This will be my 4th trip

But I have nothing on Dave Earney from Daves-Not-Here and flythemig29 of Those Wacky Iraqis, 4 years, 2 months, 2 days, 21 hours over in Iraq and that's just for flythemig29. I know Dave was out there before my first trip over and has only came home on vacation. Imagine.They're both Contractor's who decided to stay. Go over and give them a warm welcome home.

Merry Christmas

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Christmas weekend

And I’m sitting at home reading. If you’re a reader, I’m probably one of the best kind of friends to have. If I get caught up in an author it’s not rare for me to buy everything they’ve written or at least an entire series.There are few addictions in my life that have carried me as far along as reading. It started out when I was a kid and my mom used to ground me to my room for some offense or

Christmas S.O.P. for all Marines

TO: ALL MarinesFROM: Goode, U. B., Commanding OfficerRE: Operation Order 12-15-04 for: Official Visit of LtGen Santa Claus1. An official staff visit by LtGen Claus is expected at your house on 25 DEC. The following directives govern activities of all Young Marines, during the visit.a. Not a creature will stir without permission. This includes warrant officers and mice. Marines may obtain special

I’ve been admitted (I wrote this in the hospital)

A while back, I came down with a cold, the normal sniffles and coughing, no big deal till about a week ago; I woke up in the middle of night in a coughing fit which felt like my lungs were covered in slime. I bent over the side of the bed and coughed it all up into a trash can and felt fine. I turned on the light and the trash can was covered in blood. Yuck.But there were no other symptoms so I

I was in the hospital

and my cell phone doesn't like playing with blogspot so I posted over at MySpace, have a larger post on my laptop but here is what I wrote from a small cell keyboard. Oh, I'm back home in San Diego, thank you Bethanie and Terri, two great nurses at the Yuma hospital for making my 4 day stay somewhat enjoyable. I'm out now and we never really did figure out why I was coughing up a cup of blood a

Bonding experiences

I’ve found over the last few years that I’ve fallen from the path of being the average military party animal but having lived in those shoes at one time, it’s given me a vast understanding of the lifestyle and now coming into a leadership role. Part of my job is protecting the people around me so most nights, I’m taking one for the team and being the designated driver.I couldn’t count how many

Doing Pre Iraq Training

It's funny to think that I have better internet connections when I'm forward in Iraq but it seems to be true. I'm in a sandy desert city where the only place where I can plug my laptop in is at a Boingo wireless booth which has a terrible connection (actually had better connectivity in Thailand). So if I don’t respond to emails or comments, that’s why.It’s actually relaxing out here, my move is

Moving

Moving out of housing is finally done. Whew, what a long and painful experience. I’m beginning to realize how much of a consumer society we are, even with selling my big furniture I didn’t realize how much stuff we had. Both of us come from a family of hoarders, I admit it. I was hoping to fit all of the rest of my stuff into an 8X10 storage room. That didn’t happen. I did fill the storage room

Rumor

I have a rumor and I won’t share it.A week and a few days ago I was at Knott’s Berry Farm having a grand old time riding a roller coaster called Ghost Rider and the forces of gravity reached up from the center of the earth into my jacket pocket, grabbed a hold of my cell phone and flung it off into space never to be seen by me again. Which left me disconnected from the world for days, DAYS I say!

If I don't come up for air

It's because I'm moving this weekend. Times getting short and everything is coming together, lots of stuff to get done before I go to Arizona for Thanksgiving and only little bits of time to do them in. Happy Thanksgiving everyone if I don't see you before then.

Valour IT

(this post is staying at the top till 15 November 2007)Is an organization who provides Voice-Activated laptops to our severely wounded troops. So far they have distributed over 1500 laptops to our wounded. I know these guys personally and the entire effort is a labor of love.This Veterans Day holiday, don’t forget the men and woman who have made the life that you live possible. Valour IT gives

Changes in attitudes, changes in latitudes

Most of my Navy career, even though I was I charge of most of the medical departments I was at, I was usually following some kind of direction from the chain, there was always a higher echelon to fall on. There were tough times but usually the guy making the calls was somewhere above me. Most of my mentality was spent going with the flow but now I feel like a rock in the middle of the stream.

Knott’s Berry Farm Veterans Tribute

Yesterday I went out with my niece Kate and one of our friends to Knott’s. Every year from the 1st till the 22nd of November they let anyone with a military ID or a vet in free with one guest, 12 bucks a piece for up to 6 additional bodies. Its one of the best deals for Military in Southern California, these guys take care of us. If you go, make sure to thank them.Had a great day and made a

What some other people are saying about Band of Bloggers

Just a Grunt wrote thisMy good buddy Kasee wrote this and then did this great round up this morning hereMoFiZix Gr4FiX had this to sayBut Wait, Hearts and Hates Colby, hah.We all know ALa loves Colby, she rounds us all up including calling me the awesome Doc in the Box and dropping a picture of her and Colby, thanks:)Pilgrim thought they did a good joband that's it for my round up this morning. I

Just finished Band of Bloggers

and am very happy with what they did. I was a bit worried about how the show would turn out but they did a great job putting us all together, it would have been nice if they had included links to the blogs so we could click on over to who the show was about but since they didn't here's what I have and how I know them or don't know them in the last few.Of course Colby Buzzell from My War Killing

History Channnel tonight!

and all weekend, I'll be on a show called Band of Bloggers, here's the scheduleFriday, November 0908:00 PM Saturday, November 1012:00 AM Monday, November 1212:00 PM Monday, November 1206:00 PM

Happy Birthday Marines!

Tonight I attended the MAG 16’s Marine Corps Ball celebrating 232 years of faithful service to our country. Let me tell you a secret, I always get stage fright going to these things. Must be something I’ve carried over from being so nerdy in high school. I always complain about going till I get there and have without fail, have had a great time.A couple of weeks ago I attended the Navy Birthday

Sometimes real life takes over Cyberlife

In a nutshell, I've been busy with life, not the interesting fun kind but the dreary mundane paperwork, heavy lifting lots of driving life. And each time I come home, my brain has been drained and my blog writing has suffered. It don't mean that I'm quitting blogging by any means just that blogging has gone on the back burner while I take care of my present life.Here's a snap shot, the housing

Band of Bloggers

I just received this from a producer over at the History ChannelBAND OF BLOGGERS on the History Channel on Friday, 11/9, at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT; with an encore presentation on Monday, 11/12 at 6 PM ET/3 PM PT. Check out this very special hour and support our troops! You won't be sorry.And what the History Channel Website says;Explore the impact of blogging as a new medium for immediate and raw

Maybe the tide has turned?

