My Give a %#$@*'s Busted

Just finished the fourth week of this final 10 week semester.  Six weeks to go.  And then comes the Oral's Board.  I'm so ready to be done with school.

Which leads to the title of this post.  It comes from a Jo Dee Messina song that keeps running through my head as I sit through class after boring class that has little or nothing to do with the real world and even less to do with eternity.

I read a good post on another blog that reminded me to count my blessings, so lets see if I can name 10:

1. I don't have to go to work and try and finish my degree in the evening at the same time

2. If I can make it through Orals I get to spend next year in Spokane working at what looks like an interesting company and spending time with family

3. The kids are healthy

4. Andrew loves Warhammer 40K.  Today he even called it 40K.  Funny kid!

5. I'm married to a wonderful, attractive woman who is an excellent wife and mother.

6. I live in the best country in the world, where we have the most freedoms and opportunities.

7. I've got hot water.  If you've ever had to live without it, you know what a blessing that is!

8.  There's food in the fridge.  Similar to what I said above.

9. I have no worries about losing my job; I'm so thankful to be in the military with the kind of job security that gives me!

10. All of my worries are small beans compared to those who are going through real trials.  We're healthy, safe and secure.

Well, that helped me feel better! =)

Sustainability

In my International Business class we had to find an article on sustainability, read it and write a review on it.  After I read the article I'd chosen I felt like gagging at all the left wing comments made by the author.  She had some good points, but her little comments didn't help me accept them.

Our professor likes it when we find additional literature to cite in order to support our arguments so I went onto wikipedia to find something.  We're not allowed to cite wikipedia (not scholarly enough...I mean, who checks it to see if any of the information on there is true anyways?) but people usually have citations so I was able to find an interview with the father of the ecological footprint.  He included some discussion on sustainability and I found it a very interesting and informative interview with some outstanding points.

So, if you're wondering what sustainability is, here's a link to the article.  Enjoy!

http://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#compose

Indoctrination

I just introduced Andrew to Warhammer 40K by playing through an intro game with him.  He seemed to enjoy it.  Enough that he asked if we could play again.  When I said, "Not tonight," he asked if we can play again tomorrow night.  Too fun!

Long Time...

I really haven't had anything I wanted to blog about in, well, forever which is why this blog has been basically dead for almost a year.  I'm finally getting involved in some things outside the family enough that I thought it might be worth posting on my own blog instead of the family blog.

I've been ghosting on a local gaming store's (LGS) forum for about six months and noticed that they'd decided to hold a Warhammer 40K escalation league.  I began to look into it and decided to join in.  

I've been interested in Warhammer 40K since jr. high when Ted Johnson brought home an Epic Space Marine box and needed an opponent to learn the game with.  Kind of got out of it in High School with girls and sports and then couldn't afford it in college and, again, was more interested in girls and sports.

After I started earning money I thought maybe I'd get back into Warhammer and so I picked up a starter box which included a tactical squad of Space Marines and another faction.  I had fun messing around with them but never worked up the nerve to actually go to the LGS and meet anyone to play with.

After we moved to Vegas I got involved in a different miniatures game called Warmachine made by Privateer Press, but was still interested enough in Warhammer 40K (40K) to pick up the new starter box.  I assembled it and I think Jamie played with me once but it never went anywhere. 

Now we're in San Antonio and a new starter box has been released so I decided to try again.  I got it just a little before Christmas and have slowly been assembling.