"The Best of Both Worlds" is a two-part episode from the third/fourth seasons of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Commander William Riker, now given a field promotion to Captain, realizes that he must devise a tactic that Captain Picard, whose knowledge is now possessed by the Borg, would never anticipate. He separates the saucer section of the Enterprise from the stardrive, as per a contingency plan discussed with Picard. With Picard's knowledge of Federation starships, the Borg ignore the saucer section and focus on the stardrive - the segment containing the warp engines and navigational deflector.
Or did I give my wife an engagement ring after I took her for a drive on this road? I might have been stationed in Iceland for a while or we just went there for a vacation, I'm not sure. The latitude 63 degrees runs through there as well, so maybe there is something to that.
Route 1 or the Ring Road (Icelandic: Þjóðvegur 1, Hringvegur) is a main road in Iceland that runs around the island and connects the different parts of the country together. The total length of the road is 1339 km (840 miles).
This is that book I have written about several times. I noted that I have bought many copies of it. I bought a copy just after I moved out to Spokane Valley. I can also remember reading it just after I moved to Bellevue in 1998.
Released August 1986
Red Storm Rising is a 1986 techno-thriller novel by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond about a Third World War in Europe between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, set around the mid-1980s, probably in 1986 or 1987. Though there are other novels dealing with a fictional World War III, this one is notable for the way in which numerous settings for the action—from Atlantic convoy duty to shooting down reconnaissance satellites to tank battles in Germany—all have an integral part to play on the outcome. This is one of two novels that has no association with Clancy’s others, as it does not fall in the Ryanverse.
I wonder if my wife grew up in the Philippine Islands, or this has something to do with me having my home in Hawaii during my youth, or both. It is probably why Microsoft-Corbis had Danny Florentin working with me. He told me he was originally from the Philippines but was living in Hawaii when Microsoft hired him. I was working closely with him because I was transitioning all my Microsoft Premier Support for Enterprise accounts to him as I moved into a new role in Microsoft Premier Support for Developers. I wrote a while back that he was a nice guy with a nice family. I remember I was sitting at a table during an office Christmas party with all them and at one point, a curious expression came over his wife’s face when she was looking at me and I wonder if she saw my feelings of depression on my face as I don‘t think I was talking at the time and I was just sitting there. We had common friends so I wondered if they had been discussing why I seemed depressed. I made a comment later that night to a co-worker that I had spent so much time in the North Atlantic, my offspring were going to be Eskimos. I puzzled over why I said that. I do “remember” being in the North Atlantic and the Artic Circle with the USS Wainwright CG-28, but we were up there for a couple weeks at most. Anyway, I am thinking that my wife did grow up in the Philippines, or at least she closely associates with something...something, and for some dumb reason, that all is a source of insecurity for her.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the childhood in my artificial and symbolic memories is modeled after my wife's childhood. I am reminded of a day at Microsoft when Vince Maraia saying something about how he and I had grown up in similar environments and I puzzled over that comment several times. He is that co-worker who has that book published by Microsoft with the knight in shining armor on the cover and the date 3/3/2059 in the book number.
I'm not sure if it was this song playing now on the radio, "Desperado," in here in my cage that would do it, but there was a time when something prompted me to think, "Who? Who should I let love me?" I couldn't think of anyone that I wanted to love me. I miss my wife. And it was accompanied by that same feeling of annoyance or frustration. "Who should I let love me? Who?"
