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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

REACHING THE GOAL

Good news! I had 193 days off this year while working 172. My goal was to just break even, but my surgery and Faithy's hospital stay put me several days over. In addition, I got selected for Master Sergeant!

All of this validates my philosophy of "work less, delegate more, but when you do work, make it focused and efficient - no wasting time" that I have adapted at work.

In addition, I finished 5 college classes with 4 A's and 1 B (algebra-ugh!).

I have also taken up Texas No-Limit Hold-Em Poker online and played in several live tournaments at Pechanga Casino. I made it to the final table my very first time and made $220. Since then I have played 4 more times, each time getting knocked out with about 40-50 people left (each tournament has an average of 180-220 players.

Online, I am playing $0.25 and $1 tournaments and scraping a small profit. I was averaging about $2 profit per game for a couple of months, but had a bit of a downswing (called variance) at the beginning of December. Looks as though I have played through that now, and have made $13.71 over the last 6 games in the past few days.

Goals for 2010
  • Make $50 per month from online poker
  • Work days/Off days 183/182
  • 6 College classes

Happy New Year!!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

OUR DYING MEN NEED SOME ATTENTION

  • In the past month, the president has found the time to play golf – four times.
  • He’s had links legend Arnold Palmer and other top golfers over to the White House.
  • He’s shot some hoops with friends and yukked it up with hockey’s Pittsburgh Penguins.
  • He’s celebrated Ramadan at the White House
  • Eulogized newsman Walter Cronkite in New York City
  • Attended several fundraisers (including Thursday afternoon’s luncheon)
  • Appeared on David Letterman’s late-night show (one of eight interviews)
  • Delivered two speeches to AFL-CIO rallies
  • And the brief jaunt to Copenhagen to buttonhole members of the International Olympic Committee on behalf of Chicago’s 2016 Olympics bid was Mr. Obama’s seventh trip out of town since Sept. 1.
  • Yet still no decision on strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
  • The rest of the establishment press constantly bellyached about George W. Bush’s “vacations” in Crawford. No such general noise is present now.
  • SINCE BECOMING PRESIDENT, HE HAS MET WITH THE GENERAL FIGHTING THE WAR ONCE - FOR 20 MINUTES ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE. AND THAT WAS ONLY AFTER THE GENERAL MADE PUBLIC HIS NEED FOR MORE TROOPS TO GET THE JOB DONE.

Monday, September 28, 2009

STILL HERE

I haven't posted in a while, but I am still here!

Saturday, August 29, 2009

ALL IN

I just played in my first Texas Hold-em poker tournament. It was held by our squadron as a fund-raiser for a charity started by the family of one of our helicopter crew that was shot down in Iraq in 2007. The buy in was $50 and there were 101 players at 10 tables to start. After 4 hours, I made it to the final table, beating out 91 other players. I won the first hand, and then lost on the second - I went all-in with a pair of 7's, but the other guy had a pair of 10's. So, I came in 10th, out of 101. Only the last 5 were in the money, so Ijust missed it. But it was for a good cause and I had a good time. Chilis and Pechanga Casino sponsored the event, so we had plenty of food and it ended up being a really great event. After the 5 top players were paid, we had raised $3200 for the charity. A good day.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

HOW TO SAVE $1.2 BILLION

The geniuses in the California state Legislature have found a way to save $1.2 billion - by releasing 27,300 convicted felons from state prisons.

If this gets passed, I think that for every new crime committed by one of these felons after their release, one member of Congress should go to jail alongside him/her, for the duration of their sentence. Sounds fair to me.

Instead of releasing known criminals, maybe they could investigate why it costs $19,000 a year in Florida to house a crimnal, but in California it takes $50,000.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Saturday, July 18, 2009

CAMP WILEY
















Shooting, fishing, boating, camping - what more could a boy want?





Friday, July 10, 2009

RELIGION OF PEACE SETS NEW RECORDS

JUNE 2009

Jihad Attacks: 215
Dead Bodies: 925
Critically Injured: 1877

Sunday, July 5, 2009

THE REASON FOR THE SEASON

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

SEMI-RETIREMENT

Half-way into 2009, I have worked 7 days fewer than I have had off. Excellent progress.



Thursday, June 25, 2009

SCHOOL UPDATE

  • 1st BUSINESS LAW TEST - 96
  • 1st ENGLISH COMP ESSAY - 95

I feel smarter already.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

BACK TO SCHOOL...


SINCE SAVING THE WORLD IS A PART-TME JOB, AND I ONLY HAVE 3 MORE YEARS OF DOING SO, I HAVE BEGUN ANOTHER ADVENTURE - GETTING A BACHELOR'S DEGREE! I STARTED MY FIRST CLASS LAST NIGHT AND MY SECOND IS TOMORROW. I ALREADY HAVE 50 CREDITS, SO I AM ALMOST HALF-WAY THERE. AND NO, I AM NOT THE OLDEST GUY IN THE ROOM...

