Hi kids! Grampa Bob had a pretty good day today… and may have overdone it just a bit, but for an acceptable reason. I got up at 6:00 am to get ready for my day. I knew that I had to be on the first conference bus so I vould be on the floor by …

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Is that the most important thing we have to worry about right now? Maybe I don’t ask myself that question enough. There are any number of things wrong with the world right now, and in the USA the single most important thing that we apparently must discuss is a bunch of athletes taking a knee …

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OK, so, if you read my post from yesterday, you know that Grampa Bob is at a Microsoft Conference in Orlando. Tonight was supposed to be “The Krewe” Meet and Greet party at some piano bar here closeby. I decided to ditch it because tonight was the debut episode of “Star Trek: Discovery”, and to be …

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Well, that was definitely an interesting day. This morning I got up early as I didn’t sleep well (usually don’t  the night before a trip) and headed off to the airport. leaving the house sometime around 4:50 AM. I arrived at satellite parking at the Kansas City airport and took the bus to the terminal …

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Hi kids. Tomorrow, Grandpa Bob has to head off to Orlando, Florida for a conference, the Microsoft Ignite conference (used to be the Microsoft Technet event, but that got renamed and combined with a few other conferences). I’m looking forward to a reunion with my professional peers. Any number of these folks are people with …

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Hi kids, Grampa Bob here again. I’m in a weird mood… and this kind of ties into why I post my blog by “days”. Today is day 19,727 in my life (I probably ought to double check my math one of these times… I’d hate to find out I was projecting weird base-10 anniversaries based …

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Hi kids, hope you’re having a good day. My day went pretty well. Got a few things done around here, then went into the job – yes – I know you are shocked, but I do have a full-time job as a technical trainer – and I gave a two-hour presentation on implementing security in …

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It’s Tuesday, September 19, 2017. An interesting day in the world. First of all, terrible disaster has hit our hemisphere here. Another hurricane has been tearing through the Caribean. The loss of property is monumental, one of the worst hurricane season in recorded history. Puerto Rico, St. Croix, other islands in that vicinity. In Mexico, …

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Hi kids. Old, fat, and bald grampa here. You live in amazing times. I think that’s a pretty easy statement for me to make because all times are amazing. There are things changing all around us all of the time, and some of these rates of change get accelerated due to one person o a …

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Hey kids. A simple message for you guys. Love defeats hate. This time your grandmother and I live in is complicated. It’s almost as if all of the racism that racists were keeping bottled up during the Obama administration is bubbling over. I’ve seen and read some of the most disturbing things in my life during …

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