Over the last 3 days, half a million people have moved out of their homes and headed for the beaches (and stadiums and hotels and friends couches). And so far the count of deaths is only 5 which is absolutely amazing, only one person from the fire (I think that number is going to go up as they search houses though). According to Cal Fire, 276,823 acres and 1300 homes of San Diego county have gone

Map of the San Diego Fire

(I had to take the regular map down because it was locking up the blog)View Larger Map(Thanks KPBS for putting this map together, it's the best one on the net)Stayed the night in the comfy suburban, when I was in Iraq, I missed sleeping in the beast. The fire isn't to my place yet (I think) but it is on two sides.Work, came in and made a lot of phone calls to make sure everyone is alright, so far

Update on the fire

Since I really don’t have anywhere to go and nothing to do, I have volunteered to take part in a rescue recovery team, I’ll be working the ambulances with some other corpsman doing whatever they want us to do. No word on my house yet but I see the sky glowing over there, hopefully it’s just streetlights shining in the smoke if not, then guess, I’ll have to start going over my insurance policy.

San Diego Fires

First off I’m safe and sound but can’t say the same for the rest of the area. I live over by Poway and according to this headline “Witch Fire roars across Poway, Rancho Bernardo” with hundreds of structures destroyed and so far, 250 thousand people evacuated and that number has probably gone up.I got home last night and packed up all of the important things in my life, you know, clothes that I

MCAS Miramar Airshow

Being a medical dude, one thing all of us get stuck doing is working the airshow. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, on Friday and Sunday usually 0530 till 1600 (5:30AM till 4PM) and Saturday 0530 till 2200 (5:30AM till 10 at night, bleh). This year being a first class I got pulled for other duties, namely cooking hotdogs at a hotdog stand. We had lots of volunteers this year from all sorts of

Arizona trip with my Cali family

My half sister might be relocating in Arizona so we went out there so I could show them around the area. If anything, I do know all of the secret spots, might as well share them with the fam.One of our stops was on the way home to the sand dunes at Glamis, something you don’t see everyday, here’s the video I took.

Watching Pushing Daisies

You probably don’t know who Bryan Fuller is but he’s the guy who has been the brain behind some of my favorite shows of all time, Heroes, Dead like Me and Wonderfalls. And with Pushing Daisies, he doesn’t disappoint.It lays out a little bit like the movie Real Big Fish, the characters are colorful and larger then life. The story circles around this guy named Ned who owns a pie place called The

Zuning out

In honor of picking up first class (and finally getting paid for it), I finally got a video MP3 player. Costco.com had Microsoft Zunes on sale for 149, I’m sort of an apple phobic, a couple of years ago, I plugged an external hard drive into a Mac to share some of my music with one of my guys and it reformatted it. When I plugged it back into my laptop all it read was a big 0. I got back all of

Rock Down to Electric Avenue

Another fine music video from the front

Selling my Earthly Possessions (Garage Sale)

I’m trying to get rid of the bulk of my capitalist consumer driven existence this morning and know what? Hardly anyone has came by. I’ve only made a hundred bucks and it’s almost noon. At least I can say everybody who’s stopped has bought something.Over the last few year (decades probably), I’ve gathered all sorts of uninteresting clutter in my life. My family has a history of hording on both

HOPE

Sometimes the world is the limit...

JCB Music Video

I normally don't do Cute but being a father, this video hit the spot. It's unlike anything I've ever seen and it cheered me up. Great job man!Watch it, believe me, you won't regret it, here's the youtube version, not as cool as the full sized one on the link above.Don't click if you're using dial up though.(H/T Swan)

Have a set of Balls

Of which, I'm going stag, is still going to cost me 110 dollars for just the tickets to both of them plus whatever it’s going to cost to get the uniform ready. A very nice group of ladies offered to have a blog drive “Dream date with Sean” to get me a date. At any other point in my life, I would have jumped at the chance but right now? It wouldn’t be fair deal to my date. Not that I’m a bad

Heh

What am I doing tonight?

Watching Heroes of course, after a TV drought of almost 2 months, I have turned it on. Too bad I won’t be around to finish the season, if you haven’t heard, it sounds like I’ll be making my 4th trip back in the Sandbox. October is going to be a busy month, one of the bad things about making First Class is that I can’t hide out from the big events. Fall is Ball season and it looks like I’m going

Robert Jordan, Rest in Peace

Readers who have been here for a while might have known my love for books, but my favorite series was by a guy named Robert Jordan (aka James Oliver Rigney, Jr), he wrote a massive series (7000 plus pages) called the Wheel of Time that entranced millions over the years. A couple of years ago he was diagnosed with amyloidosis, a disease that causes the walls of the heart to thicken. In the bio

Another homecoming

The planning for the trip started out with discovering a nail in the sidewall of one of my rear tires, no problem, plug it enough to get me to Costco and grab a set of new rear tires, out of there in an hour and load up the fridge. Arrive only to find that they were out of my size of tires so I hit up Big-O and 2 hours later I was back home ready to man handle the fridge.One of the good things

Kuwait Take One

This is the first video I made in 2004 while attached to HMM-764, it covers most of the first month of deployment. My first and longest time Kuwaiting, we were the first reserve CH-46 squadron to go into Iraq and had to unpack our helicopters and make sure they were fully ready to fly which took a good part of a month. Be careful, it might cause a teary eye or two.

