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December 25th, 2009
I posted this last year for Christmas. Now, I’m not crazy about the idea of being uncreative and doing the same thing over and over again, but since Christmas happens for the same reason every year, I am willing to make this exception.
Happy Birthday, Jesus. Oh, and now that I have [...] August 29th, 2009
I have a friend who has been having a good go at life recently. This person has been very happy, and has been making that apparent to her Facebook friends by posting her glee on the “LOOK AT ME” (AKA as the Status update). Yesterday, this friend posted a status update chastising her friends for their [...] August 28th, 2009
Do you remember Kurtis Blow? Yeah, Me neither. Apparently, he used to be a big rap star or some shit. Frankly, I had never heard of the guy until 2002. I was in Oman on R&R from Afghanistan and he was playing a USO tour there for the deployed troops. (For those of you who are products [...] August 26th, 2009
I heard about Senator Edward Kennedy’s passing late last night before retiring for the evening. My first thought was, “There goes the supermajority.” My next thought was Chappaquiddick. Then I began thinking about how much I disagreed with his politics. I began to muse over the Massachusetts law preventing the governor from making an interim appointment to fill the vacancy [...] August 24th, 2009
The other day I began this story about my favorite hat. I explained how I got the hat, how much that tattered treasure means to me, and how I came to the heartbreaking decision to finally retire it to prevent it from falling apart. Now it’s time for me to explain why I call the hat the [...] August 22nd, 2009
Today is the first day of Ramadan. To most of my readers that doesn’t really mean shit. However, to some of us, it means that we will spend a month being inconsiderate rubbing in our coworkers’ faces that we can eat, drink, and be merry during the daylight hours. Eating your lunch, drinking your coffee, water, [...] August 20th, 2009
It was October 2001 and my platoon was on a field rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) in Fort Polk, Louisiana. For anyone who has ever been in the Army, you are probably very familiar with what training exercises like JRTC are like. The rotation lasts almost a month, with about two weeks of [...] |
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