The first time I visited this east coast Florida bar, I thought it ideal at first. It had an outdoor deck that faced the ocean on the second floor and I had a couple of beers and some onion rings to pass the time before dinner.

It was surprising to recently get a rental car with the license, “653 YRS” because, while I haven’t been teaching for that long, the last decade has definitely been the “ARINC 653” years.

Long hair, moustache but no beard yet, I was in transition.

But after careful review in which I sometimes borrow and adapt ideas for my own purposes, I’ve never found any overall process or organization better than this.

A whole lobster is not necessarily a big meal. This one was 1.25 lb. but next time I’ll move up to 1.5 lbs.

… means you will let the chef decide.

With a KTN (Known Traveler Number), I will blitz through TSA checkpoints in record time with shoes and belt intact and no low dose X-Ray radiation. Just a gentle magnetometer shake of my water molecules and a not-passing-through-me X-Ray of my carry-on via the TSA PreCheck line.

Number one in my list is this series from HBO.

Here’s the time-line to keep in mind.

1. British citizens settled in the New World over a couple of centuries.
2. Britain’s King George, strapped for cash, taxed the colonies to help pay the country’s bills, but did so without consulting his citizenry in that New World – he effectively made them non-citizens.
3. The settlers rose up (1776), kicked the British out and created their own country under the terms of its first “Articles of Confederation” (ratified by the states in 1781).
4. That government failed (was deemed unworkable) on several fronts.
5. A “constitutional convention” then created what we know today as the Constitution of the United States (ratified by the states in 1789).
6. Fearful of the power of the government thusly created, however, that same “constitutional convention” immediately proposed twelve (12) Amendments for consideration by the states.
7. The first two (2) of those were rejected but the remaining ten (10) were approved by the states.
8. “Article the Fourth” in the original proposals, after taking out the two rejected proposals, therefore became the “Second Amendment”.
9. Because they list inherent rights, those ten amendments are known as the “Bill of Rights” – they state rights not granted by governments but, instead, which belong to everyone regardless.

Here is a copy of “Article the Fourth” in the original proposals – click for a larger version.