Nighttime mayhem

Yesterday, while cleaning our room after KBR spread dust all over the place replacing our heater (thanks!). We fried our power cord, I guess the shop vacuum pulls to much wattage for the Iraqi brand cord that I had purchased from the local hajji mart and all of the smoke came out of the wires and it wouldn't work anymore. So I wasn't able to plug my super loud alarm clock into the wall and we

Paint Fumes

My roommate lasted less then a week with the pink walls before he went out and found some Navy Blue Angel blue and white paint for the trim and went all out with painting our room. I showed a remarkably total lack of interest in him painting, personally, I have no issues with pink, I’m used to waking up with a pillow of it next to my head. Unfortunately the only kind of paint he could find was

Living in a pink room with a chick

Well actually his last name is Chick and the girl that lived there before painted it a bright pink color. Being married to a girl with pink hair, I didn't even notice till he started complaining and said, "oh". He wants to repaint, I could care less but if it keeps him happy then I'm all for it, cranky roommates suck. (I have pictures that I'll post once I get my own connection and pictures of

Kuwaiting take 7

I'm in the wonderland of Kuwait checking out my first sunrise in the middle east of the year. Just got done hitting breakfast where they had kimche as one of the side dishes! As usual things have changed towards the better with each trip.I just got off a 23 hour flight and my brain is reeling about with a full tummy so I think I'm going to try finding my way back to my far off tent. Enjoy

Bout to turn 4

It’s hard to imagine that I’ve placed 4 years of my life on the internet, I wonder how many words that is (the old blogger tracked how many words you wrote, the only problem I have with the new one). Not many bloggers, let alone milbloggers have continued on so long, my secret? I wrote when I felt like it. I have more sites up then most but a majority of the info cross pollinates, they’re just

Grand Canyon Pictures

I was using the new camera on simple mode and it automatically defaulted to putting the date stamp on each of the pictures. Which wouldn't have been a big deal if it was the right date, but it was stamping 2007/01/02 and I didn't find out till I uploaded the pictures that night. There's nothing like sharing a bunch of pictures with the world that you knew you screwed up. You can see the pictures

One of the reasons to be a milblogger.....:(

is that it gives you a place to leave your mark on the world, rest in peace Andy

If I were a horse I wouldn’t bet on me

My life seems to be falling apart a bit in the last month. First my truck starts making funny sounds right before my training trip to Yuma, forcing me to drive the old and slow suburban while there, my body spontaneously breaks down. I’m bleeding out of my lungs which turns me into a guinea pig for the local medical professionals for most of a week before they let me go back home.Back in San