Our planet

I’ll agree that our planet is headed on a path of destruction. As one person among billions I can’t do anything to slow it down. In fact, by spending my income the way I do I’m only exacerbating the problem. I found a video, now a few years old, that details the problems that [...]

Quick update

With the holidays fast approaching I’ve got a glut of information to go through before I leave for the break. We’re going to have classes and assignments through the weekend until the early part of next week. After that, I’m going to sit around and wait to leave. We’re doing a cross-country Christmas this [...]

Round 1 is over – on to Round 2

Round 1 of training is complete and I still have quite a long way to go in the whole training process. I’ve finished aircrew fundamentals and basic loadmaster. Next on my list are three survival schools followed by the big daddy of them all – initial qualification. I’ve barely been home all year and [...]

On a somber note

Over the weekend I went north to visit some family. My aunt has been battling cancer for quite some time and has been in the hospital for a little more than a month. I was hoping to talk to my aunt while I was there but it wasn’t meant to be. Earlier last week [...]

Something different every day

We’ve hardly had any real downtime since I’ve been home and it isn’t a bad thing. We’ve been busy hanging out with the extended family, attending weddings, playing with the dogs, cleaning the house, and we’ve been having a great time doing all of that. We won’t have any slow days until sometime next [...]

The Happy Guy

If you’re reading this you’ve obviously been here before. Seldom does this website get random visitors so I know most of my audience. You’re aware of my temperament. You know that I like to rant and I fly off the handle with ease. This blog (in its various incarnations) has been a venue for [...]

The requisite gym update post

What would you do without the requisite gym update post? Probably continue through your life without skipping a beat – but, I feel the overwhelming need to write something new and the only thing on top of my head is my progress at the gym.

First off, I should have done a better [...]

What happened?

Via a status update on Facebook, of all places, I learned that a friend of mine had committed suicide. I’m still struggling to understand how the kid I knew reached that point in his life.

When I was 13 or 14 I spent many hours over at his house watching TV or playing [...]

This isn’t the Hilton

This place isn’t the Hilton, Sheraton, or Best Western. Think of it as a scattered Motel 6… that sublets your room to other people.

I wish were sleeping in tents. Really, I wish we had tents instead of containerized housing units. First and foremost, I could have some privacy as its fairly easy [...]

Havoc in our day

Havoc – general destruction, devastation, desolation or wasting. In our case, its a little puppy that hasn’t destroyed anything as of yet. She does have a nose for socks and she always seems to find them. They can be off the floor but if we leave her unwatched for a minute or two she’ll [...]