Election issues
In general, a lot of us are struggling with the implications of such a large proportion of the citizenry being structurally indifferent to the financial integrity of the country. If you pay no taxes, or your paycheck comes from taxes (including the large number of public employees), then you are less likely to vote against your vested interest of more taxes, more spending, and/or more debt.

So, at the margins there is an erosion of civic duty, and a severe bias toward the "Bread and Circuses" concept of Juvenal.

In all seriousness, we won't have the luxury of squabbling about social issues if we can't summon the national will to balance our checkbooks.
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Back?? Well, maybe...
Now that I've been officially retired from HP for all of three weeks, I have a lot of things to take care of before the REAL relaxation can begin.

The list includes, but is not limited to, getting our three girls through college.  :)
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Latest update
Kalie had some tests and a procedure done today. Tana and Skyler made the dance team. Rhonda is recovering from her bunion surgery. And, I'm getting ready to float the Deschutes twice.
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House Shopping in Sunriver


Looked at this house in Sunriver.
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Summer is coming, looking for houses in Sunriver
Rhonda and I are heading over to Bend tomorrow to start looking for a second home in Central Oregon.
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Ken's Interests
A list of things I'm currently interested in:

* Family (Rhonda, Kalie, Skyler, Tana)
* Boardgames (see boardgamegeek.com)
* Steely Dan
* Jazz Piano
* Fly Fishing
* World of WarCraft
* Volleyball
* Golf
* Kansas City Chiefs
* Neal Stephenson, Jim Butcher, and Bernard Cornwell
* Alfa Romeo automobiles
* Looking for land/housing in Central Oregon
* Virtual Studio Collaboration
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Kalie's Surgery
Kalie was taken out of ICU today at Doernbecher. She had surgery to correct a vascular ring. We look forward to bringing her home on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
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Liberte
Jay Schindler taught a group of us how to play this fine game on Wednesday night.

Libert�

Our game ended with a Royalist counter-revolution, thereby stealing my good chance at achieving a normal victory.

There were a few rules we didn't get quite right, but I'm looking forward to playing Liberte many times.

K
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Introduction
Hello everyone. This is where our family will be posting frequent stuff about what's going on with the Crangle's in Oregon.
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