Mystery Men: The Waffler

my favorite superhero. Golden crispy, bad guys are history!

if i was a superhero, i'd most likely end of a mystery men type of superhero--sort of dorky with an odd superpower that was more of a quirk than a power but with the best intentions at heart.

comedy and chaos ensues!

which, i figure is how this whole morgan retirement speech thing is going to shake out. there will be many seasoned military men there watching this small time chick dork her way through a quirky-more- than-powerful speech (although i do have the best intents at heart).

i've experienced a few humbling moments. they seem to fall into two categories:
byrne! you're inept! (i know! i know! what took you so long to figure that out??)

or

byrne! someone important in your life really digs you. (man. um. gulp. man.)

being asked by morgan to deliver his retirement speech stretches across both categories. i'm proudly terrified. i'm happily humble.

and i'm tongue-tied.
gaah.

Morgan: SuperPowers!

Everyone dreams of having Super powers! C'mon admitted it...You've played the super powers fantasy game. If you could have any super power, what would it be? The Boy and I were sitting in our lair the other night watching the second season of "Who wants to be a Super Hero?" on the Sci Fi channel. Now I'll admit that the show's Corny factor is very high , however like a accident on Rt 66 I can't stop from slowing down and rubbernecking.

The Show's premise is pretty simple take Stan Lee (famous comic book creator) and audition thousands of geeks across the US. Stan’s superheroes are for the most part, regular folks who have superpowers thrust on them. For example, Dr. Bruce Banner, an ordinary doctor, transforms into the ‘Incredible Hulk’ and back again. Peter Parker, an ordinary teenager who is not sure what to do with super-powers, becomes ‘Spider-Man.’ X-Men, of course, are normal teenagers, but with mutant genes that gives them their super-human qualities...Back to the show! When you have ten ridiculous wanna-be super heroes enter them into a cheesefest of a quasi-reality competition for 1. A million bucks 2. Immortality 3. Personal comic book. They show up with homemade uniforms and fictious powers, acting heroic and taking it all to serious. We laugh and laugh at their stupid antics. Check out their website if you don't get the Sci-Fi channel http://www.scifi.com/superhero/

I guess I would want to be The Hulk because he's really strong, and I don't think he has the responsibilities of Superman. The Boy says he wants to have Super Gaming powers, for what? I don't know. I'm watching him play Guitar Hero II and his eye hand coordination looks superhuman to me. Man he's Good!

Maybe everyone has a special talent...an Uncanny ability that only a few people in the world possess. It's coming back to me...memories of abilities parading before my eyes through the mists of time. Yes...I have an uncanny geographic ability to draw a reasonable facsimile of any nation or state. My ability to read...no thats not unique enough. My incredibly insensitive, evil power to instantly saddle anyone with a nickname like Sawyer on the TV Show "LOST" I really do appreciate a good nickname...right Andy-pants? I'm trying to remember a third Uncanny Ability (UA) I guess it would be my Incredible Luck! Yes, I am Mr. Lucky. I'm lucky I didn't get a speeding ticket today! I'm lucky to have married my wonderful wife. I'm lucky to have great kids...don't ask me how that happened...I'm just lucky!

Speaking of Super powers, it took everything I had to go to Kimbrough Army Clinic the othe day for my retirement Physical. I was trying to get out of it, maybe sign an exemption letter and just be done with it. But everyone advise (Yelled) me to not bypass this one. Usually these retirement physicals are scheduled 120 days before separation...so with 4 business days left I went over to the clinic to schedule an appointment. When I convincingly explained my situation they decided to see me that very day! Lucky Me! Since I had recently had my first Physical a few months prior...most of the preliminary work was done...I was going to get this done, and beat the traffic home. First they gave me an EKG...and like the Tin Man I found I had a "good" heart. Next they gave my Super Lasic Eyes a test...which I passed by reading the second line to the bottom e-s-p-d-f-t. Easy-Peasy. Finally they sent me in to see this rather large black female doctor (Major). She went over my records, making comments, annotations, observations, she talked about making a Veterans Administration Claim. It was just more paperwork, a mere formality. We were almost done when she said,

"Ok! Take your boots off and all your clothes."

"Your shitting me!", I replied.

"No I'm not. We have to check your junk and then we're doing a rectal exam."

