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By John, on March 10th, 2011
I don’t know about anyone else, save for my wife, but I tend to be my harshest critic. Last night I had a flight and it wasn’t going well. For me, any problem or gaps in my knowledge are unacceptable. For a while I thought that I wasn’t going to pass my flight and [...]
By John, on February 8th, 2011
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 [...]
By John, on September 21st, 2010
Since I last made a post the wheels have been put into motion… and they didn’t turn far.
We got our assignment and we don’t have to pack up our bags and move. We’re going to stay at McChord for the next few years. Along with my assignment I got my next pile [...]
By John, on August 25th, 2010
We’re entrenched in academics and its all fairly standard stuff. For the past week they’ve constantly reminded the new airmen that if they fail, they’ll RTP (return to parent). There is no reclassification and there are no second chances. We actually had an airman come talk to my class about failing – he was [...]
By John, on August 19th, 2010
Yesterday evening I arrived at Lackland, the home of basic military training for the Air Force. For the next two months I’ll be in class just like every basic training graduate. It’s back to basics for me. I’m retraining into the Loadmaster career field (1A2X1).
Simply driving around this place has brought back [...]
By John, on February 1st, 2010
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 [...]
By John, on December 23rd, 2009
I’m 15 pages deep into Economics 201 I don’t know near enough to figure out what has and hasn’t work in our economy in the past few years. I’m sure that with one to two more years of study I still won’t know enough to figure it out. What I do know is that [...]
By John, on October 4th, 2009
For nine years I have been sporadically working on acquiring a single piece of paper. As of Thursday, I have finally earned my associates degree. While I don’t technically have the degree because they only award them twice a year and I’m in the middle of the window I still have all the required [...]
By John, on September 23rd, 2009
I’m in my final math class for my associates degree and the equation above makes perfect sense to me. As a self proclaimed hater of math I somehow enjoy knowing what that equation means. I can actually visualize the graph of that parabola. I actually enjoy this class enough that I am going to [...]
By John, on October 8th, 2008
When I was in high school I loved debate class. I spent more of my time and energy on that class than any other subject. There was something about humiliating another person with logic, reason, and facts that drew me in from the start. For the large part, I spent my time debating varsity [...]
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