Josiah Kaehele was a friend of mine. He taught me that if you are yourself, unappealing as you may think that is, there is a great girl out there somewhere who will dig it. Kaehele was one of my Javelin missile gunners during the war, and he was selected to be a part of the BDE CSM's Personal Security Detail during this last deployment, so I got to ( Read more... )

So apparently my lawnmower's rear wheels also have to be set for cutting height. I had no idea why it was cutting my grass so short, which caused the bag to freak out and fill up and the blades to grind to a halt. I am now able to mow my lawn. If you have ever for some reason not been able to mow your lawn, you know the kind of stress this produces ( Read more... )

So for those of you who don't know anything about Eve, but are wondering, I can help. This is a recruitment video that our resident cameraman just made to celebrate the corp's 3 year birthday. And my picture is in it (the avatar I made for the game) so I'm posting a link so you can all check out this uber awesome video. Eve = teh sex ( Read more... )

So I closed on my house and I'm in the process of unpacking. Geoff's recent success inspired me to join Gold's Gym today, so hopefully soon I'll have a picture of me looking buff and pointing at the camera for other exercise-needers to paste to their fridge ( Read more... )

My house is almost empty, except for some pillows, some blankets, my computer, and some clothes for the trip to VA. I finalled out of Active Duty yesterday, and today the movers came to pick up all my stuff. As of April 18th, I will officially be a reservist ( Read more... )

Things are progressing. I am going to come up with the money for a 20% down payment on my house in Cville, which not only kills PMI, but keeps me from having to take out a second mortgage under the piggyback plan (which is a good plan, just the rates are a little higher for the last 20%). I am on schedule to start law school in September, and I am ( Read more... )

I just got thrown off my bike for the first time. That was totally embarassing. Now I need a new pair of pants and a new right rearview mirror ( Read more... )

Things have been hectic lately. My household goods showed up on Wednesday, and I've been slowly unpacking them. The most important items have been my clothes (so I don't have to go out wearing the same stuff for another three weeks) and my pots and butter knives (so I can make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and macaroni and cheese ( Read more... )

The Rules: The first player of this game starts with the topic of "5 Guilty Pleasures" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about 5 Guilty Pleasures as well as state this rule clearly. In the end you need to choose 5 people to be tagged and list their names ( Read more... )

Two awesome movies I have seen since I got back: Syriana and Munich ( Read more... )