Something I've meant to post for a while but again, I'm lazy. HAHA! A long while back I wrote about Online Friend and Alumni Finder Services . Well, the result of that was I went home last year in hopes of making a 20 year reunion for people I went to grade school with. I went to a private school and most of the students attended all eight years together. We were a small class and close friends for all that time and still have some ties between us. Well, I screwed up my flight rese...

So, yeah, it's been a while since I posted any real new content. I'd like to blame it on being busy. I have been extremely busy. But it's more to do with my laziness about blogging. I seem to have caught whatever greywar caught, only I think I got it first and have had it longer. HAHA! So, on to an update! We had Language Day 2006 last Friday. Language Day is an annual event here at DLI where we set upcultural displays, teaching demos, technology demos, entertainment and have ethnic...

I got a spam email the other day that I just had to click on. The subject line read - "I stayed up all night playing poker with a tarot deck. I got a full house and four people died." I don't even remember what the spam was for but the line was so ridiculous that I had to click it to see if there was more. I was laughing. It finished with - "Borstelmanns Rule: If everything seems to be coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane." So, not all spam is completely worthl...

While doing some preview work for a class I would be teaching this morning, I was looking up the Chinese roots of some Korean words so that I could better explain why they mean what they do. Well, I was trying to get the meaning for Ä¡ (öÇ) when I got a pure Korean word I was unfamiliar with as a definition. So, I looked up the pure Korean word º£Ç®´Ù. Well, as I skimmed the definition, I came to an example sentence - T¾¾ÀÇ ±Í±¹ ÃàÇÏ ÀÜÄ¡°¡ º£Ç®¾îÁ³´Ù. The translation of that se...

Yeah, I'm lazy about posting the past few weeks. What's new? HAHA! Here's a quiz while you wait for something more original from me... Your results: You are Green Lantern Green Lantern 80% Hulk 65% Catwoman 65% Superman 60% Spider-Man 55% The Flash 50% Iron Man 50% Supergirl 43% Robin 43% Batman 35% Wonder Woman 33% Hot-headed. You have stro...

While digging through some boxes to find something that never turned up, I found a forgotten treasure. It was a plastic baggie filled with all the pieces to a Monopoly game and box of flash cards. I knew exactly what I'd found as soon as I saw the baggie and pulled it out of the box and took it to my desk when I finally gave up my search for the original item. During my first tour to Hawaii, I was single and lived in the barracks. Some of the other single Soldiers had created a game whi...

Found this quiz on a forum site elsewhere and I thought I'd share it. I'll post my answers in the comments. I got 21 before I gave up. http://intelligence-test.net/part1/ There's also a part 2. Just change the 1 to a 2 in the address. I haven't tried it yet, though. My Ecosystem Details

The funeral on 28 Feb was my last for this rotation. I volunteered for it last week since the other NCO's had all done at least one that week already. I was told that it was a two man service in Moss Landing for a Navy veteran. There were only two Sailors at that practice and one was scheduled to do a full honors over the weekend, so I asked the other Sailor to come with me on this one. It was the same Sailor that had come with me to a funeral about two weeks back. To be honest, I'm ...

Well, between preparing for one of my classes to graduate, laziness, and the release of Galciv2, I've fallen behind in updates. I've actually done three funerals since my last update, but my most recent will get it's own post, just like I usually do. The other two funerals I did were two man funerals in mid-February. The first was in Monterey at a chapel just outside of downtown. The funeral was for a Navy veteran so I took a Sailor from our pool of volunteers with me. We were told the...

I've never really ever been much of a fan of the Rolling Stones. I realize their impact on music and all. I'm just not a fan. So I am biased in saying this. The halftime show sucked. Plain and simple. The Stones sounded old and tired. Hell, by the end of the set Mick sounded winded. I was chatting with some friends online during the show and as soon as the first song started up, I said, "I bet they cant' say 'You make a dead man come'". I was surprised that they said they ca...

I mentioned this to some friends recently and it got me even more fired up... I was driving home from work the other day and the sweet sounds of Paradise City started playing from my car radio. I said to myself, "Hell yeah, G'N'R, Baby!" Then I looked down at the radio while I turned the volume up and noticed I was on the classic rock station. WTF? Classic rock? Guns'N'Roses? There oughta be a law that says you can't play music on the classic rock station until it's 20 years old or...

The first couple of weeks for this rotation made it seem like it would be the busiest one I had served on. But then it slowed down quite a bit. One of the assistant NCO's was planning some leave when family came out to visit, so prior to his leave, he took on a couple extra funerals to make up for the week he'd miss. So, it was a few weeks between funerals for me. I found out about Saturday's funeral at the practice on Tuesday. It was just a two man funeral and since we had one more co...

I found out about the funeral for 19 Jan during the Tuesday practice prior. We had a brand new group of Marines show up to practice that day, so we decided to get one of them involved right away. According to the email, we would not have to fold the flag at the funeral, but we practiced it anyway. After talking him through what we would do at the ceremony and practicing the folding a few times, I sent him home with a flag to practice with. On Thursday morning, I called the civilian in c...

It has been a busy two weeks so far this rotation. I'm on pace to do 16+ funerals right now. That will be more than either of the other two rotations I've been on. Sundays funeral was another two man ceremony. I was unable to make it to the practice on the prior Thursday, so the overall NCOIC made sure my bugler was trained and ready to go for me. We met on Sunday at 1315. We drove down to Pacific Grove and parked outside the mortuary chapel at 1330. This was my partner's first c...

I had my third funeral of this rotation today. We had a practice on Monday and I volunteered for this one as it would cause minimal trouble for my teaching schedule for the week. On Tuesday, I got a Soldier that volunteered to come with me and we practiced a two man fold of the flag. We then set up a time and place to meet and I let him go back to practicing the full honors detail with the rifles. We met today at 0945 and I got the keys to the detail van. It was at the same chapel I ha...