I ordered the second season of The Muppet Show on DVD today–I can only hope it’s as good as the first one! I also ordered a copy of the first season of The Dresden Files. I remain cautiously optimistic, but I’ve looked on IMDB, and it looks like they’ve changed quite a bit from the …
Category Archives: military
A Hero Fallen
On Saturday, 14 July 2007, my grandfather was buried. A survivor of Omaha Beach and the Korean War, he was given a nine-gun salute by the National Guard Funeral Honors Detail. Friends and family came from all over the United States to remember him. — Jason C. Diederich
APFT Yesterday… Well, the day I have been dreading has come and gone. I took and passed my APFT yesterday, although I did not do well. My waist size had increased quite a bit I have been moving and changing shifts constantly; I just barely made my 24% allowed bodyfat.Further, although my counter never said …
New Letter to My Congressmen
Dear (x); The Congressional stand-off with the the President of the United States is damaging to America, to our troops and to our diplomatic interests. Further, the gross fiscal "pork" embellishments are disgraceful, and outright shame should prevent their use by elected leaders of the greatest free nation on Earth. Not only should all congressional …
Real Message from Iraq
Fox News today hosted LtCol Fecher (sp?), a survivor of the Blackhawk Down incident in Mogadishu, who has just returned home from nine months in Iraq. Lt Col Fecher says that the media reports of Iraq are way off mark; that despite battle-weariness, troop morale remains high; that Iraqi police are coming along strongly and …
27 November, 2006
Happy Belated Thanksgiving, everybody! Well, it seems as though just a week ago I was in Hannibal, and now it is time for drill again… Oh, wait; that was a week ago. On the up side, this is just a one-day drill, so that everyone can drink themselves stupid at the Christmas party and not …
5 Nov 2006
I hope everyone had a great Halloween! Please enjoy the following list before getting to the meat-and-potatoes of my e-mail:50 Fun Things for Professors to Do on the First Day of Class:1. Wear a hood with one eyehole. Periodically make strange gurgling noises.2. After confirming everyone’s names on the roll, thank the class for attending …
23 Oct 2006
Weeeelllll, howdy, everybody! I’ve been a bit busy since the last time I wrote, although things are so quiet currently that I spent the weekend cleaning my apartment. Not a quick run-around with the vacuum, but a serious spring-cleaning-meets-Marine-Corps-field-day type ordeal. I’m still not actually done–although I now own several fewer useless and trivial items. …
17 June, 2006
Work:Not much to offer from work; I’m actually working mostly in another department. I did almost have a date this weekend with a lovely young second-year chemistry senior named Amanda (I love that name!), but she was busy due to Daddy’s Day. Perhaps next weekend–she’s expressed an interest in Tokyo Drift. I have had a …
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