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Chris - Tortured Systems Engineer™️
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Navy (ret) Surface Warfare Officer & missile defender with a side of fries. I taught Zach Mayo everything he knows. A perfectly flawed human. Opinions = my own.
Yes ma’am
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Same
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Again, we must ask:

Has science gone too far?
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Bah, humbug…
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Touching grass
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Maybe
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Zola asks have you seen her ball?
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A visual representation of me going to the LEGO Store today:
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Thank you for attending my TED Talk
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
How it started

Vs.

How it’s going

10 years of Zola
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
LFG!!!
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It is andI find your lack of Christmas cheer disturbing
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Apple pie and ice cream.

Christmas Darth Vader approves.
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This could be us…
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Finally
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My daily shutdown affirmation
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
November means I bake pies.

This week’s pie is my Brown Butter Apple Tart. Pairs well with a scoop or two of ice cream.
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
My daily shutdown affirmation
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Current mood
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My daily shutdown affirmation
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I find your lack of Christmas spirit disturbing
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM