Not that anyone particularly cares.....

So, I am trying how to figure out what is needed with this to simply take some of my previous comments to other sites and post them to this blog. Right now a simple copy and paste is not working for me, and I am baffled as to why. I need to play with this all further, so I am off now to fiddle with this a bit. "I'll be back....."

Ah...I think I figured it out!  So, anyway, here is a comment I posted this morning on one of my favorite incoming info links, Military.com.  Each morning my email contains updates from this site plus the New York Times and the Washington Post.  I enjoy reading the morning editorial comments and more often than not I will log up a comment of my own.  I selfishly save all my comments, I guess becasue I assume at somepoint someone may get a kick out of reading them.  When I was growing up--long time back--and in school I thought how is it possible that we have all these historical documents from our founding fathers unless somewhere along the line they paused and said to themselves: "Gee this is significant, I should save it'.  I think that took a certain level of ego, I guess I have the same ego level by saving all my editorial comment too; though I doubt anyone will read it in 100 years and think it anything but idle babble.....thus my site name.  :)

Anyway I digress.  I posted this comment below earlier today on Military.com   Threre has been some criticism from old vets about the movie "the Hurt Locker".  Below is my take on the film and the vet critics.  Make of it what you wish.  Hint: 0846 is my screen lable for this particular comment.  It was an MOS I had for a while long ago; it is the Marine designation for a scout/forward observer

0846
March 4, 2010 at 5:59 am

I saw the film twice, and enjoyed it for what it was; a movie about a fiction. It was pretty easy for me to spot breaks in reality, those area’s where ‘dramatic license’ overtook truth. But I was OK with that because, lets face it, this film was not made for vets to sit in a theater and mumble about our reality, rather it was made for civilians to gaze into a world that is totally beyond their capacity to grasp. I think the best contemporary film that reflects a reality is “Black Hawk Down”. That film plus, “Saving Private Ryan” and “Band of Brothers” are great films; I am looking forward to “Pacific” beginning in two weeks. I expect that too will be a pretty accurate film.

3 March 2010

First effort at 'blogging'. I have been thinking about this for some time and quite by accident today I roamed into another blog site and then stumbled on to this set-up template; so we'll give this a try and see where it all goes. My guess is that I will use all this to keep in touch with family and friends, post some of my pictures and to very likely run on about life, reflections on same and for sure my politics. So those of you that know me get ready for some white noise from the underside.

Right at the moment I really should be at work around the house, I am aiming to put the place up on the market in the next two weeks so I should be attending to my painting, clean-up, and setting stuff aside to keep and what to sell or just give away.

I have been musing on a sale and move for a year now, was put off last year by a terrible market and another intrusive issue that has been around for a while now. But all that aside I figure now is as good a time as any to move along, I know in my own mind I am ready to move into another phase of my life in a down-sized environment. There is little downside if I don't sell, because I don't need to sell, so I am content to give this a shot for a bit and if it happens, great, if not, not a problem.

Alright, that's it for the moment. Things to do.

More to come.