More Schwag

This month, StartupSchwag sent a t-shirt from imeem and other schwag from TripAdvisor, DocStoc, FeedEachOther, MapGroove, Mikons, ScribbleWiki.

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Startup Schwag

Ok, so I bit. I signed up with StartUpSchwag.com. Here are this month's sites that sent goodies:

A shirt from Reddit.com. Other sites included in the grab bag: BuzzPal.com, ClutterMe.com, Disqus.com, Fuser.com,
PropertyMaps.com, WeDigTv.com

Maxine, Mar. 2005 - Nov. 2007

Maxine, originally uploaded by sailorbill.

View photos of our Border Collie, Maxine.

Western New York Fly Fishing

Little brown trout, originally uploaded by sailorbill.

Winter has started to creep in to the Western part of New York and the 'Browns' are thinking about grabbing their last meals before slowing down for the winter in the creeks near Rochester.

We had a our first little flurry of snow yesterday. The temps are dropping too but wearing layers seems to be working just fine as I actually got too hot the last time out - except for my fingers! I have to figure out what to do about gloves. Any suggestions are appreciated. My next approach will be to take several pairs and when the first pair gets wet, switch to dry ones.

The bass boat is getting winterized next week. I may take it out once more to mix up the Stay-bil in the tank before shutting things down for the cold weather.

Tracy just bought me a 8'6" 3 wt. Winston Boron IIx fly rod for my 40th birthday, so I'm now walking the area's freezing creeks hunting for fish.

I might be addicted to fishing.

Special forces

I watched an episode of "The Unit" last night on CBS.

The first story line involved three members of the Army's secret Rangers unit going into a foreign country to rescue workers at an American embassy that was under fire.

Bullets were hitting the building and breaking out the newspaper-covered windows as the group was exiting to a waiting bus.

The ambassador and some of the workers were not following orders and were very resistant to leaving.

One of "the unit" members was hit by a bullet in the arm in the first scene because of a delay by the ambassador.

After several other embassy workers were killed because they weren't listening to the instruction of the experts there to help them escape, my wife said, "I couldn't do a job like that where the people I was helping didn't want to be saved".

I responded, "It is all in a day's work."