On Thursday my friend Brian is deploying for a year, ten months of which will be spent in Iraq. Brian's an active duty member of the regular Army who is assigned to the command of a local Wisconsin Army National Guard unit. He and his wife Charisse have three kids, ages 6, 3, and 5 months. Last Friday one of the local VFW posts held an event at ( Read more... )

No PotD today; instead you get a selective update of what's going on with me. Keeping in mind that this post is the most I've written on LJ in quite a few months, I'm going to put it under a cut to keep it from clogging up folks' flists. PotD should be back tomorrow.

( Subjects: Weekend, School, Wedding, Life in general )

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After putting a late day at work, I rolled on down to Solana Beach to meet up with lester22. His brother recommended a bar a couple of blocks from the ocean, and the minute we walked inside we could smell the heavy ocean air that had settled in the place. For the next three-plus hours we talked life, baseball (not that baseball isn't life), and watched ( Read more... )

( Attempting to describe how incredible my trip to Chicago was is rather daunting. )

I recently did something for the first time I'm guessing many of you have already done - met someone who I friended on LJ before I'd ever met them in person.

It occurred to me over the course of the weekend that uisinger came up to Winona how absolutely lucky I am to live in a time where things like this are possible. Looking over my list, I've got ( Read more... )