Week 45: Why I didn't do much for Veteran's Day.

Welcome to Veteran’s Day!  I happen to be a veteran!  I’m not retired, or a wartime veteran, but I still served.  So what did I do this Veteran’s Day?  Not much.  At least I had the day off from work.  A guy at my work place suggested I go to one of the places in town giving veterans a free meal.  I think a lot of those places are really packed with veterans and even sometimes people who aren’t veterans, but are trying to get free food.  I’m not much for crowds, so that was out.

I was invited to go see an air show at Nellis Air Force Base, but declined that, too.  I’ve seen an air show before I enlisted.  You stand around and look up as pilots zoom by in jets.  I wasn’t really impressed as a kid. And probably wouldn’t be impressed now.  I’d just be tired after standing around all day on a flight line.

So what does being a veteran mean to me?  It means I get a bunch of people telling me “thank you for your service", but that’s about it.  Do I get a benefit on my taxes for serving?  Nope.  Can I maybe decline serving on a jury if I get a jury notice?  Again, nope.  Maybe I get paid holiday pay for Veteran’s Day?  HAHAHAHAHA  that would be a huge no.

To me being a veteran meant I spent four years wearing a blue (actually most of the time it was green, or “forest” colored) uniform.  I figured the military would teach me a nice trade that I could use after I was discharged.  They taught me a trade alright, I was just never able to use it in the civilian world.  I guess I could have went on to become a spy, but sometimes those guys get shot in the head.  I’m not a huge fan of that.  The Air Force did actually teach me quite a bit, though.  I might bitch and complain about the military sometimes, but they did give me a fair amount of discipline and taught me how to handle things on my own if I need to.  I don’t regret joining up and if I had the same chance again, I’d still join even if it was wartime. 

So I didn’t do much today.  I visited with my family and went to the grocery store.  I bought some stuff that says it’s Salsa Verde Spicy.

Green and spicy, it looks wonderful!  I have some nice tortilla chips to dip into it and I’ll be digging into this stuff as soon as my blog is finished!

Another thing I really need to do is to buy myself a new computer chair.  The arm rest broke off my current one and if I don’t get a new one, I keep feeling like I’m going to end up stabbing myself to death when I accidentally fall. 

Doesn’t that look really sharp?  It is!  I’ll order myself a new chair soon.  I think it’ll run me around $100.  I may wait until after Thanksgiving when all the Christmas sales come out.  Maybe I’ll be able to get a chair on sale.  I’ll most likely order it from Amazon and have it delivered to my door.  I’ll have to put it together myself, but that shouldn’t actually be too difficult.

Well, that’s the blog for today.  I guess the only real questions this week are how will the green salsa taste and why haven’t I bought a new chair quite yet?

I’m still pretty certain that for next year I’m going to move on to videos every week.  So instead of 52 weeks of Why, we’ll have 52 weeks of life.  Live action bullshit!  I’ll have to figure out what to film when I don’t really go out and do anything.  *chuckle*  So until I end up doing that, keep asking why.