Riddle Missions

I am sitting here in the office/ my current house, looking at all the great black Friday deals that I will not be getting this year, Home Depot, Best Buy, So many missed opportunities, So much money saved… Its depressing… I was looking through Amazons deals a few good ones but mostly junk. Then my eye caught a picture of a cat on one of the items, now I know Amazon does not sell animals… yest… (Coming summer 2020) so I looked closer and noticed that it was an automatic cat laser, you know how you taker the laser pointer and make the cat chase the little red dot. It got me to thinking about how automated we have become, I mean seriously! Can we not even torture our pets anymore? I mean play with them? We have to have. A robot do it for us? I mean as a Tech guy I always love seeing new technology and playing with the latest and greatest computers or new software, but I mean come on. I feel at some point we crossed a line and that line was way before robot cat torturing dev...

Thursday (Oct. 25) After spending the night mostly wide awake waiting for the storm to be over, I was overjoyed to be able to venture outside and see the damage. I knew it was going to be bad, but what I saw shocked me. My neighbors homes were gone. Almost nothing left. A piece of my neighbors roof was in my yard, trees were down, and as I walked toward the street I could see power poles down in both directions, no way to get around by car. After checking on the other teacher who lived at the school compound, I walked to the apartment where many other school staff had spent the night, they were all doing well and after connecting with them and exchanging a few stories, I walked to the school to see the damage. Praise God the main building was undamaged, but our porch roof, had blown away, some of it was smashed, other parts were gone. We later found out the the main part of it had been blown off sailed over the top of the 2 story school building, across the small patch of jungl...

Hey everyone, The last week has been very interesting, And I will be talking about it in a few separate posts. The first one is about my night during the Typhoon. I will start with the day before typhoon Yutu, (btw Google “yutu” Google thinks you mean YouTube and the whole first page is different links to you to YouTube.) Anyway none of us thought it would be as bad as it was, so right before it hit us a friend and I went up North to the Cliffs of bonsai to see the waves crashing over the edge. It was pretty amazing, Cliffs are very high in the sea the waves crashing over them that's really neat. And a little scary. It's one of the few times I've ever feared the ocean. We wanted to get some good pictures and we got some. I can't share them at this time though for reasons I will explain in a later post. I do have this one  from the guy I was with, I am standing like that because the wind was so strong I would be knocked over if I didn’t brace myself. (PC David Butte...

Well I guess its been a while since I posted, I just get busy with not posting I just forget that I have a website. Well last I checked I posted about my Summer vacation so there is a lot to cover. I will try to be as concise as possible. I got back to the island and was put straight back to work, there was lots to do but it was one of those situations of “where do I start” So I am ashamed to admit that not as much got done as could have. But nevertheless, things did get done. iPads were a big one that got figured out We had a big issue with students downloading images and changing settings and doing things that they are not supposed to. Well thanks to the locked down nature of Apple devices and the software they create to make things even more locked down, students can’t do anything we don’t want them to anymore. You should have seen the look on the kids faces the first time I locked an iPad on him when he was supposed to be doing something else. Kid: “Mr. Jon!!! My iPad locked!...

Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I posted so I guess I’m due. On June 1st, I flew home from Saipan to help my parents with the long awaited and much dreaded move from my childhood home to the forests of Arkansas. Being home has been a great time but I strangely found myself wanting to go back to what I now call home. I thought I was home, but as it turns out my brain seems to think that Saipan is my home now. Strange… Anyways the move was filled with many fun things, some not so fun things, lots of Taco Bell (yes, it is much better in the states) and God answering our prayers even though I had less than perfect faith. So, I will start with Wednesday when the move officially started. Or at least when it was supposed to start... Wednesday Wednesday the 13th of whatever month this is, (who keeps track on vacation) was the day we were to pick up our moving truck, a 26’ Budget truck. We dropped my dad off to pick it up and went to cancel our internet (may she rest in peace, ...