Mooooon River!.....happy place, happy place!

Running of the Bulls 2006 - runner's point of view

weeeee! run, run run!!!

why does rrreealllly silly man,man,man,man behavior make me grin? that bull is crazy! those men are crazy! did you see that dude get totally stomped? one of these days, i really want to be there and do that.......

adrenalin rush. i think that's what it is all about. it could be riding the big top in las vegas, zip lining down a south africa mountain, running the bulls, changing careers midway through...that "dear God, why am i doing this" sick feeling. i feel for my brother riding his own change of life roller coaster. he's cresting that top of the hill climb, peaking over and thinking, oh man. and then things are gonna start zooming.

when boy1 was very little, i used to read to him, "oh the places you will go" by dr. seuss. i enjoyed that book as much as he did. i liked the candid way in which the seuss-meister handled rough spots that occur in life. like coming down from a lurch, the waiting place, being alone, playing useless games against yourself and then getting yourself unstuck—the man was spot-on.

so i salute you, morgan, as you scream by me in your personal rollercoaster with your hair on fire. i'm really proud of you. you're in my top 20 people that i know. you've done well in getting here and i bet i'll be posting the same sentiments 20 years from now:

So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act.

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3 / 4 percent guaranteed.)
KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!
—Oh The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

Morgan: Time Keeps on Slipping...

As I get closer to my retirement, I have numerous song lyrics going through my head. Do you know where your going to?...Take this job and shove it!...Time Keeps on Slipping...I am feeling a little stress as I quickly approach that day. I'm running out of time! I have less than 10 days to finish my outprocessing and locate other employment. Stress? yeah a little. On top of the stress I'm on some kind of emotional rollercoaster that has me going from excitement to remorse in seconds. Yes I'm excited to move on, to the "next level" in my life. At the same time, I can't help but think about how much I have enjoyed the U.S. Air Force. It has been such a huge part of my life since I was 17, I am Air Force. What happens to me when you take that uniform away? 10 Days...wtf. I'm taking 20 days permissive TDY, 10 days Terminal leave and I'm selling 59 days of leave. I'm thinking about hitting the Appalachian Trail by myself for a week, I just want to be by myself. Colette says I should go someplace special...I don't know.

Work in progress...I need a break

OurGirl: a whine about wine

For one thing, wine consumption in this country has nearly doubled in the last decade, while beer sales have been pretty much stagnant, growing less than 1 percent since 2000. Even more galling, in 2005 a Gallup poll revealed that, for the first time ever, Americans preferred wine to beer. This was an astonishing development, akin to Americans jilting baseball for bocce.
—Beer in the Headlights, Slate Magazine

First of all, after a super hot day toiling in the newly established eastern vineyard this summer—i've come back to the farm house and my beverage of choice?

Widmer Hefeweizen
I drank my first in HOTlanta this past june. and it was wiltingly hot in atlanta. but the hefe? it was so refreshing. it was clean and so, so easy to drink. i love the bready-wheaty flavor. i love the cloudiness of the beer. why do people prefer products filtered? like apple juice or cider—ever get the real stuff? the flavors are so much more complex. from what i understand, the hefe is pretty trendy. and the lemon slice—websites galore bemoan the lemon slice. whatever. i'm one of the dorks drinking the cool kid's beer. in late fall/winter til st. pat's day, though, i drink guinness stout with my husband's family. that's the extent of my beer drinking.

wine.

wine is all about the place, the food you eat with it and the people you are with when you consume both the wine and food. at least that's my current theory. to wit: my third date with my husband was an impromptu trip to new orleans. yeh. jezebel. so we eat at the creole kitchen (circa 1995), a literal hole in the wall restaurant with the dining set out in their cozy courtyard. i had a blackened filet mignon, a total food heresy. my husband had a fish dish. we drank a nondescript beaujolais and i fell so hopelessly in love with my husband i still sleep in the same bed with him every night. that's the power of place, food, wine and the person you share it with. here is another story about a less romantic setting, better wine, and a total recommitment of love.

people will tell you different. some will actually taste wine and then spit it out (this happens at a wine tasting, not at a meal). personally, i find this disrespectful of the grape. however, i am a wine novice and worse, an unrepentant one. i suppose spitting is inevitable at tastings. at a certain point, you could get a bit loopy. The oldman's guide to outsmarting wine has been a great reference book for me, you should check out mark's site. he writes about wine in a totally accessible way. i also enjoy reading michael steinberger's wine column @ slate.com. oh, and i can't forget jancis robinson!

bon appetit!

