Well, in case you haven't been able to tell, I've been busy as hell. Married life is awesome, but Army life sucks giant sweat donkey balls. I am preparing for a deployment that is coming VERY soon ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know it's tomorrow, but since I have staff duty tomorrow, I'm celebrating (drinking, fireworks, barbecue) today. Just to get this part out of the way now: I'm pissed as hell about staff duty tomorrow. I was supposed to be off, but this one asshole in my office saw that he had duty and slipped in a leave form covering this weekend that went ( Read more... )

What a week. I worked at least 12 hours every day this week, and I've been exhausted. I'm just going to jump around from subject to subject and try to fit in anything kewl that's happened since the last update ( Read more... )

Well, I'm not a SAW gunner anymore; they reassigned those weapons to people who need more firepower, so I'm back on the M4. We went to the range this week. Wednesday was my day at the range. I spent about 4 1/2 hours zeroing my damned weapon, and then it was time to go to the qualification range a few hundred meters down the road. I got my ammo and ( Read more... )

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was excellent and funny, but it wasn't as good as the BBC miniseries from back in the day was. And of course, neither of those even approach the level of the books. The good of the movie: it was well cast (especially Zaphod and Marvin, although I think Marvin's original voice was better than Alan Rickman's ( ( Read more... )

isn't it annoying when you have all kinds of things to talk about in your mind all week, but the second you get a chance to get on LJ, your mind goes blank?

Well, I didn't see "Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy" this weekend, but there's always next weekend ( Read more... )

Well, since I've already told my family, I guess I can tell people on here, too. Christie and I are engaged! We're hoping to get married in July, but of course this is subject to change ( Read more... )

JRTC kicked my ass. I got almost no sleep, and I stayed busy as hell the whole time. However, since coming to North Fort on Sunday night and getting all the essential shit done that night and during Monday, I've had plenty of time to catch up on my sleep. I can't wait to get back; I should be on a bus tomorrow, and this coming weekend is a 4-day ( Read more... )

I'll be at JRTC for the next few weeks starting soon. They aren't letting us being our cell phones, so I got a phone card for the pay phones that are there ( Read more... )