Today's funeral was a two person job. Yet again, the Sailor that's come with me on the last two funerals volunteered to do this one, too. It was at the same cemetery in Seaside where we did that last one. Weather was similar, cold and windy. During the drive over, my bugler said that he hoped Friday the 13th wouldn't bite us in the ass. I responded that it hit the team early this time as earlier this week, another two person team conducted a funeral where the electronic bugle died right ...
I'm experimenting with trying to insert pictures in my blog. I thought I was successful a few days ago, but it turns out I can only see the images from my home computer (the one I uploaded them with). I've changed my online photo hosting site and now I can see them from my work computer. Can someone please come to my main blog page Link and check my Dodgers Vs Phillies article Link and my road trip update article Link to see if the images load for you? Leave me a comment on this a...
Yesterday, we spent our second day in LA by going to the Dodgers game. We got up early and had a nice breakfast, courtesy of Staybridge Suites. Don't know if it was special for Sunday morning, or if the usual breaksfast selection is always as great, but they had a great spread. I took a tray of food back up to our room and my wife got to have breakfast in bed. We got ready to go slowly and hung around the room enjoying the free high speed internet access (I can't get anything faster t...
OK, so another installment of workplace fun. What smells like shoe polish? OK, so the same guy we hit with the frozen rank and quest to find said rank was also our target for the shoe polish. We had two phones where we worked. A red (secure) phone and a black (unsecure) phone. I think you can see where this is going. We spread shoe polish all over the transmitter and reciever on the black phone. Then I drew the short straw to be the guy that had to brief our 'mark' while the rest o...
OK, so another installment of workplace fun. What smells like shoe polish? OK, so the same guy we hit with the frozen rank and quest to find said rank was also our target for the shoe polish. We had two phones where we worked. A red (secure) phone and a black (unsecure) phone. I think you can see where this is going. We spread shoe polish all over the transmitter and reciever on the black phone. Then I drew the short straw to be the guy that had to brief our 'mark' while the rest o...
We came down to LA last night. The drive wasn't too bad for the most part. It takes a little over 5 hours to get from Monterey to LA. We did get caught up in some really bad traffic on 101 South just after entering the city because of an accident. But overall the trip was nice. We checked into the Staybridge Suites in Torrance. The last time we drove across the country, we joined the Holiday Inn Priority Club and so now we try to stay in a hotel that will earn us points in the progra...
Today's funeral was at a cemetery that I haven't been to before. It was just a two man detail and I went with the same Sailor that I went with earlier this week. We planned to depart at 1000. I got there a little early and the civilian that is in charge of mortuary/casualty affairs came out before my partner arrived. He decided to quiz me and then sternly tell me to return the sedan in the same shape I received it. He washed it yesterday and I guess he thought I might go off roading in i...
Freezing Stuff - This is one of the oldest Army practical jokes around. One of the best targets for freezing was the old BDU cap (cold weather style). You could fill it up with water and it wouldn't leak very quickly. Plenty of time to put it in a freezer. After a few hours, you have a hat filled with a big block of ice. Very nice. Another thing you can do, and this applies to both the summer caps and the berets, is stuff it into a gatorade bottle and fill it up with water. We did that...
Freezing Stuff - This is one of the oldest Army practical jokes around. One of the best targets for freezing was the old BDU cap (cold weather style). You could fill it up with water and it wouldn't leak very quickly. Plenty of time to put it in a freezer. After a few hours, you have a hat filled with a big block of ice. Very nice. Another thing you can do, and this applies to both the summer caps and the berets, is stuff it into a gatorade bottle and fill it up with water. We did that...
This weekend we are going to drive down to LA and see the Phillies play the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium. I'm really looking forward to this trip. It was all brought on by a recent trade in baseball. The Florida Marlins traded, among other players, Hee Seop Choi, the only Korean-born position player in the majors, to the Dodgers. I have to admit I'm a fan of the guy. I started following his stats last year with the Cubs and was pretty glad to see him move to the Marlins during the off-seas...
I found out about yesterdays funeral last Friday night when the NCOIC, SFC C, called me to tell me about it. It would just be a two-man ceremony but we would be required to fold a flag at this one. He told me that he planned to contact one of our Sailors who had been on the detail for a while and quite a bit of experience (more funerals than SFC C and myself combined). He asked what time I'd like to leave and if I'd like to get a practice folding in before I left on Monday. I gave him a t...
So, back to the workplace jokes. I already wrote about taking advantage of people that leave their computer unlocked here Link . Here are some of my other favorites from my last workplace - SUSLAK. If lighting isn't too good in the office, you can use scotch tape on a filing cabinet or desk drawer. It's pretty easy to get around, once it's discovered (a sharp nail or pair of scissors cut through instantly) but it's annoying to peel all the little pieces of tape off. Can be done with s...
So, back to the workplace jokes. I already wrote about taking advantage of people that leave their computer unlocked here Link . Here are some of my other favorites from my last workplace - SUSLAK. If lighting isn't too good in the office, you can use scotch tape on a filing cabinet or desk drawer. It's pretty easy to get around, once it's discovered (a sharp nail or pair of scissors cut through instantly) but it's annoying to peel all the little pieces of tape off. Can be done with s...
I've known a lot of people that fit this mold. There are many points here that I like to think fit me... MILITARY HUMOR: REAL SERGEANTS: 1. Can cuss for ten minutes without ever repeating a word. 2. Have a spine. 3. Can play a cherry Lieutenant like a finely tuned instrument. 4. Can see in the Dark. 5. Have eyes in the back of their heads. 6. Still don't trust the Russians. 7. Still hate the French. 8. Don't know how to be politically correc...
I've known a lot of people that fit this mold. There are many points here that I like to think fit me... MILITARY HUMOR: REAL SERGEANTS: 1. Can cuss for ten minutes without ever repeating a word. 2. Have a spine. 3. Can play a cherry Lieutenant like a finely tuned instrument. 4. Can see in the Dark. 5. Have eyes in the back of their heads. 6. Still don't trust the Russians. 7. Still hate the French. 8. Don't know how to be politically correc...