Termyn8or
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Others, I had to do a jumpthrough on this. Cammille, peach and DA, here it goes. I'll have to get to everybody else in a little while, but excellent points all.
DA, you are starting to make Russia look pretty good. But I wasn't necessarily talking about a fighter jet. I saw a documentary (don't go there, I know) where it was either a Korean fighter or someone who engaged one of our best. In a dogfight like that, they say go high. If you lose track of the enemy go high. Well both of these guys did, and unbeknonst to each other, they were going straight up belly to belly.
That kind of power impresses me, ain't no Cessna here, and even thinking of the fuel cost makes my right pocket hurt (that is where I keep my wallet). I really don't think I need quite that experience. But what you said makes me think that is if I were to go to Russia and buy my way past the training, I might not need the return flight. If, since I am not sure why I even want to do this, if I am doing it for the memory, it might be a waste of time.
So if it is sixteen hundred bucks an hour, fine. But what, I have to get dunked, go in a centrifuge and all this shit ? I do not have the time for that. A twenty minute flight might do me well, even if they charge for a full hour. Fine. But realize this, when I negotiated my last few jobs, I traded everything for what I endearingly term "all my money now". That means I have no paid vacations or anything, so on top of paying for this I am losing money every day. I can't go through six months of torture to see if I will survive if shit happens. If shit happens then it does. I know how to follow instructions in an environment such as that, and I am not stupid (I think). If there is a way, I would like to do it, but if it is beyond my means, oh well. I will not mortgage the house to do it.
cammille and peach, I here ya. I really do. It is not, however, the explanation of life. If we do not judge others by our own standards, how are we to judge them ? I understand what you are saying, but it does render that question. While I may express and have dismay over the stupid things my friends do, I don't abandon them. My only requirements are total fucking honesty with me and to be fair and square with me. But some of them have such a soap opera going on, that if an issue warrants a phone call, I am not interested, a visit, fine.
More on judging later, it is getting to be time to go get beer, being Sunday and all but I will leave you with this for now.
They say judge not lest ye be judged yourself. Alot of people take that to mean that you should not judge others. I obviously do not concur. The way I see it, anytime my phone rings or someone shows up at the door I have been judged worthy of contacting. When I go to work I am constantly judged. That saying never meant that you should not judge others.
But how to set my criteria for what is acceptable and what is not, that is the problem. Money isn't it, knowledge, well I know a guy that can get a job making $90,000 a year, but when he gets the first check he goes on a crack binge, to the point where toward the end he would sell a new car for five hundred bucks. How would you judge him ?
candy is right, I think I need a better class of friends, or maybe worse. Those truly without opportunity. At least they might listen and learn something. Fuckin A right. Maybe I should head down instead of up. Guy gets a better fucking job than I could and then loses it as soon as he gets his first paycheck. I get a guy a job where he could have made a hundred grand a year but he gets so destitute he is pawning company property and stealing utilities. Then his old/new boss gets out of jail and things change, and this guy is a complete idiot.
Maybe I should look for people who really were denied opportunity. I am sick of people fucking up. I am sick of them not paying attention to their lives. And I am sick of working when it seems alot of other people get to sit around and do drugs and shit. Not that I have anythng against that JUST DO IT AFTER WORK GODDAMMIT.
People's oladies, their stupid issues, my counselling, loaning, helping, fixing, I AM FUCKING SICK OF IT. I did it because I thought these people had potential, but again and again I am proven wrong.
Maybe I will go to Russia, fly a Mig or something, and maybe I won't need the return flight. And maybe I don't care.
T
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