When the Smoke Clears

I try to be agreeable. Really I do. However, my stay in the hotel last week was not the most pleasant of experiences. Heck, I am perfectly comfortable sleeping under a truck or finding a ditch with a bunch of pine needles. In fact, just lying down outdoors on the ground starts to put me [...]

It seems when I am traveling a great deal, I am happy, but I can’t wait to get back to my home. I used to enjoy traveling just for the sake of the new place but my apartments and other shared dwellings were never a draw to return, though the chance to rub faces with [...]

… duct-taped naked to a flagpole…. wait… wrong story…
… thinking I would get a little more time to do some postings, but it turns out that is not to be the case. Even worse, let’s just say I WANTED to stay up really late and write; I left my laptop charger on my desk. My [...]

… to both big sis Cat and Butterbar.
Cat has had some tragic events recently. My love and prayers are with her and her family right now. Her especially since she is so far from the family. I wish she could take me up on the offer of a safe cabin in the woods in [...]

And it sucks you down.
Many of the mostly 1-lane roads in the training areas around the base I visited the last few days are hard-packed red clay. But in a number of spots, there are patches of what the Range Control team called “Sugar-Sand.” It’s an occasionally moist grain similar in texture to a [...]

Big Sis Princess Cat here …
While RSM is away, I wish I had the chance to go visit his little mountain cabin. I think it would be the perfect getaway for me to hide in right now.
The woods and the animals right outside his front door, the library full of fantasies and memories, but [...]

RSM, himself, came to Ft. Bragg to see all that is the mighty 82nd Airborne Division. I must say that he humbled me with his kind words and am extremely grateful to have a friend like him. The trip itself was short but I believe the extreme geekness displayed by yours truly made up for [...]

on the last couple of days. I have newfound respect for Butterbar and feel an even greater honor in calling him my friend. I need some time to think about this one.
However, I am gone again in the morning. I’ll be in the field through the weekend. Medical work this time, and I doubt [...]

Inside tip, in case you didn’t hear it on the news, that there is apparently a suspect in a red Jeep Cherokee somewhere in the Carolinas for whom the police are looking.
On my way back from a cool couple of days with Butterbar this morning I was scouted five different times by police in [...]

I’m starting to get spam in Hebrew. Doesn’t Spam contain pork? Would this be appropriate to call “spam” or is that just not Kosher?

Well, I hit the road today. Work has been a constant drain. I’ve not had a full day off since January 14, but I am trying to stretch it in some way to say this trip is really something I’m doing for work.
It’s not. I’m off visiting Butterbar and going to check out some [...]

coming up for some soon…
until then, my dad called the other night. That was uncomfortable, trying to force out a pleasant conversation from a minefield smattered with bad advice and a chance to cut down my self-esteem.
Oh well. Then I thought about Blog-dad. A better man? perhaps. Though he has a few faults, [...]

I found another website. You can make your own motivational posters.
Here’s my first attempt:

Not too bad…

and those others in the know…
… as of Friday: Cha-ching!
We’ll celebrate soon.

…right… NOW it makes a little more sense…
(Hat tip to one of my kids)