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Jason Pawlak

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Husband, Dad, Navy Officer, Coder, and Tinkerer. I have many interests and am always looking to learn something new. This site is a launching point to the many areas of the Internet that represent me.

  1. Spending my Tax Dollars

    Here’s a thought, what if we could spend a set percentage of our tax dollars in ways we see fit? Let’s say, hypothetically, the feds take $100 from a paycheck on week. What if 50% of that $100 was set up to be spent as the person who earned the money saw fit. I just now listened to a speech given by President Bush on American giving to the fight against AIDS. In this speech... [read more]

    • on Politics

  2. Technology of War

    I’m not much for writing a post right now, but I did come across a very cool site with a new helmet for fighter pilots on display. Check out these pics: Check out the site for more pictures A few comments on the picture were talking of possible photoshop modifications (which I doubt). Others discussed the similarities between these pictures and Master Chief from Halo. Another made comment of how our pilot’s are starting to... [read more]

    • on Technology

  3. Billy Currington is my conscience

    So Saturday night at Taste we I was standing around, waiting for Sean to get some food at a booth. I wasn’t paying attention to much of anything, just looking around, watching the people pass. If you don’t know what the crowd at Taste is at let me try an paint a picture. Take a street of your local downtown (this one is 5th street, so pretty far downtown) crowd booths on both sides of... [read more]

    • on Cincinnati

  4. Weekend of Taste

    This weekend was a very nice extended weekend. Saturday and Sunday were mostly spent downtown on 5th street with friends at Taste of Cincinnati. For those that don’t know what Taste of Cincinnati is, it is where many of the Cincinnati Restaurants get judged for ‘best dishes’ and all the such, and then they take up a street downtown for a weekend and sell their most famous dishes from their tents. All in All its... [read more]

    • on Cincinnati

  5. Kicks for Kids - River Run 5K

    This morning I ran my second race. I ran the Kicks for Kids River Run 5K. I think I did rather well. I ran a 27:10. My goal going in was to get under 30 minutes. I did have a hidden wish of hitting 25 minutes… but I didn’t really train at all for this race… actually this morning was the first time I have run since the 10K… hah, whoops. It was fine though.... [read more]

    • on Running

  6. Flight Lesson 10 - Short Cross Country

    So at first I was just going to solo today, but then I decided I didn’t feel quite comfortable with leaving the Lunken airspace by myself, so canceled the lesson. Sharon called me back a little later with news that they just hired a guy on and that he could do my lesson this afternoon if I still wanted to go up. Well of course I did! This lesson was a surprise actually, it was... [read more]

    • on Flying lessons

  7. Flight Lesson 9 - First Solo!

    WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! hah… yeah, my first solo went extremely well :-) Brian and I took off about 11:30 this morning and did one touch-and-go and one full stop landing. He hopped out and I called ground to get taxi instructions. I taxied to runway 21R, called tower, and waited for takeoff permissions. The first thing I noticed when I was in the plane by myself was the weight difference. I had heard from many other articles... [read more]

    • on Flying lessons

  8. Flight Lesson 8

    Post 40… going on 400… wow, thanks to all who read This lesson was quite stressful indeed. The thoughts of flying solo looming in all areas reminding me to be thoughtful of how I would do the current procedure if I were there alone… are there any more questions I need to ask? What if this happens? Did I just do that wrong? We did a lot of touch-and-go’s while also practicing soft field landing/approach... [read more]

    • on Flying lessons

  9. I Call Him George W

    So this past weekend (Sunday to be exact) was the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown Settlement. President Bush was there to commemorate the event. While sifting through my blogs this morning I came across part of his speech at the event and was kind of left silent. In just a few sentences I think our President said some of his smartest words to date. Let me share: "America is proud to promote the expansion of... [read more]

    • on Politics

  10. Flight Lesson 6 and 7

    Two days of flying in a row, crazy fun! On Wednesday, we flew for 1.1 hours practicing slow flight, stalls, steep turns, the hood and a few touch-and-go’s. I wasn’t very happy at all with my touch-and-go’s. The first two Brian had to grab the controls to help me onto the ground, but the third and final landing, I did completely on my own. I think that was the first one that was completely on... [read more]

    • on Flying lessons