Ok the flying is finished, the car travel done.  We are now in out temporary lodging (<em>read hotel</em>) in Alaska.  When we left Dallas it was around 80, and when we arrived here it was 26 with…
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Well we have left El Paso and are now sitting in Dallas waiting on our flight to Alaska.  It was a <em>long</em> day!  It ended up being around 12 hours on the…
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Ok, I knew it would be a bit difficult to find deep winter jackets and such here.  I mean I live in the desert southwest, but a pair of gloves?  C’mon!  We drove to 3 Wal-Marts, 2 Targets, 2 different Malls (including Macy’s, Dillard’s, Sears, and JC Penny’s) and could…
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Well I finished school, made it home, and are now in the process of preparing for the movers.  I took a moment to change the header to reflect my new job if anyone notices such things.  Anyway, besides school there hasn’t been that much to report.  I did get the…
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That’s it.  As of tomorrow I am off to my school and then Alaska.  I’ll be back here for about a week to finish clearing housing, but for all intents and purposes I am now “en route” to Alaska. I wanted to give everyone a quick update on…
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Guardian Angels For Soldier’s Pets is a wonderful organization that helps find foster families for soldier’s pets.  A lot of times family pets end up in pounds when soldier’s deploy because they can’t find anyone to take care of them, or don’t have…
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When I start something simple it usually grows into an enormous project whether its at work or at home.  Putting up DVDs leads to organizing DVDs, CDs, etc.  Cleaning up after dinner involves cleaning the dishes, which leads to counter tops, which leads to the kitchen floor, etc, etc…
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Well, I have about cleared this post and I leave for school this week.  Things have finally started to move toward that end.  I managed to sell my truck, we have acquired the most important baby things…
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Just saw the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated movie.  We had a free screening here on post a week before it hit theaters.  I have to admit is was pretty good.  I think its the kicker movie for the upcoming TV series, but…
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This picture came out better than I thought.  It looks like one of those weird telescope images of the universe. Its actually a shot of the audience at the free
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I finally found my old articles!  Everything back to 2002 when the site started is back online.  Well, almost everything. About 9 months that are lost for good due to a hard drive crash (October 2002, May 17, 2007).  One of the advantages of this is that…
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I am asleep in bed.  The dog begins barking wildly.  My eyes shoot open and I see a dark, hooded figure dart from the end of the bed followed by a flash of white light.  At the same instant I hear my daughter let out a blood curdling scream.  I…

Today was a great day.  It was my last duty day in this unit.  Monday I begin the clearing process, then its off to flight school and Alaska!  I’ll be going in for PT (even though I don’t have to) and to give advice if needed since my replacement won’t…

Open source will rule the world!! This seems to be a real brand of cola. There was a discussion about it in one of the forums I read. I just wonder if it is GPL compliant.

Like most Americans, I have been thinking a lot about the War on Terror, Gas Prices, and the economy lately.  I am sure that a lot of Political Analysts, Economists, and the like have thought of this before now, but I can’t help but think that the U.S. is under…

Its official!  The word is in and we are headed to Alaska, in the winter no less. That’s the Army for you.  Take a family used to 100+ degree weather and 8 months pregnant, then move them to -40 degree weather and have the soldier almost immediately deploy again.

So after three days of trying, I finally obtained the latest version of openSUSE.  It is definitely worth the time to upgrade.  I ended up wiping my entire drive (<em>say bye, bye Vista</em>) and finally organizing it properly for a Linux install.  So when I say its worth…

So I was sitting on Staff Duty watching WarGames and being all nostalgic for the days when hacking was fun.  The days of Z80’s, phone couplers, 5” floppies, and nothing but a command line, in color if you were…

Did you know you can order pizza from Dominos via your *nix command line?  Well you can thanks to Pizza Party.  I would have to say my favorite function is the ability to batch order pizzas from an input file.  After all, us *nix geeks have some…

I was watching the final epsiode of MASH the other night and I had a sort of catharsis.  The final epsiode, besides saying goodbye to all the characters, involved Hawkeye in a hospital for what we call “Combat Stress” these days.  He had been in surgery and gone off the…

Lately one of our big projects has been teaching Combat Lifesaver to as many people in the battalion as possible.  Its a priority of the Battalion’s, but they tend to think that a CLS can replace a Medic. This training could mean the difference between life and death for a…

Its gotten pretty busy with teaching Combat Lifesaver and First Responder, coordinating lanes training, ranges, and just the everyday <em>“Hoo-ha”</em> of garrison existence.  Just a couple of things worth noting.

I received an interesting piece of mail today, the annual Army Housing Survey.  Its a little survey asking about how we like on-post housing and our experiences with customer service, service calls, and quality.  Needless to say, my cardboard project housing received very poor scores. 

I made it home Friday night. After a couple of weeks of 12 hour days, needles, trauma lanes, and applied tourniquets, I am a little battered but the better for it.  Although ours was a shortened version of the course designed for soldiers fresh off deployment, all the good stuff…

So I have been in class all week and we are getting ready to move to our new class location.  Its been a rather uneventful week, at least until today.  I had gotten back from class and was down the street at a laundromat when I received a call from…