Merry Christmas from Iraq. Hope everyone has a great day.

For those of you who have never watched the show "Top Gear" on BBC, I recommend doing so, if for no other reason than they like to do stupid crap like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhC2GKjuMBo

For those fans of Guitar Hero and anyone who has seen the game and knows, more or less, how it works. Check out this..

http://break.com/index/bike-hero.html

Just as I said last night before collapsing into a deep sleep, going to NYC and watching a Yankees/Red Sox game and then going to the fireworks show that night is an excellent way to spend the 4th of July. I was only there for a day and managed to get a bit lost in the subway system so I didn't get to see everything I would have liked, but that is ( Read more... )

The last two weeks we have had these West Point cadets attached to my company for some good old officer training. Of course, a lot of that has included a crap ton of practical jokes playe on them, it has been great to say the least. Today, they made friends with the armament platoon, which if you ever read my posts, you will know that we are a ( Read more... )

Some people are just so damn ignorant it's disgusting ( Read more... )

Just got done watching I am Legend. I have to say it really is a strange movie, but I really liked it. If you have never seen it, I recommend doing so. Totally not what I expected.

yesterday's afternoon high: 80 degrees, today it is currently in the low 30s and raining and sleeting and it's only 5:30pm; tonight there is a chance for flurries. Ugh ( Read more... )

one thing I can't stand is when people say they are going to do something and they don't.

I hate being blown off.

so a couple of weeks ago I went to a couple of free online credit report places to check on my credit history to make sure everything was good. I found a couple discrepencies that I managed to fix with no problems, but the thing that is starting to get on my nerves is that these so called free credit check places are started to charge me for a ( Read more... )