I’m going to be in Reno by 7PM this evening.
Oh, sure: The Tailhook Convention will be going on, but that’s just a coincidence as far as I’m concerned. I’m going to be, ah…
Doing some charity work. At the local orphanage, that’s it. Prolly decompress at the Christian Science Reading Room afterwards.
Helps me sleep.
That’s where I’m going to be in six hours.
Now here’s a question for you: Where do you want to be in ten years?
Me, I’m thinking I want to be in a sailboat. One of those Beneteaus these guys sell, perhaps. Maybe put it in charter over here. Let someone else pay for it and do the maintenance.
That’s what I’m thinking.
Not like you can do charity work forever.
Tailhook…. behave yourself.
You better not have any fun iff’n you’re doing charity work and going to the Reading Room.
Early to bed and all such stuff.
Yeah. Right.
Mind your manners, Lex. No one wants to bail you out of jail.
As I told my son last night. I don’t want to read about you in the papers and I want a report on all of the professional seminars.
Have fun!
Dave
Lex, tear ‘em up. It’s your last Tailhook in uniform. Just don’t be part of a DoD briefing the next day, and everything will be OK.
Enjoy….
Just remember they are not pictures, they are evidence. That’s all I’m saying. I really don’t want to read about you in tomorrow’s papers or DoD brief either.
Does this mean there will be no Friday’s Musings? *sigh* That’s going to make for a long weekend.
Enjoy yourself. But not TOO much.
Don’t forget the “alternate” nametag(s)…Sailboat idea sounds just about right.
And let your watchwords be: “forgiveness, not permission.” (-*
Enjoy ‘Hook 07!
I absolutely support the choice of a Benaeteau. Fast boat, that handles the calms and rough sea real well. Yousta sail charters around Cape Cod and Islands before I got married.
If’n you’re buying new, your timing is a bit off — the foreign exchange rate is not advantageous. If you do go for new, import it directly to Port Elizabeth, NJ, and bring her through the dDitch after hurrican season. Or just bring it cross Atlantic yourself. A 38 can go the easily go the distance, and you’ll have the voyage of a lifetime.
-SJBill
Lex – have fun and don’t forget the LOSAB… Irish
If anyone’s got a spare 29 mil sitting around I would really appreciate this as a christmas present.
10 years?
Singapore, not working or if I am only part time. Living in a decent house on the East Side of the Island way past Pasir Ris or in a luxury condo in Bukat Timah.
Traveling to Hong Kong at least 5 times a year or anywhere else I feel like going.
The world of course, continues to praise my novel-it is in its third printing.
And then I woke up………………
where do I want to be in 10 years? Diving, reading a good book on a beach, sucking down drinks and eating good food during surface intervals. Go chase your dream, lex.
If not in Heaven (some days I wish for the Rapture, and other days I WISH FOR IT!)
Then…..hmmm.
Want to have finished my novel. sigh.
Enjoying “retirement” with the MSG.
Dandling a couple wigglies–although I’d be glad to wait almost 10 years to get them, eldest daughter is 17 but has 8 years of college coming after this last of high school, and her “boyfriend” earnestly told me last night that he’s hoping to propose in 5 years (after a year’s deployment and then 4 years of college.)
Youngest daughter is 12, nearly 13.
Traveling to Bullriding events and possibly other countries (I still wanta walk Europe–in between trains!)
And, please God, stability for my only son.
Thanks for asking, Lex, this is something I haven’t thought enough about!
d
I know what I want to be doing … that’s easy …
Ideally, I would be practicing law on at least a part-time basis in a practice that’s devoted exclusively to legal issues faced by children and adults with special needs. Part-time will give me more time for other fun stuff. Like being a parent advocate. And finally doing some traveling. Aahhh….
I am so reminded of a letter a friend of mine wrote many years ago. She said that now that the children were in bed she and her husband could do what they want to do… which we all know was nothing…
Hey, get yourself a J-40; it is a Highlander with two toilets… (an inside joke).I’ll crew it for you.
Good luck with the job-related networking, Lex.
Oh, and have a little fun, too…
Enjoy!
Lex – Enjoy Reno – cuz it’s all about the sight seeing, right?!
In 10 years – I just still want to be breathing. The rest will be gravy.
Kris, you took the words right off my fingers! I was thinking, “alive”!
10 years?
Retired, backcountry flying when I want, back to doing outdoor photography and handweaving. Visiting our kids, and the grandkids. Of which there are currently none.
