You joke, but that’s a brilliant idea to give the cover a newspaper pattern. You’re wasted here!
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i know!
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I think of places like this as where a lot of untapped bandwidth comes to idle. In the days of yore, we’d be circulating offices for chats, whiteboarding and generally staying a moving target. Biscuits definitely involved.
I’ve just done a mind map on a piece of A4. Very satisfying.
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i used some of my best advice working for Madison…
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2 rules of war: Don’t get separated from your kit and don’t invade Russia
Panic breaks supply chains
Mag to grid
Flexibility is the key to xxx
Maintainence of the aim
Don’t eat yellow snow
Am I close?
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Always use the injured person’s own medical kit, not yours.
Think that was on Full Metal Jacket 
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always…
and “no plan survives…”
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Of course! I quoted that in my closing address at the weekend!
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i often still think of…
get on the bus, get off the bus
and
hurry up and wait
My boss was impressed when I used that one last week!
He’s just aged out of the TA as a colonel
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Full Colonel? That would be very good going in the Reserves as there are very few.
Next week you can try ‘plans are nothing, planning is everything’.
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any fool can be uncomfortable…
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or from P Company…
skive to survive…
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That was in the Soldier’s Handbook in the early 90s; at least where I first saw it. Characterised as "any fool can can rough it, a good soldier is a comfortable soldier". Not much use quoting that during Basic though 
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it came from a tank commander in Germany on a NATO ex who had two sleeping bags…early 80s is my recollection…
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that’s the chappie…
I think maybe he was a Lieutenant Colonel 
I think he originally went in as a 16 year old and did maybe 5 years before leaving.
He joined the TA a few years later. I don’t know what the mechanism is for becoming an officer in the reserves, but he obviously went through that at some point.
He got called up in the early 2000s and sent to Iraq for 6 months while he was working here
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I quite like the Mike Tyson version of that saying
(I think it’s been attributed to him);
Everyone’s got a plan until they get punched in the face!
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Speaking of fads - I’m about to find out whether a home treadmill is one. I do most of my winter running after work in the dark, and I’ve basically stopped bothering with easy sessions because of it, so a treadmill in the garage feels like the sensible fix for keeping run volume up. Currently looking at the NordicTrack T Series 5 and trying to work out if it’s enough machine for 4-5 sessions a week, or if that’s optimistic. Anyone gone down this road - regretted it, or genuinely the best thing you bought?
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