Today

Nothing spectacular happened today. we cleared assisted ISF clear a neighborhood, Did a patrol, and somewhere in between had an Alvin and the chipmunk marathon. I watched the chipmunk adventure circa 1980's and the new one. I thought the new one would be silly, but I rather enjoyed it. Children's movies have come a long way and watching the two back to back highlighted that fact.

I am sure I could go into a nice psychological analysis of why soldiers or more specifically , myself, are endeared to children's movies and classic movies, but then I would have to get into our nature, our job, and about a million other factors. I will say though that I have an inkling that our tendencies to have the "knight" mentality and be from bygone days might have something to do with our love of nostalgia. I will also caveat that by saying that the services are made up of all colors, creeds, and kinds and that you can NEVER lump a group into generalizations, because you will fail at your attempt to isolate variables and make valid generalizations. That is why I make no claims and do not explore the above topic. I would need tons of research and a population base reaching to the millions and spanning decades, if not one to two centuries. Anyway, I digress even though i attempted not to digress. LOL, maybe now you can see how my tinker works and why I just give commands without explaining. I explain if asked, but i think so much bout alternate methods and variables, that more often than not, while I am human and fallible, I have arrived at the most efficient course of action.

Anyway, another long day on the morrow so I bid you adieu.

CR