Morgan: Beer or Wine?

Sommeliers are wine experts, right? They know everything to know about wine and make very educated recommendations about what wine is most appropriate with your fish or veal. But is wine the most popular beverage with a meal? I don’t think, I’m too far off the reservation, when I say no. Beer is the more popular beverage with meals. The fact is that real beer is a far more versatile beverage than wine, bringing a wider range of flavors and aromas to the table. Now you can say I have no class or I’m low class…that’s alright, you won’t break my achy-breaky heart. Let’s talk about beer, baby!

Making beer

Brewing is the process of changing water and grain into beer through a yeast catalyst. The quality of the water is extremely important. Hard water produces a bitter ale, soft water produces bitter lager. Barley or hops, or a combination of them, is used for the grain.
Getting dry grain ready for fermentation is called malting. The grain is steeped in water until it sprouts. The sprouting or germination is not allowed to end naturally but is interrupted either by drying or roasting in kilns.

Barley

Barley has been a grain of choice for thousands of years. The longer the roasting of the malted barley, the darker the beer. Barley, or wheat beers have a sweet taste.

Hops

Hops are herbaceous climbing vines and look like a cross between pine cores and artichokes. The bitter, dry flavour of hops counterbalance the sweetness of malt.

Yeast
Sugars in the malted grains are converted into alcohol by yeast. Different yeast ferment sugars into different flavours. For ales, top fermentation yeast is used, while bottom fermentation yeast is used for lagers.
The beer making process starts by germinating the grain, then steeping the resulting malt in hot water to get the wort. Base wort contents means the percentage of wort in the beer before fermentation. The alcohol contents is roughly one third of the base wort contents.The wort is boiled (brewed) and hops are added. After brewing, fermentation starts by adding yeast. After fermentation, the wort is drown into tanks where it is allowed to condition or age. Yeast and hops are sometimes added in a secondary fermentation process.

I’m no Brewmeister, but my taste buds are in perfect working condition. My Top 3 Favorites have to be…
1. Yuengling Traditional Amber Lager With its deep amber hue and mild hop character, traditional lager is a classic brew, reminiscent of turn-of-the century beers. This amber lager may also be characterized as an American Style premium lager that is a more flavorful medium bodied beer than just an American-style Pilsner. Each Brew has ruby colored highlights with a slight hop aroma and flavor. The degree of toasty sweet caramel-type character in the flavor and aroma results in a refreshingly balanced palate.http://www.yuengling.com/
2. Parkbrauerei Pirminator – Strong light bock originating in Zweibruken- Pirmasens, GermanyIt is known for its taste, which comes down to the particularly lengthy maturing process in the storage tanks.
3. Smithwick's Draut has a ruby red tone with a stable, but slightly thin head. It is produced using hops and special roasted, malted barley. Its texture is smooth and refined, with a bitter and complex finish. Smithwick’s was originally brewed in St. Francis Abbey Brewery in Kilkenny, known as 'Smithwicks Brewery' until c.2000. The brewery is situated on the site of a Franciscan abbey where monks had brewed ale since the 14th century, and has ruins of the original abbey on its grounds. It is Ireland’s oldest operating brewery, founded by John Smithwick in 1710.

Top 3 Interesting Beer Factoids
1. Worldwide, 20,000 brands of beer are brewed in 180 styles, from ales, lagers, pilsner and stouts to bitters, cream ales and iced beers.
2. Beer has been a popular beverage for a long time. Babylonian clay tablets show detailed recipes of beer making in 4300 BC. Beer was also brewed by the ancient Chinese, Assyrians and Incas.

3. An Egyptian text of 1600 BC gives 100 medical prescriptions using beer. A few years ago, the New Castle Brewery in England brewed 1,000 bottles Tutankhamun Ale from a 3,200-year old recipe found in the sun temple of Queen Nefertiti.

