Sunday Update

I finished my first week in my new college experience and it was really a lot of fun and I finished way ahead of the time allowed. I was even able to download week 2's information Friday so I have been studying this weekend and should have it accomplished by monday or tuesday at the latest.

The first week was on the computer and it's hardware. The text covered the components that make up the computer such as the motherboard, central possessing unit, expansion slots, memory and all the peripherals that attach and become a part of the computer.

Week 2 is going to be involving software and how to's for launching applications, making and using folders to organize data in a fashion that you will always know where anything is. There is much more detail involved but you can get the idea anyway. I can already see how this is going to help me even with the work I do at my office so it will be beneficial there first.

Hope everyone has had a great weekend and don't forget to visit the blog about the give away scheduled for Labor Day. Just drop by if you haven't and say you want to be included and I will add your name to the list.

Quotes for Life

Quotations About Life

Life is hard, if you're stupid it's harder

The purpose of life is a life of purpose - Robert Byrne

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. - Kathy Norris

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. - Grandma Moses

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. - Reba McEntire

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. -Charles Schulz

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. - R.D. Laing

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Conant

What was I thinking??

It was back in February of 1968 and I was 20 years old having a good old time in Indianapolis, Indiana stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison Army Finance School. After basic training at Ft. Bragg and being agrivated at Ft. Jackson, SC I was now actually having fun.

School was from 8 to 4 and after that I pretty much could do whatever I wanted to do. So on the weekends I would get a room at YMCA in town and enjoyed being in civilian attire and interacting with people other than soldiers, namely USO girls. Don't get me wrong, they were really nice girls that helped you keep from getting bored by playing board games and even taking us roller skating. Gave me a break from the Army routine.

All was going pretty good until one day I received orders reasigning me to Viet Nam. The dreaded tour. Well, back home I had this girl friend in NC so I broke the news to her and her immediate response was that we should get married. Now bear in mind that I was just 20, stupid, inexperienced and gulible. I fell for it and swallowed it all, hook, line & sinker.

Now of course I was a buck private, without a vehicle. Happens though that I had a cousin stationed there with me that I had never seen that actually lived near where I lived back in NC. Somehow I convinced him to drive me to NC on a (3 day pass) so I could get married. We traveled all night through the mountains of West Virginia and made it home. My dad let me use his car so we hurried over to Tarboro, NC shopping for rings and then tried to line up her preacher to marry us. Turns out he was gone fishing, true story. She attended the Pinetops Baptist Church. Well we had to scramble and found that the Methodist minister was available so we lined him up. My folks met us there along with her mother, since her dad never went to funerals, I mean weddings. The service lasted about 15 minutes and off we went to Rocky Mount, NC about 20 minutes away for the quickest honeymoon on record.

My cousin & I make it back to Indiana and what do you think happened. I got more orders recinding the Viet Nam orders. This time for Ft. Ord, California. All that and I am not going to the war zone after all. So here I was, married, a buck private making (less) than $100 a month headed for California & trying to understand how I am going to get her out there and we survive 3,000 miles away from family & friends. More to follow.......