Someone is going to have to tell our kids to get on the ball. Someone else.
10 years?
Dead
Wintering in the out-islands of the Bahamas by boat. Summers in Maine then watch the leaves change and get chased south by the ice which happens to coincide with duck season. Follow the ducks south with my dog. Will have to find B&B’s along the way to keep the wife happy but that’s a small sacrifice!
Enjoy Hook, professionally of course!
I’m with Kris and Miss Birdlegs – alive will do nicely, thank you. Alive and well would be pure gravy.
I agree with Kris. Still breathing will be best. If all goes well, I’ll be a 47 year-old LCDR, still a few years away from my first look for CDR. 20 pounds lighter wild be good, too. And more hair.
Cap’n,
Do enjoy your trip. I understand Tailhook is open to Vets so you should be good for another 10 years or so.
For me? Enjoying a pleasant sunset with the Lady Katherine beside me. Breathing, which should be done at least one a day, would also be good.
10 yrs from now?
log home, back porch, lake view (mountains in background) working on my fourth book…
- SJS
10 years……….
I will have a straddling college.. just out…. in … and almost in…..
Sounds like a busy time… perhaps I will have close to an empty nest…..
Perhaps I will get to read all those books I eye on my shelf…..
Sorry… that was supposed to say
” I will have kids straddling college”
That’s what happens when you try to use your brain before your cup of coffee
Hmm, 10 years from now…
Nope. Too far away. I’ll settle for breathing and moving on the morrow.
Besides, no matter what I want or plan for, Husband’s bound to throw a monkeywrench into it and turn it all upsidedown! He’s good at that, don’cha know.
A s one who lived for a number of years aboard a not quite so bristol sister of this fine little boat, may I offer a couple of observations:
Settle on a boat handy enough that you can easily singlehand…Hard to find one above 32 feet or so.
Take a look at how many 40 footers molt in their slips for want of crew…
Thats assuming you don’t plan on doing any extended blue water cruising. If you are, then settle on something ~10,000-15,000 lbs displacement.
No matter what, make sure you have enough cabin space-or perhaps more importantly, stowage beyond the usual production boat open shelves-for Mrs. Lex’s stuff…
Not hewing to point 3 is a huge reason why that other girl went away : (
Hmm…as others have so eloquently put it, at my age and condition, I’ll settle for bein’ alive and in reasonably good health. The rest is all gravy. However, I wouldn’t turn down a cabin and boat on the Pedernales River.
Forgot…1o years…to see my grandson graduate from the Naval Academy/Citadel/VMI…and keep on keeping on with my bride…don’t get no better than that, nope, better than honey and butter on homemade biscuits.
Conspicuous lack of posts today from the good captain…no internet in jail perhaps?
Rogue. Come talk to me after you have CQ’d and gone to your first Tailhook and tell me if you are not nearly fully engaged with hard tasks in the service of your country.
Just today I spent many several hours on the golf course, swatting at terrorist golf balls. And that is after a very full night’s work fortifying myself for the task.
It’s shattered, I am.
An old shipmate of mine, AT1 JimBob used to say:
“If’n it flyes, floats or fornicates, rent it.”
Okay… ten years… ummm. That seems to change with the times but as of today I would like to be able to smell the salt of the ocean and feel the sand between my toes while watching my sons grow up and have families of their own. As far as the ocean goes I would be happy if that happened tomorrow but for the kids growing up… I can wait a little while. Enjoy Reno! Great question.
BE 603,
Ain’t that the truth!
Maybe, just maybe, still wearing Navy blue for a living. HYT for the new rank can take me there if that’s what I do.
Big world out there, though. Might send me in a different direction. Let’s see what happens in the next two or three years first!
Where do I want to be? Professionally, I hope to be in the management level of a Veterans Service Organization.
As to the rest… one can’t control others’ reactions, so no use in planning for unknown unknowns.
In ten years? Still above ground somewhere, not too decrepit, possessed of at least the Light Sport Pilot’s Licence and the airplane to go with it. Failing that, a nice fiberglass ketch. Yah I know wooden boats are cooler but I am a lazy slacker and getting right old.
P.S. Oh, Doorkeeper, I hope you and your son get to communicate with each other, even if not with speech.
Hehe…two comments I noted – 1) the old IBM folks who may or may not clasp each other to their respective bosoms. If I sensed that happening, I’d run. And 2) “We each have our jobs”…I’d love to hear the distaff rejoinder to that. You may need that sailboat sooner than you thought.