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After the Alabama Tornados

Mike — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:27:13 +0000

Just wanted to let you all know that we are ok. I just got back to work today – power was out in our area until last night. I have lived more time in Alabama without power than with it!

We did not have any damage in our immediate area, but We did see some of the wreckage that others happened to others. We were driving from Huntsville to Athens to get gas last Friday and were waiting for traffic to clear near some downed trees and we saw a family pull up to their house that was utterly devastated. It was very sad to see: what had been a sturdy brick house had become a pile of rubble with nothing standing more than a foot above the foundation.

The next day we wend to Birmingham and saw major damage every 5-10 mile in the 70 mile drive. I have seen other tornado damage, but this was on a scale I have never encountered.

We went for 7 days without power, had some cold showers (we never lost water service) and burned a few candles. But we were spared when so many lost so much, and we are grateful.

I will be posting a more detialed update soon.

Jet Packs Have Arrived!

Mike — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:31:24 +0000

This made my morning: Martian Aircraft Company is announcing that they are going to offer a jet pack with a range of 30 miles that can fly at 60 miles an hour for $75,000. Pretty reasonable for a cool toy like this:

Journal Me This…

Mike — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:22:01 +0000

I have owned theWriteQuality domain for a couple years and in that time its undergone a number of changes. At first I was going to use it to blog strictly about writing, then it became a site where I promoted myself as a freelance writer. Now tWQ it to become my ‘source blog’; the place where all my online blogging – business and professional – is logged and can feed to other sites.

So, tWQ is going to be a very expressive and personal site – you will get everything from religion and politics to cars, movies and book reviews. It will be a kind of professional journal and portfolio – my own column that I dreamed about when I was in high school.

I have done some professional blogging for other companies, but not put together a site for myself. This will be it. Please feel free to comment on anything you read – I am interested in what people have to say.

Welcome to MEB.com in Exile

Mike — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:07:27 +0000

Sadly, I have determined that my old website has critically failed and cannot be recovered. A database failure – probably my mistake – has destroyed most of the layout. I will need some time to create a new site – something I don’t have a lot of time to do.

As a result, www.michaeledwardbailey.comwill be pointing to this site – theWriteQuality.

I set up this site originally for my personal business site, but realized that i needed to broaden my branding a little: my current business site is being developed separately.

I then decided to use theWriteQuality as my ‘source’ blog. By tagging and categorizing content, I can feed individual posts to specific sites or multiple sites without logging into a dozen different places. I also wanted to experiment with WordPress, which I have enjoyed a great deal.

I am not sure when I will get my personal site back up. In the mean time, enjoy theWriteQuality.

Change is in the Air

Mike — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:33:50 +0000

It’s been a busy day at work. I have some new responsibilities that I am about to take on. I had a meeting with my Supervisor about some new required reports that are coming online with a new contract with the Air Force, and I will be the primary point on creating the documents. This should prove an interesting challenge.

One of the reports requires a new testing process that IDS must implement. It means that a much more detailed structure will need to be put into place to meet the requirements of the report. This has the potential to become a huge project. Tedious, but more than enough work to pay the bills.

I also got some very favorable news about a potential big change. I can’t go into details right now, but I am very encouraged by the possabilities . Details to come…