And I am, by the way, home in San Diego for a few days. The family & I did a picnic for my division out at the beach on North Island. They seemed to have fun, but it was great to stuff them with decent food.

The first official story.
The guys that were trapped.
More on the Damage Control folks.

Well, if anyone saw the little news article on the fire onboard, I'm ( Read more... )

This morning I stood at the kitchen window and watched the birds flitting around. There were at least three male cardinals and a female, two bluejays, a pair of black birds with yellow on their wings building a nest in the porch awning, and several wrens. Pretty! Especially the cardinals, who seemed to be playing some sort of follow-the-leader ( Read more... )

Visiting the folks for a few days before heading on to Norfolk and the new ship. The hubby and the girl couldn't come right now, so I'll see them again in a few months. That means email just got hit or miss. I expect to hit an internet cafe on base and I'll put the ship email address under lock for you guys ( Read more... )

Okay, so now I understand the problems the girl has. The math questions are stupid. Really. You know that a door is 9 feet tall and 5 feet wide, and a second door with a similar rectangle is 4 feet tall, so how wide is the second door ( Read more... )

Once upon a time a woman visited two bookstores in one afternoon, and three Bears followed her home. :o)

I stopped off at Barnes & Noble on the way to the Blood Bank to pick up something to read, and found Whiskey and Water, which I have desperately wanted to read since I heard her read an excerpt at WorldCon in LA ( Read more... )

Icky cold is nearly gone, but it did have the bonus effect of making me unable to talk for long, so the guy taking over the training team when I leave ended up doing all of the briefs and debriefs for last week's drills ( Read more... )

The girl is wearing the dress she got for Christmas today. She looks so awesome in it. I am so glad we took her to see Juno last weekend. She definitely got the point ( Read more... )