I doubt anyone actually reads this anymore, but I've moved on to a bit different blog. It's something I'm doing that's a little less... personal. I invite you to read if you wish. I seem to have kind of outgrown livejournal at this point; maybe not the site so much as this particular thread.

The plus side of deployments? My music collections expanded to just shy of 20,000 songs ( Read more... )

I love Pop Culture. I don't know what it is, maybe it taps in to my deep down desire to be "part of the group," if you'll forgive a half-assed reference to Maslow's Hierarchy. This particular installment is going to cover a few things I've noticed after being ( Read more... )

Person 1: Hey, did you hear Dumbledore was gay ( Read more... )

Often I struggle on what to write in this thing.. most often I use this as a means of thinking out loud. This strikes me as amusing, because 90% of the stuff on my mind never makes it into this thing. This ia a good thing I think, because I can be rather melodramatic at times, and most of the time the things that bother me aren't for public ( Read more... )

...entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts ( Read more... )

Apparently it has been 15 weeks since my last update. I figure it's time for me to update this thing ( Read more... )

So I'm in Kuwait and all safe. It's not terribly hot, only like in the 90s so far. I will say however that it is very sandy. I thought Arizona was a desert.. oh no. I feel like I'm on Tattoine. It's out of control ( Read more... )

It's Thursday afternoon and events are in motion that may all ready be making this a crappy weekend. I was "lent out" to another platoon to help them move vehicles to the docks to be shipped. The moving partly happened.. and we will be resuming this task sometime tomorrow night, hours after work should be over for the day. By the time we get back, ( Read more... )

1. Be "vaccinated" for smallpox. I use the term vaccinated loosely, as all they did, and I may be simplifying this a bit, was stick a pointy piece of metal in a jar, and stab me with it 3 times. Not a needle; it looked more like a dental pick. Now I have smallpox, and I have to wash it and wait for it to get gross and scab over. Also, I shouldn't ( Read more... )