I had my second funeral of this rotation on Saturday, 7 Jan 06. This was another two man job and was at a cemetery in Seaside that I'd been to a number of times before. At the Thursday practice before, we only knew about one Saturday funeral and the overall NCOIC had planned on doing it. On Friday, I got a call that I'd need to come in on Saturday and take care of a second funeral. When I got to the base on Saturday, everyone was there and ready. The NCOIC had originally planned to t...

I'm back on the funeral detail again. This time it will run from Jan-Feb. We started practicing with the outgoing team during the holiday break, or as TRADOC likes to call it, Exodus. It was a pretty busy couple of week for the detail. The overall NCOIC for the detail has not done the detail before, so she wanted to get with the three assistant NCOICs beforehand. We've all done it before, so it was mostly just a matter of getting her up on what all goes on. She even attended a funer...

Don't get me wrong, I like COSTCO. I don't mind the crowds of people there. I don't have a problem with buying a membership that could potentially cost you more than you save, if you only buy bagels and big pizzas. I don't have a problem with their exclusive policy on AMEX or cash. I like COSTCO. We go almost every weekend and buy at the least, a couple cases of waters. I hate their shopping carts, though. I don't know if it's the coating on their carts, the floors, or maybe the ...

I came home from work the other night and my wife had a friend over that she'd met at work. The woman was also from South Korea and they were hanging out. Shortly after I got home, they went outside to smoke. That's when the fun began. The woman had parked outside our house on the street, but on the wrong side. I park in front of the house so I didn't see her jeep around the corner parked against the red painted curb or else I'd have told her to move it myself. Well, in that little bi...

So, it's my birthday today. Happy Birthday to me! I've always liked this song and so, today, I figured I'd share the lyrics here. The song is by Concrete Blonde and named Happy Birthday. All rights and credit to them (specifically, Johnette Naplitano and Jim Mankey) and all. It's a short song originally off their album titled Free and but it's also on Recollection: The Best of Concrete Blonde. You can find it on iTunes and several other online music services, I'm sure. Check it out....

Yeah, it's been a while since I posted anything. Bite me. This started as a comment fueled by two separate blogs ( Link and http://bakerstreet.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=93566) and it grew too long to make just a comment. It no longer touches on just the two points brought up in the original blogs and has grown to include not only the comments, but also more of my own thoughts. Too bad if what you see here is hardly recognizable as being related to either blog any more. I'm feeling...

I did not write this and it's been a while since I put much of my own original writing up, but, meh, I felt like sharing it here anyways... To hell with my own original writing! A good friend sent this to me in email. Don't know if he wrote it or not, but it's something he might say, so I guess it could be him. World's Shortest and Best Fairy Tale Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" The girl said, "NO!" And the guy lived happily ever after and went golfi...

I did not write this and it's been a while since I put much of my own original writing up, but, meh, I felt like sharing it here anyways... To hell with my own original writing! A good friend sent this to me in email. Don't know if he wrote it or not, but it's something he might say, so I guess it could be him. World's Shortest and Best Fairy Tale Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" The girl said, "NO!" And the guy lived happily ever after and went golfi...

Somebody posted this link on the guild forum boards. If you don't like Lord of the Rings or World of Warcraft, it won't be funny. If you're into either, or both, you'll be laughing. Really funny stuff. There is some strong language on it, so be warned. Link My Ecosystem Details

I've been busy at work since getting back from my TDY trip to Cleveland so it's been a long time since I posted. This may be the longest I've gone without posting since joining JU a little over a year ago. I've even let two weeks go on my fantasy football league updates. As for the trip to Cleveland. It was a fairly busy week. I got my orders late (they were ready for pick up for a while, but I was on leave) so I ended up not taking any leave in conjunction with the trip. I flew out ...

than reduced fat peanut butter? BLECH! My Ecosystem Details

OK, so I posted this last year, but I figured in honor of national talk like a pirate day, I'd repost it. Yeah, I'm lazy. Years ago (1991), I was a part of a GASP (Gilbert And Sullivan Players) production of The Pirates of Penzance - The Slave of Duty. It was my first attempt at community theater and it was a lot of fun. In honor of National Talk Like a Pirate Day, I dug out some OLD pictures from that production and scanned them. So, here you go - Pour, O pour the pirate sherr...

Next week, I'm going on a TDY trip to my hometown, Cleveland, Ohio for to take part in a TAIR trip. TAIR stands for Total Army Involvement in Recruiting. I'll spend the week going around to schools and trying to sell the Army and more specifically, the Defense Language Institute. I'm looking forward to it. I mean, free trip home and a week away from the office! Woohoo! So, if you live in Cleveland and you read this blog, shoot me an email or leave a comment. My Ecosys...

I came back from 11 refreshing days of leave yesterday. The running joke all day was, "Oh, by the way, this/that/the other came up while you were gone and it's your job to work it. Now, the reality is most of it was really my stuff that had just piled up while I was gone, but it was still funny for everyone else to let me in on each piece of information a little at a time. I found out that I have lock up duty this week. That's fine, because the last time before this recentl vacation, I ...

I burned the last of my use or lose leave for the year last week. It was nice. I didn't think about work for 11 whole days and I got a fair bit of WoW in. Yeah, I'm still feeding that addiction. I did get out in the sunlight and away from the keyboard, though. I'm not that far gone. My wife got off early on Saturday and we packed up the dogs and headed up to Lake Tahoe. It was kind of a last minute planned thing, so I had to scramble to find a pet friendly place. We didn't want to s...