Hey, I almost missed this!
It was on this day in 1910 that the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated as a youth organization in the United States. The idea for the Boy Scouts came from a British Army Officer named Robert Baden-Powell who returned from a war in South Africa to find that the young people in his country had grown soft and undisciplined in his absence. He created the Boy Scouts as an organization and wrote a book called Scouting for Boys that became the Boy Scout manual.

There's been a couple of security "issues" lately.

Not mine, thank God.

A follow-up to last week's Friday Fun link.
I never did get my sushi last weekend, so maybe that's why I'm still thinking about it this week. In any case, this Friday Fun link follows the same theme as last week: sushi. But, this time, we've gone a bit more "low-tech" with Windup Sushi. Thanks to Gizmodo, I now have new wind-up desk toys to lust after. Of course, first I have to get a desk, but still....

I got a lot of reading done while I was out of town.
In fact, I read two books last week while I was on the road. I reviewed them over at my other blog, the Fantasist's Scroll. You can go there to read my reviews of Coyote Blue and The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. Both fiction by Christopher Moore.
Currently, I'm reading a self-help book of sorts, but it's sort of strange, so I'm keeping that one to myself.

Well, I'm trying to keep busy, anyway.
I went to a Lodge meeting tonight with a friend of mine. In fact, I sat in the South for his Third Degree, until I had to excuse myself because I was passing a kidney stone. That's always a good excuse, by the way. I got there in time for dinner, which meant some good, heavy Texas BBQ. Masons sure know how to eat! Of course, now, I need to cut way back and try to lose the five pounds I gained while eating greasy food on the road last week. Curse you and your delicious food Applebee's! And Olive Garden!

Okay, this should be a warning sign.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Well, I'm home again.

Yes, finally! Sashimi storage for the masses!
Okay, for those of you who are part of the Network Geek Inner Circle (that's like the Committee of 300, but smaller and more focused), you know how I love sushi. It's damn expensive so I can't afford to eat it very often, but I do enjoy it. So, for those of you in the know, I present the ultimate Network Geek storage device: Sushi USB Drives. Yes, they're not "real" fish, but they look frighteningly realistic and, well, yummy.