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Ringing UP the new year
2 Jan 2008 | 3 Comments | Continue reading »
Most people know I’m a cheap bastard. I’ll spend thirty-two hours driving cross-country and $450 on gas rather than a plane ticket for $555. I won’t Supersize for 49 cents more. Hell, I won’t even drink the beer not on special for the night if it’s gonna save me a few bucks. I’m a two-for-one food stamp kind of guy. An “Arab trader,” if you will. I milk every last possible penny out of everything I own, which really doesn’t explain why I buy and sell electronics like an eBay Power Seller (which reminds me, I’ve got a first generation 1GB iPod shuffle for sale at a deep, deep discount price). But Lake Tahoe is different.
Training days 53-55: Crucible observation
16 Dec 2007 | 2 Comments | Continue reading »
From “Rite of Passage: Making Basic Training Tougher” by Jim Garamone, 23 February 2004. Images meticulously selected and edited by yours truly. “We have two missions in the Marine Corps — to win battles and make Marines,” said Col. Bob Hayes, assistant deputy chief of staff for operations and training at the recruit depot here. [...]
Dead Marine’s poem
11 Dec 2007 | 8 Comments | Continue reading »
Get Together by The Youngbloods. The #10 song in the country in 1969. Get Together by The Youngbloods After two and a half months of aimlessly wandering the halls of Drill Instructor School, I noticed this poem for the first time today. It was sandwiched between a couple of Vietnam-era uniforms and assorted memorabilia in [...]
Training days 26-34: Basic Warrior Training
18 Nov 2007 | 2 Comments | Continue reading »
How does two weeks pass without much to say about them? Maybe that means I’ve settled into the routine? The only real thing of note was BWT last week, which translated to a few days “in the field” smeared in cami paint and charging around the woods like a bunch of ROTC pinheads on a [...]
Training day 25: reveille, cockroach style
5 Nov 2007 | 13 Comments | Continue reading »
The picture you’re seeing to the right is the actual size of the cockroach that awoke me from my peaceful slumber at 2:00am this morning. He may not seem like much, but wait until the little bastard crawls into your ear and then tell me you’re not envisioning a thousands eggs being laid in your [...]
A mother’s PostSecret
31 Oct 2007 | 17 Comments | Continue reading »
I was browsing PostSecret.com when the Marine Corps emblem in this postcard caught my eye. I wish it hadn’t.
Training days 1-13: two week recap
21 Oct 2007 | 13 Comments | Continue reading »
I’ve got two loads of clean laundry piled on my rack to fold and put away, Drill Card 1 to practice, a movement or two to memorize out of Book II, Individual Movements Without Arms, uniforms to prep, garbage to take out, my PT Pack to ready for the morning, and I’m wasting entirely too [...]
Found porn: I-94, Exit 88 – Michigan
26 Sep 2007 | 7 Comments | Continue reading »
On the drive (from North Dakota) through Michigan to South Carolina, I barely snapped a picture of this exit sign as I zipped past doing just under eighty miles per hour. Had I known Climax was so close, I would have slowed down. Honest, that kind of thing never happened to me before.
Found porn: Grand Theatre – Bismarck, ND
22 Sep 2007 | 3 Comments | Continue reading »
I had just spent a pleasant evening with Pa watching 3:10 to Yuma at the Grand Theatre (spelling intentional) in north Bismarck, ND when I stumbled upon this wonderful example of found porn. From the front absolutely nothing looks out of place or unusual, but change perspectives and PRESTO! Found porn! I literally gasped at [...]
Protected: DIY: faucet replacement
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Born in the year of the Dragon, the author grudgingly accepts the fact he has too many interests and not enough time. A cyclist as long as he can remember, an avid yet inconsistent writer since age eleven, and a U.S. Marine since age twenty-one, the author also adds computers, snowboarding, and motorcycles to his list of interests. Incidentally, he is aware of his inability to make a living from any but the Corps. The author accepts this as fact and remains optimistic. Feel free to drop him a line.
