What is your most awesome achievement or proudest moment, RE: something you were responsible for?

Hi folks,

My proudest moment was when I realised that my very detailed email, sent to Neil Oliver of GB News here in the UK, triggered a firestorm of debate & discussion here in the UK regarding the dangers of the upcoming Pandemic Treaty & IHR regulation amendments at the behest of the World Health Organisation, initiated on Neil Oliver's political discussion show exactly one week after I sent in that email.

In the email I went into all the details of how the WHO was trying to sneak through these amendments & the treaty itself by stealth, the way they attempted to ban nations from discussion of the salient facts prior to the adoption date, and several additional points which ended up being discussed at length by GB News, repeatedly over the weeks & months that followed. This literally then forced the issue into the national spotlight, ensuring that other media companies picked it up & ran with the story - ultimately causing the Conservative government to bow to public pressure, announcing that they would have no part in the Pandemic Treaty that had been proposed by the WHO. Several other nations followed Britain's lead.

So I will remember that incident for the rest of my days, and will proudly tell the grandchildren how I saved Great Britain in its (most recent) darkest hour..!!

Please contribute your own coolest moments of achievement... I look forward to reading them!

Kind Regards,



FITO.

For me it was shooting my first solo instrument approach and landing at MCO (Orlando International Airport). That was the culmination of years of training and practice. Nothing has come close to that since.

a reply to: LetsGoViking

Nice, good on you!

I would love to be able to fly, but unfortunately health prevents me from learning these days.

Keep 'em coming ATS!

originally posted by: LetsGoViking
For me it was shooting my first solo instrument approach and landing at MCO (Orlando International Airport). That was the culmination of years of training and practice. Nothing has come close to that since.

Congrats! My brother is getting ready for his. It will be at ROC.

My greatest accomplishment lately, has been getting through the last 10 days without killing anyone. Figuratively.

I hate idiots.

a reply to: theatreboy

I completely understand that!

Cheers!

I killed a black widow spider by biting it once.

When I became a career fireman for the 12th largest city in the United States.

I got on in 2000, there were over 2,000 people take the test and they hired 26. How I pulled that off I’ll never know but I’m very grateful to the lord above for it.

I don’t talk about it much on here because the anonymous nature of the site, but I’ve seen and done things the younger version of me wouldve never believed. Haha. I was recently in a commercial, I’ve been in magazines, newspapers, textbooks, and been on some of the craziest scenes you could ever imagine, but like I said I’m very grateful to be on such a great department. The citizens are really good to us and in turn we work hard for them. 25+ years now and still learning. Lol

I’m usually on here when I’m at the station in down time goofing off. I like it here too. Lol

PS- good work on busting the story open. Yall sure needed that.

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment
I love Neil Oliver - kudos to you for getting his attention pointed in the WHO direction!!

I would so love for him to do a brief, engaging video on the Shroud of Turin! Neil being an archaeologist and having that lovely Scottish accent would make for a video that 'believers' could show their "doubting Thomas" families...

Dr. John Campbell has a detailed 'Shroud' video, but it's so 'dry' that only people with an appreciation of his work would have the patience to watch.

I don't have any "awesome" achievements, but here's something kinda cool:

In my backyard, I have a 60 foot oak tree that I grew from an acorn that had sprouted in one of my flower pots...A friend kept wanting to pull the sprout up (like it was a weed), but I wouldn't let her -
- when it got to be about a foot in height, I planted it in a bare spot in the yard, and 15 years later it has become a tall, stately, & beautiful oak tree!

originally posted by: watchitburn
I killed a black widow spider by biting it once.

Before or after the mating?

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

It's pretty hard to claim one as the most important - in 1989 I started an online newspaper (the original was a BBS). At that time it was me and NYT. Finding a new fangled business called an ISP was difficult and proceeded to use up most of their bandwidth.

I was invited to NASA for a shuttle launch by Bruce Buckingham - as the first digital journalist. During that visit, my wife wore Bruce's secretary's pants. Long story.

Two years ago I set out to build a portable power station. Incredibly, it has been flawless.

In 2017, I bought my retirement car, a 1992 Dodge Stealth twin turbo - then I hired a former Mercedes F1 aero engineer to update the aero on the car. Got a magazine article out of it. And a car that throws up quite the rooster tail in the rain.

originally posted by: LetsGoViking
For me it was shooting my first solo instrument approach and landing at MCO (Orlando International Airport). That was the culmination of years of training and practice. Nothing has come close to that since.

Thats so cool! I always wanted to be a pilot. Do you think I am too old at 37 to try and learn and obtain a license? I need more hobbies.

originally posted by: Texastruth2
When I became a career fireman for the 12th largest city in the United States.

I got on in 2000, there were over 2,000 people take the test and they hired 26. How I pulled that off I’ll never know but I’m very grateful to the lord above for it.

I don’t talk about it much on here because the anonymous nature of the site, but I’ve seen and done things the younger version of me wouldve never believed. Haha. I was recently in a commercial, I’ve been in magazines, newspapers, textbooks, and been on some of the craziest scenes you could ever imagine, but like I said I’m very grateful to be on such a great department. The citizens are really good to us and in turn we work hard for them. 25+ years now and still learning. Lol

I’m usually on here when I’m at the station in down time goofing off. I like it here too. Lol

PS- good work on busting the story open. Yall sure needed that.

