After 10 great years with my SUV, we broke down and bought a new truck. The SUV was/is a great vehicle, but really struggled to pull the pontoon boat. We wanted to lock in payments on a vehicle before I retire so we can work down the principal a bit. After looking [...]
One of the cool things recently shared with me is the Netflix video service. For a minimal fee you can have one DVD sent to your home, watch when you want, send it back and get another a couple of days later. I’ve used this to catch up on missed seasons of Battlestar Galactica. It’s [...]
I’m not much into New Year’s Resolutions, for all the reasons those of us aren’t. I simply don’t do well keeping them, and that can tend to have a negative effect.
Those of us in the military have a real incentive to stay physically fit. In a literal sense, our jobs are on the [...]
I’ve acquired a new hobby, and like all things I do in this manner I’ve started “studying up” on how to be more than a novice. Last summer I purchased an XBox 360 when the price dropped by $100. I did this to help fill time since my new job at Fort Sam was shaping [...]
As Brady so kindly pointed out recently, I’ve not posted here in a while so an update is in order.
We are pretty much settled in to our house in SA. It’s in a new neighborhood, and that makes things interesting. Since we’ve moved in about 3 weeks ago 4 more homes have been started and [...]
In the military (and civilian sector to an extent) it is common to walk into a leader’s office and see all their awards and gifts posted around them. It is jokingly referred to as a “love me” wall, perhaps because being surrounded by all those accolades boosts your own ego.
I made a decision a [...]
Well, yesterday was my 44th B-day. I got a surprise call from Greg who gave me the option of having the birthday song sung ala Donald Duck or Marilyn Monroe. MM is the more classic of Greg’s celebratory singing on birthdays…and DD would have had me laughing too hard too early in the [...]
Phew…after a 2 week (or so) period of sorting, packing, cleaning, and loading a U-Haul trailer we’ve finally hit our “eye of the storm” mode of our move. We arrived safe and sound at LaPine last evening, downloaded the items inside the vehicles and will download the U-Haul today.
I had an interesting trip coming [...]
Based on last weekend, I just broke down and purchased some new ‘medium’ cold-weather boots. Yep, the winter weather in Washington, plus the numerous trips to LaPine have wore me down.
Okay, I’ve got to get on the soap box for a bit. Dwight (a good friend of ours) and I got into what I call a “beer math argument.” Like all good beer math arguments, it involves the topic we all can rally behind: BEER.
Dwight got a kegerator as a retirement [...]