Door Kicking 101

It looks like a long and uneventful weekend- not that I'm complaining, as it's a nice change from the normal busy day routine. It still seems like there's not enough time during the day to do everything that needs to get done, although I suppose that's always the case. Never enough time, and never enough money. But life goes along. I think we've both had the fleeting thought that things will never get better, but then again, life is really what you make of it- from the same building blocks can come success or disaster. Or just a quiet, normal life. But all of them take work.
I managed to come across something I had been trying to track down since basic training, and found it in pdf format for free download. Go figure. It's FM 7-8, one of the main manuals for the infantry, covering movements, fire team formations and drills. A good deal of this was covered in basic training, although it's useful to have it on hand as other jobs don't often get into the same depth that the infantry does. The funny thing is, we (especially drivers) are sometimes called to fill in for infantry in the field. So it's always good to show the infantrymen that we know what we're doing. The actual information dates back quite a ways, as does the infantry itself- the infantry is the oldest branch of any US military force, dating all the way back to the colonies, although the US was a country before the military was officially commissioned.
In other news, we're digging ourselves out from an ice storm- in a broader sense, not really that much of a big deal, although for Oklahoma, apparently it's the end times. Actually the trees down here are clearly not used to ice, as an amazing number of them suffered damage and lost limbs due to the added weight of ice on them. Our own tree in the backyard took quite a beating- I fear it may not survive, although time will tell.
Oklahomans are an interesting lot- standing in line at the store, where pretty much everyone in town had come out to pick up a month's worth of supplies, I got involved in a conversation with a woman who was of the opinion that all this (i.e. storms, disasters and the like) were foretold in the Bible, and were an indication of the end of the world. They could very well be, for all I know, although it seems that every natural disaster has someone pointing to a prediction in the Bible. With all these events happening now and in the past, how do we know which disaster to look for? I don't think humans are going anywhere, although if society does eventually collapse, and we're reduced to barbarism and anarchy, won't that be a laugh? I tend to agree with Karl Marx, that change is inevitable, one way or another. Could be a nice, peaceful awakening, as human intellect increases and understanding continues, or it could be that the revolution will come and knock down a good many walls. But I'd like to structure all of this according to a positive outlook and faith in humanity- at any rate, I'm curious to see what the future holds.