And malt does more than Milton can, To justify God's ways to man. A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)

But if wine is your choice than you can't go wrong with Proof of Concept

Channeling TV history

way back in the late 70s/early 80s, in the landlocked state of misery—excusi, meant to type the mighty, mighty missouri—our intrepid protagonist watched pbs television with her dad on sweltering summer saturdays afternoons. it was an amazing mash-up of topics where in an hour and a half you could learn to cook food from exotic lands, paint fantastic landscapes in oil paints, work in wood or renovate an old house. there was no other timeframe in the whole tv-scape at that time with such an eclectic line-up. yeh, way before cable, that's what i'm talking about here. here are a few of my favs:

Justin Wilson! Oh, ah gawruntee! even as a child, i understood justin was a great (most likely, dirty) old man. he cooked and consumed some sincerely homey cajun cuisine. he had a kitchen studio and a wife half his age. he told stories like my grandpa. as an adult, i make his potato salad. its like your standard american potato salad dressed with mayo and mustard, but justin makes it with onyun, chopped pimento-stuffed green olives and several liberal shakes of tabasco. ooooo-weeee!

Yan Can Cook! if yan can cook, so can you! thanks, martin yan. my parents bought a wok and experimented with stir frying straw mushroom (just like the dancing mushrooms in the disney movie, fantasia!) and tofu and canned baby corn. in missouri, that was a feat. my parents were very daring for the time/place/culture. yan could cut up a chicken in, like, seconds. you can see him now on foodtv, as a guest judge on iron chef america. now he's super hunky yan in a black leather jacket. the dude rocks.

This Old House. ok, you knew bob villa was a total diva. you couldn't wait for everyone to get tired of him and then they replaced him with that steve dude ( and you knew steve had never picked up a hammer in his life) and all the while, you secretly rooted for norm abrams (nice guy!) how happy were you when the New Yankee Workshop came out? i typed that sentence? well, yeh. i watched it 'cause my dad really dug it. plus, you got to like a guy who started off his shows reminding you to always wear these (point to the corner of your face) safety glasses. oh, and the total slavish commitment to joining biscuits? the workshop was a drinking game, but i was in middle school so i missed out.

The Joy of Painting! William Alexander! Bob Ross! Paint amay-ya-ya-zing moutainous landscapes with all sorts of coniferous and deciduous (remember, mother of a ten year old) trees (HAPPY TREES!) William, an exuberant prussian, would fire-in his trees with alizarin crimson! Ross, weirdly quiet when he spoke/whispered, was for me, one of the last of the hippies (for which i was profoundly grateful, having experienced first hand the early 70s, which i refer to as the great american hang-over. shudder). they both created paintings using alla-prima oil painting techniques. everyone else (excluding my father) painted trash. and i think they still do at what now passes for an art store. ever noticed they just don't make art stores—now they are just a bunch of really poor craft stores?

Morgan: General Tso's Chicken Wings?

Finding topics to write about can be a daunting task. I know, I belong to Helium.com and get paid to write articles about various topics. It’s actually a competition with your peers rating you against other writers. I haven’t made any money as of yet. Each week I look at the topics and people contributing articles, and I seem to freeze with writer’s block like a rabbit in the road. It’s hard to explain the dread I feel writing and posting for other’s to review. However I feel none of that pressure here, on Morgan and Byrne. I just write and let that words flow across the page in a stream of consciousness. Occasionally I run up against a temporary writer’s block. I step back, think about it, and wait a day or two. I do a little bit of research on the internet, analyzing Google Trends and current events. Something of interest usually jumps out at me and before I know it, my two fingers begin pecking at the keyboard like two geriatric chickens. I rarely pander to the general public, but if they like my topics of Hooters and Baseball…That’s cool.

I know “Our Girl” doesn’t like it when I plagiarize, however I thought this was an interesting article on the state of affairs in China from the Financial Times (FT.com). China has executed its former head food and drug regulator for taking bribes to approve medicines, rapidly carrying out his sentence in an apparent warning to other officials following a series of scandals about the quality of products made in China. The execution of Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, was confirmed by state television and news agencies after the Supreme People’s Court approved the death sentence. Mr Zheng was convicted of taking Rmb6.5m in bribes from pharmaceuticals companies. Commenting on the case, a spokeswoman said, “China is a developing country and our supervision of food and drugs started late and our foundation for this work is weak,” said Yan Jiangying. “Therefore we cannot be too optimistic about the current food and drug safety situation.” The prosecution of Mr Zheng has also coincided with a number of safety problems with Chinese products in the US, including pet food that contained an industrial chemical, toys covered in lead paint and tires that lacked an important safety feature. He looks really young for 62! oops...sorry.

