Saturday

The new Home Page pic is the one I took while golfing in Texas last Saturday.  The course that I was on was located along the Brazos river in Central Texas.  I'm guessing that when the surroundings are green, it's a real eye-catching landscape.  In the middle of Winter, meh.

This has been a very odd week for me.  Obviously, that extra day in Texas because of the ice got me off to a disconcerting start.  Then that unplanned boys' bus trip over to Carver-Hawkeye on Wednesday evening-night put a hitch in the giddy-up, particularly with that post-midnight return.  I'm never up that late!  Snow on Wednesday night-Thursday morning added to the para-normal routine.  And the Augie game last night was a fitting extra activity, ripple in the force de jour of life on Maplecrest.


I'm making 2 Daughter of the Day.  She came in last night for some craft class that she had signed-up for today.  We enjoyed the popcorn and hot dogs at the game...and an Augie win!  Of course, we left with eight minutes to go when the game was still in the balance.  Why wouldn't we?  Not to worry.  My pal Pete provided text-updates through the end of the game.  And we had 2nd Coffee this AM.  Fun to have her back in my zip code.

Here's a nice article on Father Hesburgh.  He was known around campus in my day as "Ted the Head", in recognition of his position as president of the university.  At that point in his career, he was focused on the development and growth of the university.  I never heard much negative talk about him, neither while I was in school there, nor in all these years since my graduation.  Since he trended toward the liberal end of the equation, he received fairly favorable coverage in the national media.  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-theodore-hesburgh-dead-20150227-story.html  He definitely had his critics, but I wouldn't call him controversial.  He was in reality, a Notre Dame treasure. 

One of the take-away's from the business side of my trip last week to Waco was the security measures taken by the data processing firm that I visited.  Not only was a swipe-key required by my escort for entry in to the reception area from the elevator vestibule, but once I was at the interior reception desk, the gal took my picture and provided me with a "Guest" photo-ID card for use during my visit.  I'm used to general registration for entry to offices, particularly in the big cities that I visit (NYC, C-town), but this attention to detail was a bit surprising in a decidedly small business setting.  In Waco.  But that particular business possesses a lot of personal data on its servers, so caution is the word.

At coffee this AM, my pal Cal offered up that there were three separate stories in the Surgeon's Lounge at the hospital of hacking of personal computers within the last week or two.  Hackers coming onto machines saying that they were tracking breaches of security to that computer, and that the owner needed to give up user names/passwords so that the virus/hacking could be fixed.  The whole business of hacking has to be hugely successful or you wouldn't have all these stories coming out.  Whether they are Eastern European, Chinese or Nigerian, there are some bad dudes out there!  The LtPC wants off the grid!!  Period.

OK.  I'll get another entry up here over the weekend.  Live long and prosper.

BCOT