Don't expect tea to be an important, or even trivial, part of this update ( Read more... )

09h45 and I finally have time to change, and pull my boots on.

It's Damage Control Monday. w00t! My coffee has gone cold, but it looks like I've almost got this rock to the top of the hill. When I do? Coffee break. I'm sure the rock will stay.

Doug.

Facts ( Read more... )

The first time I was called onto the RSM's carpet (I was not sitting down that time) was in February 1985, as a young Corporal ( Read more... )

There are some things that a soldier wants to do as few times as possible during their tenure (excluding the obvious things like attending funerals, or waking up in a hospital, that no one wants to do). One of those things is having an appointment with the Regimental Sergeant Major ( Read more... )

Yesterday I stepped in a pot-hole while semi-blinded by rain on my glasses. I would have twisted my ankle if I'd been wearing shoes, but I was wearing boots. So I wrenched my knee ( Read more... )

It is just barely possible that I stayed up a bit too late again last night. shrug I'll sleep when I'm dead ( Read more... )

The trip had its highs and lows. The ten hour drives were a marked low point. Signage in Quebec needs revision. This isn't an English-French thing. If the first sign that says "Hwy 20 Ouest is this way" is actually down the exit in question then you need some sweeping revision. This sort of thing is a common occurence. Quebec City was better than ( Read more... )

It's my last day off work. So I'm at work. This should be no surprise. Still, although holidays happen the job doesn't end, and you have to be responsible for your areas of responsibility, or we'd have a kind of slipshod Anarchy that even dyed-in-the-wool Anarchists would think of as kind of half-assed and poorly contrived ( Read more... )

Today hasn't really been a Monday. I guess part of it is that I worked the weekend. It hasn't really been busy, either. If busy is boiling, simmering is the word I'd use. Lots of little things going on, and an old Army pal named Steve who dropped by to fill the rest of the morning.

Speaking of Steves, it looks like Crazy Steve is back on the ( Read more... )