I had Thursday off to go to Yongsan for an appointment.
Despite that, I worked 48 hours.
I flew 9.1 hours in a UH-60 and 2.1 in a Cessna 172.
I read three novels and four volumes of a graphic novel.
I wrote approximately 2500 words of essay, blog, and correspondence.
I spent 12 hours socializing with friends.
I visited Everland [...]
Human beings are not rational. I am, unfortunately, human. I may not be able to transcend my nature but I don’t have to like it.
By preordering the sequel on Steam I got the original free. As I already owned the original via Steam, I have one license too many. As Steam is actually fair, it gives me the option to give away the surplus license.
Who wants Bioshock?
It’s a new year again, for my readers in Korea and Japan at least*. (新年あけましておめでとうございます!) For my family and most of my friends, it’ll be another half day or so. In moving here I’ve cheated over twelve hours from both 2009 and the decade it was a part of; I think most people will agree [...]
Most of what I have to say is simple repetition of others. Still, this much at least is original: while the new restrictions remain in effect, I will not fly commercial air in the US.
I will not succumb to an atmosphere of paranoia in which I am required to keep my hands visible, my lap [...]
I am now a Chief Warrant Officer 2.
Unless I stay in the army longer than I expect to, this is the rank I’ll leave it with. It’s no mark of special merit: every Warrant Officer gets this promotion automatically after two years as a WO1. Still, it’s nice to have the recognition, the pay raise, [...]
Let me tell you my work schedule, because it is crazy:
Last Friday: 2pm – 2am
Saturday: 11am – 9am Sunday
Monday: 3pm – 5pm
Tuesday: 9am – 9am Wednesday
Thursday: 8am – 3pm
Friday: 2am – noon
This has a lot to do with the fact that half the BN is currently tasked to do a big Korea-wide exercise, and the [...]
I went to a summer festival last night. Unfortunately, most of it happened after dark, so a lot of the pictures came out crappy, but I did manage to get one good video:
(If the embedded video doesn’t work, try this link)
I’ll try to get pictures up later.
So, I asked for cool things for Christmas, and everything I got was useful. With one exception: I got one of the funniest books that I have ever read… It’s called Word Processing Secrets for Writers, was written in 1989, and is so anachronistic that it’s absurd. I just got to a section entitled “Avoiding [...]
The internet is a great place to hang out. There are people around all the time, from all over the world, and there are enough of them that it’s not terribly difficult to find ones with interests similar to your own. I started chatting well over two years ago, and started using IRC about a [...]