Explosions!

In class yesterday we went out to see some live explosive demonstrations. A practice bomb, a signal flare, some det. cord, an ignitor, and then a little tnt and c4. Overall not too bad for an hour and a half of our school day. The det cord was actually the coolest to watch because it was out in the open and you could feel the shock of it. the tnt and c4 were buried in sand behind concrete walls in addition to the distance.

Other than that nothing super exciting in wichita falls lately, but dinner tonight at a steakhouse should be good.

air show

Today at the base i worked a little at an air show and then i came back later to just watch. It was a good day overall for a wichita falls weekend actually. I was able to see an F-22 which is a pretty interesting plane fly around for a while. It has a thing called thrust vectoring which enables it to fly in different paths than a normal plane. There were some other interesting planes as well, and overall a pretty decent day.

The base was pretty busy though and i hear at the peak times it took at least 1:40 to get from the gate of the base to the gate of the air show which seems a bit rediculous. Volunteering on info booth and teardown though i didn't have to worry about any of that

wifi toy

I got a new wifi USB device today. It has a threaded antenna connector so it can be used with large external antennas, but just being USB makes it easier to put in some of the free/cheap reflector type antennas for better signal. the other cool thing about this is it supports packet injection so that should be fun to play with this weekend.

Book Depository, Book Depository

Still in Dallas so i went to the tourist sites today. I saw the 6th floor museum today and could see the window and where the boxes were stacked for cover. Also saw the other end of the floor where he stashed the rifle. It was an interesting museum and i went down to where the X is on the street and took a picture of that and the view from that area to the Depository window. After looking at all the Kennedy info i went to the Red Court House museum which they just opened in may. It was also interesting to see.

After all the museum stuff i went to fry's which is a computer place around here the place is a huge warehouse type building and it's all electronics. Very nice to visit and lots of selection on all types of stuff.

4 wheeler

Yay i got to ride teh 4wheeler for a while today. Unfortunately it was kinda misting out so i got soaked, but still had fun. Rode through 50+ acres of land with some cattle, trees, fields, ponds and a little bit of creek beds to cross too. It was a honda 400 and pretty good, unfortunately the polaris 600 they had was stolen a while ago so i didn't get to ride that.

After that i got to shoot a colt 45 revolver with a hair trigger. that's scary the first time you pull it cuz it has no trigger pull at all. I blew up a McDonalds cup for a while with it though. That's what it gets for not having the instant win monopoly pieces on it!

Dallas!

Well it's a 3 day weekend so i decided to make sure i left the base for a while. I am staying in Dallas area and tomorrow i should be out riding a Quad. Never done that yet so i'm kinda excited. I'm sure i'll find some other interesting things to do as well, but in the meantime i'm kinda happy that they have wireless internet here so i can update this blog etc. Hope everyone is doing well.