Archive for February, 2009

You are a bit overconfident. Time to get a better realization of your limitations… since you can’t seem to clean up after yourselves…
at least, judging by the condition of the urinals.
Seriously, guys, stand a little closer. You’re not that long or powerful.
And by the way… it appears you’re pretty well dehydrated, too. Drink [...]

Dark Humor

Sergeants think they can shock me with their language. I shock them back.
Standing at a urinal during a routine, monitored drug test:
Sergeant: You having trouble, sir? You a little pee-shy?
Me: It’s not that, sergeant. I… uh… Look, I don’t do drugs, but on my way out here I killed a hooker and I know [...]

Valentine’s Day

The diner looked to have been built in the late 30s. Like so many things out here in Oklahoma, much of the construction seems vintage… for our country at least… harkening back to previous eras of thought, moments of time captured, rather than replaced by newer, less sturdy structures of uncharacterized boxes.
I came here [...]

Several Quick Memos

Memo to the Army: Let’s get back to work on that Anthrax vaccine. Anything which causes that much pain two minutes AFTER initial penetration is clearly not doing something right.
Memo to Acquaintances: Texting on my phone is a way to say hi without interrupting or to see if I am available for a social [...]

Ticking off the miles

I figured it up. Well, I also saw it in the latest oil change. In the last 2 months I have put over 10,000 miles for the Army on my personal vehicle traveling from one place to another. I’m back out again.
School starts in a few hours. I have to go report in. Normally [...]