This is an old picture – Max took it when we were in Afghanistan together last year, actually – but I posted it because I haven’t yet, I think it’s a cool picture of us, and I am limited to my stash on this computer…my hard drive is back at the office and right now, I can’t transport it out of the compound.
Still, the real reason for this post is I wanted to let friends and family know that when I’m not working on normal “HhhhhhhARM-eeeee Trainin’!”…(think Bill Murray accent …as in Stripes), I’ve been working on a cool new design for the blog. I love visiting Sara Janssen’s blog (Heck, I just adore Sara – I think she’s cool, she’s unique and she’s an inspiring person – check her out if you haven’t found her yet…) and I contacted her blog designers to help me design our very own Little Slice ‘a Heaven on this here World Wide Web.
It should be ready mid-April.
In the meantime, back to the picture:
John coached me on some cool Green Beret shooting techniques –
The Mozambique (I am obsessed with that shot group – criminals watch out…I will have my concealed carry before I return to Tampa in June…)
Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast
Muscle Memory counts for a lot
Reflex Drills – a shooter’s bread and butter
and finally
Stance, Grip, Sight Picture, Sight Alignment, Breathing, Trigger Squeeze, Follow-Through, and Recovery…because…
Excellence is Doing the Basics to Perfection
I figure that last one can be applied to just about anything.
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Before…
And After! 
When I get the race pics, I’ll upload them -
Yay, Mickey! We did it!
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My mom sent us some smoked salmon, capers, toasted bread rounds, onions, and two lemons…
Look at the size of those things!
Here’s a better picture of one of the lemons…John thought it was a grapefruit – it’s the size of a large one. Mom and Aunt Nan picked up a bag of these at a grove in rural Florida. I won’t tell you how they got them to us, because I think it’s illegal.
Yummy!
….put the onion on the salmon…
…sprinkle with capers and lemon juice….
…et Voilà!
Thanks, Mom! This was a touch of home in a place that sucks the life out of you.
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The truth is, many impress, but few inspire. The trouble with seeking to impress is that it requires so little of our heart and soul. But to inspire…that must be the greatest of accomplishments, for inspiring others allows us to be a part of something so much bigger than ourselves.
Recently a friend of mine in her seventies greatly inspired me when she told me that the most important thing she could do was give her life away. [The] simple statement gave me something to aim for, a goal worthy of pursuit….
When considering the big picture of life, it’s important that we ask ourselves, “Do I want to seek to impress or live to inspire?” How we answer that question will define how we live. If we seek to impress, then we will continue to feel empty despite each new accomplishment…but when we refuse to be defined by external things, our focus changes, and we are free to inspire others, because we know that our value is in who we are, not how we look.
- Life Inside the Thin Cage, Constance Rhodes
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…because I still love my blog, more.
I can say more of what I’m thinking, I think the comments are more personal, and people who check it, whether or not they comment, are people who truly care about us and don’t just want a quick voyeuristic view.
Still, Life with Spectre is hard to update, because I can’t bring my hard-drive full of pictures into the place where I work, and I frankly despise posts without “art”.
So, I thought, well, I’ll prepare a whole bunch of posts and put them in the queue…and when I get to a place where I can bring my personal computer, I’ll post them all (kind of like a squirrel storing up its walnuts all winter) based on a pre-set schedule I can set up in Blogger.
So that’s what I’m going to do.
I will be doing what my friend Pam did for a long time on her blog – posting “catch up” posts about what has happened in the past. And it will all be ok, because we have so many adventures rolled up in all of those pictures.
We’ll be here in Qatar or Afghanistan (at least I will be) through mid-June, so the posts won’t be filled with news beyond the occasional opening sentence, but at least they’ll catch you up on what we did and what I just haven’t blogged about ’til now.
And to start it off, even though Arms will run for his vomit bag, I’ll slide in a picture of us in Scotland in June of ’07, outside of Loch Torridon, where John took me on a hike in some of the most beautiful country I’ve ever SEEN, presented me with a gorgeous channel-set diamond ring, and asked me to marry him all over again.
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And, because he is the Man of my Life, I said You Bet.
So there ya go, yo.
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