Many hours after waking up, and all I have to show for my existence is a slightly better understanding of what Lin did in the Air Force. So how did I come to waste so much time doing that? First, Piper mentioned Gev in a post, and I remembered that he had done something with missiles in the Air Force and had wanted to friend him at LJ after we met, but promptly forgot to do so, and so I couldn’t ever find who he was again. I guess I could have asked Piper, but you know I have ADD and can’t retain a thought for more than a few minutes, right? Anyway, I pop over to Gev’s journal and look at his user pics, two of which are Air Force patches. Since Lin was working at home, I asked him what squadron he’d been in, and after about 30 minutes of oratory on the greatness of his squadron, I started looking it up on Google. And so hours of time was lost to Google searches, web site reading, and oratory by Lin on the greatness of his squadron (and himself — dude, reel in the ego).

For anyone who might be interested (or maybe later searching for other people who had been in missiles somehow) Lin was in the 3901 Strategic Missile Evaluation Squadron out of Vandenberg AFB starting in the mid-80’s (I think). He also said something about having been in the 4315 Combat Crew Training Squadron as well. When he gets going talking about the Air Force, I can’t keep up with everything flying out of his mouth. A mile a minute, I tell you!

Of course, I am really no better when it comes to babbling about things, but at least the things I tend to babble about don’t require an armed services glossary and an in depth understanding of the inner workings of Strategic Air Command and intercontinental missiles to comprehend.

So yeah, that’s how I spent my morning. Not a complete waste of time, because it was all very interesting, but there are at least a dozen things around the house I probably should have been doing instead. Oh well. It’s not like the dishes in the sink are going to disappear, if I don’t wash them right this minute.

I am such an efficient procrastinator.