Duke
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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I Will Mend Your Heart in General
A little over 7 years ago I fell in love for the last time. I was still living in my house on great island. I had gone to the Sea Dog for New Years Eve. I danced with a girl I had known for f...
Pilot Shortage in General
I saw this coming back in 2003. The identity politics, politically correct crap was invasive. Today the focus is on stupid shit like “sensitivity training” and “transsexual awareness training.”...
Fade Into You in General
I have always thought the way petite women could reach behind their back and hold their other arm incredibly sexy. Kind a reminder of how differently men and women are built. I used to think H...
1979 in Background Noise
Written 5/17/2007 Background Noise is where I plant stories that strike me from the OD days. Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I shoul...
Remember when Our Songs were just like Prayers in General
The meteorologists have taken to calling this the summer that wasn’t. We have only had a couple of hot days. The rest of the time it has been pleasantly cool, mid 70s with low humidity. Whic...
Time Will Tell in General
Up the country and back again. The bean was in good spirits, although she insists on wearing a hoodie even when it is stifling hot. The flanken ribs were a hit, though the Oi kimchi not so much...
Loose gear and circuit breakers - “Pilot,” “One,” “Two,” Three.” Radalt - “Set, five thousand.” Masks/visors - “Pilot,” “One,” “Two,” Three.” G-Warn - 4gs to the left, 0g snap roll to the right, ...
I go to bed on schedule, a little after 10PM. At 3AM I get up to take a leak. And. Then find myself staring at the ceiling. It is now a bit past 4AM. I wanted to go to Mae’s for breakfast, bu...
I was actually looking for my Bachelors Degree diploma when I came across my “goodbye” photo from the Wizards. It is a stirring shot of a sole EA-6B flying over Denali in Alaska. It is a very pr...
Early Summer Ramblings in General
Microsoft word gives me the fits. It defaults to Calibri 11 pt font, which for some reason I find as obnoxious as hell. I was career military. Since we got computers in the early 90s the stand...
Summer Girl in General
I suspect it is allergies, as the streets are completely yellow with pollen. But damn but I feel like someone dropped a freaking house on me. My eyes are itchy, my nose is running, and my joint...
Days Like These in General
Days Like These Awesome workout song. The tempo changes work perfectly on an elliptical, moving from the higher resistance slower parts to the higher paced parts of the song. RIP John Wetton. A...
Countdown I was on the way home from the store when Evel came up with this one. The markers of our life. The “Where were you when?” I was a kid when the space shuttle Enterprise, the test bed f...
Boom, Like That in General
I canned my Facebook profile. It was getting too stupid. I bounced from PB for a while so the liberals could gnash their teeth and make pronouncements about the end of times. PB has calmed dow...
Top Gun II in General
(Can’t take credit for this, written by a fellow AOCS alum) Will Maverick be a pudgy 737 captain at a major airline? Member of an ALPA committee struggling against the corporate structure? Balanc...
March 2010 in General
What I was doing at work 7 years ago. Trying to merge several databases to give answers to people who asked questions. Photobucket is giving me fits.
Somewhere I have a clip of me doing this song, about 30 seconds long and just me and the Ibanez acoustic. No percussion, no bass. During cruise in ‘99, this was my “go to bed” song. I had a ch...
Season of the Ant in General
I live in the end condo of a four unit building. For the most part I am pretty happy with where I live. Truth be told see no reason to move until I become infirm. Believe me, I will shuffle of...
Carefree Highway in General
Pickin’ up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream I wonder how the old folks are tonight Her name was Ann and I’ll be damned if I recall her face She left me not knowin’ what to do… Wednesdays a...
Sweet Jebus in General
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday morning tend to be my busiest days. So Basically I have 3 1/2 day weekends. If you told 22yo me that 54yo would have 3 1/2 day weekends he would have said “sweet!”...
Generation Kill in General
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Here I Go Again in General
Five weeks into Private Pilot Ground School. I actually look forward to going to class, unlike the classes while getting my MBA where a half hour before I would search my brain for any reasonab...
Observation in General
Observation I was watching a episode of Chicago Med. A family came into the ER, the pregnant woman having problems breathing. As the staff went to work trying to figure out what was wrong it so...
Alabama Song in General
Alabama Song Strange winter. Strange start to spring. It was warm but windy today. I thought about going to the beach with a book. Taking a walk. Something. Unfortunately I stayed up way la...