Monday, June 1, 2009

MAY 2009 JIHAD REPORT

JIHAD ATTACKS: 142
DEAD BODIES: 657
CRITICALLY INJURED: 1426

Looks like another banner month for the "religion of peace"

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

BACK TO WORK!

After 36 days of post-surgery recovery and relaxation, it is time for me to continue my never-ending quest to save the world. You may rest easy again knowing that I am back on the job...

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

17 YEARS

17 years ago today I began the 3 month transformation from nasty-puke-civilian to superhero. Only 3 more years of saving the world (part-time of course) and then I can rest.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

PART - TIME JOB?

Today I have officially had as many days off as I have worked this year. It is good to have goals, don't you think?

Thursday, May 7, 2009

NEW MATH & PAY RAISES

  • "We can no longer afford to spend as if deficits don't matter and waste is not our problem," he said. "We can no longer afford to leave the hard choices for the next budget, the next administration -- or the next generation." - Obama, May 7, 2009, while discussing his 17 billion budget cuts, speaking as if he has just saved the country.
  • I have only one question (that never seems to be asked of him or Congress) - if you increase the budget by 300 billion (for a new total of 3.55 TRILLION), and then cut 17 billion, how is that an actual cut?
  • Here it is without all the extra zeros: 3100 + 467 - 17 = 3550
  • So, what the headlines SHOULD be screaming is - 450 BILLION INCREASE IN FEDERAL BUDGET.
  • But since nobody ever calls Obama on lying and deception, he can claim a 17 billion CUT in the budget.
  • MEANWHILE, OVER IN CONGRESS - The House wants to increase Members’ office budgets next fiscal year by almost 15 percent ($90 million), citing increases “due to the election year cycle.”

Friday, May 1, 2009

FINALLY!

The Department of Homeland Security has defined rightwing extremists:
...those who are mainly anti-government and reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority...
uuhhh...isn't that how federalism and the Constitution are SUPPOSED to work?
Meanwhile...with everything else going on...what is Congress discussing?...college football.

Monday, April 27, 2009

1st 100


The scary part? That was just the 1st 100 days. We still have 3+ years to spend your great-great grandchildren into debt.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

ACL RECONSTRUCTION = GOOD TIMES

FIRST, WE TAKE SOME GOOD MATERIAL FROM THE PATELLAR TENDON

NEXT, WE DRILL TUNNELS AND PULL THE NEW TENDON THRU, SECURING THEM WITH SCREWS.

THIS, OF COURSE IS THE HIGHLY SANITIZED VERSION OF WHAT REALL HAPPENED, BUT IF YOU ARE CURIOUS, JUST GO TO YOU TUBE AND WATCH A FEW VIDEOS.

GOOD NEWS? NO WORK FOR 34 DAYS!!



Thursday, April 16, 2009

BISHOPS AND TERRORISTS

  • APPARENTLY, THE GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY CLERGY LEADERSHIP HAS DECIDED THAT WHAT OBAMA WANTS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT GOD WANTS. WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TOLD THE UNIVERSITY TO COVER THE JESUIT SYMBOL FOR JESUS UP SO THAT IT WOULD NOT APPEAR IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE HE GAVE ANOTHER SPEECH. SO MUCH FOR PUTTING GOD FIRST....
  • MEANWHILE, OBAMA'S DIRECTOR OF HOMELAND SECURITY RELEASED A MEMO STATING THAT I AM A POTENTIAL TERRORIST, AS WELL AS THE REST OF THE NATION'S SERVICE MEMBERS AND VETERANS.
RE-READ WHAT I JUST WROTE AND LET IT SINK IN FOR A MINUTE.
AMAZING ISN'T IT?

Thursday, April 9, 2009

I JUST GOT HOME FROM...

A VERY SMALL BASE, BUT A NICE VIEW, DON'T YOU THINK?
THIS IS WHERE WE STAYED. THE PROPERTY HAS A 1-STAR MOTEL, A CONVENIENCE STORE, AND A REALLY CRAPPY CASINO/BAR/RESTARAUNT. I NEVER SAW THE COOL CASH, BUT I DID HAVE SOME STEAK AND EGGS FOR $4.99

COMING HOME THROUGH THE CAJON PASS

I SAW THIS LICENSE PLATE, WHICH WAS A LITTLE CONFUSING, BECAUSE I THOUGHT MY WIFE WAS THE CROP QUEEN?







