As long as we're being personally insightful and all...

This is what I do. In fact, I was just in the very trainer bay this guy mentions. We still use "grease pencils", actually Staedtler wet-erase markers, and there's a computer involved, but that's about the extent of the changes. Black humor lightens things considerably, and then there are the inevitable movie references, which I bust out at LEAST once a week (see photo).

Need I say more? Still, it's kind of weird. I mean, MOGS related his Post-USAFA-Dream-Syndrome experiences. I have dreams related to violations of Weapons System Safety Rules. C'est la vie, I guess, but I would rather be in Afghanistan on a PRT, or helping other teams hunt Taliban for sport.

What I'm trying to get at here is how very absurd quotidian life can be. I'm sober, I swear. Probably need some more liquid Christmas cheer right now, but I have a Danish test tomorrow and alert on Friday, so it's going to have to wait until, say, Saturday. (The DLPT is my beeyotch, though.)

In other news, there's some pretty interesting stuff on that same CDI site about Presidential decision-making in a nuclear crisis.

There's all sorts of chicanery involved with the YouTube "debates" (which just really end up showing the rest of the world how dumb we all are and why true democracy is a BAD idea), Communist dictatorships have shifty numbers, and we knew all along about Israeli nukes. In other news, water is wet, and it's cold outside.

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Speaking of language and DLPT, I started my Rosetta Stone Russian Lessons today - part of the program requirements is that I will have to take the DLPT at the end of course.

It may sound like cheesy propaganda, but between my oustanding Russian profs back at USAFA (almost nine years gone, and I'm impressed at how much I actually remember) and the fact that say what you will about Rosetta - the frickin' things _works_