So I've been in Afghanistan for almost five months now, well into my second tour, and it occurs to me that other than Lizz, not many of the three people who read this have heard much about your average Afghan's take on life. That's 66% of you blundering about in the dark, unclear on that most important of issues: what crazy dirt-farmers think ( Read more... )

You get TWO entries today ( Read more... )

After a looooong absence, I return once more to LiveJournal. So here are the major updates ( Read more... )

I'm still alive! Post something on my facebook or write me an email at will.is.cool27 AT gmail DOT com. Afghanistan is typically dry, hot, and filled with explosives. I'll have a much longer update once I get some quality net in my room.

I'm still alive! I'm on leave, in Houston TX with Lizz's parents. We're having a good time. For some reason, my journal is attracting spam comments hand over fist, so there's that. Not sure why ( Read more... )

I'm on duty tonight and probably am not supposed to be updating, but I figured it was about damn time. It's been what, months now? Ridiculous. Not too much has happened, I suppose. I took up snowboarding and even convinced the wife to take up skiing. We've been going on a regular basis for the past month now to the slopes nearby in the ( Read more... )

Holy crap we're in Paris!

Shortest update ever.

One of Lizz's grandparents owned a company that made the racks that plastic bottles sit on at the grocery store, along with those Coke-bottle coolers and Pringles displays and that kind of thing. Plastic things. Well, anyways, he sold his company a while back and while googling him, Lizz and I came across the company's new website, on which this ( Read more... )

I know I've been a ridiculous slouch about updating this thing. Part of it was that I was away for a three-week FTX at Grafenwoehr Training Area. Things that are new: not much. Lizz will be back here soon, hooray! I'm sitting here on my couch drinking Guinness in my pajamas and smoking jacket 'cause I'm really just that stylish. November ( Read more... )

I'm a very lazy man when it comes to LJ updates and pretty much everything else. I'm finally getting around to the story of our Labor Day vacation to Dublin, Ireland, so buckle your seatbelts and prepare yourselves ( Read more... )