This was me about 15 years ago.  I love this picture because 1. I'm wearing an awesome sweater 2. I'm reading a book and 3. My head is so small that my hat is bending my ears over.  Many things have changed since then, but I still seem to have a common problem: my head is too small.  This is really what this blog is all about - a small head crammed so full of ideas that they no longer can fit inside.  I need an outlet.  A way for me to set free all of the little ideas scurrying around in there, bumping elbows along the overcrowded synapses of my mind.  You see, whether I want to be or not, I am in a state perpetual reverie.  I cannot seem to turn my mind off. This can be a problem considering my job is to fly multi-million dollar airplanes around.  Every once in a while as I'm flying over mother earth and all her complexity and beauty I find myself deep in thought over the fate that awaits her.  Though my conclusions on the matter might be provocative and insightful, I am confident that the Air Force wouldn't appreciate one of its pilots distracted in such a way while on the job.  I think this blog, at the very least, can be a form of Operational Risk Management.   More so, it is a practical way for me to compile the many ideas floating around in my mind into some form of intelligible writing.  Therefore, if this computer is the only thing that reads the words to follow this post I will not be disappointed, for I will have at least averted a mutiny in my own mind.  But if there is someone out there that happens across my reverie and rantings, I do hope they challenge and encourage you at least half as much as they relieve me to write.  So if you are reading this, enjoy, if you are not reading this, then I'm not quite sure why I'm even writing this sentence....  Cheers!