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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The Sex Entry in General
There was something going on from the minute I met her. This ridiculous electrical thing. We did the interview thing. I was low, and certainly didn’t feel attractive. I was coming out of a divo...
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...
On Every Street in General
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...
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.
Amish Paradise in General
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...
Top Gun: Maverick in General
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...
Zero Day Code in General
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 ...
The Dolphin in General
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...
All Things in Time in General
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 ...
Enter Sandman in General
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...
Blank Page in Background Noise
“You are the ways of my mistakes I catch the rainfall Through the leaking roof That you had left behind You remind me Of that leak in my soul…” It is strange how music can put you right bac...
Free For All in General
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...
I Will Mend Your Heart (7/26/2017) in Background Noise
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...
Bought Some Cheap Shades at the AMOCO Station in General
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...
Living After Midnight in General
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...
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...
Armageddon in General
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...
The Terminal List in General
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...
The Killer Angels (July 3rd, 1863) in General
“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...
It’ll Come to Me in General
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...
1118 Leaving Oak Harbor in General
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...
Red Ragtop in General
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...
”There’s something sexy about the rain” She said as it came pouring down “It feels like kisses on my skin” She spread her arms and spun around In a summer island storm In a field of sugarcane She...
Cedar and Sage 4/2/02 (Background Noise) in Background Noise
I was rinsing off a plate or a coffee cup, don’t remember which. I looked at the drying plant on the raised wood platform that straddles the sinks and thought “What the hell is that….?”. Quickl...
Wanted Dead or Alive in General
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...