Bloomberg.com reports, “China, facing international criticism over the quality
of food and drug exports, said it will take five years to stamp out production
of fake medicine and that the trend in safety ``isn't promising.''

I find it ironic that China is executing anyone for bribery. Bribery in Asia is a way of life; however, I have been seeing increasing efforts to eradicate corruption from Thailand to China. Second point of interest, they executed a former government official…Hmmmm, he must have pissed somebody off. The third interesting point is the fact that Chinese exports to the U.S. seem to be taking a financial hit. Everything from pet food to Chinese medication seems to be suffering form poor quality control. With the upcoming XXIX Olympiad to be held in Beijing in 2008, China is aware that eyes of the world will be on the 5,000 year old culture and it looks like they’re cleaning house. Sorry no more China stories for a month. Cheers!

OurGirl: Get into the Groove

aaaaaahhhhhhh!

i'm acutely aware my interest in topics and subject matter largely appeals to the 60+ elderly woman demographics. or circa mid 1970s 7-10 year old midwest suburban/rural young girl. occasionally, i strike it rich with the 4-15 year old suburban boy demographics, but i'm the mother of two boys, so that's pretty much cheating. all along, i've been gamely blogging along, watching the analytics on you people out there—hey blogger surfers. cut the girl a break and count to 50 sllloowwly before you hit that "next blog" button. yeh? well, you're bored anyway, pal. start counting.

clearly, you enjoy morgan's topics more than mine. i'm so jealous. hello? rajah of bourbon? the pathos! the intellectual curiosity! the ability to del.icio.us the obscure! can i get a hand, here? [crickets]

morgan posts about baseball? you people are all over it! analytics reports views spiked! ok. i understand what you people want!

hooters.
hot chicks.
mustangs.
America the Brave!
LIVE EARTH CONCERT!!!
Al Gore's son speeds in a Prius, for pete's sake.
hannity and somebody, FOX NEWS, CHENEY, NO SPIN, POKER, POKER, POKER

whew. i was channeling billy joel, there for a second. hey, we didn't start the fire, people. yeh. billy joel. i've come back to earth now, in my natural form. gah. somebody hand me my mom jeans.

so those of you who have now hit this page and have no idea why they are here? um. i just wanted to see you?

of course, they already left. so those of you that stuck through this post—THANKS, ANDY!—i give you another blog i'm pretty much hooked on these days:

http://theassimilatednegro.blogspot.com/
yes. i found it on blogger's blogs of note. while looking for one of mine to show up.

a girl can dare to dream, can't she?

oh, and baseball fans? this guy is the complete package. here is his other blog.
http://metsarebetterthansex.blogspot.com/
bon appetit

Morgan: 4th of July Grand Slam!

I was wondering how to respond to "Bliss"...but I can't, I AM A MAN! We have different emotions and feelings than...girls. Yes. It's true! But we're not complete cyberneticly engineered emotionless robotrons. I think even I am a little different than....others. What makes me, a grown man tear up with emotion? One word....patriotism. Alot of people think patriotism is dead. They're wrong. I love this country, and I would, and have pledged an oath to give my life for it if necessary. Nothing pisses me off more than...an American disrespecting our flag or heritage.

I spent the fourth of July attending the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball game against the Chicago Cubs...what better way to observe the fourth of July than with America's favorite game. I met my brother and his family at the Vienna Metro and road all the way to RFK Stadium to see the game. I don't like the Metro...at all. Matter fact I hate it. Next year I'll do the more American thing and burn some fossil fuels, and drive the Grey Ghost. I missed the national anthem because we were 20 minutes late (riding the friggin' metro) but when we climbed the ramps up to our upper level center, field section and walked down that dark tunnel the sun nearly blinded us we emerged and the green grass of the field was electric and at that instant the crowd roared (because of a great play) but it felt like we had made a grand entrance...into the coliseum. A few innings later the crowd started singing..."Take me out to the ball game. That's when I teared up. How American! Everyone singing, waving their red hats, the Cubs fans waving their Blue hats. I was proud to be an American. Sharing the game with 39,456 of my closest friends....Here comes the wave! whhhhhoa!
Although my brother was disappointed that the Cubbies lost, we got to witness Dimitri Young Hit a GRAND SLAM! bases loaded, home run in the bottom of the fifth. I have never seen a MLB grand slam and it was very exciting, I feel like I really accomplished something...and now I can check off that box.

