Posted by: Steph on March 2nd, 2010
Another great FBI Citizen’s Academy class. Last week we focused on: Crisis (Hostage) Negotiations; Human Trafficking, and Bomb Squad.
All the topics were intensely interesting and the presenters were great. I was particularly impressed by the joint leads of the Human Trafficking task force: an Anchorage Police Department Sergeant and a FBI Special Agent, both of […]
Posted by: Steph on February 5th, 2010
Last night’s FBI Citizen’s Academy was a total blast. After a tres interesting lecture on laws and FBI policies regarding use of deadly force, we split into two groups and headed off for actual “training”.
First up for my small group of eight (I was the only girl) was SWAT Team training. We learned several […]
Read: SWAT Team Member Slat Rat! »
Posted by: Steph on January 15th, 2010
I am so late in getting these photos posted!!!! But, in early January, almost the entire Partnow Clan and various hangers-on (me) converged on St. Petersburg, Florida for Mike and Rachael’s wedding. We had a fantastic time - even though Florida was in the midst of a deep freeze. The ceremony was outside in the […]
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Posted by: Steph on January 3rd, 2010
Mom has moved her blog over to Wordpress and I have to say that it looks really nice. She selected a very handsome design. She’s also totally fallen in love with the Wordpress interface. Clean, easy to use, and really facilitates frequent blogging.
Mom just read Paul Johnson’s excellent biography of Winston Churchill, Churchill. The book […]
Posted by: Steph on December 18th, 2009
We’re in the midst of a real live winter - a la Chronicles of Narnia or A Winter’s Tale. Last week, a heavy ice fog settled in for seven days. It lifted and then a big storm moved in - over three days we got twenty inches of snow. Valdez got sixty inches. Today, the […]
Read: Astounding Winter Scenes »
Posted by: Steph on December 9th, 2009
Susannah, the professional business traveler who is 8 months and 3 weeks pregnant explains how well behaved and efficient her kids will be as they go through airport security lines.
This conversation was triggered by the priceless business traveler TSA lines tricks of the trade lecture George Clooney gives to his young co worker in […]
Posted by: Steph on November 16th, 2009
Seattle and all of the Pacific Northwest is under a major storm warning. Which means rain, rain, rain, and wind, wind, wind. Fortunately this evening, there was a short let up on the wind front and even though it was still raining hard, I was able to go for a run. I avoided my usual […]
Posted by: Steph on October 27th, 2009
We’re at the Orlando Airport bright and early this morning - catching the 8:30 AM flight to Seattle. We got up at 4:00 AM - it’s almost a two hour drive from Sarasota to Orlando. I figured that this is actually the equivalent of a red eye out of Anchorage - we left Muby and […]
Posted by: Steph on October 25th, 2009
Peter and I are in the midst of a blitzkrieg Florida trip: got down to Sarasota late Friday night and head home early Tuesday morning. A very quick dash. The weather has been very hot and muggy. We’re definitely not in Alaska any more.
I haven’t been overly active this trip - unless you could massive […]
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Posted by: Steph on October 21st, 2009
My grandfather was a geologist for Sinclair Oil from the 1920s-1960s. One of my favorite things as a five year old little kid was a life size inflatable green Sinclair Brontosaurus that my grandfather gave me. I absolutely adored it - and who wouldn’t???? Today, Mom and I were trying to figure out what happened […]
Read: Sinclair Dino!!!! »
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