I Need a Real Vacation

I find myself thinking of the hurricane approaching Fla and of course I think of my family that lives in Fla but I also think of the rain. I would love to be in some rain. I know that Arizona doesn't usually get a lot of rain but I don't understand why this place makes me want rain more than normal. It's a bit more humid here since the Tigris River is about 1/4 mile away. The thoughts of rain, water, and I naturally think of beach, boats, and beer. When I think of these things I think vacation and that is what I really need. A good long vacation. Well we all know that's not gonna happen anytime soon, so Don just get over it. I even wouldn't mind doing a trip for Southwest Airlines, since they provide a good hotel with good food, usually, and nice company to visit with on the trip.

I gave a briefing to Central Command people today. They are from the Tampa HQ and they liked to hear all the progress we are making here in Iraq. I know the hard work of all of the young people is the tough work. I just have to sit back and plan for the actions as it relates to use of the land for airpower. But in the time that I've been here, I've witnessed tremendous progress. But the good part of the briefing was that I had a 'flash drive'. I needed to use a computer at the briefing and when I got to the tent for the briefing, they did not have the ability to use the internet where I have my briefing saved. Thankfully, I also put the briefing on a little biddie stick or a flash drive. It is smaller than a pencil but it can store up to 1GB of data. So luckily I put put the briefing on this stick...just in case. And all I had to do was plug it in and off I go into my briefing. Technology is great. Sorry not much to report today, this even bores me. But that's the way things are here. Really jammed packed with lots of excitement following periods of boredom.

Also I saw something in Aviation Week and Space Technology, thanks Rick, that I must reply to the editor. It was an letter to the editor that was published June 20, 2005 from Mr Milavic entitled "Enough is Enough". It basically said that the security of airports and pilots with guns in the cockpit is primarily for the pilots's ego and it does not have anything to do with keeping the airplanes out of terrorist's hand and away from national interest targets. And I can assure you that what Mr. Milavic said in his letter is completely untrue. So I plan to write soon to that magazine and give Mr Milavic a piece of my mind. And that is that.