I just wanted to talk about one more great American Institution! Wall Street. I am by no means an expert investor I'm just excited that one of my stock picks is really performing well. I bought ctrp at $76.33 a share and today it was at $86.51 Unfortunately I only bought 19 shares...but isn't that exciting! Over time the American Stock market has always outperformed any investment vehicle out there. So when I heard a great tip that this ctrp was hot I went for it. I did a little research and found out that ctrp was China's number one travel booking site...as a matter of fact It is based off of expedia.com (stolen) ctrp has grown 55% annually for the last couple of years, and has barely tapped into the Chinese market. 20 Billion Chinese can't be wrong eh? How American!

"I was just glad that I didn't give him the day off, because that crossed my mind today."

-- Manny Acta, on Dmitri Young

OurGirl: Follow Your Bliss

....as [Joseph] Campbell saw it, isn't merely a matter of doing whatever you like, and certainly not doing simply as you are told. It is a matter of identifying that pursuit which you are truly passionate about and attempting to give yourself absolutely to it. In so doing, you will find your fullest potential and serve your community to the greatest possible extent.
—Joseph Campbell Foundation


i have a post in draft form called Archetypes and Angels. Which I considered changing Angels to Angles. in my head, it was gonna be one charming rif. Archetypes and Angles. Heroes and Hipocrisy. i threw a bunch of crap in there, thinking one day i'd riposte wittily to a morgan topic.

but today aint the day to swing at a softball.

i have two heroes. both are my kids. resiliant. hopeful. passionate. forgiving. joyful. to type more adjectives would be trite. i won't do it.

if you are going to buy anything of campbell's—and you should at least get the joseph campbell companion—read it only in stolen moments. read it furtively. don't pay attention to the accompanying new age crap that gets attached to it. read it and then listen to yourself and be quick, that true voice is a fleeting thing. odds are, that's the closest most of us are gonna get to following our bliss.

and if that don't work. buy blink. thats a good read.

Morgan: Heroes

I’ve known my Sis is ga-ga for Anthony Bourdain for some time. She made me watch all his re-runs and read his autobiography…twice. I don’t have nothing against Tony...He’s cool and looks like a fun cat. (Forrest Gump voice…but he smelled like cigarettes)

But It made me start to think of who, do we like, follow, or stalk and why?

Heroes, celebrity worship, someone you admire…Someone you want to emulate.
This used to be strictly the domain of the Church, people want to be more like Jesus, but in today’s secular society, people choose other heroes…And sometimes they choose the wrong ones. Can you imagine how distraught WWE Fan’s of Chris Benoit’s are today? This week Chris’s body along with his slain family was found by Georgia Police. He “allegedly” killed his family and than committed suicide. They had chose him as their hero, they thought he was superhuman…they chose poorly. The list of poor heroes is long and depressing. Not all of them are bad, everyone has a hero…I tried to think of some of mine. I blush now when I think of my first hero…and no I’m not gay. Arnold. I used to have such an infatuation with all things Arnold. I watched all his movies, I quoted him, impersonated him. I read his bodybuilding articles like they were the gospels. I admired his business instincts…OK I still do. I admired Arnold.

My Second Hero? I would have to pick my wife. Words aren’t enough….

Third Hero? I’m surrounded by them everyday, the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. As I get closer towards retirement I become increasingly aware of how much I will miss working with these people. The military is truly a cross section of our national DNA. From all walks of life, from the cornfields of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico, they come to serve their nation. And here at the Defense Information School we have the crème d’ la crème. I often wonder how I ended up here. But I’m a better person, just by surrounding myself with excellence. It’s bound to rub off! The hard thing is…I can see I’m an example for these young students, good or bad I can see them watching me, assessing my actions, and sometime emulating them. I do my best.

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I'm holding out for a hero til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero