It’s been 6 years since I decided to “take the plunge” and ask Pam to marry me.  Leading up to my proposal, she had already somehow narrowed down the big question to the 4th of July weekend; to throw her off, I took her camping and proposed while “roughing it” [...]

As soon as I got back from Iraq in February (before I broke my leg), I had planned a Memorial weekend vacation for Pam and me.  A vacation where I rent an airplane and fly us there and back… to Key West… but that was before I broke my leg. [...]

Memorial Day brought a welcomed long weekend.  A lot of it was spent putting the last nail in my last grad school project for the semester.  I did get a little time to escape though.
Pam has a connection, through her work, to one of the higher-up Gulfstream employees… hmmm, can you [...]

After an unexpected stay with Tru and Bobbie, we woke up the next morning to do something that Pam and I have never done: go on a cruise.  Overall, we enjoyed this cruise way more than the all-inclusive Sandals resort we did a few years back in Jamaica.  The food [...]

Ah, that time of the year where you have an engorging dinner and endless leftovers to keep you company while you watch college football for 3 days straight.  I’ll miss it.  Pam and I are going on a 4-day cruise to the Bahamas over Thanksgiving to belatedly celebrate our 4-year [...]

This really should’ve been posted about 2 weeks ago, but right after finishing the trip, I rolled right into an exercise with the Army that sapped about 18 hrs per day for two weeks straight (yes, that included the weekends too).  So it’s better late than never I guess…
About a [...]

Another 24 hours round-trip alone in the car… at least this time I had the Gayhounds and Crazy Cat to keep my company. Here are some more random topics that we discussed:

Would you really want to live in a town called Bland, VA?
I wonder what kind of Welcome Wagon they [...]

For some reason, events impacting (mostly) me have been broadcasting in stereo lately.  And yes, both Pam and I are safe and sound back home now.  The double-event deal probably had its foundings a while back ago, but I’ll try to get it in chronological order starting near-present.
I guess it kinda starts [...]

It stands for Grammapalooza… or my family reunion which was this past weekend.  Like what was popular back in my grandparents day, the more children = the merrier.  My grandparents had 12.  To any normal person, this may seem like a lot.  To me it’s the norm.  The best way [...]

And that we did at times, and that we didn’t. For this entire vacation, it’s pretty much been a “shoot from the hip” philosophy.
Luckily, it worked on getting out here. We made it out (more or less) first shot once we got to BWI for the flight. Once in Germany [...]