This is the world's most brief journal entry, which is intended to prove I can spell "before" despite the fact that I'm thirteen beers in. You heard me.

The Federal Government has started randomly seizing laptops, hard drives, and memory cards in airports.

Seriously, America? Has it come to this? The government can now legally (ha!) take your laptop, your data storage devices, and any related paraphenalia, access it, COPY IT, and give it back when it feels like it. If you look at the examples ( Read more... )

*Note, currency exchange rates in the following rant fluctuate based on the to-the-second value of the worthless, worthless dollar.

The Senate has decided to allocate $300 billion to bailing people out of the idiotic mortgages that caused the housing crisis.I got it, the recession sucks and those of you who aren't in the World's Happiest Third ( Read more... )

So I've been entertaining some ideas about what I'd like to do with my life after I leave the military, and while I have a few ideas, nothing has really lept out at me until now. First off, I'm giving definite consideration to picking up an MBA. This is only one letter different than my original plan, which was to go straight to the NBA, so it ( Read more... )

I've never answered one of the LJ Writer's Block questions before, but I felt compelled today. The question was simple: "Pirates or Ninjas?" The answer is equally simple ( Read more... )

Bought some new computer parts....ok, practically a whole new computer, but it'll give me a serious project when I get back to the real world....I'm sure Lizz will be out of the house at some point, and I will descend into darkest nerdery the second she does. I don't believe any of my three and a half readers (two and a half are Greg) have any ( Read more... )

I think our firewall permissions just changed, so I'm going to bang out an entry while I have the chance. We just went on R&R, which was a phenomenal vacation and a much needed break from the war. The vacation really reinforced how lucky I got in finding Lizz, and then again in convincing Lizz to overlook my shortcomings and tricking her into ( Read more... )

I'm finally back on an internet connection that doesn't block the word "Update" in URLs, so I can once again spew my thoughts out onto teh interwebs. I'm working on month eleven of this deployment, which is nice, cause I've finally passed up the two-thirds mark. In addition to this good news, next month (actually in about three weeks,) I'll be ( Read more... )

Not a lot going on here at the war. Lizz and I exchanged Non-Denominational Winter Holiday presents in time with Hanukkah this year, which was a lot of fun. We opened our stuff on webcam, so we could see each other's reactions. I got a calendar made of pictures of us from the past year, a Swiss Army Knife that has a USB drive and a flashlight, ( Read more... )

...and now you're going to hear all about it. So it was late last night, and I had like fifteen projects to do by morning (I work nights.) One of the most time-consuming projects our shop had was to extract the grids from a HUGE map of the AO for some graphics. This task was entrusted to one of our cell's LTs, 1LT Allen. 1LT Allen feels really ( Read more... )