Friday, April 3, 2009

AT CREECH AIR FORCE BASE

THE AIR FORCE FLYS THE PREDATOR DRONE FROM HERE. IT IS FLOWN BY REMOTE CONTROL AND CAN BE FLOWN AND CONTROLLED FROM HERE EVEN WHILE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD. IT FLIES AT UP TO 25,000 FEET HIGH AND HAS ALL KINDS OF CAMERAS AND SENSORS. IT CAN CARRY 2 HELLFIRE MISSLES AND RUIN YOUR DAY.
THE GERMANS SHOWED UP WITH 2 TORNADO FIGHTER-BOMBERS





Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A TRILLION HERE, A TRILLION THERE...


REMEBER WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE AND USED THE WORD "TRILLION" LIKE IT WAS SOME UNREALISTIC NUMBER? NOT ANYMORE!!!
  • $800 BILLION FOR BANK BAILOUT (yes, it was during Bush, but Mr Obama seems to forget he voted for it!)
  • $800 BILLION STIMULUS PLAN
  • $410 BILLION OMNIBUS BILL
  • THE NATIONAL DEBT INCREASES $3.75 BILLION PER DAY
  • EACH PERSON'S SHARE is $36,113.37

THE PLAN?

QUADRUPLE SPENDING, WHICH WILL CUT OUR DEBT IN HALF, OR SOMETHING...


Tuesday, March 17, 2009

CRUISIN' DAYTON

LOOKED GOOD, BUT I KEPT DRIVING

I ATE HERE INSTEAD


SWEENEY'S FROM THE STREET IN CENTERVILLE
SWEENEY'S ENTRANCE

I HAD LOBSTER BISQUE & CLAM CHOWDER TO START, FOLLOWED BY SHRIMP, SQUASH, ZUCCHINI, MUSHROOMS AND PASTA IN WINE SAUCE.
I DIDN'T CATCH WHO THIS GUY WAS
I JUST THOUGHT THIS LOOKED COOL
I BETTER BRUSH UP A LITTLE BEFORE I STOP HERE
QUICK, CALL RUSH LIMBAUGH AND SEAN HANNITY!!







Friday, March 13, 2009

HOOTERS REPORTING FOR DUTY

I arrived at work Friday morning and found this owl perched in the cockpit window of one of our helos. This is the second time an owl has decided to make one of our helos it's hang-out spot. It happened last Sunday night also, but I was not there - I just got the phone call and report next day. Anyway, it looks like they have decided to become unofficial members of the sqaudron, so I guess we need to change our call sign from "Knightriders" to "Nightowls".

Monday, March 9, 2009

MEET YOUR NEW NEIGHBOR...

Obama funds $20M tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA
This is the news that didn't make the headlines...
  • By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of$20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States - was signed on January 27.
  • Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

A review of Barack Obama's most recent actions since he was inaugurated:

  1. His first call to any head of state as president was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.
  2. His first one-on-one interview with any news organization was with Al Arabia television.
  3. He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees halted.
  4. He ordered all overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.
  5. He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and 9/11.

Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to move to and live in the US at American taxpayer expense - I guess he is giving "Hope" to the terrorists with YOUR "Change" from the Stimulus Package.

Monday, March 2, 2009

WHO SAYS OBAMA'S NOT GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY?

JUST TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THE MARKET HAS DONE SINCE HE GOT NOMINATED ON AUGUST 28, THEN ELECTED ON NOVENBER 4, & THEN SWORN IN JANUARY 5. HOW IS SOCIALISM WORKING OUT FOR YOU?

Monday, February 23, 2009

SOMETHING NOT MADE IN CHINA


I finally found something not made in China. We all know that 90% of everything we buy is made in China, but I have discovered something that is not. It is made right here in the U-S-of-A. Now there is some irony for you.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

OBAMA'S NEW BLACK ATTORNEY GENERAL THINKS...

...YOU ARE A RACIST. IN A SPEECH GIVEN TODAY HONORING BLACK HISTORY MONTH, HE SAID THAT WHEN IT COMES TO RACE, "AMERICA IS A NATION OF COWARDS" AND THAT "THIS NATION HAS STILL NOT COME TO GRIPS WITH IT'S RACIAL PAST, NOR HAS IT BEEN WILLING TO CONTEMPLATE IN A TRULY MEANINGFUL WAY THE DIVERSE FUTURE IT IS FATED TO HAVE."

HUH? I guess two black Secretaries of State, a black President, and a black Attorney General (him) just aren't enough. I wonder why he didn't mention that none of the European countries have elected ANY black leaders - ever. Nope - just the same old "hate America" crap...

If you had any questions in your mind about Obama, his Attorney General, his preacher for 20 years (Reverend Wright) and the preacher at the Presidential Inaguration (remember - "when white will do what is right"), this should just about do it. I wonder if any of the major news networks will run this information - don't bet your paycheck on it whitey!

