I just got back from two weeks at San Antonio (Lackland Air Force Base to be exact). I finished the last component of my academic requirements to be awarded my 7 Skill Level in the Security Forces career field.

Mono 2.6 and Monodevelop 2.2 are out. I will be installing and testing these on Linux and Mac OS X. I just went and got a new Mac Mini so that I would have an Apple computer that could run Snow Leopard. Geoff Norton would be proud of me (or at least I think he would).

The girls and I went to see the James Cameron film, Avatar. I thought that the movie was very good. The plot is not revolutionary, but the story does have some pretty interesting concepts. How about flora and fauna that uses some sort of fiber-optic interfaces that seem to communicate on a standard protocol that bridges communication from a tree to a cat-like humanoid. Skeletons that are reinforce by way of naturally occurring carbon fibers.

I have met at least ten folks during my military experience that could easily have served as the role models for Colonel Miles Quaritch's character. Again, very interesting and intriguing. For a movie that is 18 minutes short of 3 hours, I only looked at my wrist watch once.

The second part of the Citizen Airman Magazine article has come out and again I would like to clarify that reporter and friend Gina Caballaro is not Italian but an American that spent a great deal of her upbringing living in Puerto Rico. She was working on a story for the Army Times at the time of Paquito's death.

Paquito would have turned 25 years old this past December 16.