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Quick note: If you do something different, even if it's great you're laughed at in politics. If you usually have all the right ideas, but you're in an environment where nothing right is done, you're laughed at. If you think drastic times call for drastic measures, but people are too lazy and scared for drastic change you're laughed at.
I didn't agree %100 with Dr.Paul, but he was laughed at for being one of the only people to talk straight about this country's situation and actually propose viable, and needed solutions. He has had some vindication over the last 8 months and some people are second guessing thier chuckles from the election season. I disagree with him on some international affairs, but when it comes to personal responsibility, welfare, medical, and the economy he nails it. People are starting to see that with his new bill, H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act.
To learn why our monetary system isn't necessarily run by the government, go google info on the FED.
This helps too: http://www.campaignforliberty.com
Brian @ 10:13 | comments(0) | Permanent link
BILLY MAYS HERE FOR.... Awww man, I just can't make a joke about the "BILLY MAYs Defibulator!" or the "BILLY MAYs hot hot pine box". After watching the first few episodes of Pitchmen I started to get my BM impression down pat.
[yell loudly] [point with both hands, all fingers outward - think karate chop] "HI!, I'm BILLY MAYs" [bring in one hand, made into a slight fist] "and I want to tell you about the" [point again, all fingers outward] "amazing new" [point to product, one finger] <product name here>!
I never bought anything from you, but gosh darnnit, I wanted to. RIP BILLY MAYs.
Brian @ 15:19 | comments(0) | Permanent link
David Axelrod... Makes me think of Axel Rose. Any name with "Axel" in it just screams rock n' roll, doesn't it?
Two quotes from him. The first was shown to me by my wife. Her note is directly below it...
“David Axelrod says Obama expressed his condolences to the Jacksons. He said Obama saw the pop star as a spectacular performer whose life had sad and tragic aspects.”
Awesome. Our President spoke about MJ sooner than he spoke about Iran
Well said, love. The reason? Much like Obama, MJ was a celebrity. While entertainment has a huge affect on society, it isn't really important in life. Therefore it's easy to quickly decide the correct, nearly scripted, condolence soundbyte. Unfortunatly, "I think your election was a sham, and so do your citizens. I don't want to play nice with you anymore" was on the very last page, hence why it took so long.
Next up...(from washingtonpost.com)
"There are a number of formulations and we'll wait and see. The important thing at this point is to keep the process moving, to keep people at the table, to the keep the discussions going," Axelrod said. "We've gotten a long way down the road and we want to finish that journey."
I need to disect this a bit, because this quote is classic "don't do this" when it comes to college writing/speaking skills.
- 49 words
- "keep the process moving", "keep people at the table", and "keep the discussions going" are all the same idea, repeated.
- "number of formulations"... ok, how many? What are they? What are the results so far?
- "We'll wait and see"... I won't hold my breath
- considering "wait and see", "people at the table","long way down the road", and "finish that journey" are all just sayings with little to no relevance to anything, only about %70 of this MIGHT contain some useful information.
What's this all about? Could be anything, right? Basicly that promise the big O made about not taxing folks back when he was criticizing McCain for it? "I pledge that under my plan, no one making less than $250,000 a year will see any type of tax increase,". Well he kind of lied.
It drives me nuts how most peices of political information are so scrubbed and vauge, it's not information at all. Mr.RockN'Roll could have said that about anything!
Excuss me, Sir. What can you tell us about the declining spermwhale population and the opposition to whale hunting in general?
"There are a number of formulations and we'll wait and see. The important thing at this point is to keep the process moving, to keep people at the table, to the keep the discussions going," Axelrod said. "We've gotten a long way down the road and we want to finish that journey."
Exceuss me, Sir. How does the current administration feel about legos? Has there been any discussion about what is liked more - blue or red blocks?
"There are a number of formulations and we'll wait and see. The important thing at this point is to keep the process moving, to keep people at the table, to the keep the discussions going," Axelrod said. "We've gotten a long way down the road and we want to finish that journey."
Excuss me, Sir. Do you have any comment about the numbers of starving little people debate teams who also like to participate in long distance races?
"There are a number of formulations and we'll wait and see. The important thing at this point is to keep the process moving, to keep people at the table, to the keep the discussions going," Axelrod said. "We've gotten a long way down the road and we want to finish that journey."
Excuss me, Sir. Can you comment on the possibility of additional stimulus packages despite thier assurances of help yet obvious failures, and perhaps why the big O's administration wants to take back one of it's key primary promises?
...I think you get the idea.
Brian @ 10:31 | comments(1) | Permanent link
Yes, he was a musical icon. Yes, I loved his music. Yes, he changed the music business. No, I would not trust my child with him.
What is it with people praising his life so much because he's a celebrity? I am shocked at the forgiveness of the public and media. Am I really that old-time to have morals and not be blinded by fame? Why should a persons skills null thier personal actions? If I kill one person, and save another from certain death, do they balance out? If I beat my wife, but have a few hit songs like Chris Brown, does that make it ok? What if I like urinating on underaged girls, but "I belive I can fly"...do I get off then like R.Kelly did?
I'm not even talking about legal justice; even I have gotten out of a ticket or two. I'm talking the state of morality in this country and around the world. If I have a neighbor that has been accused of child molestation, has childrens parties at thier place all the time, built an amusement park for them, has no sembalance of an adult life, invites children to his room for sleep-overs I'm sure as hell not going to trust my child in the same area as him! What type of parent would!? Why is he being praised so much? The tallented, kind-of-adjusted, black MJ died a LOOOOOOOOONG time ago. I respect his music, but can never praise the man.
He hasn't even made any good music in like 10 years. Big whoop.
By the way, I never wish harm on anyone *cough*except child molestors*cough* and I do think that thoughts like this are rough for the family. He matters to them, not me. If one of my family members died I'm betting Janette won't write about them on HER blog! =P So yes, I do feel bad for the family because they have reasons to mourn. The rest of the world needs to grow a pair and suck it up.
EDIT:
Some amusing or interesting thoughts I've read today on MJ...
- NOOOOOOOO not MJ! Someone tell the paramedic to grab him by the heart and just "Beat it"
- To quote Chris Rock, "the brother was turning clear..."
- I wish I could fast-forward a week of my life and get Michael Jackson's death and the "global mourning" out of the way. Hopefully this won't last long and we can get back to our regular scheduled programming and keep an eye on socialist Obama and how he deals with nuclear war with N. Korea, unrest in Iran, all the while sinking our economy deeper into annihilation all for the betterment of the global citizen.