Monday, February 9, 2009

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians." --Edward Langley

  • "The creation of money exclusively as debt is the critical, destabilizing flaw in the American Economy". -- author Theodore R. Thoren
  • "The Founding Fathers of this great land had no difficulty whatsoever understanding the agenda of bankers, and they frequently referred to them and their kind as, quote, "friends of paper money. They hated the Bank of England, in particular, and felt that even were we successful in winning our independence from England and King George, we could never truly be a nation of freemen, unless we had an honest money system. Through ignorance, but moreover, because of apathy, a small, but wealthy, clique of power brokers have robbed us of our Rights and Liberties, and we are being raped of our wealth. We are paying the price for the near-comatose levels of complacency by our parents, and only God knows what might become of our children, should we not work diligently to shake this country from its slumber! Many a nation has lost its freedom at the end of a gun barrel, but here in America, we just decided to hand it over voluntarily. Worse yet, we paid for the tyranny and usurpation out of our own pockets with "voluntary" tax contributions and the use of a debt-laden fiat currency!." -- Peter Kershaw, author of the 1994 booklet "Economic Solutions"
  • "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." --Winston Churchill

Sunday, February 1, 2009

JOB CREATION, OR GOVERNMENT GROWTH?


• $83 billion in welfare payments
• $81 billion for Medicaid
• $66 billion on “education”, more than the entire Department of Education required just ten years ago
• $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
• $20 billion for food stamps
• $8 billion on “renewable energy” projects, which have a low or negative return
• $7 billion for “modernizing federal buildings and facilities”
• $6 billion on urban transit systems, dominated by unions and which, almost universally, lose money
• $2.4 billion for “carbon-capture demonstration projects”
• $2 billion for child-care subsidies
• $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that’s run in the red for 40 years
• $650 million for “digital TV conversion coupons” (on top of billions already spent)
• $600 million on new cars for government (added to the $3 billion already spent each year)
• $400 million for “global-warming research”
• $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts


OH, BY THE WAY, MR. HOPE-N-CHANGE WANTS TO CUT THE MILITARY BUDGET 10%

Sunday, January 25, 2009

I'M SICK, IT'S COLD AND RAINY...

TIME TO MAKE MY SIGNATURE CHICKEN SOUP IN MY BELOVED DUTCH OVEN

YUMMY!!!!!

Monday, January 19, 2009

CARS, CHICKS, AND RACING

DYLAN'S RACER

THE CHICKEN (AKA - "DERBY CHICK") - MOM'S CAR


DYLAN SMOKING THE COMPETITION!
Dylan ended up with 2nd in his Den (out of 8) and somewhere between 7th and 12th in the whole Pack (41 cars total). "Derby Chick" took home 1st in the Parent's Division (out of 6). A good day of racing!




Wednesday, January 14, 2009

ANOTHER SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

How many times per day do you ask (or are you asked) "how are you doing?" or "what's up?" or some other form of the the two? And of those times, how often do you get (or give) a real response other than "good" or "pretty good" or "not much" or "same ole', same ole" or some form of those very blah, generic responses?

I believe we are all PROGRAMMED to EXPECT these questions and responses as we pass people in the halls or sidewalks or wherever, in an effort to not appear rude, but with no real expectation of an ACTUAL legitimate answer. We simply ask (or answer) and keep moving with whatever we are doing. We even answer (or receive an answer) to the opposite question that was asked. EXAMPLE - "how are you?" gets a response of "not much" - anticipating one of the usual questions, you (or the other person) spout out the usual, generic response, but to the wrong question.

No real conversation is expected, just two people trying not to appear rude.

This happens every day, every minute, everywhere. And today after witnessing it yet again, I decided to run a social experiment. I was out in our hangar watching some helos take off, and one of our civilian contractors was approaching. I began walking toward him, and when we were about 10 - 12 feet apart, I mumbled some gibberish - not even real words. Sure enough, as we passed each other, he said "good, how about you?" AND NEVER EVEN SLOWED DOWN OR LOOKED BACK.

FASCINATING. I LOVE IT. I highly recommend that you try it out.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

IRONY


The Sirius Star was captured by pirates in November with 25 crew members, 450 nautical miles southeast of Kenya. Yesterday five of the eight Somali pirates drowned when a wave washed over their getaway boat as they squabbled over over how to split their $3 million ransom. The ransom money had been dropped from a low flying airplane and the pirates were trying to make a quick get-a-way in their small boat with rough seas. TRAGIC ISN'T IT?

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

FOR DINNER TONIGHT I HAD...

















OK, SO IT WASN'T GOURMET OR HEALTHY IN ANY WAY, BUT, THAT'S WHAT SOUNDED GOOD!