Arizona no longer taxes the Military

It's the best news I've heard all day, this is a quote from MyPayThe state of Arizona no longer taxes military pay for military members (Active Duty, Reserve and National Guard). myPay no longer allows Arizona state tax changes. This is the other good deal for Arizona Residents that serve the military, you can get two vehicles exempted from paying for registration, fill it out this form for each

Taking the kids around Watson Lake

I went home to Prescott Arizona over Labor day the original plan was to go hiking around Thumb Butte, well that didn't work because the parking lot was closed so I decided to take my friend Jason, 3 of his kids and Keven the foreign exchange student from Thailand out to Watson Lake. Below is the video

My personal connection to 9/11

I’ve done enough posts about 9/11 that had to do with me so I might as well tell you guys about someone I know. Back in the early 90, right out of Field Medical Service School (the place where Navy Corpsman learn to play with the Marines and about combat medicine), I was assigned to VMFA (AW)-242 at MCAS El Toro and also assigned to the unit right before we left was a wet behind the ears doctor,

Memory

It’s funny how memory works.One of the guys I work with, I won’t mention names, was telling me a story about living out in the country. I guess where he lived, there where cats everywhere and these feral beasts got into everything. I didn’t realize that that city folk, when they got tired of their pets, would take them out to country and let them go and some how a fair number of the cat family

The Sandbox, Dispatches from the Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

A long time ago in a land far far away, I got an email from a guy named David, he’s the web manager of Doonesbury’s Town Hall and asked me if they could use a post of mine titled “Cranky Old People” in their new multi-milblogger website called the Sandbox. And you know me, my given answer to such requests is “Sure”. I put the words out and if someone wants to use them go ahead, just stick my name

Internet People

I'm not named but I could have been there.

Roadtripping with the Tool Box

I got the tool box loaded up only to realize I had no idea where most of my straps were so I went out and bought another 7. Just to be safe. Had to take the tailgate of the truck off because the ramp wouldn’t fit, I could have put the ramp on top but that would have acted like sail and I would have needed even more tie downs(I had more tie downs then this when I actually left!!)I left around noon

Pictures of hiking around with Jason and his kids

by Watson Lake in Prescott AZ. My mom has a foreign exchange student named Keven staying with her, I took him along too. Pictures can be found here. More posts on the trip as soon as I get home.

Arizona Bound and meeting Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert

I’m getting ready for a road trip to Arizona, I won’t be long at this house and my tool box is way too big to move around being a single guy. It’s paid off and maybe someday in the future I’ll be able to make full use of it. I could sell it and get a nice wad of cash but unless I’m rich in the future, I’ll never by anything that comes as close to being as nice.Arizona’s going to give me a chance

Life with Gordo

My uncle from Darwin Australia, Gordo flew into San Diego on Thursday. If you’ve a long time reader, you might remember my cousin Greene from Australia. Gordo’s his dad. I saw him last in the mid ‘90’s, I was the corpsman for VMFA (AW)-242 and my squadron went down there for training in an operation called Southern Frontier. I spent 3 months of my life hanging out with him, Greene, his sister

Why do I blog (short answer to Bane)

It's the vent out of my normal life that won't burn in a fire or disappear if I die which is somewhat important considering my line of work. If I keel over from a chunk of lead falling sideways though my delicate flesh, my son can come back one day and say, hey that's my pop. How many people out there don't get a chance get to know their parents before they die because they lacked communication

Out on a Limb

A totally shameless plug for my brother-in-law, Steve's business, Out on a Limb. Not that he needs my help, his work does all of the talking.

Question...

How many of my readers became Corpsman after reading this blog and how many unknown blog children are have I seeded? I received a letter of support from a reader who's going through FMSS (Field Medical Service School) who joined and became a Corpsman after reading about my life here. Thanks Rob, I haven’t mentioned but your letter made my day and that day in particular was in need of some

I wish I had an iPhone

Being the tech geek that I am, yes, there has been a part of me that looked at all over those iPhone owners out there with envy and longing, I wanted to reach out and stroke their new little toy and make the buttons light up. But if you’ve read me for a while, you know most of my tech investment over the last few years has gone towards cameras (have I mentioned that I needed one?), computers and

Are you a fan of

Postsecret? If so click play.I'm taking a course on Navy Leadership all of this week, great course that's filled me full of ideas. I'll probably post about it tomorrow.

Chargers Game

I actually had a great time, was standing in the end zone making sure people didn't stand in front of the camera. Best seats I've had to any game ever, I needed it. Sorry about the small crappy pictures but they can give you an idea how close I reall was, they were taken on my old school cell phone. Oh the Seahawks won.

Chargers vs. Seahawks

Instead of spending my Sunday at home facing the world though my computer screen, I’ve volunteered to do security at the Chargers preseason game. So if any of my readers are watching or are there, I’ll be running around in black slacks and a red shirt doing whatever they have us do. We're gathing funds for our Christmas party and if I don't do it, how am I going to talk my guys into it?I seem

Okay here's a cheery post

The wailing must end sometime, I made this video of climbing Thumb Butte with my buddies and 2 of our kids fourteen years after that other Thumb Butte video. I still sound dorky and have found out that a small palm sized camcorders are very shaky. I did have a great time and look forward to my next trip up there.

Climbing Thumb Butte 14 years later

On leave in Arizona, I gathered some of the old gang to climb Thumb Butte 14 years after the videos below were made, pictures can be found here. We all were a little older and slower but we were well able to keep up with the young ones, it was the first time for my son Collin and Larry's son Alec. It took a little bit of work to get my son up there but the results were worth it. Thumb Butte has

Getting ready for an Arizona run with the son

Collin are hitting the road tomorrow to go see the family. After the craziness of Comic-Con, I Opted for something a milder, such as converting old 8mm to a digital format and editing some of it to post online.The result of my day of making movies, the first is a really short clip of when I could still fly, I'm too slow and chunky for such things these days (and I don't have a rope).The first is

Four days of Comic-Con

And our feet are sore and we’re seeing the world through new eyes. Stepping into Comic-Con is like stepping into a world of alien beings, where the strange is the norm. One crowd stopper was the girl with the M16 leg in the Grind House booth, here’s a picture of me in my Browncoat outfit and her (I wonder if she's a combat vet?) More of her can be found hereCollin liked all of the Halo stuff.I’m

Comic-Con 2007 San Diego California

This is one event that I’ve been wanting to go to for years and finally for the past two days I’ve been wallowing in a sea of geekdom. Me and 123,000 of my closest friends moved in mass down to the San Diego convention center to check out what’s what in animation, science fiction, fantasy, horror, movies, video games, toys, publishers and the strange and believe me, there are some very strange

Toad the Wet Sprocket at the OC Fair

A couple of weeks ago in passing, I entered a contest on the Toad the Wet Sprocket’s myspace page to win concert tickets to see their first show that they’ve performed in over a year at the Orange County fair and last week I got an email from Wahoo’s Fish Taco’s (people who sponsored the prizes) saying that I won. So last night my son and I drove up there. The last time I saw them in concert

KCET Milblogger Podcast

A couple of months ago, KCET’s Juan Devis, left a comment on my blog, he’s the producer of KCET/PBS Television’s New Media division of Southern California. He does a show called Web Stories “KCET’s multimedia webzine exploring the stories , culture, and attitudes of the people who live here”. This months project was on how new media technologies had changed how the war was being covered. The

Back in the day

My old roommate, James is heading out to Iraq and he left his 8mm camcorder in my care (if I transfered his 8mm to DVD) and I started going though some of my old 8mm tapes and made the following video of me and a couple of friends climbing around Prescott Arizona back in the early 90's. It's hard to imagine being that young again, I miss those days sometimes.

