I recorded part of the Super Bowl today (I mean "part" because I was honestly not all that interested in the game, but was watching it mostly for the commercials and the halftime show). Then I heard something rather interesting on the news about the halftime show.
Apparently Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake were performing, and Justin grabbed part of Janet's clothing... and it came off in his hand, revealing her right breast. While the news showed footage of that happening, I didn't see it in what I recorded.
Originally I was going to erase the halftime show once I saw it... now I'm glad I didn't, and if the footage is good enough I may not erase it. :)
(Apologies now to anyone I may have offended with my previous paragraphs... I hate being politically correct, but you can never be too careful when it comes to potentially offending people...)
Read through a few of my friends' LJ entries... I admit I have the LJ to mainly track my own activities and not so much read anyone else's. But a couple of recent entries triggered something in my mind that I wanted to post sooner, but for one reason or another never did.
One thing that I really hate, and that tends to gnaw at me quite a bit, is when one of my friends gets majorly pissed at another of my friends. In recent weeks, this has happened twice... once on-island and once at Further Confusion. I'm not even going into details about either, but I think those of you who were involved know who you are. However, what I did want to touch upon was that I do NOT like being caught in the middle, especially if the situation develops in my presence. I don't care who did what, even if it's clear who's right and who's wrong. I just don't like being torn between warring friends. I believe the FC situation resolved itself, from what I could tell, but I don't think the other situation will be resolved for a while, especially because I believe one of the friends involved doesn't even think he did anything wrong.
Working on getting a new web page online... parts of it are slowly getting there, but it'll be a while before everything's up and running. Hopefully that'll be soon.
In the irony department: a few weeks ago I bought a book titled "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Overcoming Procrastination." Guess what? I haven't even opened it.
And now, a paragraph that I expect will draw some comments (but hopefully NOT flame-wars): I went to a church service today (maybe not so much a "church" per se since it was held in a high school auditorium), and I started pondering Christianity itself. A lot of the different religious factions say that you have do to "yyy" or "zzz" to obtain eternal life, but I don't agree. The fundamental tenet of Christianity, as I see it, is that you simply believe that Jesus Christ died to save you... and that's it. The hard part is having enough faith to continue to believe that, as I've learned.
Something that came to mind just as I was about to end this entry: I've got a few options available to me as far as my next assignment. Here's the deal: in June I'm due to move, and my next assignment will likely be at Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) in Offutt, Nebraska. The specific job has yet to be determined. However, I have an option: to get out and join the AF Reserve. The enticing part is that the AF Reserve has an opening for me, and it would keep me in Hawaii. The downside would be that I'd have to get a full-time job, likely outside of weather, and/or go to school and perhaps get a bachelor's degree in, say, engineering.
What about going to AFWA? The downside is that I'd have to move out of Hawaii, which I'd already been planning to do anyway since I knew this wouldn't be a permanent assignment. Another downside is that I'd be more susceptible to deploying, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if I got sent to Iraq within a month of arriving and inprocessing. The upsides: it would put me in better touch with friends, and admittedly I'd also be in the midst of severe weather during the summer. I also talked to the AF weather assignments guy and he gave me another option: instead of trying to take a leadership track, where I'd be a flight commander, squadron commander, or squadron DO, I could go the scientific and research track to leverage my academic degrees. That's very enticing, to say the least.
Both my mom and the weather assignments guy have suggested I take the AFWA slot... it's too early for me to call it quits in my career. I still have some rather serious doubts about my ability to meet AF standards, however; the almost unanimous vibes I've been getting over the past two months are that, BLUF (bottom line up front), I'm not good enough for the AF. Perhaps in retrospect it was a mistake for me to get slotted for the position I've been in... it was too high-level a position with too much responsibility, and I just didn't have the experience or drive to get the right things done.
I'm not fully sure yet what I'll do once I find out where I'm going, but I think more than likely I'll take the Nebraska tour. While I really enjoyed being here, I think it's time for me to move on. The big question mark I have, though, is that I don't know if I'll remain in the AF for 20 years. I'd like to do that and reap retirement benefits, but I've only been in 6 years. A more nagging question is, even if I got out of the AF, is my work ethic good enough for me to keep a job in another field? I already have a problem with timing... my being late is a chronic problem, and in the civilian world I don't know how long I'd be able to keep a job.
I'm not sure what I'm good enough to do anymore.....
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