Flada Blog

After returning from a vacation with my family and my older sister’s, I found my comments full of spam. I’ve updated my comment spam blacklist with a few new items and offending IP addresses. I am posting the list here. Feel free to copy it to your blacklist. Also, I’d appreciate […]

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Every time I decide I’m going to knuckle down and start writing more, something changes my plans. Last week, on June 13, my wife gave birth to our second son. After being in labor for about 12 hours and actively pushing for about 2, Charles Patrick drew his first breath.I was very impressed […]

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Over the next few days, I intend to migrate old entries from my journal at Opendiary under the name De Redyns. This will greatly increase my content on this blog and help to make posts while I am going through a transition that has been making it difficult to post regularly.
In light of this, […]

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The military move is complete. It has been quite hectic moving about 8000 lbs of stuff pretty much by myself since my wife is 7 months pregnant. Actually, she has been a huge help with packing and unpacking.
There’s still a lot of unpacking left, though.
We were lucky because we were able to move […]

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Due to an impending military transfer, Flada Blog will probably not be updated much for the next few weeks.
As mentioned several times before, my wife, Alena, is a Navy Corpsman. We currently have orders to Pensacola Naval Hospital. Our internet connection has been shut off and this makes it a little […]

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