3 days, not 3 weeks. That’s my guess.

No soul. They’re just following orders, as were the guards and executioners at Dachau, etc. The Nazis who were just following orders were executed or imprisoned after the war.

PTSD = Pollen Traumatic Stress Disorder

And oaks- they are flooding the air right now, too. My cars are all tinted yellow, as is gthe annual ritual here in one of the worst allergy cities in the USA.

KFC would do a better job than these MAGA clowns in terms of managing our national security OPSEC.

Gee- I wonder if there’s a connection? (kidding of course) Stress kills. I bailed on a much more lucrative career path 25 years ago because it stressed me out to the point of depression, panic attacks, etc. Now it’s a lot calmer and generally ok, and I take fewer meds. No crises for years.

I worked with NSA a few years. I own too many faraday bags already. It’s a hobby kinda like collecting backpacks or shoes but for spooks.

Good info, thanks. An acquaintance has a clean phone with no historical stuff on it for travel and for taking to protests. She calls it her Gestapo phone.

I worked at a NSA/Army listening post with global intercept abilities. When things went right, we could intercept transmissions from Russian combat units battling with Afghani Mujahadin. That was some sobering radio traffic- dudes getting shot and blown up in real-time.

And it sucks that it's gone. Our radio broadcasting was one of the best things we did during the Cold War.

One of the high points of my military tour in Germany was visiting Voice of America studios for a whole day in Munich in 1982. They broadcast in all the Warsaw Pact languages back then. And, when the atmospherics were right, I could listen to the enemy, Radio Moskva, on AM, when I drove to work.

This account is mostly for Memphis friends and a little of my professional life. I have a different Blue Sky where I am much more outspoken and political- I need both outlets.

How’s your foot today? My wife tore her peroneal tendon in 2019— that took a few months of healing. Someone stepping on her foot in early recovery would have been a nightmare

I operated a main frame where everything was written in a variant of Fortran. And then COBOL became dominant. Career 1, early 1970s.