2008 was a busy year for me, and 2009 is shaping up to be just as wild.
Here is the schedule of events I am already confirmed to be attending this coming year:
February 8-10, Shaba Day San Antonio, Texas
March 15, TICO Warbird Airshow
March 28, MacDill AirFest featuring the U.S. Thunderbirds
April 5, Honda Indy Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
April 6-7, Dresden Knights in Chicago
April 21, EAA Sun 'n' Fun Fly in
May 17-19 (tenative) Museum of the United States Air Force, Wizard, Mayhem, Ohio
June 22-28 BWHS 15 year Bellevue, Nebraska
The second half of my year is yet to be determined, but I am hoping to include a trip to Germany in October and Vegas in November amongst the events.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
The turning point
Some people say if they could go back in time and change something in their past, they wouldn't. I can't say that. I think the reason most people say that is because either they have limited imaginations on how things might change if something in their past were changed (Admittedly, I have an OVER-active imagination), or it may be that they truly have no idea where the "hinge pin" of their life was. Or, in VERY very few cases, they may have perfect lives.
Again, none of those three are the case for me.
I would change a few things in my past, but ONE thing would alter everything since in numerous and potentially massive ways.
I would never have dropped out of the University of Kansas.
From the day I quit being a Jayhawk, everything has spiralled downhill.
I had an amazingly realistic dream the other night, you know the kind, one of those so real that when you wake up, you think you're in the wrong life.
I was doing the kind of work I had always wanted to, I had the life, and the wife, I have longed for, and was living in a place I truly adored.
I can tell you what the house looked like, my kids' names, when we got each of the dogs, exactly WHERE each of the knick-knacks on the walls and curios came from.
I had memories of everything that had happened to THAT me from my freshman year at Kansas onward.
VERY few things that have happened since 1995 had happened.
Scott hadn't died.
Mom hadn't gotten cancer.
I hadn't gone to jail.
I'd never published the book.
The most important things were still there. My friends were all there, as they are here today. Of course, MOST of them I have known since High School. I still became friends with Donnelly and Mike Scott, since they were friends of Ben and Karna in college in the alterverse still.
The worst part was seeing the man I was had I followed that path. I know what I did, every step, to get there.
But it's fourteen years later and some of those opportunities have gone by.
Things are easier to do when you don't know your limits at eighteen as opposed to thirty three.
Guess that means I just have to find another way to get back there. If I start today, I can have that life by the time I'm forty-seve.....wow.
I wonder if there's a shortcut.
Because, like happens once in a while, I don't think this was just a dream.
I think it was a wakeup call.
Sure, I can't reverse some things, but, maybe, just maybe, I can attain the others.
Again, none of those three are the case for me.
I would change a few things in my past, but ONE thing would alter everything since in numerous and potentially massive ways.
I would never have dropped out of the University of Kansas.
From the day I quit being a Jayhawk, everything has spiralled downhill.
I had an amazingly realistic dream the other night, you know the kind, one of those so real that when you wake up, you think you're in the wrong life.
I was doing the kind of work I had always wanted to, I had the life, and the wife, I have longed for, and was living in a place I truly adored.
I can tell you what the house looked like, my kids' names, when we got each of the dogs, exactly WHERE each of the knick-knacks on the walls and curios came from.
I had memories of everything that had happened to THAT me from my freshman year at Kansas onward.
VERY few things that have happened since 1995 had happened.
Scott hadn't died.
Mom hadn't gotten cancer.
I hadn't gone to jail.
I'd never published the book.
The most important things were still there. My friends were all there, as they are here today. Of course, MOST of them I have known since High School. I still became friends with Donnelly and Mike Scott, since they were friends of Ben and Karna in college in the alterverse still.
The worst part was seeing the man I was had I followed that path. I know what I did, every step, to get there.
But it's fourteen years later and some of those opportunities have gone by.
Things are easier to do when you don't know your limits at eighteen as opposed to thirty three.
Guess that means I just have to find another way to get back there. If I start today, I can have that life by the time I'm forty-seve.....wow.
I wonder if there's a shortcut.
Because, like happens once in a while, I don't think this was just a dream.
I think it was a wakeup call.
Sure, I can't reverse some things, but, maybe, just maybe, I can attain the others.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Wow
Seems I've been neglecting my blogging lately.
Well, that's really not such a surprise, I suppose, for those who know me, lol.
Beside, the holiday season usually is a little rough for me, what with the majority of those I care about being elsewhere.
So, I've mainly been writing, and, obviously, not blogs, either, lmao.
Almost every day I've had off from work has been spent working on the next novel, or, more correctly, the next three. I probably typed from 8am till 7pm on Monday and Tuesday, and have about 100 new pages to show for it, mostly in the "first" book of the series.
Anyway, I'm about to head off to work.
Love and miss you all
Well, that's really not such a surprise, I suppose, for those who know me, lol.
Beside, the holiday season usually is a little rough for me, what with the majority of those I care about being elsewhere.
So, I've mainly been writing, and, obviously, not blogs, either, lmao.
Almost every day I've had off from work has been spent working on the next novel, or, more correctly, the next three. I probably typed from 8am till 7pm on Monday and Tuesday, and have about 100 new pages to show for it, mostly in the "first" book of the series.
Anyway, I'm about to head off to work.
Love and miss you all
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