I know, I probably should have done last weekend's Alcatraz photos first.  Well, I didn't.  Console yourself with these photos from Ft. Point 8/09.  Also available on Facebook (by popular request).

As promised, photos are up from our two week vacation to Canada and San Diego.  Only a month late.  And by popular request, they're on Facebook too.

From Edmonton:

When I put Casey's Infantry Tactics on my Blackberry, I chuckled to myself that I'm the only person who would enjoy such a confluence of the deep past and the ultra-modern.  In 1855, US Secretary of War Jefferson Davis commissioned as US Army officer, Hardee, to write a new manual on tactics.  When the Civil War started, both Davis and Hardee went to the South, and in 1862 Hardee wrote a new manual for the Confederates.  The US Army couldn't stand using a tactics manual that had been written by a Confederate so they commissioned

Today is Nathan's first day with the nanny.  She told me this morning that the first day with a new family always makes her nervous.  I didn't tell her that I'm nervous too.

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