Made it to Colorado Springs today safe and sound. We stopped in Omaha for a day or so to take care of a few things. It's funny how much I found that I missed the O. I remember hating it. Then again, I was a dumbshit enlisted man back then. Now I'm a dumbshit married NCO. By the time I'm a master sergeant I'll probably be in fucking love with the ( Read more... )

So among my new year's resolutions is to post here more, so here we go ( Read more... )

When I was in tech school, I woke up one Saturday morning and was exceedingly bored. So, I decided to go for a walk... to Glen Burnie, a town about eight miles away from my barracks at Fort Meade ( Read more... )

So, I'm not going to Japan after all. It turns out my skills are better put to use deployed in Middle Eastern Hell-holes instead.

Those of you who read the dragon's journal already know the news, but here it is anyway.

We're going to Japan... provisionally.

I say provisionally because apparently deployment orders might conflict with PCS orders and it depends on which they want to take precedence. Personally, I think they would rather throw someone else a bone by GIVING them my ( Read more... )

So I was talking to a friend via AIM the other day. Guy I went to high school with. He considers himself a gun nut ( Read more... )

To celebrate the birth of my second son, I did what every proud father does: I bought a gun ( Read more... )

So Lucky Jack is still in the hospital. The docs don't want to send him home until he's eating better and his temperate is stable. He's improving, but slowly. Meanwhile, the Dragon is staying at the hospital with him on boarding status. That means it's just me and the Zodling ( Read more... )

Jacob Bernard "Lucky Jack" Doscher was born at 7:11 p.m. EST, July 3 at 5 lbs., 1 oz.

Mother and baby are doing well.

More when I'm not so sleepy.

So the dragon and I have been thinking about our dream house after I retire from the service. I finally managed to trick her into agreeing to live in rural Missouri. All I had to do was trade her my entire GI Bill... sucker ( Read more... )