Bender's Symposium

Well I am at about 38 days until I start the next chapter of my life. Stress right now is through the roof. The good news is that we already have a house worked out to move into. However, I am still trying to line up a job, need to finish out processing the military, pack up the current house, etc. There is so much to do and sometimes it seems over whelming. Reality though is that the check list I have to complete to separate from the military, long as it might be, is fairly easy to do. The hardest thing is driving all over base to go to the various different places. Yet I find myself dragging my feet and having a hard time motivating myself to get it done. I can't figure out why. One would think that being this close I would be all over it like a fat kid with chocolate cake. Yet I am not. The military is all I have known since being on my own. Getting out and becoming a normal civilian again, honestly scares the crap out of me. Maybe that is why I am having a hard time. But a pa...

Everyone knows and is talking about the death of Osama Bin Laden. This is a huge world event that has an affect on countless millions. I am sure this will be talked about for decades to come. There seems to be a common topic that is being discussed. Is it right to celebrate the death of a terrorist? A lot say yes but I am suprised at how many are saying no. They are saying no because regardless of what he was, he was still a human and death should not be celebrated. I don't agree with that and for those saying that, I think they are not realizing a few things. As I stated in a Facebook comment to a status of one my friends, the actual death of Osama is not what is being celebrated. People aren't so much rejoicing because his heart is no longer beating, but more because of other issues and feelings that the man brought about being alive. Some are celebrating not the death of the terrorist so much but more the accomplishment of the military troops. The military has been fighti...

Ok, it has been a while since I have posted any new posts. Every once in a while Life decides to throw a lot of curveballs all at once. The last few months for me have been nothing but curveball after curveball. It has been one of the more stressful times in my life. I probably should have kept posting as it would have offered a more healthy way of dealing with the stress. I instead shut down, bottled everything up and bit by bit began working on what I needed to inorder to get life back on track. I have never been accused of always making the right choices. :) Oh well, whats done is done and the point is I am back on. To say I got knocked on my backside would be an improvement. I got straight beat down, run through the mud, backed up on, repeated cycle, etc. Yet sometimes in life we need these times in order to realize what we have been doing wrong and fix them before its too late. Now I am a Christian and believe very much in God. So for me it was more than life just throwing cu...