- It's a shame how the media covers and adores him and other non-essential personel and they look the other way at the real hero's of our Nation ie: all the Congressional Medial of Honor recipiants that have passed on as well as every Silver, Bronze and all that have gone above and beyond in the line of duty. The folks that deserve it don't get the recognition the media gives whacko & other entertainers."
- BT: What's really a shame is that Wacko Jacko stole Farah Fawcett's thunder.
Farah was making the news big time in the morning until Jacko kicked the bucket. Now they've been talking about it ever since and probably will be for weeks. We'll probably not hear another thing about Farah.
T: So one famous beautiful white woman died, and one ugly white woman died. - The idol worshiping media is all over the Jackson distraction like stink on a heaping pile of manure while pushing Ed Mc Mahon's and Farrah Fawcett's death to the back pages of oblivion. Also, it's a good excuse to ignore little things like the Cap & Tax bill our gang in DC is spiriting through.
- Ho hum, ho hum. Ya' know what I hate about the whole thing? The 400 text messages I received in a 30 minute span from everyone who thought they were breaking the story to me.
- G: I wouldn't be surprised if he was faking it. He's weird like that.
Y: No better way to pay off that debt...
T: Except to actually die. Then he wouldn't have to worry about it. - Wait a minute...Heath Ledger died?
- I haven't seen this much butt-kissing since the election...
Brian @ 09:02 | comments(0) | Permanent link
*Let's say someone pulls a gun on you and your family and threatens to kill all of you, and you have every ability to take them out what do you do?
A. Laugh at them
B. Ignore them
C. Say "I'm going to do something about this...after you shoot one of us"
D. KILL HIM!
This is the best analogy I can think of to describe the situation with NKorea right now. As you may have guessed, Obama has decided to pull out option C. *facepalm* While I wasn't a huge fan of Bush, at least he would have been dealing with the NKorean threat by now. I mean, he went in to Iraq for WMDs with no valid proof (dumb move all together), and here is lil'Kim TELLING US he's building nukes and weaponizing every bit of plutonium they can. He's threatening the US directly. How can the big O be such a fool?! He wants the world to be this utopian place where talking gets things done all the time - they don't. One of my highschool teachers had a very odd lesson one day. It revolved around the idea that WAR SOLVES EVERY PROBLEM. Granted, it may create 2, 3 or 100 more in it's place, but force and threats gets things done.
*Lets say you have 10 kids. "you have 10 kids" (bud-dum chish!).
You give each of them 10 dollars. (10x10=$100)
Little Jimmy decides to sell his new toy truck and earn %5 of the total GDP of the kids. (5/100=$5)
He now has $15, which is 15% of kid GDP.
Now lets say you want to stimulate your kids spending, and give them an extra $90 FOR NOTHING. (100 + 90x10 = $1000)
If Jimmy wants to sell his truck for the same $5, that will be only .5% (half a percent) of kid GDP.
He will now have only %10.5 of kid GDP. ((100+5)/1000) Ripoff. Not much of a worthy investment and he's probably better off keeping his truck to play with.
If he wanted to end up at the same %15 of kid GDP he would have to sell his truck for $50.
This is an increase of %1000 from his original price of $5!
Has the truck changed in any way from the time it was worth $5? NO! Are there less trucks, driving up demand? NO! Therefore, has the worth of the truck increased? NO! Are any of the other kids going to buy a truck for $50? NO! (Maybe cross-eyed Stephen, but that's because he stuck a fork too far up his nose and became the "special" one). So little Jimmy is now out of the retail trucking business along with %9.4 of the rest of the world. (Unemployment rate as of this writing)
To solve this issue, would you:
A. Assume the $90 was too little and instead give each child and additional $200
B. Wait for the kids to spend the money on other more important things (no truck would be bought for a while) until the money supply came down, and then monitor and limit the amount of money to the stable $10
Stimulus packages = dumbest move you can do to solve an economic crisis. You can not change the fact that money, and the spending of that money varies. It has its highs and low, and history has shown that when you try to counteract one of these highs or lows, it is counterproductive!
The more currency you pump into any society, the less valuable each unit becomes. It's all about percentages people! %1 of $100 is $1. %1 of $11,000,000,000,000 (11 trillion) is $110,000,000,000!!! Our monetary system works on worth, and worth is based on PERCENTAGES NOT AMOUNTS! If there was only $5 in the whole country, I'd be a rich man. This is not rocket science! Why is it that I get this, my six year old niece probably gets this, yet our president, previous president, government officials, and the freaking FED don't get this! It's their job to understand inflation. You know what happens to me when I don't do my job, or in this case I costs my company trillions of dollars? I don't get a raise, I don't get extra vacation time, I don't get a private jet. I get canned. fired. trashed. given the pink slip. a boot in my rear. If I'm very lucky I'm not sued.
Maybe in the future I'll write about the fact that this money isn't even real. Long gone are the days where money meant something - it usually meant gold or silver. With the FED having complete freedom to create as much money as they want without backing it, it's anyones guess as to how bad it will get. To give you an idea, though... 100,000,000,000,000 (yes, one-hundred-TRILLION) Zimbabwe dollars recently sold on ebay for $14.10USD. My poor neice may be ahead of her class counting over 100 now, but she has a LOOOOOOONG way to go.
*Let's say you own a wonderful home and assist with a support group for abused families. Let's also say you are fairly close (proximity, not emotionally) to your neighbors; a single mother and a teenage daughter. The mother and the girls father are divorced and live separately, but for some reason (another rant I'll get into some day) the mother has full custody. Are we setup correctly? ok...
Considering that you live close to your neighbors, you overhear some things. The mother is very loud, and abusive. She berates the girl, and tell her that it is good for her. "It builds character!" She brainwashes the poor girl into believing everything she says and it really screws with her social life, self image, and even physical health. One day the girl tells her mother she's sick of it and wants to live with daddy. The mother laughs, says he's no good, and then beats her. You can hear the fight, and know exactly what's going on.
Would you:
A. Keep watching TV. You may not like her, but she has a pool and you don't. Plus the mother is still invited to the next support group for abused children.
B. Tell your family a week or two later what happened. "gee, that didn't seem right...", yet still keep the invite open to her.
C. Call the cops. Get the girl out. Take back your invite to the mother. Speak out against her and support the father
If you picked A or B, leave my site now. here's the thing... I completely agree that we should not meddle in our neighbors affairs. But I also believe in the saying "show me your friends, I'll show you your future". This whole situation with the Iran election is a huge deal for them. For Obama to be weak and not say anything denouncing the acts there for so long is such a shame. When election results came back less than three hours determining that Akmahinajajarbinks was the winner by a landslide when the other guy (who cares about his name?) was expected to win by the landslide, the first words out of Obama's mouth should have been "That shit don't seem right!". Apparently it's how things work in his line of business though - I mean he did come out of Chicago. Don't get me wrong, I'm from there and love it, but I'm pretty sure Obama got a few votes from many dead relatives of mine.
*Let's say you're a hard working American. Let's also say the government raises taxes to pay people who don't work as hard. Are you going to work as hard in the future, knowing most of what you are working for is going to lazy people?
*Let's say you're not a hard worker. Let's say you're a slacker. Let's also say the government gives you everything you need - housing, food, complete medical coverage, and a welfare check all paid by for the guy busting his ass. You even have enough money to buy a big screen TV and rent a limo to bring you to the welfare office to pick up your check. Are you going to want to bust your ass?
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” – Ben Franklin
I'm not struggling to pay bills because I took the entire $250,000+ mortgage that the bank offered me. I'm not struggling because I have a bigscreen TV. I'm not struggling because I spend money on the things I want instead of the things I need. I'm struggling because despite buying a home I knew I could afford, being happy with my 23 inch TV with a purple spot on it, and doing everything right, the amount of money I have becomes worth less and less every day. The stimulus packages don't help us, they hinder us. I'll hold onto my 'trucks' until I can get that %15 back. $5 just isn't worth what it use to be.
Brian @ 13:09 | comments(1) | Permanent link
So other than my incredibly busy work schedule, just about every weekend until the middle of august is booked.
June
26th - Walking all night in Relay for Life
27th - Possibly going to a large gun show in Kankakee (I'm getting more "central Illinois" by the day. *facepalm*)
July
3-4th - Celebrating America. =)
10-12th - Party witht he family
17-18th - OMG A FREE WEEKEND?!
25th - Driving to Iowa for a wedding
30-2nd - Driving to DC!! (Ugh. This 12 hour drive will be a rough one)
On top of that I have to...
-Work on my exception to policy waiver for the Air Force
-See a dentist (I think I need my wisdom teeth out. ugh)
-Keep the wife happy =)
-Arrange some items on my web page for when I head to DC because the server is comming with me.
-Stay sane at work. Harder than it sounds!
Fun times.
Brian @ 10:33 | comments(1) | Permanent link
ok, so it wasn't napalm I was smelling, but gun powder was a good substitute.
Last Friday my wife, one of our friends and I went to our second pistol safety course. We finally got around to shooting. The first pistol I ever fired (many many years ago) was a Ruger .22, and that was the first one we started with. It was nice to shoot it - .22's are always fun little guns to shoot. The big deal was having my wife shoot. A mentioned in a previous post, my wife has no experience with guns. so to see her shoot was pretty exciting. She was nervous, as expected, but did a very good job. She only shot about 5 to 7 yeards out, but was very accurate and handled her weapon safely. She loved shooting the .22 and wants more of it. When we moved to the .38 revolver she was a bit more nervous and wasn't thrilled with the recoil. Despite not liking the .38 as much, she shot a ton through it. I, too, did not like the .38. it had more to do with the grip and revolver frame than any "recoil". While I offered my 9mm to her to shoot she declined. She's not quite ready for that step up apparently - which is fine. I'm thinking when we get some cash I may pick up a small .22 for her for when I head out there.
I shot pretty well. The .22 and .38 were dead on accurate so I was hollowing out bullseyes with it. The I switched to my new 9mm. As before I was shooting a bit low. I was consistent - as in I would put bulletts through the same hole multiple times, but they were always 2-3 inches low at 7yrds. I had our instructor, which has 40 years shooting experience and has won many target shooting competitions, shoot my gun to see if it's the gun, or me (and my father and friend, who was also shooting low). She took 5 shots. 3 were on dead center, 2 were close to it, none of them were low. So it's me. Until I work on my trigger control I have to just adjust my aimpoint and/or sight picture. I do plan on getting both new sights and a trigger job anyways, so I imagine my shots will be better after that too.
Brian @ 09:15 | comments(1) | Permanent link
Remember my post about domainsmack? Well it got featured on ScamSchool.
One thing I don't get... I sent my email from BRIAN@lostlocalhost.com, right? Plus I sent it to BRIAN Brushwood. I then sent a followup email letting him know my full name was BRIAN Smith. Now watch this clip. The notice comes up around the 7min mark...
SS-Handcuffs
(Enjoy the other episodes of ScamSchool from Revision3.)
Did you catch it? BRYANT? How did this happen from another Brian with an "I"? I expect such things from brYans, but another BRIAN?! Eh, not a big deal, Mr.Shwood. I'll find a way to get you back when you come to Chicago.
Side note, even since I was a kid watching ZDTV/TechTV I've wanted to be a host on the network. Ahhh how I miss the ORIGINAL Screen Savers and The Broken. =/
Brian @ 23:42 | comments(1) | Permanent link
I've made some updates to LLH. Not a whole of changes, but I've made some coding things easier and changed my URL around a bit. Also took down that waste of space forum.
If you find something that doesn't work, let me know with a comment here or by email. If my comment and email don't work... Brian@lostlocalhost.com
Brian @ 22:05 | comments(0) | Permanent link
So it's June, which means BONUS TIME!! Despite the current economical status, I have busted my butt at work, and it has been noticed a little bit. I managed to pull in a decent raise. Instead of spending all of it on my car, which I had originally planned to do, I instead spent it on something I've been wating for about 3 years... A Smith & Wesson M&P pistol.
I bought it from megasports firearms in Joliet - a great place for everything 'weapons'. They have a huge selection of pistols, rifles, knifes, accessories, and a very nice indoor range as well. I've been wanting an M&P for about two years, but they use to have a few stoppage issues. They seem to be comming from the factory now with polished feed ramps and chambers and the stoppage issues have seemed to end with the change. The only close competitor was the Springfield XD, but the M&P's feel in the hand won me over. I went to the shop expecting to buy a used compact in .40cal. I've always wanted a compact. Despite living in a no-carry state, I like the way they fit my smaller hands better, and if I planned to move I would get a carry licence. Plus this used one cost less. After speaking to a few of the sales associates and giving it some real thought I pushed aside the compact .40 for a fullsize 9mm.
This really is a better option for a few reasons. First, it will be used primarily for sport shooting and home defense. 9mm is cheap and while a .40 beats out a 9mm any day in the home defense situation, I have the belief that a 9mm will still do a damn fine job. Any intruder who is shot with a 9mm will most likely be in the same position as one shot with a .40; laying on the ground or running away. Plus having more firepower doesn't mean anything if you can't control the recoil, which leads me to my next reason for getting a 9mm full size. My wife will be shooting this. She comes from a very different family than I. I was brought up around guns, hunting, and taught to respect weapons, but not fear them. Her entire family beleives that all guns either have killed, or will kill another human. She told her mother I bought a gun and her first response was "Is everything ok?!" as if I was a threat and planning on using it on my wife. *facepalm* My wife has been very open to learning about weapons and is working on her fear of them. This week I am taking her to our first safety course, then next week we will finally get to shoot in the class. I'm excited. =)
Last week I went with a friend and my father to the range for some shooting. I put 134 rounds through it, and am quite happy with my results. It seemed to shoot low for all three of us, so I'm unsure if that's a sight issues, or just all three of us are shooting wrongly, but it's still close enough to put someone down. I plan to get some Burnell work done and also install WT 2-dot night sights. Perhaps that will change my impact point a bit.
PICS:
-In the case
-Left
-Right
-Slide Back
-Broken Down
TARGETS:
-First Mag: 15ft. 2 way low,8 slightly low,7 good shots. Drawn on bullseye was aimpoint.
-Second and Third Mag: 20-25ft. 3 low, 1 slight high/right, 30 good shots
Brian @ 12:48 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Yes, I'm angry enough to get on the border of sewaring somewhere that my family looks at. Sorry mom, sorry dad, sorry to my aunt - I'm no angel for the following post. I"M FU@(ING PISSED off!
On Memorial Day my wife and I went to a friends house for good times. We (the host and I) invited two of our friends. With these two friends they brought thier perspective girlfriends and another person who we know as the driver. All is good, the more the merrier, whatever... We played bags, I cooked some food on the grill, good times were had by all. Wifey and I left early because she wasn't feeling so well.
The next day we find out more than $100 was stolen from the hosts best friends purse. PISSED. Apparently she saw the two girlfriends walking away from the kitchen where her purse was and they left the purse wide open with both her checkbook and wallet out on the counter. She didn't say anything at the time because she didn't want to cause a scene, which the host and I are upset about now. No one will admit to stealing it, and my 'friends' are defending the girl who we think took it. One of the girls was somewhat social, and outside with us playing bags almost the whole time. The other girl was drinking quite a bit, and many times in the house alone while the rest of us were outside playing games or cooking. She was not social with us, and pretty much there to drink. Obviously she denies it. The other girlfriend denies knowing anything about it. One of my friends immediately got defensive and the other blames the dog for opening a purse on a counter she can't reach, opening up the wallet AND checkbook. The dog is cute, but she isn't that smart. I doubt it would be anyone else there because we were all friends of the host. Even theives try to not steal from friends. You'll steal from someone you wont ever see again in a house you're never going to goto again.
I understand the reason for stealing, I really do. You want something, and can take it. I just have morals and empathy. I don't do it because it's wrong. That money was going to be used to buy gifts for her husband who's in Afganistan right now!
Between issues at work, the Air Force thing, and this it's been a very rough two weeks. Oh well: I'm employed and impressing people and am managing to keep wifey happy lately - so it's not ALL bad. =)
I have to go put my halo back on now and write about my new weapon purchase: M&P 9mm.
Brian @ 12:34 | comments(1) | Permanent link
www.domainsmack.com
I swear I don't get paid for this kind of stuff, but man is it a great prank.
Basicly you setup a domain and redirect it to someones actual page. Maybe thier myspace or facebook page doesn't say quite enough about them and a personal "www.IPeeInThePool.com" domain will give it that extra touch. Perhaps a company should spill the beans to the fed with "www.icheatonmytaxes.com". So far my favorite is "www.IAmOnTheSexOffenderList.com".
I registered a domain for my dear friend Clare.
Brian @ 12:25 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Medically DQd for a waiver I had in for a proceedure that I thought was allowed. Still looking into ETP proceedures, but it's not looking too good.
I'm too broke to go back to school, and too old to live with parents to lessen bills (and the wife would just LOVE that =/ ) so I have no clue what I'm going to do now. Just suck it up and realize hating your job and location is just part of life?
EH, I'll figure it out.
Brian @ 12:57 | comments(2) | Permanent link
When I was a child I remember seeing my father come home from work stressed out. He would sometimes be red in the face, mumble about things that really didn't matter just because he had work still on his mind, and basicly would vent through cooking. It made me almost upset at his company that it had this affect on him and I expressed this to my mother. She explained in very simple terms; "Your father fixes problem for a living. If there are no problems, there's no work, and therefore no job".
I bring this up because I've been very busy at work lately. Basicly I've had a great deal of responsibility dropped in lap in the last two weeks and I'm sorting out how to deal with it all. I'm doing fine, but I finally get it. Everyday I keep telling myself this problem gives me another three/four/ten days of work before they can get rid of me. =) Not that they would, but it certainly makes having a job you're not thrilled with a bit easier.
Brian @ 14:35 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Until I get news on something cool happening, I'm gonna do some promotion for a friend of mine. She writes for a site which I'll shamelessly plug. She's a smartass like me, with a much more interesting life than my own, so you'll get WAY more amusement out of it than here at LLH.
Tame The ClareBear
Email them to give her a new contract. If it pisses them off enough LLH may have some interesting posts about my new unemployed roommate!
Brian @ 16:18 | comments(2) | Permanent link
As I've mentioned in a past post, I had removed many many many posts on here - pretty much everything. nearly everything about my flight training was pulled. Well I decided to go back and pull out certain posts to put back on here. Most of you don't care, I get that... but if you really are the type of person to wonder "What was he thinking last year about his own coding skills?" then I guess it's your lucky day.
Life right now really is this boring for now that these are what I'm posting. I will have work and AF news in the next few weeks though. cross your fingers for me.
Brian @ 16:12 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Remember a little while back when I mentioned my Email link stopped working? Well by the grace of the internet gods, it is now fixed. I have no idea what went wrong. It worked, then it didn't, and now it works again.
*shrug*
Brian @ 14:57 | comments(0) | Permanent link
I've been pretty lucky in my job. I was just notified of my raise percentage and bonus. While we're never paid what we think we deserve, I will not complain given the current state of the economy. Bottom line: NEW TOYS FOR THE SRT!!
The list:
-Big Front Mount Intercooler
-Hot and cold side hard pipes
-BOV
-Dual Aeroforce Interceptor Scan gauges
-Stage1 ECU
-Apexi SAFC NEO
-VEI Digital Boost Gauge
-VEI Wideband Gauge
-LC-1 Wideband controller & Oxygen Sensor
Brian @ 18:03 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Me and the wife have picked up a new hobby. It's easily one of the most nerdy things we have ever done together - and that's saying a lot! With the recent purchase of a GPS we've gotten into Geocaching. I won't bore you with the details of what it is - besides, you obviously have the internet, use it!
So here I add to my dorkiness with a stat page of our new hobby...
Our geocaching experiment.
Brian @ 19:26 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Finally got new wheels! No more driving on 4 slicks and I'm no longer ashamed to bring my car out and about.
Brian @ 09:05 | comments(0) | Permanent link
So this weekend I get my new wheels (Corolla). Then next weekend I get to buy new wheels (Arospeed RS-GTs) for my old wheels (SRT-4). I get them cheap, and they look nice. Not Black, but not bad I think!
Brian @ 15:44 | comments(0) | Permanent link
bleh
The car thing didn't work out at the place we originally went to. I don't feel like typing out the whole ordeal, I'll just say we were very disappointed with the service from Orland Toyota. With that said, we found a better deal from a better dealership on the way home from that fiasco. We're getting the same car with every option except nav in the color we wanted in better shape and all for less than the original deal. They helped us out once they heard about the crap we dealt with at the other place. So we're picking up our new ride tomorrow on the way to our parents place for Easter and my birthday.
I'm getting old. *facepalm*
Brian @ 14:07 | comments(0) | Permanent link
I went to the emergency room this morning. Turns out what I thought was a sinus infection or cold was actually pneumonia. Now I'm laid out in bed. Chilling. Bored. and Sick. boo.
Brian @ 11:13 | comments(0) | Permanent link
For the second time ever I couldn't come up with a witty tittle. I'm slipping in my old age. I have a birthday in 11 days. Go me.
Anyways, this weekend we're going to pick up our new car. A silver 2009 Corolla S with alloy wheels, sunroof, bluetooth, and a bunch of other cool stuff. We got a great deal on it and it gets low to mid 30s mpg.
Brian @ 16:58 | comments(0) | Permanent link
I'm working on organizing resources for a new website project my friends and I would like to start. A few weeks ago I talked to a website designer(WSD) a few cubes down from me about it and today I made a fool of myself about it.
Me: "Hey, you know I never did get that email you said you'd send me. I'd like to see those sites and your code. How dare you not send me what I asked for. You're almost fired before your hired. In this economy, that's a bad thing, missy." Then I bit her head off, pounded my chest like king kong and threw my laptop out the window. (I'm paraphrasing - It wasn't nearly that mean)
WSD: "I sure did. I sent it through your website. You know, the thing that says 'Thank you, MissAwesome. Your message has been sent!' and we all expect it work sinse you're God's gift to website coding and all..."
Me: "Oh...Well I'll have to look into that.....Thank you very much" Then I hid under my desk crying out of shame for an hour.
Yes, I know I'd be a horrible author. Apparently my email link doesn't actually send me email. It worked a year ago when I wrote it. Doesn't now. So if you've written me an email in the last year, send it again. I'm sure I will be amused at the historical view of your input. I will update this when it works.
And to the WSD, this is a perfect example of why we need you. =)
Brian @ 11:35 | comments(0) | Permanent link
"Where we work is a vicious place. I’ll attempt to describe it, but the full comprehension comes only in a sky full of hot metal and smart missiles that all seem to be looking at you. You’re in a machine that is so fast and powerful that you intuitively know if death comes, it will be full of hot fire. Frail human that you are, you will be shredded to pieces. Worst of all, you’ll be alone in a fierce place where your comrades can’t hold you while you die. This is the real environment of a fighter pilot. Fighter pilots above all else, know who among their peers are hunters and who are hunted. They absolutely will not fly into a tough combat situation with a wingman they don’t trust, and not all men make the cut."
- Jerry R. Caddick
Brian @ 21:25 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Wow it's been a while! Almost 2 months... So whats the deal?
WORK!
Work has been very busy for me. We've been going through a yearly enhancement project for my main system where we make various changes and enhancements (duh) based on executive decisions. Blah blah blah you dont care. I've also been taking on addition work for a second system in the last year. That has ramped up quite a bit ini the last two months and I've learned and taught myself conpletely new skills. I'm now pretty much a master of SSIS and MS Business Intelligence Development Studio. I had to trash thier old way of doing things and recreate it all in a new environment. Another thing to put on my resume - nice. Not that it'll be inpressive to a bunch of pilots. =)
AIRFORCE!
So if you read my last post about the IFC physical you saw my unpleasant feelings about the vision tests. I was later told I was not correctable to 20/20. This brought up a HUGE red flag for me that something went horribly wrong. They even asked "How long have you worn glasses?" I dont wear glasses, nor do I have any issues seeing. So I had the option to see an eye doc near my home and fax the results down to them. I did this on Tuesday. My normal, uncorrected vision is a bit better than 20/25, but not quite 20/20 (20/25+). My corrected vision is 20/15 with a small correction. The doc said he had no clue who did my vision test, but they screwed something up - and he use to head the opthamology area at Scott AFB years ago. So now my vision issues are almost taken care of. They did not do one test that they should have, which I need to go back to the base for next week. I'm not too worried about that. The only other issue regarding medical stuff is that I had to have a waiver submitted for my ear tubes. Apparently the flight doc did this on his own and I dont need to do anything with it. So once the waiver goes through and I get my eye thing done friday I should have everything ready to be approved. Then on to more paperwork!
VACATION! (sort of)
I'm taking a vacation that isn't really... Short story: My wife and I have married for over three years. We never got our marriage certificate. We didn't even realize we didn't receive it until about a year into marriage. We had bought a house together, a car, have insurance together, everything you'd expect. We didn't even think about the certificate until we tried to get a gym membership. That's right...a house, a car, insurance, filing tax together and the only person who asked for proof of marriage was the GYM! So for the next year and a half I was on the phone with a bunch of people in Florida (where we got married) to get it sent ot us and apparently the licence was "lost" before it was returned. I never really got anywhere until I had my lawyers get into it. Amazing how it's easy for them ot get info. So now we need to physically go back to FL with affidavids of witnesses and get a duplicate licence and then re-execute the licence. We will still retain our original marriage date. I keep cracking a joke that I'm a single man again until the trip - wifey doesn't appreciate that one too much. =) We originally were just going to go down for two nights. Somehow now it's four nights and four of our friends are comming with. Fun times.