Amazing! I really appreciate all firefighters. Firefighter = hero in my book. (And a lot of other people's too).

originally posted by: billxam1
a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

It's pretty hard to claim one as the most important - in 1989 I started an online newspaper (the original was a BBS). At that time it was me and NYT. Finding a new fangled business called an ISP was difficult and proceeded to use up most of their bandwidth.

I was invited to NASA for a shuttle launch by Bruce Buckingham - as the first digital journalist. During that visit, my wife wore Bruce's secretary's pants. Long story.

Two years ago I set out to build a portable power station. Incredibly, it has been flawless.

In 2017, I bought my retirement car, a 1992 Dodge Stealth twin turbo - then I hired a former Mercedes F1 aero engineer to update the aero on the car. Got a magazine article out of it. And a car that throws up quite the rooster tail in the rain.

Very cool !

Pic of the car, please ?
Pretty please ?

Certainly not my biggest yet definitely my first big rush of adrenaline from success came as a freshman in high school band. We were about three weeks into my first year and our band was practicing practicing and practicing college fight songs to play as a marching band at football games. One special song was ''On Wisconsin'' which had been given new lyrics and turned into our official victory song.

There were sixteen clarinet players at that time. Our concert position formed a semi-circle facing in at our director. To the directors left were the four seniors playing the first clarinet part with others on around the semi-circle filling in with the second, third and fourth parts. Because I was a freshman and because at 14 years old I was already over six feet tall, I sat dead last in that circle of clarinetists.

Ten minutes into rehearsal, the director banged his baton on his stand and yelled at the clarinets. '' We need to have auditions here and now. So the director turned to the first senior sitting in the esteemed ''solo'' chair to his left and said, ''Carl, you first.'' Carl opened his sheet music and the director said, ''no Carl, by memory''. Carl closed his song book and played 'On Wisconsin'' by memory with only one squeak and a couple of pauses for memory lapses and got though it as an example for all those to follow.

Next was Sheila, another senor sitting next to Carl played and managed to get though the audition with a few more errors than Carl but by standards of what followed, still managed a fine job.

The last two seniors and two first clarinet players on into the juniors and sophomores and second, third and fourth pats and finally us freshman, most barely if not finishing at all. Then, because I was sitting on the end, it was my turn . I put my clarinet between my lips, set my embouchure, closed my eyes. touched the reed with my tongue and blew.

Shortly after I had finished out director rapped his baton on his music stand, looked over the whole band and said,,''it looks like we have ourselves a new solo clarinetist. He had us all stand with every one moving over one seat to leaving Carl's solo chair empty, waiting for me.

I sat solo chair for one week until the following Monday when he had the four first clarinets audition again. We did the switcheroo and Carl moved back to solo chair and I sat below the two other seniors in fourth chair. No solos for me that year because, well, I was a freshman and the seniors couldn't loose to much face after all. Plus that gave me a year of learning the first parts so that as a sophomore I could take that seat back and hold it for my next three years.

He had known I was coming of course because he was good friends with my junior high music director. For those three years he chose music featuring clarinet solos.

My final project in that school was my senior recital played with our orchestra where I also sat solo clarinet. That year we played all three movements of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. While the orchestra used sheet music, I did not.

originally posted by: LetsGoViking
For me it was shooting my first solo instrument approach and landing at MCO (Orlando International Airport). That was the culmination of years of training and practice. Nothing has come close to that since.

Congrats! It's a great feeling.

Just wait for some of your higher certifications like, CFII, and MEII, High Performance and Complex!

You'll get an even bigger high off of those!

a reply to: Texastruth2

What a grand career Texas. Camaraderie, deep skill sets, edge of danger, service to ones fellow man and I guess, solid pay. And too many stories to tell...

a reply to: lostgirl

Oh, an oak tree, I wish we had an oak tree. I have a nice walking stick I fashioned from a dropped branch years ago. So solid a wood.

When we retired here, though we have scores of pine and fur and myrtle-wood, we planeted one blue spruce, two redwoods and a weeping willow. One redwood died but the other is standing tall after twenty yeas as is the blue spruce. Sadly the weeping willow was attacked by a woodpecker ten years ago and killed it. Damn.

Summer of 1985, the year after high school graduation, my dad another gentleman that he worked with and myself strapped 3 bikes on the back of a 2 door Toyota tercel and drove from Indianapolis, IN to San Diego CA where we put our wheels in the pacific ocean. We proceeded east on I10 (riding on the shoulder of the road). We stayed over an extra day in Palm Springs so that my dad could rest. The other gentleman decided not to wait for us and proceeded on. He never made phoenix but my father and I headed east covering from 35 to 75 miles a day till we reached Tybee Island GA and put our wheels in the Atlantic. We slept in a lot of old graveyards along the way. Memories that I think about quite a-bit.

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

I used to want to be a creative writer. Got published a couple times, even won an award for it.

Other than that I'm one of the most unaccomplished persons ever.