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I went back into the GD employment webpage and found the job listing I am interviewing for tomorrow. Bookmarked all the listed software on Youtube. Printed out my resume, Found my DD214, Social S...

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There’s gotta be a record of you someplace You gotta be on somebody’s books The lowdown, a picture of your face Your injured looks The sacred and profane The pleasure and the pain Somewhere your...

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The million dollar ride. Mostly under 500’ AGL (above ground level) and occasionally less than 50’ AGL when ridge cresting. 420-480 knots (480-550 miles per hour) I miss it so bad I could cry.

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I was on a break last week when google recommended this video. I watched it on my phone and laughed way more than I should have. When I was living in an alternate universe, in southern Maryl...

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The original actually inspired an entire generation of Naval Aviators. While unrealistic in concept (meaning+shit don’t work that way) the flying scenes are fantastic. I recognize parts of VR-135...

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I am listening to a book I accessed for free from Audible. Zero Day Code. It is a fascinating hand-in-glove tale of events right on the edge of reality. In a nutshell, global drought leads to ...

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My folks took me out to lunch for my birthday. Well after rescheduling a couple of times we finally went out. I got off work and went about Tuesday chores before taking a shower to wash off 9 ho...

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I realized that working until I was ready to die, only to spend my two day “weekend” pounding Aleve and leaning on a heating pad only to go back and do it all again for five days only to soak my ...

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In spring of ’91 I was in the Replacement Air Group (RAG) for the EA-6B fleet. It was technically the Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS), but Navy guys are hard to change. We still referred to t...

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Free For All “See you there with your Cheshire grin I got my eyes on you Shake your tail feathers in my face and there’s no tell in what I’ll do Well looky here, you sweet young thing: the magic...

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Yeah this Vampire shift shit isn’t going to work. You know that thing you do where you touch each of your fingers with your thumb? Sa Ta Ma Na A yoga Mantra, which works for me when I am in a do...

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I’ve successfully flipped my schedule. Day is night, and night is day. I am a Vampire. Back to work a few days ago. Came close to the first conflict with a shift manager. At Wallyworld there a...

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In bed. She would smile in her sleep, as I was awake. The light from my alarm clock on that pretty face. I would reach across and put my hand on her back to feel her heartbeat. She’d sigh and ro...

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Steven Tyler, in an interview I read years ago said they really knew they had struck gold the first time he heard the finished version of “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.” Just before the first c...

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I’m watching “The Terminal List” on Prime. It breaks my heart on so many levels. And reminds me. Chris Pratts’s character comes home from deployment, and his kid and his wife have no clue what he...

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“Pickett’s Charge was the climax of the Battle of Gettysburg (1863), and one of the most famous infantry attacks of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Lasting about an hour on the afternoon of J...

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Well. Four days ago I ripped my right latissimus dorsi. Imagine taking a sheet of paper and ripping it in half. That sound is exactly the pain. Synesthesia much? I have ripped that muscle thr...

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One of the things you get good at as an aviator is keeping notes. At one point I actually designed a kneeboard card with parallel blocks. You never know when the powers that be are going to dem...

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Well, the very first time her mother met me Her green-eyed girl had been a mother-to-be for two weeks I was out of a job and she was in school And life was fast and the world was cruel We were yo...

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I don’t know what the hell is happening with me. Oddly satisfied with life. Today is my Saturday. Yesterday I walked 18900 steps at work. I was in Sporting Goods, which meant every trip to “as...

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Well, I called out for the first time. Sometime last week I cut my thumb with my super-dooper safety company approved boxcutter. My right hand is my dominant hand. You learn rapidly how often yo...

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Old Entry. Breaks my heart I prayed tonight. Let’s be clear, I am an agnostic. To me that means that I believe in God, I just don’t know his intentions. True atheists are those bookish people w...

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I know, a bit early. You have been on my mind, for, something like 11 years. You were my last love. The handful of dates I have been on in the last decade always end the same way: “She’s nice,...

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Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my Hand… I’m on my “weekend.” My days off are Tuesday-Wednesday, but because I get off Tuesday at 0700 and start again on Thursday at 2200 I get co...

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Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my Hand… I’m on my “weekend.” My days off are Tuesday-Wednesday, but because I get off Tuesday at 0700 and start again on Thursday at 2200 I get co...

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