August 1977

 I would be wrapping up the 3rd day of boot-camp today (1977)....46 years ago.  

I'd come to ten observations by the close of today:

1.  The Air Force chow hall had the best grilled-ham-and-cheese sandwiches in the world.

2.  It was an incredibly stupid decision on my part to go off to basic training in early August, for San Antonio.  The heat was miserable.

3.  I had an incredible amount of trust when told to just bring $50 with me when leaving for basic training in 1977.

4.  The Air Force would issue to me tomorrow my ill-fitting cheap underwear.  I would immediately trash all of this crap the week after I wrapped up boot-camp.

5.  The recruiter said I just needed two changes of clothing in my bag.....he was wrong, I should have brought 5 days worth.

6.  There was one guy by the end of this day in my group, who was showing 'need-to-leave' issues.  He made it the 10th day before admitting it was too-much.  Some kind of GF issue.

7.  Some kid in the group was sipping through 6 glasses of Coke each evening for dinner....hyped-up to the max on the stuff.

8.  Quietly, I had a 42 day-calendar in the bottom of my locker....x-ing off each day.

9.  Haircuts were tomorrow, and it was an adventure to sit there and observe 40 guys getting a 90-second haircut.

10.  Around the barracks building....there were some of the biggest cockroaches I'd ever seen in my life.  

Observations

 1.  I sat and watched around 30 minutes of video from the riots in NY city from two days ago.  What basically happened?  Some influencer came on social media.....said he was going to give free stuff to juveniles/teenagers, and around 10,000 'kids' showed up in bad form....doing stupid stuff.

The funny thing? The cops tried their normal routine and got pushed back.

Yeah, just like in SF, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland and various other cities over the past five years.

I have this opinion....anyone (even right-wing types) could go these days and do a a riot episode, and probably crap all over the police, with nothing much happening.  Oh.....I wouldn't do this inside of a building....like the capital structure.  But I don't think the police have any ability to control rioting anymore.  

2.  If you went and spent $80,000 on a E-car.....to reach some break-even point where cost and electricity all made sense.....I think you'd need around 44 years to reach that point.  

3.  West Virginia AG pressing to have the DC court case moved over to WV.  Might be an interesting turn of events to have both DC and Virginia disqualified to hold the circus case.