06-21-2011, 00:38
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Greater San Antonio, TX Area
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Life is Good
Finally settled in at home. Korea was an...interesting...place. Do miss some aspects of Bragg, but Walter Reed is treating me well, and I'm able to give my shoulder some much needed physical therapy. (Possible second surgery lurking, and the other shoulder has been over used and may be suffering from a torn rotator cuff---I just push myself too hard).
But life is good, I'm home more now, and it looks like I'll be around to see my youngest graduate from high school in the next couple years. So I take the good with the bad, focus on the 25 meter target, and enjoy the family as much as is humanly possible. In short...life is good!! 
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06-21-2011, 17:06
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lots of baseball with the boys this weekend.
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06-25-2011, 06:59
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Occupied America....
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Helping out at a Wounded Warrior event today....
It's good to give back.
Update:
The event at Walter Reed went very well. Could not have asked for finer weather and there was a ton of food (Katz's deli), swag from vendors for the Warriors, entertainment and stuff for the children of the wounded.
Kudo's to the organizers and hats off to all Warriors present. I wish you all the very best.
Memorable moment talking to one gentleman, who couldn't wait for the swelling in his leg to subside so he could get his prosthesis and get back to his unit in A-stan.
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06-25-2011, 11:41
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Area Commander
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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Finally took my HK USP .45 out of the box and shot it - it's a remarkable gun. It seems very accurate, and HK reduced the recoil so that it's comfortable to shoot.
I may have to abandon the 9mm Glock!
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06-25-2011, 11:54
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Bay Area
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I ordered two tacos from Del Taco at the drive-thru, but they put three in the bag - Alright!
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06-25-2011, 19:05
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Page/Lake Powell, Arizona
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Took the boat out for the first time this morning.
Haven't been boating for about 9 years.
Wife and kids loved it.
Played on the beach in Warm Creek bay, explored some of Padre Bay, explored Navajo Canyon up to "the sandpile" -- left the house @ 0615 and got home @ 1130.
Boat and trailer still have some work to be done.
Running around 4500rpm @ WOT; need a flatter prop.
One more trip tomorrow morning before taking it to the shop.
Tubing at Warm Creek Bay and playing on the beach at Lone Rock!
Just love living at Lake Powell.
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06-29-2011, 21:17
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Occupied Pineland
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Attack of the Killer Tali-Bots!
Having to wash my sunglasses with dish soap when I got home because they were covered with gun oil and carbon! Every now and then my job has some perks and today was one of them. We had a blast checking out a new target for marksmanship training. ( www.marathon-targets.com ) And somebody else picked up the brass and cleaned the weapons after we left! Now if I can just figure out where we're getting 1.9M to pay for one set, I'll be ecstatic.
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06-30-2011, 03:11
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RIP Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: The Ozarks
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Originally Posted by Gypsy
Thanks, oh I'm nothing if not efficient...was unpacked and pics hung within 2 days.
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I mean, how long could it possibly take to unpack a broom, a big pot and a bunch of dried bat wings?
Welcome back, Sis.
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06-30-2011, 09:04
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Georgetown, SC
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Happiness is home! Back from a 'Mini-Odyysey' - AZ to LA for my younger daughter's art show, then up to OR for 5 days in the 'John Day Basin' to visit friends in their cabin (it is nice to see a cabin that is actually that and not a 'house in the woods'), then over to ID and NV and home.
I loved my friends' cabin and the area around Spray-Fossil-Dayville, but didn't like 'nanny-statism' Oregon! I couldn't pump my own gas OR buy Sudafed without a prescription. What's up with that?!?
Finally stopped at Hoover Dam and walked on the McCallaghan-Tillman Memorial Bridge's walkway... in approximately 35-40 mph winds. Wow!
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06-30-2011, 16:59
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Location: OK. Thanking Our Brave Soldiers
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Originally Posted by ZonieDiver
Happiness is home! Back from a 'Mini-Odyysey' - AZ to LA for my younger daughter's art show, then up to OR for 5 days in the 'John Day Basin' to visit friends in their cabin (it is nice to see a cabin that is actually that and not a 'house in the woods'), then over to ID and NV and home.
I loved my friends' cabin and the area around Spray-Fossil-Dayville, but didn't like 'nanny-statism' Oregon! I couldn't pump my own gas OR buy Sudafed without a prescription. What's up with that?!?
Finally stopped at Hoover Dam and walked on the McCallaghan-Tillman Memorial Bridge's walkway... in approximately 35-40 mph winds. Wow!
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Wow, ZD!!! Sounds like an amazing trip! Glad you made it back safe...and can now go scuba diving...in what was the name of that Lake here? 
Got to kill, er. um I mean, boil a truckload of fresh large, healthy, snapping irritated, angry Lobsters to serve!
Okay, okay, I know...but it was thrilling...and no, they do not "scream" when cooked in mass! (I listened...) 
Holly
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07-01-2011, 03:40
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Western NC
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Happy thought of the day...
Met someone who totally shares my interests...
Starting a climb on a beautiful day that ended on the last pitch with gusty winds, a heavy downpour, lots of lightening, and wet lichen 
It was her first multi pitch climb
She did not complain a single bit
Life is good
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07-01-2011, 03:50
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Northeast Utah
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13 years later...a promise fulfilled.
13 and a half years ago I was diasgnosed with leukemia. Chemotherapy couldn't kill the cancer, so I met the bone marrow transplant specialists who provided the only real chance for a cure.
Shortly after meeting them, I promised myself that, if I were to survive my ordeal, I would work beside them someday.
6 months of recovery, 2.5 more years of university, 4 years of medical school, 3 years of residency and 3 years of fellowship completed yesterday.
Today, when I drive in to work, I will do so as colleague to those who cared for me all those years ago (yes - at the same institution).
It took 13 years of training to keep that promise - now the real work starts and I get to pay it forward.
Life is good.
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07-01-2011, 03:54
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Shortly after meeting them, I promised myself that, if I were to survive my ordeal, I would work beside them someday.
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That Sir is teh awesome!
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07-01-2011, 04:00
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RIP Quiet Professional
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Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc
13 and a half years ago I was diasgnosed with leukemia. Chemotherapy couldn't kill the cancer, so I met the bone marrow transplant specialists who provided the only real chance for a cure.
Shortly after meeting them, I promised myself that, if I were to survive my ordeal, I would work beside them someday.
6 months of recovery, 2.5 more years of university, 4 years of medical school, 3 years of residency and 3 years of fellowship completed yesterday.
Today, when I drive in to work, I will do so as colleague to those who cared for me all those years ago (yes - at the same institution).
It took 13 years of training to keep that promise - now the real work starts and I get to pay it forward.
Life is good.
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07-01-2011, 05:54
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: MN's Iron Range
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc
13 and a half years ago I was diasgnosed with leukemia. Chemotherapy couldn't kill the cancer, so I met the bone marrow transplant specialists who provided the only real chance for a cure.
Shortly after meeting them, I promised myself that, if I were to survive my ordeal, I would work beside them someday.
6 months of recovery, 2.5 more years of university, 4 years of medical school, 3 years of residency and 3 years of fellowship completed yesterday.
Today, when I drive in to work, I will do so as colleague to those who cared for me all those years ago (yes - at the same institution).
It took 13 years of training to keep that promise - now the real work starts and I get to pay it forward.
Life is good.
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Inspirational! Thank you for sharing that. Congratulations to you, Doctor.
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