New X-files Movie?

Yay! According to David Duchovny he's about to get his hands on the script and the movie might be out next year. Yes, I'm a X-files geek from way back in the day, I wonder they're going to have a booth at Comic Con next week?I'm going with my wife, son and father-in-law, sure to be some great fun, don't worry, there will be pictures.

The 300,000 visitor to Doc in the Box goes to….

... someone from Rochester, Minnesota who came this way from Helen Chen's blog, they only stayed for a second but the second was long enough to put me over the mark. Thanks!

DITB mentioned in an Armed Forces Journal piece

Called “Web tangle”, a good article and they mentioned me in good terms.I wrote a post about how the blocking of certain high bandwidth websites affected us from the front. Here’s the quote they used.“Sean Dustman at Doc in the Box (http://docinthebox.blogspot.com) observes, "Outof my 3 tours, there was a maybe a month of time when we were able to get tothese sites from work before it was cut

300,000

visits to this blog in the next day or so.If it were miles, that would be the lifespan of a Toyota.If it were people, it would be the population of a medium sized city such as Tampa, Toledo or Anaheim.If I had got a penny for every view it would equal 3,000 dollars and if I only had a nickel..And for metoday or tomorrowIt's just a 3 that has a lot of zeros at the end:)

Off with it’s top! (Building flight hazard in San Diego)

If you’re a local out here and pay attention to the news, one of the big stories is an office tower built next to Montgomery Field, the city gave the San Diego firm Sunroad Enterprises permission to build it but the FAA said the 12 story building is a flight hazard. There’s a lot of bickering in the local government here about how this happened with lots of finger pointing both ways. Sunroad has

New camera window shopping

My entrance to the online self publishing world was in June 2003. My Marines were going though training and until someone got hurt; my job was to sit on my thumb. So I started taking pictures to pass the time and Marines asked for copies of the pictures. Where else can they get someone to follow them out into the field, run besides them and take pictures of them doing exciting things at cost?

Who are you going to call?

I’m taking over as LPO on Monday, picking up the new responsibilities and I need to pass out my collection of old ones. The torch is moving on to a new crew with a new social dynamics. We just got some new bodies and we’re loosing the usual crowd. Starting with a fresh slate has always been tough, it’s strange to think that I’ll be the guy at the helm this time around. Hopefully I don’t

I don’t enjoy fireworks anymore

I missed the 4th last year being in the middle of an Iraqi vacation and I didn’t notice any problems the year before watching the fireworks with my soon to be wife and son. But this year, I noticed that part of my brain was looking for hard objects to hide behind and another part was subconsciously doing measurements of size, direction and how much ground shake there was. I guess I did carry

Welcome new visitors!

You would think that appearing on CNN for a large part of their feature on milblogs would have gathered a sharp increase in my readership, nope, a few extra hundred hits. What about when I did that online chat on the Washington Post, nope, just another couple hundred. When my blog was flogged by the San Diego Reader? Maybe a hundred total. I get probably get a quarter of my new visitors by people

Sprung like a steel trap

As a shop we do physical training at Oh-dark-thirty in the morning on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I’m the first one to admit that I’m not a morning person, if you want me to do something important in the morning it’s best to hand me a note so I’ll remember to do it later. It’s not unusual not to expect me to talk more then greetings before say 9 or so in the morning and a couple of cups of

New Driving Fines for 2007

Has everyone got this email forwarded to them? I even got it forwarded to me by official military channels. As with any email forward I get looks to be taking over the world, I like to fact check it. Usually the first stop is Snopes where they say it's totally false. The original email is below and here’s the link to what Snopes says and this is the link to the real laws from the DMV website

Del Mar Dog Beach

On a cloudy day last month.

Army Spc. Mark Ryan Climaco Caguioa

MaryAnne from Soldiers Angel Germany pointed me out to Mark's story last week and I told her I would write about it after reading into it more, here are my thoughts.Corporal Caguioa was the son Filipino immigrants, raised in Stockton and graduated from Bear Creek High School class of 2002. After high school, he worked at a sushi chef before enlisting in the Army in 2005 and deployed to Iraq in

The Shout House

Last Friday we went out to The Shout House with Josh and Brikkie. Brikkie’s getting out of the Navy and Josh invited us and several of their other friends to go an celebrate. If you haven’t heard of The Shout House, it’s a “dueling piano” bar, I’ve been to a few piano bars in my time but going into the Shout House was on another level altogether.The premise of the place is this, someone requests

Green Surprise

I sometimes think I’m married to an anime super hero who’s disguised as a the run of the mill navy wife. I got home from an average day of Naval Medicine drudgery, you know learning a new job, helping out one of the junior troops out with their car and verifying records for a command generals inspection. A gray gray mundane day of thinking professional military type thoughts.I came home to find

Army Wives

Over at SpouseBuzz, they have a couple of posts with discussions covering the first two episodes of the new Lifetime show Army Wives. The storyline is based on a book by Tanya Biank called Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives. There has been talk about the series for a while in military publications and by the spouses. After being around the military family scene for the better part

Email forwards

In the broader sense, you shouldn’t look at email any differently then you look at blogging. Just stick it in your head that once you email anything out, it’s not your property anymore, it can be forwarded around the world with all of your info added to it. Have you heard the tale of Jonas L Blank (who talked glibly about a financial deal), Claire Swire (who emailed her buddy about a yummy

Character

Most of the first classes I work with are transferring or retiring in the next couple of months. I usually don’t talk about my coworkers but I’ll make an excuse today since he’s not around and I warned him that I was going to blog him sometime in the future. He’ll just have to read about it later. I’ve worked for a lot of people in my time, seen various leadership types and picked up lessons

Blame it on the bride

For she started me watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and instead of dishing out bloggie goodness, I’ve been watching one episode after another of BtVS. Well that is when we weren’t traveling up to northern California to go to a wedding over the Memorial Day holiday and visiting San Francisco. Just finished the series a couple of days ago and have since been on an anticlimactic fugue. Nice job