Brian @ 10:41 | comments(0) | Permanent link
I went down to Scott AFB the other day and had my FC1 physical. Bottom line - I shouldn't have any issues, or need any waivers. Turns out I will need glasses when I get around to flying though. When I took my FC3 physical my eyes were 20/30. At MEPS they were 20/20. For some reason (maybe the fasting/no sleep thing?) I bombed the vision test. The original tests said I was nearsighted at 20/40. When I finaly went to the Optomologist with more involved tests I came out of it as slightly farsighted, but correctable to 20/20. Two things of interest with my eye tests: 1. At MEPS I did such a bad job on the depth perception test but was great on the chart reading portion. This time I was horrible on the chart, yet I nailed the depth percetion one with ease. Maybe it really just has to do with timing... 2. Getting your pupils dialated is HORRIBLE! Especially when you live off your blackberry like me.
I also had a few blood tests done which pointed out I need to workout a bit more. The flight doc was very cool and very nice about saying "You're fat. Get it together quick" in a nice way. So today my wife and I signed up for a gym we use to be members of a few years back and will start hitting that up just after the new year. Dental went fine. I had an x-ray that costs you (the taxpayer) about $900. Thanks for that. This was also my first time on a base - except for the Nellis airshow which doesn't count...
Very cool place. Clean, open, and it seemed to be run very well, as excpected.
Brian @ 10:32 | comments(0) | Permanent link
NOW it's official. =)
http://www.rs.af.mil/recruiter-online/story.asp?id=123127294
In the list of 233 names my common name sticks out. It will look even better with a "Lt." in front of it. I am one of 233 people selected to become an Officer in the Air Force, and one of 113 pilot selects. So here's the plan for the next year as far as this goes...
1. I take a physical next week.
2. That can take anywhere from 4 weeks to 6 months or more to get approved.
3. My security clearance process starts
3. Once the physical is approved, I will get a class date. I expect to be in the 10XX class blocks, so about July/August 08 to Feb 09.
4. Three months of Officer Trainign School
5. Off to my base for Pilot Training.
I'll keep this updated as I can, but I wouldn't be surprised if it went away for a while. I still have about a year before I head out, so there is a lot of time for things to change.
Brian @ 14:29 | comments(1) | Permanent link
I have a new job. It's title is 92T0: Pilot Trainee.
More details to come soon.
Brian @ 22:03 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Nearly all my posts have been pulled, and more of this site is going to be redone. It will end up being relatively minimalistic.
Explanation to come after Thanksgiving. Have a good one everyone... =)
Brian @ 16:49 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Borring update for you... I know. But I'm excited. I sold my mixer and bought stuff for the car.
-JMB Ultimate CAI with small battery kit
-JMB Catch Can
-JMB Trans Cover
-CF Eyelids
-Apexi TurboTimer
Brian @ 16:30 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Found this and laughed.
I was talking to a friend's little girl, and she said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?"
She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."
"Wow - what a worthy goal!" I told her, "You don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50.00. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out and you can give him the $50.00 to use toward food or a new house."
She thought that over for a few moments because she's only 6.
And while her Mom glared at me, she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work and you can just pay him the $50?"
And I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
Brian @ 05:53 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Where have I been? RIGHT HERE! Doing nothing worth writing about really, but I'll try.
I was going to write a blog complaining about stuff, but I do that too often. Thanks to notepad, I highlighted and deleted it all. In it's place will be pleasant thoughts, because I am very grateful for too many things. Complaints can see the door for this post.
1. My wife. Nearly 3 years into marriage including big changes, personal adjustments, rough times, and some humbling moments I can honestly say that I have never been happier with our relationship than I am today. The lack of underatnding between us use to be a huge issue, now we both accept we will never understand the opposite sex and we have fun with it. She makes me laugh in some form everyday and I can't imagine being without that.
2. My family. My family asks nothing of me, and would give anything in return. I grew up in a pretty laid back, relaxed environment for the most part and seeing other families as an adult now makes me appreciate the kind of upbringing I had so much more. My father has worked his butt off for us every day of his life that I've known him. The only thing he asked for in return was enough money to put food in our mouths, and a decent vacation for the family. To this day he is still a hard worker and it's one of things I wish I could have inherited from him. Instead I got his sense of humor. =) My mother is me, but older, wiser, a female (obviously) and a bit more reserved-probably due to the "wise" part. For instance, we both love Family Guy, she just insists on shaking her head at fart jokes eventhough she's holding back laughter. We can string together a whole conversation of nothign but smart-ass comments. My sister use to beat me up. That sucked. I got bigger than her. That was nice, but by that time I was mature enough to not kill her for her prior acts. I'm glad I didn't. She is one of my best friends now and always has high spirits (unless she's biting someone on the basketball court. True story)
3. My job. Primarily because of the support of the people who love me I was able to pull my head out of my ass at a relatively younger age than most, finish college at 21 and get this great job right after graduation. It has allowed me to be self sufficient and become independant. Weird. I bought a house before I turned 23, own two cars, have nearly completed my pilots licence, and have even managed to NOT kill my credit score in the process! (go me)
(Are these too steriotypical yet?)
4. Realistic common sense. "Common sense isn't so common anymore". No kidding. I have a healthy dose of it though. Sometimes TOO much for my wife to deal with. =) In life I try my best to consider if what I'm doing is important. I prioritize things based on necessity. Sometimes this creates conflict - the dishes in the sink don't NEED to be done until it causes an odor or we need a plate (good lord, that one happens often) but in a greater sense it helps me keep grounded. Being able to filter out all the crap throughout the day which doesn't matter is a wonderful releif. My mother use to say if it won't affect you in 5 years, who cares? I think I simplify that a bit, but it's true. Life goes on. Every time in my life that I've thought the pain or a problem wouldn't end...it did. Common sense has allowed me to learn that when issues come, you deal with it, and move on - eventually it will just be a memory and you will be a better person, and much wiser, having dealt with it. Gain knowledge from everything you do in life.
5. Iced lattes. Just had one. Good stuff.
I have more, but I'm done writing these for now.
I am considering going back to college soon for some type of an aviation degree. More info to come soon on that. Also, November 25th is the projected release date for the 0901 OTS board. Early Christmas present for Brian? Wish me luck, pray for me, send cash, etc...
=)
Brian @ 09:43 | comments(0) | Permanent link
My new SRT-4 finally looks like an SRT-4.
Brian @ 17:54 | comments(0) | Permanent link
I bought a new used car today. It's a 2004 Dodge SRT-4. Sure wish I could drive the thing.
About three minutes after I forked over the money for it and drove away I noticed the heat was WAY too high. We went back to see my wifes grandfather (his shop was who we bought it from) and I checked it out a bit. For some reason the radiator fans aren't working. *facepalm* So now MY car is in his shop being worked on so that we have a way back home tomorrow or Monday morning. I was soooo ready to show it off too.
