Three or four years ago, I bought a transit chest* for my Vickers Mk. I MMG. Good purchase, too - except that for the past three or four years this thing has been doing nothing productive besides hanging around my apartment and shedding lead paint chips everywhere, no doubt endangering my health and well being. The things we do for living history ( Read more... )

Hard to believe . . . but . . .

"The Last Starfighter" is out on DVD!  And I have a copy!  Woohoo!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go watch Emperor Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada get their collective asses whooped by an eighteen-year-old video game addict and a hyperactive iguana.

My parents gave me the "Disney Wartime Cartoons" DVD set for Christmas,* and I finally had an opportunity tonight to sit down and watch the whole thing. It's a toss-up for what is most amusing - the cartoons themselves, the political incorectness of the cartoons, or Leonard Maltin's tap-dancing excuses for the political incorectness of the ( Read more... )

Well, the MICCC is winding down.  Four more days of culmination exercise and we'll be finished.  The beautiful part of it is that the CI/HUMINT course is not scheduled to start until the end of March.  Now, I'm not too inclined to hang about here and pull staff duty for a month.  So . . . I'm off on leave!

And an excellent time for it, too.  ( Read more... )

Not a particularly long day, but a rather dull one. Dull to the point where I - brace yourselves, now - have NOTHING to write about ( Read more... )

Today's fun quote comes from H.L. Mencken, speaking of then-President Warren G. Harding (courtesy of wingedkiare) . . .

"He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered.  It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup; of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through ( Read more... )

The Great LiveJournal
Outage of 2005

I had no idea that it had even happened.

Pretty cool, huh?

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Oh, the joys of owning a car. And, before I start, I hope that this journal is not becoming an accounting of my life's woes. That would be bad. So, to ensure that this is not the case, I have some good news which will go at the end of this post.

Ready? Good.

For starters, Goldbug (my gold 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier (hence the name - did any of ( Read more... )

There's a real downside to having initiative these days. Let me set the stage for you ( Read more... )

If you're reading this and you know the place I'm talking about, please tell me - because I can't believe I'd never heard of it before.

I was up in Tucson this weekend and had dinner at Famous Dave's - quite possible THE BEST BBQ place EVER.  All right, perhaps not the best "EVER", but still pretty darn good.  The dinner for two ($25.00) was a half ( Read more... )