Mit Knoblauch

Your oldest would have been in the same grade with my brother.

And baseball was the main activity along with swimming and riding bikes. I guess we played soccer too.

I was able to go back for a visit in May 2025.

The old Camp 9 marl field is still there and so are the dugouts with very faded home and visitor signs.

The Intercontinental has moved out to Camp 11 and is a resort now.

You wouldn't even recognize Fanateer these days. Nice beachfront Corniche and loads of brand name shops. No need for the 2 hour shopping trips to Al Khobar anymore.

Great story.

Al Jubail is my hometown.

I lived in Camp 11 (Al Huwaylat) and Sabic Camp my last two years.

My father worked for Fluor on the Sadaf project and he kept a bottle of Black Label that he only brought out when he invited his boss over.

I graduated from Jubail Academy in 1985 and then we moved to my father's hometown of Waco, TX to finish our my last 3 years of HS.

If you had kids in Junior High at that time, I probably knew them.

Other fun fact, we had managed to ship in a small artificial Christmas tree when we moved there. We sold it when we left so, somebody in the Kingdom might still have our fake tree.

Can't possibly be the Rousell I know from Norco.

Affluent suburban White women are the cause for the reported increase in autism.

I assumed everyone already knew this.

I have an acquaintance who is your standard Ivy League diversity admit.

Back during the Summer of Floyd, she wrote on FB about the trauma she experienced being called the N word.

She said that the first time she heard someone call her that, she was like 11 years old.

And by the time she finished college at Columbia, she had been called the N word 4 times.

When I read that, I thought, wow. Four whole times. Definitely sounds debilitating.

The point of college isn't to learn the latest hype cycle software language.

It's to demonstrate that you can complete uncomfortable tasks over an extended period of time. Especially written work. Also to prove that you have some problem solving ability.

If you can do all those things, jumping on the latest software trend can be taught.

Congratulations!

I recently attended a Citizenship Induction Ceremony for a Russian friend who I helped bring over.

At his ceremony, there were 41 people from 28 countries and not one complainer or protester in the group.

I wish more native born Americans were aware of the process.

Ah yes, the useless "Yes Men"

British Commonwealth people excel at this. It's the exact opposite of the Japanese "Kaizen".

We had a system that needed to be fixed and I explained what was wrong, why, and how we should fix it.

These useless middle managers were not equipped to deal with fixing anything.

The best one was my Indian VP who told me that I shouldn't point out things that are broken, I should be "Positive Only".

They laid me off a few months later during the annual purge of high cost employees who know what they're doing. No surprise.

I thought that what the Covid masks were for.

A couple months ago, Royce made some comments Whitlock didn't like because it involved Mark Levin who apparently runs The Blaze who cuts Whitlock's paycheck.