I hope you enjoyed my journal, occasional humor, and insight. I also hope ( Read more... )

Ganked from reahkitty by way of paynesgrey

O1. Make a list of 5 things you can see:

a. Laptop
b. Glen Beck show on TV 
c. My baby girl, Annie
d. My new portable drafting tablet that is getting lonely
e. The book I am reading, Moon Shot, and the Apollo 11 & First Lunar Landing models that are setting near the book wondering why they have yet to be put together

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Four days ago I was sick as a dog. Something that hasn't been all the uncommon in the previous week or so and it is still going on. When I am so sick running high temps and the like I tend to sleep a lot. That day I woke up to a silent house. Doug was also sick as heck and he was just as out of it as I was. The house was unusually quiet. No TV in ( Read more... )

For those that have asked and were wondering about my health and what has been happening, I am happy to report that I am healing, slowly, but overall in much better health than I was two months ago when I made my last post prior to yesterday ( Read more... )

ganked from  al_kenobi

I Watch Too Much Television - meme
1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italicize the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Underline the shows you own [at least one season] on DVD and/or VHS.
4. Post your answers.

50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex & The City
45. ( Read more... )

I am settled into the hospital now. I also scored Hi-Speed Wireless internet this time by being very nice to the IT person. It only took her two days to figure out how to get me on the infrastructure private network after an ok by corporate. It was worth the wait ( Read more... )

Well after a false start at the hospital in KC I am now in the hospital in Neodesha Ks. looks like I will be here till sometime in January ( Read more... )

Yeah, it's the French Again
So the French are telling people not to be concerned about the Milan ATGMs seized by the Taliban:
France played down the capture by Taliban of two French anti-tank missiles seized after a major attack was launched on hundreds of its troops in Afghanistan on Friday.
Defence Minister Herve Morin said that western forces in ( Read more... )

25 Years ago today, the USMC suffered their worst single-day of casualties since WWII. They were the first casualties of what we are only now recognizing as a generation-long struggle against a religiously-motivated group of fanatics intent on targeting and ultimately destroying our way of life. Yes, this was one of if not the earliest strikes ( Read more... )

We all knew SAS guys were tough as nails. This guy, though, makes nails look like a washed-up former Pennsylvania National Guard E-7 drill sergeant wanna-be with a real tough-guy act:
DESPITE being shot twice during an ambush in Afghanistan, an SAS soldier lashed himself to the front of his patrol vehicle so he wouldn't be left behind if he passed ( Read more... )