Yay, new season of Deadliest Catch started last night! ( One thing that isn't really a spoiler, and one that is for the first episode... )

If you can get your hands on Washington cherries right now, I highly recommend it - they are utterly spectacular this year. Both the Rainier and Bing are absolutely divine. A little late this year, but it's a record crop! *gorges herself on more*

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I'm sort of addicted to this "Puerto Rican rum commercial" song - Daylight by Matt and Kim (which I ( Read more... )

A possible reference for your next Stargate fic: Anatomy of an Improved Outer Tactical Vest, via The Sandbox.

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Book reviews! (Music reviews coming soon to an LJ near you.) More from my quest to read Iraq and Afghanistan combat narratives.

( On Call In Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story by Cdr. Richard Jadick )

Two more down, in my continuing quest to read OIF/OEF narratives.

Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital by Heidi Squier Kraft

So, I just finished Rule Number Two at lunch today, and OMG, I want to reread it right now! It is intensely powerful and extremely well-written. Clinical psychologist Dr. Heidi Kraft (at the time, a Lt. ( Read more... )

Guess who has a summer cold? Yes, me. Joy of joys. I know exactly whom I got it from too. *eyes S*

Add to that, my cramps have been hellacious this cycle. *warms up heating pad for the 120th time*

BUT! This is my last day of work, and then I have all of next week off - W00T! I am going to read, read, read, and play with all my nephews (4) and nieces ( Read more... )

PSA the First: Joss Whedon's Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

During the WGA strike Joss Whedon started writing a three part musical series for the internet. “It’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to.” says Whedon.

“Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along ( Read more... )

Three things military/war-related:

1. Secretary of Defense George Hammond Robert Gates is cleanin' house. Air Force Chief of Staff Michael Moseley and AF Secretary Michael Wynne got canned yesterday, and "a 'substantial' number of Air Force general officers and colonels" could also be fired. Ooh, drama!

2. Last night I watched Operation Homecoming ( Read more... )

Last night on PBS Frontline they premiered "Bad Voodoo's War," a documentary of the National Guard platoon on deployment in Iraq. Most of these guys were active duty, and have already seen multiple tours to Iraq and/or Afghanistan, and are back to run transport security from Kuwait to points all over Iraq. It is mostly from the POV of platoon ( Read more... )

Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was a man of peace and compassion, known for his charismatic leadership and his work with the poor and disabled of Mosul and Iraq. And maybe his abductors didn't behead him, or shoot him, or execute him like they have so many other Christians in Muslim states, but abducting a very sick man who was recovering from ( Read more... )