Asstreasure

Is this picture awesome or what? Yes, that was a trick question. The answer is this picture is double awesome. Two times more awesome than anyone can be expected to handle. Believe it or not, my friends, but that giant glowing orb is the moon. Although it may appear to be the sun or a thermonuclear device, it in fact was a near full moon rising above the rocky crags of Chisos Basin in Big Bend. I do recall actually saying " what the hell is that?!" after initially suggesting to Annie it was some sort of freaky cloud. Amazing.

Anyways, to asstreasure. No real purpose to this post. Just wanted to share the picture and a brief amusing story. I've been working for about the past hour on my personal statement for the Air Force residency match -- which, true to military form, is a uniform, boring, and strangely rigid in organization and structure document -- when I realized the thesaurus tab on the right side of my Microsoft Word had "asstreasure" planted right in the search box. As I have been working in the visiting officers quarters' "business center" along with 3 or 4 other people sitting directly nearby anyone who cared to steal a glance would think, "that man is looking for a synonym to 'asstreasure!'" The reality of the matter is far less amusing. A long story short, I had been searching for another word for "strength," and the eventual result of my fruitless search, disorganized cutting and pasting, and laziness was that somehow I had combined in the search box the word "treasure" with the first part of the word "asset." And now everyone in the Air Force thinks I'm a butt pirate. Thank goodness for Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

And now when I do spell check blogspot conveniently highlights every instance of asstreasure. Fantastic.