Great News.  I am going climbing in march at Mount Washington.  Ive gone 5 or six times every year since i was in 10th grade, and have only missed one year due to this war thingy going on.  The weather today is -9 with a -74 windchill.  Freaking wonderful..i love it.

check it out.   www.mountwashington.com

there was another story in the Times Leader in which i played a minor role...its pretty much all about tagging a conex with spray paint, and they make it sound cool/legal. shit, ive said too much. read on snooka ( Read more... )

alright, lets start a pool on how many days i have left here. anybody want to guess. if youre right, ill mail you a picture of john stamos signed by myself. later.

i hate that right now, i have such a bad attitude about this whole deployment, but if another one were to come up in a year or two after i got home, i would volunteer again. whats wrong with me ( Read more... )

...ive decided that while i strongly support the fact that evil people become evil at some point in thier lives, and arent born that way, (nature vs. nurture), i also believe that during our lives, we all learn how to become standoff-ish and otherwise indignant towards others, and you cant always hide it. nobody is nice anymore ( Read more... )

OUR REPLACEMENTS ARE ACTUALLY HERE!

wow, i never thought i would see this day. i didnt believe it until i actually saw them. we all kind of looked at them the way you would if you ever saw a unicorn or something. you wanted to run up and get close, but you didnt want to scare them and make them run away. good stuff.

i am in such a good mood for reasons other then the the fact our replacements will be here in 10 hours.

i dont want to say anything because i dont want to jinx it.

:) :) :) :) :) :)

what happened recently...had the good ol' 13 month anniversary, found a black lab puppy i wanted to adopt when i get home, but found out it will be taken by then (the lady promised me one i would like even more though), had like, 10 briefings in four days. reallly boring. became validated to redeploy home, which included the obligatory "dont kill ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before? trained for war, gone to war, lived for a year in a combat zone, went to europe, had money, fell more in love with someone everyday ( Read more... )

the new bright eyes albums are awesome. especially 'im wide awake, its morning'. buy them as soon as they come out ( Read more... )