If money could have bought a cure…

I’m feeling a bit guilty today, you see, back in 2004 I had
16 thousand or so songs on my 160 gig external hard drive in Iraq and at that
time maybe 10 thousand pictures.  Once of
my Marine buddies wanted asked to copy some of my music and I said sure.  He plugged it into his Mac laptop and it
changed the format of the entire hard drive and I lost everything.  Well, all of the music anyhow, I

Remembering

A few snap shots of what September 11th means from friends in blogland what I really found out in this search?  That many of my old blogging links are dead or haven't blogged in years.  I deleted a bunch of links and need to move some around it looks like.  This is what happens when real life intrudes in your cyber life.  I've decided to leave the blogs up of those who posted in Iraq but quit

A Decade...

Tonight, I’m sitting in front of a flat screen TV watching
Frontline on PBS, my dogs snoozing on both sides of me and my beautiful wife
working out on the elliptical on the other side of the room.  I have 14 squadron Corpsman, of whom I herd
like cats and spend an extraordinary amount of time trying to keep my programs
at work running on a day to day basis. 
Life is full and busy, both

Labor Day Dustman Camping Trip

Reminder to self, when driving Neal (my Toyota Tacoma with
265,000 miles, named Neal because it’s 220,000 miles to the moon and we’re
currently driving back), not to run the A/C when going from a couple hundred
feet elevation to 7000 feet of elevation.  





Our trip started out with an almost disaster (or disaster if
you’re not me, even though I’m a corpsman, I have a degree in automotive

Lenovo z570 Core i7

Back in 2008, I needed some more processing power to put together my squadron's deployment video and purchased a Toshiba gaming laptop which worked great for what I needed but lately, I've noticed that it struggled with processing HD movies and handling what my new camera put out. The thought of a new laptop was lurking in the back of my mind.Well a couple of weeks ago, one of my dogs (I believe

A Wedding Cake Weekend

Back in 2009, I posted some pictures of going to a steampunk event called Skeleton Key and my friend Nate took a liking to a girl who was in the picture.He said something like… oh, new Facebook search, you can pull up your old messages, on September 9th 2009, he said exactly this-“I've decided 2 things1. San Diego needs to have events like skeleton key. That looks badass, and I'm sick of my goth/

Spring Break with the Son

Collin is out for the week and here's some pictures from the adventures we had last weekend in Davenport Beach. He's 17 and almost as tall as me, man I'm getting old, one of my new check-in's last weekend at the squadron was just a year older then him.Here's some pictures and a video I took, enjoy.