When the Smoke Clears

So here’s the issue. I’m aging. Hell, we’re all aging, but I don’t like having it thrown in my face by science.
I keep up with the elites. I carry my own ruck (most of the time). I work out alongside them in the gym showing them up on benchpress and pullups. My eyesight is [...]

Well, it’s been a few days. Sorry about that.
So updating everyone, I was not in a tornado, though a good couple was. I still have a bit of the cough left over and am hoping it goes away soon.
Last weekend I was out with the elite unit again. This time they didn’t “need” [...]

Quandry: Email spam from Russia has been increasing and since they are using slightly shifting graphic images to send it, the spam has been sneaking through everyone’s filters into inboxes regularly.
However, I hope to be a savvy investor one day. How should I view these great small stock opportunities that seem to come my [...]

Tonight’s story was supposed to be more fun tales from the field. Unfortunately I don’t have it in me. The regular job is draining and I am losing motivation, but I have to get back to the big table where all the papers are strewn about and continue to work into the night. The air [...]

Somebody with Wordpress skills please let me know how you can do extended entries in WP so I don’t have to let my posts run on for those not interested in a long one?

The first thing I wondered was how I was going to provide safe medical care to a hundred training soldiers while combatting my own upper respiratory infection. For the most part I kept my distance, constantly rinsed with hand sanitizer until my fingers cracked and chafed, and kept my neck gaiter pulled up when I [...]

I’m back, I’m still a little sick, but after one good night sleeping out in the 20-degree frost, it apparently was too cold for many of the bugs rampaging my system. After that first night I felt a good bit better. Now there is only a bit of congestion left.
The boys and girls are [...]

MOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!
Stop shopping for Corvettes and come fix me!!! I want Macaroni and Cheese!
I don’t wanna go to school tomorrow but I wanna go camping with the boys this weekend!!!
(and by the way, mom, say something in the comments. These people want to hear from you.)

Alright people, 36 hours to go to step off… am I feeling better? not really. But am I in really bad shape? nope. I’m hoping we have staved off the worst of the symptoms but we’ll know more later tonight. I even went home from work early. HOWEVER, I have to be there early tomorrow [...]

Someone come up with it. I feel a rasping and burning coming on in my lungs. I need to be better. Right away. No choice. On Thursday I am to leave with a bunch of soldiers on four days of training to serve as their medic… yet again. The weather is calling for some really [...]

There is no soil in the immediate proximity. You can stop growing.

“Anger cannot be dishonest. “ Marcus Aurelius
I don’t like people. That’s just the way I am. I sometimes like individuals, but one of the main reasons I don’t go to big places anymore is that I don’t like observing human behavior anymore. One of the drawbacks to our American egalitarianism is that somehow we have [...]

A friend brought up this one on me today after it had happened earlier in the day:
* If I see a stack of cards or envelopes with people’s names in a pile when in someone else’s office, I will ask if I can alphabetize them. I am quick at alphabetizing, too, but it does [...]

Sometimes I let my southern accent come through. It’s not often, usually when I am tired, but it happens. I was on the phone the other day with a friend from the big city from years ago. I just let it fly.
Friend: So what are you up to?
Me: Reckon I’m gonna drive on [...]

Speaking of music, I have one more weekend of some peace and quiet, but field training exercises are on the horizon again. The first one will be with a group of regular soldiers and such but the next one after that I’m back with the elite mountaineering unit.
One of the traditions of their maneuvers [...]