Snoopy Dance

There is one thing in a person’s military career that over shadows everything else। While it’s nice to be presented awards and recognition, what really makes a difference is getting more money.This morning, I was doing coverage for my Marines physical readiness test and started to get calls from different people in my command asking if I had seen my Chief yet। Um, no, is there something I need to

Soldier’s Smallpox Inoculation Sickens Son

Two year old boy was placed in the hospital for seven weeks with such symptoms as kidney failure and the loss of most of his skin which has since grown back. He was taken to the University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital where they said the boy was covered with “mounds of pox”. The story is here.As someone who gives Smallpox vaccinations, when you see corpsman paranoid about giving any

Stepping out of the Shadows

This week has been fairly strange, I've received calls from 4 news agencies, two of them radio, one from a major TV station and a print newspaper. I ended up sending the newspaper to some other bloggers who have not been quotes as much. When it rains it pours. I've forwarded all of the reporters to the local PAO (who’s probably feeling like a press agent these days) and informed my Chain of

Listen to Blackfive live right now!

here on Jim Bohannon Overnight

DoD Blocking Access to Some Sites from Official Computers

One of the big stories going out around the net right now is that the DOD is blocking some social networking sites, the sites?MySpace, Youtube, Live365, 1.fm, BlackPlanet, Hi5, Photobucket, Pandora, MTV, FileCabi, StupidVideos and Metacafe.So what does this change for a blogger like me who’s been out to Iraq 3 times and uses 3 of the above services regularly?Absolutely nothing.I don’t know where

OIF Hero SGT Mark England beaten & tased by Las Vegas Police at McCarran Airport

Cat sent me this way with her post.Sgt Mark T. England of the US Army National Guard was a medic getting ready to deploy forward with his unit when the March 10th incident happened at the McCarren International Airport in Las Vagas. Mark was tased 3 times and beat with night clubs by 2 Las Vagas police officers the second video is shot it from a different angle and shows another police officer

Colby won the 2007 Blooker Prize

I was listening to NPR earlier and heard that Colby Buzzell won the top 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize for My War and the interview they did with him. 10,000 dollars is a lot of spare change to most bloggers. Good job man! You ask, what in the heck is a blook? It’s a blog that gets published into a book, Lulu is the usually the publisher of these with their print-on-demand service. The judges were

A further Step into Cyberspace

How soon before they put a Wi-Fi receiver inside of my head so I can access the internet with out using the computer middle man? I was chatting with my cousin Greene in Darwin, Australia on MSN and he asked, do you use Skype? I asked why, I already use a Voice over IP phone though my cable and he asks, can you use that to talk to me for free? Well you know I am about free stuff.So I downloaded

An afternoon in DC in less then 7 minutes

Video of spanding an afternoon with two DC blogging buddies wandering about all over DC. A great afternoon, my lovely bride does a lot of the talking but we all take turns (she looks better then me anyways). No Conference clips here though.

Cooking with Sean

My friend Stacey was talking about making Crepes for her mom on mother's day which made me crave crepes and I'm still playing with the new video camera. I made a minute instructional video on how to make crepes, check out the fine flipping technique! My wife is up in San Jose picking up the dog so I'm at home sick with a cold that I picked up in DC and bored. Yes, I'm a dork.For MaryAnn,I

Highlight Video of the Milblog Conference

taken by me with the camera that was sponsored by USAA for winning the Navy Milbloggie. I wanted to get more footage but was actually pretty busy doing interviews and such.

Blogs Study May Provide Credible Information

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research recently started funding new research into the study of blogs as a way of information analyst and war fighting. They’re analyzing patterns of links and stories, finding the pattern behind the greater picture as a whole. Wow, they’re giving these guys 450 thousand dollars to do it, I wonder if they’re looking to hire somebody who has a very good handle

Making GIF movies (geek stuff)

I bought an Video-AVI to GIF Converter a couple of weeks ago because I wanted to learn how to transfer some of my better clips into GIF images. Here’s two of them.This is my dog Gatsby chasing my nieces dog ColaAnd Gwen Stefani making eye contact, waving and blowing a kiss at memy wife didn't believe me when I told her so I made this to show her and share with the world.

OPSEC and some advice to survive at Milblogging

The release of Army Regulation 530-1 has caused a rather large stir in the milblogosphere causing a great cry to go up to the powers that be. Myself? I think it’s too early to judge, the rules could use some clarification but they need to be measured between the losses and potential gains. Being a milblogger, I personally know many people who obsess about the war; they’re constantly looking for

Another video from the conference

Posted by Mary Katharine Ham over at Town Hall where she asks about the new Army OPSEC rules. View the video Here. She interviews Blackfive, Bill Roggio, Sarah from Trying to Grok, Me, J.R. Salzman from Lumberjack in a Desert and one of my other mom's, Carla from Some Soldier's Mom. Thanks Mary.(I'm a much better writer then screen personality)

Calling all Southern California Spouses

If you are around San Diego this weekend, on the 12th of May SpouseBUZZ Live is going on at the San Diego Convention Center from 9:00am till 5:00pm. It's an absolutely FREE celebration thrown by the guys over at military.com and USAA in honor of military spouses. Sort of a way to say think you. Being fully sponsored there is sure to be lots of free swag involved. You can find all of the

Here's the videos from the Pentagon Channel

I did an interview with SSG Lee McMahon from the Pentagon News Channel and she used my clip for the Around The Services show, great job SSG! The first clip is from the earlier show but includes most of President Bush's address to the milbloggers. The second clip talks to the bloggers, including me (talking about my wife and what I've got out of milblogging), Holly Aho and Andi. The president

Pictures of the first day in DC can be found

Here

My take on the Milblog Conference

The 2007 Milblog Conference brought everyone together, the support team of spouses, family and Angels, and the official DOD people with Secretary of Defense’s Office of Public Affairs New Media Directorate, Pentagon Channel and other military type public relation people. CNN, Fox News, Time, Washington Post, Wired Magazine and the Weekly Standard represented Mainstream media. After the opening

People at the Milblog Conference and what they're saying

This is my continually updating list of people I remember meeting and a list of who’s talking about the Milblog Conference, many of the do a far superior job of telling it then I could have. It’s hard to take notes from the middle of a tornado but I’m picking up pieces all over the place. So far, it sounds good. I’ve also taken over 3 gigs of pictures and videos; they’ll be making appearances

I'm on CNN!

