My parents swung through this weekend on their way to catch a cruise in Florida. They’ll be back through again next weekend (more on that later). As a belated Christmas present and a long awaited promise, my mom gave me my very own hand-maid quilt! Mind you, [...]

I know it’s a pretty random combination but both have been on my mind today so I figured I’d combine them into one post.  As for topic #1:  Trav and I had been mulling over the idea of replacing the heinous laminate countertops in our kitchen for months.  Before Christmas (and [...]

Much of today was spent Christmas shopping with Pam.  Even though we put up the tree (a real tree) the weekend after Thanksgiving, it was nice to get back into the spirit and get the lion’s share of gifts bought.  My parents are heading out on Thursday to celebrate Christmas [...]

Okay, I can officially say Savannah is the buggiest place I have ever lived (GASP… you mean it’s not Clovis?!).  I hate spiders and (of course) the biggest one I have ever seen set up residence by our front walkway.  Hey, maybe I can look at the bright side and [...]

After 3 months of living out the movie Groundhog Day in the Sandbox, I’m finally back stateside for a bit.  It’s nice to be home.  Unfortunately, there’s really not all that much time to sit around and enjoy it.  I’m on-deck for Jump School again starting first-thing August (which scrapped [...]

Started many years ago by John the Irishman and his wife Lisa, when I first met Pam, one of the many things that we enjoyed was going to Lisa and John’s place and sitting out by the chimnea just to bullshit. Many a good night was spent in their backyard [...]

I’ve had my Smith and Wesson 629 for at least 5 years now… and sometime about 4½ years ago, it started developing this problem where the thumbpiece would get jammed, preventing the cylinder from being opened. I had taken it to the pawn shop I bought it from soon [...]

I’m back in Savannah, for a little bit at least.  Britain was fun and all (and probably the highlight of the three weeks), but it’s good to be back home with Pam, have a home-cooked meal, and just enjoy tinkering with things to do (like yard work, walking the idiot-dogs or [...]

Well, we’ve (or I guess Pam mostly…) finally got most of the house cleaned up enough for our very first visitors. Pam’s parents are on their way to Miami to take a cruise through the Panama Canal, and decided to make our house the mid-point stop in Savannah, GA. [...]

It’s nice to have a 4-day weekend (the Army usually gives a fourth day off on 3-day weekends, probably because of the ridiculous deployment schedules) soon after moving in.  So Friday, I ended up driving to Macon, GA to get my flight physical.  It turned out to be an all-day [...]