of days had basically lead the bad leg being worse. Oh, for those coming up to speed, she had a bum back leg she was favoring, but all my feeling, squeezing and so forth was showing no specific area of pain. Anyway, then I had a training session to do with some folks at work, a few loose ends to wrap up, and then a half-a-day of time off. Dinner with a good friend (and for those that assume otherwise all the time, not a date, just a friend) and maybe some live music to top the evening off.
One of my favorite places to visit is Colonial Williamsburg. It is actually enough to almost make me trade my medieval spurs for a set of Colonial (or British regulation) cavalry spurs. It would definitely be an interest if there were a few more things a bit closer – of course there is some stuff from the period with the Long Rifles and the likes of Logan’s Militia and such here in Kentucky, but now I digress. Back to Colonial Williamsburg, one can imagine with the combination of getting away and potential immersion into history and even some pretty good interpretation of said history it is a pretty awesome place for someone like me to go for an occasional mini vacation.