It looks like they took my part of the interview and ran with it, you can watch the video here.Other things we did today, woke up rather late (it has been a busy couple of days) and after a brief meeting some other milbloggers in the lobby. We checked out of the hotel and loaded our bags into the trunk of two fellow bloggers Beth and Wintermellonsoup who are bloggers who just moved to DC from

The Milblog Conference

Andi opened up the milblog conference with this statement, “The next guest speaker was sort of a shot in the dark, let me present The President of the United States”. Laughing and giggling erupted because we all thought she was joking until…Well it was definitely an eye opener, I took a video of the speech but this one looks better (thanks Gateway Pundit!). It’s surprising who is reading what

Cocktail Reception(s)

I could write entire blog post about what the wife and I did before reception today but that will have to come when I have more time. 30 or so of use, more milbloggers then you could shake a stick at went to a somewhat unscheduled pre-flight reception at a local watering hole called The Car Pool. Four beers later, I had to go search for some food to put in my stomach. At the cocktail reception

First night of Meetings

Ahh, tonight tonight, I am doing the thing that bloggers shouldn’t, drunken blogging while my wife writes up postcards. We went out to dinner at Rock Bottom brewery with the who’s who of the military blogosphere. John and Beth of Arrrrrrgggghhh!, Andi of Andi's World, FLB, Carla of Soldier’s Mom, Smash my faithful sailor blogging buddy in crime, Greyhawk, one of the founding fathers, Sgt Hook,

Transcript Washington Post Chat

That myself and Nikki Schwab took part in can be found here. Good questions everyone!

DC Take One

Now I know why Southwest is the cheapest airline, not that the service bad but I’ve grown used to having entertainment on long cross country flights. Nope, a little cup of coffee and a box of dried snack food, one bathroom in the front and one in the back. There is a reason why they’re still making money while charging such a low rate. Other then the lack of TV (I was reading anyways) the

Vlogging Seaworld with my son

It's one of the cool things you can do when you have offspring.

DC, here we come!

In a couple of days the fair bride and I are going to be heading to the top milblogging event of the year, the 2007 Milblog Conference! This trip wouldn’t have been possible without the donations I received from my loyal readers, the 790 dollars donated have paid for our plane ticket and a couple of nights of staying at the hotel, big thank you to Corpsman.com, Bane and all of the other donors.

Fox, where good TV goes to die

I watched every episode of Drive with puppy dog on the edge of its seat thrill, wow, Fox has came out with a great show! I was looking forward to a Monday night of TV goodness, watch Drive at 8 then Heroes at 9. But the big wigs at Fox (who are known for murdering great TV) have once again drove a stake into the heart of this show and killed it off after only 3 episodes. Like Firefly, it will

Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream

Words can't do it justice.. by Peter ZottoloI think it's time for some Ice Cream

Virginia Tech

Last night I went out for the Smash's going away dinner at Buco De Beppo with Mad Mikey, Conservative Liberal, Da Goddess and some other family and friends (great dinner BTW). Our friend Gracie of commenting fame, who was sitting next to me put this out, why haven’t any of you guy’s blogged anything about Virginia Tech?I’ve had a blog post sitting in my head that’s been forming for a while about

America at the Crossroads

It’s series of 11 two hour independently produced documentaries about the War on Terror. The series started last night (I started watching it after Drive with Nathan Fillion of Firefly fame, great show BTW). Last nights episode was titled “Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda”, tonight’s first hour is titled “Warriors”; we’re watching it right now. The film crew caught an IED attack during

Budget month with family

We’ve been saving our pennies for what is turning out to be a somewhat expensive trip to the Milblog Convention in DC. This budgeting added an interesting twist to this month considering my son was visiting for the first week and the mother-in-law was here for the week afterwards. Each day it was a trick finding some new low cost entertainment. For instance, last weekend we used up our

Mobil Phone GPS Tracking

You ever wonder where your friends are? Try out this mobile phone tracker, it's great! Using a satellite map it can track any connected mobile phone with coverage anywhere in the world! (that is if the phone has GPS) Type the number in to: http://www.sat-gps-locate.com and see if it works on your cell phone. A stalkers dream come true, might as well use it before they start charging.

Charles in Space

I did a blog post about Charles Simonyi going to the ISS, well he made it there an hour ago. You can also read about it in his blog and watch the videos. The rumor is that he and Martha Stewart are an item. It's cool that I had a chance to meet the fifth person to pay his way into space, the world is definitely becoming a smaller place.

Travel Vlog to Arizona

Video of our trip to Arizona which includes some of the places we went, my mom's latest project and blackmail video of my son singing Gwen Stefani. No, not really blackmail because I don’t believe in blackmailing people, I prefer instant gratification. We had a great time, my wife and my son are great traveling companions on any journey. She didn’t make this trip but will the next one. I also

We made it back to San Diego

It ended up just being me and my son going to Arizona, the brides mom came in this week and it's hard to be at two places at once. Helped my sister tear apart the inside of a house for a day then the next 4 days were spent driving around and visiting friends all over the state. How my week was spent?My other son, Alec (he’s not really my other son but I call him that) gave me a very cool

Titanic

It's cool that there's going to be a Sequel.

This is what I did today

I'd write more about it but I'm heading off on leave with my son for a week:) So if you don't see me around, I'm off having fun.

Tattoos

Being married to the girl that I have, it’s given me a fine appreciation of the art. But even with being as accustomed to tattoos as I am. I’ve noticed the sharp increase of Marines getting sleeves just over the past two months. Not just the young Marines, Staff NCO’s too. There are actually a few Marines in my new unit that have more tattoos then my bride and believe me, that’s impressive!

