Lessons Learned

1.  Always check to be sure the guard is on the hair clippers before you start touching up places you missed.

2.  There IS a big difference between guard #1 and no guard at all.

Last night we went and saw a cover band at a local pub and we were all pleasantly surprised to find they were REALLY good! You can go to their website to check them out, they are call Hidden Element. It was a lot of fun to hang out with everyone who went on our last weekend here. After this coming Wednesday, we’re pretty much set and all we have to do is stay alive until Friday. Then it’s home again!

We had to say goodbye to our flight commander this past Friday because he is headed off to SOS (basically, he’s going from a teacher upstairs to a student downstairs) and we got introduced to our sub. We’re pretty excited to be finishing up but it sure would have been nice to have our Captain stay all the way through to graduation.

Speaking of graduation, we’re working on both our flight movie and the end of course video at the same time. They have to be Windows Media Files though because that “increases compatibility”. I would argue that is not the case. The most widely accepted movie format is NOT WMV, it is MPEG and it can be played by any movie player worth its salt on any computing platform. If they had said it “increases compatibility on Windows systems”, I would have been on board with that idea. Then again, the world runs on much more than just Windows.

During Combined Ops (which was awesome, by the way) my flight did one of the same obstacles in Project X that we did as a flight a few weeks ago. We were able to get it done really quickly because some of us had done it before, but it involves making a human bridge for people to crawl across at the beginning. It wasn’t until I got back and changed that I realized I had two giant bootprints on the back of my BDUs because I was the base person in the bridge. It made me laugh because it was really noticeable and no one had bothered to say anything to me as I wore that uniform for about two hours after Project X finished.