Rolling Stone writer Paul Nelson saw "Running on Empty" as embodying a "tenacious, win/lose duality" and being "what daydreamers have nightmares about."
I was a big Eagles fan in their heyday. Wasn't much of a Jackson Brown fan - he always seemed slightly whiney.
A couple of weeks ago I watched the Eagles Behind the Music again and realized that Jackson Brown was a big part of the early Eagles sound. Before Hotel California.
So.
Up to speed on one class - although being the perennial victim of the Textbook Industrial complex it looks like I am going to have to make a run to the mothership tomorrow to get the same book as the rest of the class. Such a freaking scam.
The other class I am probably going to drop. Its more about a disagreement with the professor does things. He is all about "by the numbers" instead of solving the problem. I'm a little too old to be solving problems the way some punk ass 33 year old PhD says things should be done. To me solving the problem is the only concern.
Sure in law and other severely codified professions it is probably good to be able to puke out the correct answer while working toward a solution. In project management there is never one correct answer.
As i was writing there was a segment on ABC about the relative importance of confidence at work - and that because of testosterone men tend to be more willing to take risks. It reminded me of this clip:
One of the guys talks about the evolution of confidence within a person. You start low, it gets better until you are sure you can't fail. Then as you see more, experience more you realize that failure does happen. A bit of a sine wave over the course of a career.
At 30 I launched off the boat into weather that I would never accept now at 51. We did it because they told us to, and we couldn't die. The risk wasn't part of the equation, just part of the challenge.
I worried how the integration of women into the ready room was going to affect the culture. It was just becoming real as I was leaving the fleet ten years ago.
I wonder how the women in the naval aviation life do things they know are just fucking stupid without that boost of hormones.
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