Google searches and milblogging slackness

Sorry about the total lack of milblogging goodness, most of the serious issues in my military life right now aren’t things I would post about on the blog. Patient privacy, issues with people I work with or things they work on (not issues I have with anybody or things that I’ve done but things going where I’m at and dealing with other peoples lives, a nice way to have a blog shut down is post

My son is coming for spring break

So we’ve been getting the house ready so he doesn’t go home saying that his dad is a slob (I can be but not lately, my wife does a great job at keeping the place up). It also seems to be the time for spring cleaning. We moved into the new place in November and have just got around to unpacking everything. It’s not that we’ve been extremely busy or any such excuses, just hasn’t been a rush, no

Dutch Babies and house cleaning

My wife introduced me to Dutch Pancakes last year on one of our trips to San Jose. If you don’t know what a Dutch pancake is, its huge pancake that you bake in the oven for 20 or so minutes. It puffs up big and you can stuff the inside with all sorts of un-breakfast like food, I had mine with boysenberry syrup, she has a thing for powered sugar and lemon.My recipe goes like this, I get two 9 inch

I lead a dual life (and probably have multiple personalites)

While I have many more blog readers here at Doc in the Box, most of my friends from pre blog times have accounts over at myspace and last weekend while suffering the from a very mild hangover I changed around my top 8 and put all of the important ones up there. The people who made a difference in my life and shaped me as I was growing up, and with along with putting them into the top 8, I did a

The Irish Job

A true Saint Patrick's day story (hat tip to Nate of Firefly, thanks!!)

An ode to my ex wife and son…

Saint Patrick’s day holds a special day in my heart, you see my son was conceived today 14 years ago while I was on a weekend trip to Arizona visit my friends for a Saint Patrick’s day party and hook up with who is now my ex-wife. Back when I was younger, a 370 mile drive on a two day weekend wasn’t that big of a deal and bonus, I was going to be hooking up finally with this mystery girl who had

My bio for the Milblog convention

Sean Dustman is the author of the blog Doc in the Box and has been writing on the blog since January 2004. He is a native of Prescott Valley Arizona and has 13 years on his Navy clock with a small 3 year break till right after the attacks of 9/11 when he felt his talents in medicine were being wasted working on cars. Currently stationed at MCAS Miramar, he is the squadron corpsman for HMH-462

A tall tale

A week or so ago, I sent out a bulletin on Myspace asking my buddies there to leave a real memory they had of me in my comments section (most of my friends in real life reside there and aren’t bloggers) My oldest, Jason Roach, left a comment about a story that I had shelved because I knew no one would believe me, since he’s told it, I might as well share my recollection of it. It hasn’t been told

Something new in the air

In one corner, the United States is taking part in a conference of Iraqi neighbors which included Syria and Iran. I think this is a fairly big deal considering our government hasn’t talked to Iran in decades. If you think about it, I’m surprised that our government is ran by men considering it’s usually a woman who can hold a grudge better (no this isn’t sexist!). We’re known for not talking to

I’m a geek

If you guys haven’t realized it by now, tonight put that name in stone. I went to my first Science Fiction and Fantasy dinner and swap meet with a group of 30 or so SciFi readers. I brought a box of books out of my stock of 1500 or so books and left with a box of new books that I haven’t read, how cool is that? It was strange being in a group of people where you can mention a few words out of

Plane tickets and such

There’s a commercial break in Heroes so I’m taking a breather from watching the tube to blog. I was able to purchased the tickets to DC last week which was 519 dollars, don’t worry, using the money wisely! Now saving up for the hotel stay and I’ll put the extra 126 towards that.Not much else going on, the lovely bride comes home tomorrow from her week long trip, the house is fairly clean and the

Military Social Networking

I took the advancement exam on Thursday and I’m not sure. There were a bunch of dental supply questions which was the only chapter I didn’t print out and study. Here’s to crossing my fingers and hoping Eni and Meni knew what they were talking about.I’ve spent the last couple of days since in a vegetative fugue, blog surfing and cleaning house. Last week, I got two separate invites to Together We

Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet

You've seen it in the news, now hear it from a guy who knows, this is the best blog post you'll read about that subject anywhere. Now I leave you to go back to studying, thanks again for the votes, donations and support!

I’m the Award Winner of the 2006 Milbloggies for the Navy!

Thanks for your votes! If you’re wondering what a milbloggie is, here’s what Milblogging.com says about it:“The Milbloggies Award recognizes military blogger for their contribution to blogging, news and information, and to the military over the last year”. It was somewhat of a surprise that I won this year, as far as blogging goes, the past year was a slow one. I wasn’t doing the daily grind

Voting closes tonight at 8PM for the Milbloggies

I'm still currently in the lead for the Navy category, thank you readers for the votes and donations to the trip fund. The total is at 570 dollars!! A big thank you to Bane who sent readers my direction.The hotel room has been booked and the tickets will be purchased on Friday. I haven’t been good company at home for the past week and instead of hanging out with me when I'm acting like a lump on

What people think of me

Back in the day, I used to be a crazy rock climber and cliff diver, known by my friends for some of my free climbs on normally protected routes and my willingness to jump off of anything into water. Not because I lacked fear but I was addicted to challenging it. Believe me, I know I wasn't an amazing rock climber and knew climbers and cliff divers who did stuff which I thought was crazy and

Milbloggie Voting is Now Open

Over at Milblogging.com, head on over and vote for your favorite milblogger (while you're over there, I wouldn't mind a vote either:)

Three years of blogging (a ramble)

Three years actually a fairly big number if you float around the blogosphere a bit. Bane got me thinking on this, most blogs seem to have a finite life span. Many of the blogs that have burned bright eventually fade and the author puts up a post about having nothing more to say and falls out of the cyber landscape. 3 years is actually a heck of a long time for a milblogger, many of us get home

Update on my Convention Trip Fund Drive

Nine days into the fund drive the total is now at 325 dollars, thanks everybody, specially Bane who has been whipping his readers to my cause with a fund drive. If this is your first time over here, I'm trying to gather funds to help support my trip to the 2007 Milblog Convention in Arlington VA in May. I don't like asking for hand outs, but the 1000 or so dollars that the trip is going to set me

Nominations for the 2006 Milbloggies are now Open!

Currently I seem to be in the lead for the Navy NominationsCheck the charts to see the current standings:View Branch Nomination StandingsView Country Nomination StandingsThe Rules?The Milbloggies Award recognizes military bloggers for their contribution to blogging, news and information, and to the military over the past year.Overview1. A military blog can be nominated ONLY once by the same

PTSD Questions

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been receiving emails from people asking about PTSD and if I know any of my Marines who are willing to talk about it. First thing is, I’m not going to give out medical information on any of my patients. Not that most of the ones that I know mind talking about it, it’s a matter of me keeping my job and out of jail. I can let them know that someone is interested and

Sorry to all my buddies in Snow Country

I should be studying or having car washes to support my trip to DC but instead we went to the beach with the Dog, pictures can be found here. The last few days have been bright and sunny, no great plans this weekend, just cleaning up the house (endless job) and studying, maybe doing some work on the beast. Great day, I'm bushed and have no thoughts on any news that's going on in the world. Just

I've posted some very old pictures

over at my fotopage, me with long hair, glasses, jumping and climbing all over things, friends of mine doing the same sort of stuff. Oh to be young again!

