Character and Reputation…

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are”

– Dale Carnegie. American lecturer, author, 1888–1955

Memorial Day eCard

Going home for the weekend…

I get to go home for the holiday weekend, I'm glad I'll get to see my family and friends, this mobilization is getting to me and I need the break.  We're half way there, the pressure is on.  This Memorial holiday means more now to me than it has in the past, partly because I'm mobilized and everything else going on around us.  So as I’ve mentioned before, one of the ways to distract myself is to get gadgets, I really like the new Motorola Q which will be released next week, I want it, but I don't get data coverage in this area from Verizon, maybe when I’m done here. 

Promotion and Windows Media Center

So last week I was promoted to Sergeant, I'm ready for more responsibility and to be a better leader.  Ironically, it's been 9 months since I was mobilized and now have 9 more to go before we can go back home.  In celebration to my promotion, or maybe that I'm halfway there on this journey, I've acquired a few gadgets over the weekend, got a TV Tuner from Hauppauge (it works) to use my Xbox 360 as a media extender for XP Media Center Edition on my laptop.  So far I love it, I like the fact that I can schedule and record programs, I can pause or rewind Live TV.  This is great!