Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 09:35 AM - Weather Stuff
It's almost time for SHORE LEAV 32!!! HOORAY! Okay, not almost time, as we've still got about 5 1/2 months to go. But it takes planning to pull off a yearly group celebration of Sci-fi and FSF! As most of you know, and those of you who don't now will, FSF members use the annual Shore Leave Sci-Fi convention as an excuse to get together and meet each other in person. For 3-4 days in July, anyone who's able and wants to can head to Baltimore MD, where we all stay at the same hotel and party/ visit the convention. We also spread the word to anyone interested at the convention about FSF and the fun we have online together.
For the past couple of years, we've tried to have group t-shirts that we wear to show off our affiliation with FSF and make people who don't know about us ask us questions (it honestly works) Once again we're asking for members to submit a design they would like to see on this years t-shirt. It's open to everyone in FSF and you don't have to be attending Shore Leave to design the shirt! The designer of the winning entry will recieve a t-shirt with their design, for free!
Here are the rules:
1. Must have Federation Sim Fleet and the website (www.sb254.com) in the design
2. Must be submitted by 11:59pm EST on the 15th of April
3. Color of the t-shirt itself will be either dark blue or black, so design around that background color
To have a chance to win, just upload your design to the Pictures and Photos section of the File Libraries. http://www.sb254.com/library.php?id=668
Best of luck to all who submit!!!!!
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( 3 / 5 )Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 07:23 PM
I hope everyone had a very merry christmas (if you celebrate it). Also, wishing everyone a Happy New Year! Bring it on 2010. (BTW...are we calling it twenty ten or two thousand ten? I'm still confused)...[ add comment ] | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink |
( 3 / 5 )Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 08:52 AM
Last night, one of my former trainees from my last flight to ever graduate IM'd me. He's the only member of the flight I regularly talk to. He likes to keep me informed on the happenings of everyone from the flight that he still talks to (which I guess it quite a few of them). Last night, he was the bearer of bad news.
One of my Airmen, Airman Joshua Smith died while in technical training. It happened back in August, but the information is still trickling down amongst the flight members. Airman Martin thought he should let me know of Airman Smith's passing, and I'm grateful he did.
It's always hard to hear of someone passing away, but even more so when it's someone that you were with for countless hours, weeks at a time. When I was an instructor, I kept a personal distance from my trainees. I never bothered to learn their first names or where they came from. But a bond is formed between instructor and trainee. They have your back and you have theirs. They become my "kids" and I become their "mom". They trust that you will train them properly, prepare them adequately for life in the Air Force and change them for the better as a person.
We, as instructors, trusted them to have integrity, to do their jobs right and as close to perfect as possible, and to give all they had to training and hoped that they would continue to learn and grow outside of BMT.
While I trusted Airman Martin and his information sources (an Airman who was stationed with Airman Smith), I needed to make sure for myself that his information was accurate. Today I found Airman Smith's obituary archived online.
I've trained over 700 trainees in my 17 months as an instructor. I can't remember every single face or name. For Airman Smith, I can remember his face and his name, more so because he was in my last flight. He was on laundry crew detail as well as Academic monitor, helping the others in the flight to study for the main test. He was also an A-Flight guide, the Airman who walked at the front of the flight to set the pace during graduation. In a cruel twist of irony, I let my flight watch the HBO movie "Taking Chance" on shipping night, before they left for technical training. I never imagined 6 months later, one of my troops would be escorted back home to his final resting place.
The Air Force lost an outstanding Airman on August 21st. His family lost an amazing son and brother. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and Air Force family.
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( 3.3 / 6 )Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 03:28 PM
Well...I'm two days into my 3rd week of dieting and working out. So far, so good. I've lost almost 10 lbs in that time. I've stopped losing weight though for the last few days, the scale has read the same number. I think I cut my calories too dramatically to start with, I was only eating between 800-1100 calories a day. I think that put my body and metabolism into starvation/self preservation mode. I'm trying to undo that by eating more throughout the day and eating a minimum of 1200 calories.
Still having success with my meal choices though. Still no red meats. Only eating mainly chicken or occasionally pork. Broccoli is my favorite veggie right now. Very low in calories and high in a lot of vitamins. I also love the 100 calorie snack packs for a quick snack between meals. I'm hoping a couple of weeks of more food will steady out my metabolism so the pound droppage can continue.
As for fitness, I've been still hitting Curves 4-5 times a week. I'm keeping my workouts intense and burning almost 500 calories a workout, which is good. At home, Falk and I have started a workout program as well. We're following a guideline so that we can do 100 pushups in 7 weeks. I've also added the 200 situps in 6 weeks to build up my core strength.
With any luck (and if I keep motivated) I'll be rocking out situps and push ups like they were nothing.
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( 3 / 5 )Monday, September 14, 2009, 09:23 PM
Saturday I did my fitness assessment. I did worse than I thought I would. I've really gotten out of shape since I got out of the military.
Anywho, the results were as follows:
Pushups: 37
Sit ups: 35
As for my run, I had to stop not to long into the run because of my stress fractures. Stupid legs are going to kill me yet. I might try to run again this weekend to see if I can power through the pain and get a time...any time.
I took a day off from my Curves workout today (only technically suppose to go three times a week anyways) due to soreness, but I will be back tomorrow.
I fell off the diet wagon on saturday after the fitness assessment. We had a friend over to watch the football games on TV and ordered pizza for lunch. I tried to go as healthy as I could and got ham and pineapple instead of pepperoni and checked the calorie count so I knew how far off the wagon I was going. Dinner, on the other hand, was out at Ponderosa.
I was worried that this day would be like all the other times I had tried to get it together and get back in shape, and derail the whole process. I'm happy to report though that for the first time in a long time, I was glad to be back to my calorie counting, planned and balanced meal the next day.
I'm really looking forward to getting a good workout in tomorrow!
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