Sorry about the patchy blogging

One of our squadrons just went through a Command Generals inspection, the only problem is, the corpsman assigned to that squadron transferred last month and his replacement had not arrived yet. So on Tuesday last week, we get a phone call saying that this command was going to be inspected on Monday. Oh no and we're all short handed right now.What does the Navy stand for? Never again volunteer

Milblog Convention Fund Drive

My good blogging buddy Bane has started a fund drive to help me gather money for our trip to the 2007 Milblog Convention in Arlington VA. Thank you very much, you have made my week!Normally, I don’t believe in believe in donations for my writing but this has been a fairly tight year and the 1000 or so dollars that the trip is going to cost will definitely put our budget into the red.In the 96

R.I.P. FHM

Tonight I was tasked by my lovely wife to stop by the store and buy her some “products”. When I shop, I tend to shop in a holistic manner, meaning I wander around and looking at everything and saying to my self "oh, I need that".Today, I just happened to meander by the magazine rack and saw that FHM was publishing their last issue. Woah, considering it was one of the top read magazines in Iraq,

2007 Milblog Conference

Will be taking place in Arlington VA on the 4th and 5th of May.There will be 4 panels,From the Front, milbloggers who blogged from Iraq and Afghanistan.All in the family, will be those left behind, the spouses and significant othersPotluck, will be a mix of milbloggersAnd finally Wounded Warriors, Healers and Angels section of which I’m a panelist.My wife and I both plan on attending, that is if

I’ve found religion

What happens after you die? Why do disasters happen? What happens when someone steals God’s lunch? You can find the answer at God, Inc.

How will I be remembered?

I was tagged by that Desert Girl again

The Crash in Iraq

Earlier today I heard on the news that a CH-46 went down in Iraq and everything stopped as I searched the news for details. My first trip out to Iraq, I flew in 46’s flying CASEVAC and it’s a small community, if you do it long enough, you get know everybody. With 7 deaths in the crash, it wasn’t likely a troop transport run which means it’s was probably a CASEVAC mission.Word’s not out yet with

Coronado's Dog Beach

We checked out the Dog Beach next to the navy base in Coronado. It was balmy 72 degrees out and the water was great, not that Gatsby noticed, he was just happy to be at the beach. The beach is right down the way from Hotel Del Coronado as the pictures here show. The directions are, drive to the Hotel Del Coronado, turn right towards the beach, follow the road till you get to the gate to the Navy

6 weird things

Sigh, I’ve been tagged by Desert PhoenixWith thisHere are the "Official Rules""Each player of this game starts with 6 weirdthings about you. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment thatsays you are tagged in their comments and

Layout changes

3 years of the same old boring Sean and it was time for somewhat of a change. So I’ve spent the greater part of an evening transferring links one at a time to the new blogger template then realized there was a place where I could copy and paste my old HTML and get my clock too. Probably still a few style bugs around but I’ll just have to fix that later. My bed and wife are calling me so I’d

The best thing I got out of 3 years of blogging?

is my wonderful wife

Three years of blogging part two

It’s been three years today (well in 2 hours) since I started this blog.I left off part one with our somewhat explosive arrival to Iraq. The helicopter unit I flew with, our main mission was transporting troops and doing CASEVAC which is short hand for casualty evacuation. We were the basic air ambulances, during coverage, we would either be close to the site of the battle or flying around

Dinner date with a fellow blogger

We made a road trip up to Anaheim this weekend to visit my wife’s grandmother and have a dinner date with Tammi from Tammi’s World. We drove up to Whittier on Saturday to have lunch with her grandmother and talk her into babysitting the dog while we went out (it’s like having a kid all over again).Grandma Lois was a little worried that I was running off to have dinner with some woman I’d met on

I was a gear head

Between my two enlistments in the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman, I was a grease monkey. I did what many of these young guys do, get out and find a real job in the civilian world and in many respects I was doing alright for myself. That is until 9/11.Suddenly the rose colored glasses I had been wearing were violently ripped from my head and I realized that my true talents were being put to waste and

Three years of blogging part one

Almost three years ago, I carved a little chunk out of the internet which I dubbed Doc in the Box. I chose that name because I was talking to one of my doctors about what he was going to do after demobilizing and he said “I’ll work part time as a doc in the box at one of the local hospitals”, doc in the box meaning that he’s going to fill one of the doctor jobs as sort of a temp service. And the

Del Mar’s Dog Beach

Today we discovered a new dog beach in Del Mar, I’m probably letting out a big secret but the way you get down there is turn off of the 5 freeway on Via de la Valle road toward the ocean, keep going till you hit Camino Del Mar and make a left and the beach is on the right hand side a few hundred feet after the turn. There’s parking right there but it’s 2 bucks an hour and that’s craziness. So

A fine start to the morning

I drive a huge ugly peeling diesel suburban who is in serious need of some loving care of which I plan on providing in the near future but need to wait till the time comes along. I know she’s old and a bit battered but she’s one of the most comfortable vehicles I’ve ever had the pleasure of owning. This morning, I was minding my business driving to work and pull up to the front gate and the

Pan’s Labyrinth

The bright haired bride and I made a trip to Landmark Hillcrest cinema (local place that shows independent movies) to finally watch Pan’s Labyrinth. The regular movie theatres have dropped the ball on this one by not showing the movie. We were lucky to just find seats next to each other, there was a line going around the block.So we settled into our seats seconds before the movie started and fell

This is something that will never happen to a single guy.

My wife was taking a shower last night when a Costco sized bottle of shampoo fell from a fall of 6 or so feet and landed on her foot (this is not something which would ever happen to a single guy, they would never buy a monster sized bottle of shampoo, not only are they dangerous it would take years to use and if you happen to find one in the shower of a single military guy, it means he has a

Does L.E. Modesitt’s writing stick to anyone else’s brain like glue?

I started reading Mr Modesitt’s work in the early eighties with The Fires of Paratime (which I bought a decade later labeled as The Timegod, I still own that copy of The Fires of Paratime). I’ve found over time that I’ve been able to fall back into reading any of his books, years later. Open just about any of his stories to any page and it’s like falling back into wherever he wants to send you.