I recently hit the 3-year mark at Penobscot Community Health Care. I’m not sure, but I think that makes this my longest-held job, and definitely longest continuously-held job.

I’ve been playing in the Brewer Hometown Band for the past couple of years: last summer, I had the opportunity to conduct them, and last fall, I soloed in Clair W. Johnson’s “Autumn Caprice“.

Ael’s taken up trombone at school, and played in the Brewer Middle School Jazz Band as they won second place in their division statewide this year.

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”

Windows 7 looks and sounds good, from everything I hear: here’s hoping installing it on my primary box isn’t a really really stupid thing to do. :-) (And yes, I’m planning a full backup first…)

Incidentally, I just upgraded to 2.8 final and re-enabled Redirection. Hope I didn’t break anything…

Edit: changed the theme to see if that would help. I can navigate by category now, at least, but I can’t change the (non-existent) title of this post.

Edit:Ok, it lied on me. The title did change.

One of those present said that when asked, the CIA officers acknowledged that some foreign intelligence agencies had refused, for example, to share information about the location of terrorism suspects for fear of becoming implicated in any eventual torture of those suspects.

Remind me again how torturing suspects was supposed to get us better information, when it was causing other governments to hide suspects from us?

But the Democrats, who cannot muster a majority to oppose him, are seeking, in effect, to change the Constitutional majority-vote requirement. By sustaining this filibuster, they are asserting that 60 votes, not 50, will be required to approve Mr. Estrada. If successful, their effort will amount to a de facto amendment to the Constitution. This outrageous grab for power by the Senate minority is wrong and contrary to our oath to support and defend the Constitution.

Senator James Inhofe, 2009:

I understand that Judge Hamilton’s nomination is still pending before the Judiciary Committee, but I had to come to the floor to speak so that the American people, who are very concerned about this nomination, will know that I and my Republican colleagues on the Judiciary Committee are taking interest and are not just going to let this nomination sail through. In fact I will filibuster David Hamilton.

<Barbarino>I’m so confused…</Barbarino>

Edit: for the record, I just updated to revision 10988, and it’s working fine.

Edit^2: but Redirection is still broken.

I still can’t help wondering what would happen if a hurricane blew a storm sturge straight up Penobscot Bay at high tide, though — would it peter out before it got up to us? The river does have an average 13-foot high tide at Bangor, with a record of 18 feet…