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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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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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…

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 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…

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…

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.

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…

I discovered a new little web comic today: Delta Bravo Sierra. 

Since my return from Iraq, my posting has sort of tanked into the black hole of nothingness.  It seems my readership has as well.  Things just aren’t as interesting in the good ol’ US of A as they are on the “front lines.” I would love for my…

I received the following comment the other day, ”<em>So, do you miss it? I’ve heard from others who really do miss being where they were. I’m not sure if it’s because life was just intense or maybe they felt their actions counted for something.  Just wondering....</em>”

Well, I have been home for a little more than a month now. I am glad to say that Iraq seems like a lifetime ago.  It feels like I have been home forever, even my wife thought it had been more than a month when I mentioned it to her.…

<strong>** WARNING** The following entry has a high level of geekness, even for Linux users.  Read at your own discretion! </strong> Ok, so I had a minor scare tonight when I thought I had trashed my computer completely.  See, the other day…

<em>This particular dream occurred about a month before I came home.  Now that the holiday is over and the superstitious deja vu that accompanies strange dreams cannot occur, I decided it was safe to relate. The dream hasn’t recurred at all, but it has sort of stuck around my subconscious…

Ok, so I’ve been home a little more than a week now.  I finished my re-integration training and am on leave for the holidays.  It feels really good to be home, although my wife is a little annoyed that I seem to spontaneously fall asleep around 8pm and wake…

So I have made it home again.  We arrived back a few days ago and I have been spending all my time enjoying my family and catching up on all the stuff that I have missed.  Its kind of surreal right now.  My mind and body is on one set…

Due to a complete lack of anything interesting to write about, I bring you the boredom that is my current situation.... We are definitely winding down.  My CHU is packed and I am just waiting on word to move to the temporary billets. We have to get Connexes…

We went out on patrol the other night down in the South of our AO.  We went out on a more or less “feel good” mission.  The kind of mission where you interact a lot with the people, get to hand out toys to kids, eat Iraqi Chow (<em>which I…

Ran across this song/video at one of my daily reads, The Mudville Gazette (<em>who found it on A Soldier’s Perspective</em>) and thought it was worth a post.  I am not a big country fan, but I wouldn’t mind grabbing this in MP3…