Moving along with spirit...
Jan. 30th, 2012 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpEnough work showed up this morning to put me past a monthly billing milestone, although past mentioning it, there is little else noteworthy about having done so.
Once everything had been sent out, Galina and I took off for Oyster Bay, where we found the town hall and I paid the first half of the 2012 school taxes. Ouch!
We ran by the Costco to pick up some "bare necessities," and came back over $110 lighter (although for sure, there are few frills; aside from a bouquet of flowers, we'll eventually eat everything we bought today).
I managed to catch a piece of an old 1957 Jack Webb movie last night, titled The D.I., and it was certainly a marvelous paen to the USMC. I would rank its depiction of the Drill Instructor fairly highly, even if some points were of necessity deducted for lack of verisimilitude in the language used, from time to time, in addressing recruits.
I've been browsing some of the offerings at iTunesU, and am so far not very impressed. Quite a number of presentations I've looked at have not been well produced and the speakers are not commanding enough to make the overall experience worth while. One presentation—on the search for The Battle of Anghiani, a "lost" fresco by DaVinci that some believe lies behind a later painting in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio—just managed to keep me from moving on to something else. It also doesn't help much that the iTunes app itself has a nasty habit of crashing at the drop of a hat.
Cheers...
Once everything had been sent out, Galina and I took off for Oyster Bay, where we found the town hall and I paid the first half of the 2012 school taxes. Ouch!
We ran by the Costco to pick up some "bare necessities," and came back over $110 lighter (although for sure, there are few frills; aside from a bouquet of flowers, we'll eventually eat everything we bought today).
I managed to catch a piece of an old 1957 Jack Webb movie last night, titled The D.I., and it was certainly a marvelous paen to the USMC. I would rank its depiction of the Drill Instructor fairly highly, even if some points were of necessity deducted for lack of verisimilitude in the language used, from time to time, in addressing recruits.
I've been browsing some of the offerings at iTunesU, and am so far not very impressed. Quite a number of presentations I've looked at have not been well produced and the speakers are not commanding enough to make the overall experience worth while. One presentation—on the search for The Battle of Anghiani, a "lost" fresco by DaVinci that some believe lies behind a later painting in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio—just managed to keep me from moving on to something else. It also doesn't help much that the iTunes app itself has a nasty habit of crashing at the drop of a hat.
Cheers...
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Date: 2012-02-01 03:13 am (UTC)And he was right.
SSgt King was an unusual guy. His MOS was 'musician'. Put a metronome in the squad bay, had the sucker playing all night, all day. It worked - by the second day we were marching in step to the head. Borrowed a bass drum and had the sick-lame-lazy privates banging on it during drill so we'd know how to march to a band at graduation.
Gave me a memorable ass-chewing one day in the Office. The highlight was knocking a file cabinet over to get my attention. He sure got it.
Not good times, but sure-nuf memorable ones.