In the last 2 months preparing for this purchase I have become a car guy. I have so many plans for this thing. One of the biggest concerns I have is the front bumper. It was in an accident with the owner before me, and when my grandfather got the car he replaced the front bumper, but with a Neon bumper, NOT an SRT-4 bumper. Along wiht the radiator fan not working, this new bumper is contributing to the heat by restricting airflow conpared to the stock SRT-4 bumper. After that it's on to a short ram intake, turbo timer, new plugs and wires, and then a few things to make the engine bay look a bit better.
My other conern is what I have to learn about the car, considering it was used. This is a car to tweak...and it has been a bit already. Unfortunately, when these cars goto auction or sale in general, they are put back to stock for the most part. So my first order of business is to figure out what the heck a switch was used for that isn't connected to anything. It's rocker switch which leads to the enginebay and is cutoff. grrr. Next is trying to figure out how to get the serial port in the glovebox connected to the OBDII port to then monitor stats on my laptop. Then it will be to fix any unsightly looking wires. A few of them have the sheeths frayed or are just generally dirty.
Wow I have some work to do. Fun times.
Brian @ 09:47 | comments(0) | Permanent link
http://www.rs.af.mil/recruiter-online/story.asp?id=123104474
"Air Force Recruiting Service officials considered 722 applications as part of Officer Training School Selection Board 08OT03, which selected 178 for a 28% selection rate."
Ouch.
Brian @ 22:10 | comments(0) | Permanent link
I remember having discussions with my recruiter about putting in the app for pilot only or for pilot OR nav. I couldn't remember which one I had decided on. Apparently it was Pilot only. Results came back: Non-Select.
Eh, life goes on. You have a few choices in life when it doesn't go the way you want it to. 1. Change what's affecting you. I can't change the results. 2. Change your goals. That isn't going to happen. 3. Change the way you view the outcome. I'll complain about it, adapt and try again.
Congratz to the ~28 Pilot, ~140 Nav, and ~12 ABM Selects of the 0803 board!
EDIT:
Updated Info: HERE
Brian @ 11:02 | comments(1) | Permanent link
- Randomness #1: I have my interview for my OTS package thursday.
- Randomness #2: I also have my MEPS physical on friday. Good times.
- Randomness #3: Work is about to be less of a pain in my ass! REALLY GOOD TIMES!
- Randomness #4: I am planning a birthday party for April 28th. I have a decent sized group of people who are willing to jump out of a perfectly good, uncombusted (is that a word?), working airplane. it costs about $200, but the more people I get the cheaper it is. If you're interested, email me or leave a comment. http://www.skydivechicago.com
- Randomness #5: I sent out my >%90 tests to my flight instructor who is all over the country. He is getting back to me in the next few days so I can take my written exam. It's nice to get back into things and I can't wait to get back up in the air.
- Randomness #6: Purple Monkey Dishwasher.
Brian @ 15:46 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Last friday I took my TBAS. Combined with my AFOQT, and ~48 hours of flight time, I have a PCSM score of 99 out of 99. Next steps: Interview and MEPS physical.
Brian @ 09:55 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Big snowstorm came in and caused work and school to close. This means that the ROTC armory was closed and I couldn't take my TBAS... It's cool. I only took off one of my very few vacation days left and need the scores next week so I can arrange my interview and MEPS physical sometime in the next 3 weeks... No rush. *end sarcasm* Once I take my TBAS and receive over a 75 on it I will collect my last letter of recommendation and send it up to my recruiter who will begin putting together the package. Sometime in the next few weeks I need to schedule a few things. 1) MEPS Physical. This is to be sure I'm in relatively good health. 2)An interview. This will be one of the most important peices of information given to the baords. 3) Flying Class 1 physical. I already have a FC3 physical, and the FC1 is not required to submit a package, but it is required of all fliers in the Air Force. It just makes me look better to the board.
The 0803 board meets in May. I have to have my absolute final package in by April 30th and I would find out if I am accepted in June. Wish me luck and pray for me.
Brian @ 17:14 | comments(0) | Permanent link
Slight update on my page due to boredom.
1. New banner. Similar to the old one. Cooler colors(in the warm vs. cool sense, not "AWESOME!" sense) than the older one, but still the same basic "doodad over in the corner, text/icon over there... great" concept.
2. I seriously doubt anyone who comes here does so for my shoutcast audio stream...You know, that little windows media plugin on the top right over there-->
Well, I figured it's about time I start using it. I will have music playing randomly on this server 24/7. Contrary to popular beleif, I am not ALWAYS at my computer, so I will not have total control over what is playing. Also due to having some upload overhead and this comming off my main box, I'm dropping the users from 15 down to 5. Like I'm going to have 6 listening at the same time anytime soon? Eh, when I get fiber I'll bring back the FuseBOX Radio show and try and break my all time high unique listener count of 786 at once. Until then, if you're #6, tough luck buddy. Also as a reminder, if the server is not up for any reason, the link on top will automaticly direct you towards my project playlist music box.
3. Along with my decision to keep the stream up, I wanted a way to report and UPDATE IN REAL TIME what song was playing without the user having to refresh the whole page - thereby stopping the music if streaming directly from the page. I figured out a jury rig way to do it without updating and rewriting my whole site in PHP or AJAX and it will now refresh every 3 minutes with the current song and listener counts.
3b. Along with that refreshing, I also added the same logic to the "Quote of the moment" section. This will update with a new quote every 30 seconds. Considering the content on this page is primarily of interest to friends/family, or the occasional stalker (yes, YOU!) I can't imagine most people paying attention to these for more than a few minutes... I've even provided a popup window for the music stream, so the main page for most will be a quick read; even with my long winded, uneeded explanations. =)
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Unrelated update: News to come friday after I take my TBAS test.
Brian @ 00:02 | comments(0) | Permanent link
With work the way it's been, and bills the way they are (as if they ever change) I haven't had time or money to get up in the air again. Hence this site has been kind of dead sans the picture/video/cam area.
SO! what to do, what to do....? I'm thinking I may move my flight related posts to another potion of my site and continue this strictly as a personal blog. Really, I want to think of something more useful than even that.
I need content ideas! Have any for the site? Leave me a comment or Email them to me.
It's appreciated.
Brian
Brian @ 16:34 | comments(0) | Permanent link
This morning I took the Air Firce Officer Qualifying Test. I have been so worried about it for a long while now. SO much that I've been neglecting my PPL studying. I've been trying to study math for this for a while, but I feel I still bombed it. The other 10 sections I think I nearly aced. I should get my results in about a week... I really hope I didn't mess up the math part as bad as I think. grr....
Brian @ 18:12 | comments(0) | Permanent link
While I was at my parents house over this past weekend I was pleasantly surprised. While I was mooching off their Cable my father walked in, threw a piece of paper in my lap and said "Merry Christmas, son". Round trip flight to Las Vegas to join my father at Aviation Nation, Vegas' free airshow at Nellis, home of the Thunderbirds.
I'm very much looking forward to this. =)
Brian @ 15:09 | comments(0) | Permanent link
One fine hot Summer's afternoon saw a Cessna 150 flying in the pattern at a
quiet country airfield. The Instructor was getting quite bothered with the
student's inability to maintain altitude in the thermals and was getting
impatient at sometimes having to take over the controls. Just then he saw a
twin engine Cessna 5,000ft above him and thought "Another 1,000 hrs of this
and I qualify for that twin charter job! Aaahh.. to be a real pilot.. going
somewhere!"
The Cessna 402 was already late and the boss told him this charter was for
one of the Company's premier clients. He'd already set MCT and the
cylinders didn't like it in the heat of this Summer's day. He was at 6,000
ft and the winds were now a 20 kt headwind.
Today was the 6th day straight and he was pretty damn tired of fighting
these engines. Maybe if he got 10,000 ft out of them the wind might die
off... geez those cylinder temps! He looked out momentarily and saw a B737
leaving a contrail at 33,000ft in the serene blue sky. "Oh man" he thought,
"My interview is next month. I hope I just don't blow it! Outa G/A, nice
jet job, above the weather... no snotty passengers to wait for ... aahhh."
The Boeing 737 bucked and weaved in the heavy CAT at FL330 and ATC advised
that lower levels were not available due traffic. The Captain, who was only
recently advised that his destination was below RVR minimums had slowed to
LRC to try and hold off a possible inflight diversion, and arrange an ETA
that would helpfully ensure the fog had lifted to CATII minima. The Company
negotiations broke down yesterday and looked as if everyone was going to
take a damn pay cut. The F/O's will be particularly hard hit as their pay
wasn't anything to speak of anyway. Finally deciding on a speed compromise
between LRC and turbulence penetration, the Captain looked up and saw
Concorde at Mach 2+. Tapping his F/O's shoulder as the 737 took another
bashing, he said "Now THAT'S what we should be on... huge pay ... super
fast... not too many routes... not too many legs... above the CAT... yep!
What a life...!"
FL590 was not what he wanted anyway and considered FL570. Already the TAT
was creeping up again and either they would have to descend or slow down.
That damn rear fuel transfer pump was becoming unreliable and the F/E had
said moments ago that the radiation meter was not reading numbers that he'd
like to see. Concorde descended to FL570 but the radiation was still quite
high even though the NOTAM indicated hunky dory below FL610. Fuel flow was
up and the transfer pump was intermittent. Evening turned into night as
they passed over the Atlantic. Looking up, the F/O could see a tiny white
dot moving against the backdrop of a myriad of stars. "Hey Captain" he
called as he pointed. "Must be the Shuttle. "The Captain looked for a
moment and agreed. Quietly he thought how a Shuttle mission, while
complicated, must be the be all and end all in aviation. Above the crap, no
radiation problems, no damn fuel transfer problems... aaah. Must be a great
way to earn a buck."
Discovery was into its 27th orbit and perigee was 200 ft out from nominated
rendezvous altitude with the commsat. The robot arm was virtually U/S and a
walk may become necessary. The 200 ft predicted error would necessitate a
corrective burn and Discovery needed that fuel if a walk was to be
required. Houston continually asked what the Commander wanted to do but the
advice they proffered wasn't much help. The Commander had already been 12
hours on station sorting out the problem and just wanted 10 minutes to
himself to take a leak. Just then a mission specialist, who had tilted the
telescope down to the surface for a minute or two, called the Commander to
the scope.
"Have a look at this Sir, isn't this the kinda flying you said you wanted
to do after you finish up with NASA?" The Commander peered through the
telescope and cried "Ooooohhhhh yeah! Now THAT'S flying! Man, that's what
its all about! Geez I'd give my left nut just to be doing THAT down there!"
What the Discovery Commander was looking at was a Cessna 150 in the pattern
at a quiet country airfield on a nice bright sunny afternoon.
Boy, I'll tell you... pilots are never happy unless they are drinking beer
and looking for a better job!
Brian @ 14:18 | comments(0) | Permanent link
My father recently sent me a prayer to keep with me durring my flights...
Dear Lord,
Thank you for allowing me to soar like an eagle
The skies are volatile, yet you make them calm
Let me fly with safety and wisdom
Keep my words straight
My ears and eyes alert
Make me keen to sense danger
Grant me courage to remain calm
And wise to avoid all blunders
Keep your saving grace over my craft
Let your angels fly with me
And allways be with me.
Amen
I am a mommas boy, this was always obvious. I am also my fathers son, which has become more apparent in recent years. I am blessed with a great family.
Brian @ 02:14 | comments(0) | Permanent link
It's almost 5am, and I'm still coding. Not good.
I just finished a bunch of modules for various purposes; some you will see, some you won't, but all are keeping me up late into the night/morning.
The layout changed ever so slightly you may not notice it initially - but I'm a perfectionist.
My details page for the LAN party now pops up in this window. I would have to rename a lot of vaiables if I want to pull that registration page in as well - so that won't be done for this LAN Party...
I also setup an email form so you do not have to load up outlook or copy my email to your email interface of choice.
I spent a good part of the night (morning) getting an ASP based mail system running on my computer to accept and also SEND emails through pop3 and smtp servers. All seems to work now.
I also recoded most of the admin section. Yeah, I know you don't care. =P
I really should get paid to do this...
Night
Brian @ 04:38 | comments(0) | Permanent link
So I finally broke down and got a REAL domain name. http://www.lostlocalhost.com
Localhost is the loopback address for any given computer. It can also be represented by the IP 127.0.0.1. The image of 127.0.0.1/localhost above was taken from a background I've had on my computer for years now. As a background image, it was appropriate. LOCALhost was displayed on my LOCAL computer. No domain name I could think of with my nickname or radio show name (Fuse/FuseBOX), or old nickname was available or sounded good, plus I already had that image on the site, so I used it. Being on the web = not so local = lost. Hence, lostlocalhost was born.
Now to expand like crazy on this place. Starting with a spellcheck for my blog posts. Then work will be done on the forum to make it actually interesting to go into.
Plans Later Tonight: Flight Lesson #2.
Brian
Brian @ 14:10 | comments(0) | Permanent link
