More work...

I spend more time planning and getting ready for camping that I do camping! It's worth it though. Camping pretty much rocks.

Trailer is loaded up and just about ready to go. Quads are in and just waiting.

We don't really know where we are going yet. We are going up to UT somewhere near the Paiute ATV trail (1000's of miles of trails, literally). Our plan is to explore some of the dirt roads in the area and find a spot off in the woods to camp. No campgrounds here baby! Total dry camping/boondocking/dispersed camping...whatever you want to call it. If we don't take it then we don't have it.

We are probably leaving 0400 Fri. Joy.

ST out.

Mungo's 4th E-Mail Bloggy... "The Metal Clinic"

Everytime I wake up and walk to my car I see metal.  Is it one-two-one?  How is that possible?  Is it something I can control?  "No!  La la la, you didn't spell it right!" said the little man from Pangia.  I won't stress it, then.   The jet skiing went wonderful.  I hit 60 mph.  Timo hit 73 mph.  Swiadek hit 67 mph.  It was my first time ever experience on a jet ski.  And it was good, but I doubt I'll ever ride one again.  Kevin Swiadek and Shawndra Wilson want me to go to Fort Walton Beach over this 4-day weekend to visit Tommy and Elaine Haycraft (and their two daughters:  Jordan and Jordana).  I don't think I'm going to go.  I don't want to travel over this weekend, I kind of want to spend some time alone.  Take care of my metal, reset the progs, and center the rivets.  I have a LOT of work to do on my book, Highway 9.  I think I'm going to find the blind spots...and I'll do it.  My boss just quit his job, he said he's going out to find some blinds to rob, and he'll do it.

"Your heart felt good,
  It was drippin' pitch and made of wood.
 And your hands and knees,
  felt cold and wet on the grass to me."

Peace and Love,
Mungo

Song of the day:  Modest Mouse - "How the World Began"

Here we go again...

This Thur night we are off to go camping for the 4th of July. Thur night until Monday. We are going up to Strawberry (Eddie knows about the Strawberry action). This time we will be staying up in the trees and totally self contained. Yes, quads will be ridden and the air will sink with fun! Tree huggers can lick my nuts!

ST polluting the shit out of everything.

Posting up a storm

I just realized that I get credit for all emailed boggies. Sorry.

OH boy

Mungo, all I can say is have fun.

I hate Korea, but at least no one can say that I am not having a good time overall. Because, I am having some kick ass times here. Granted I would rather be hanging with the bro's having a kick ass time, but that aint possible at this time.

Oldshit is here though. We have kick ass times on quite a few occassions with more to come I am sure.

Don't worry about poluting the water. Remember the MS river flows into the gulf. Fucking tree hugger.

Peace out

Eddie

Jetts

Bro's and ho's,
I'm going jet skiing tonight for the first time in my life.  I'm really not looking forward to adding to the polution of the great southern waterways (I really am concerned about these things), but I am excited to be trying something new.  I rode a 4 wheeler once.  The trip lasted 30 seconds.  I didn't know where the breaks were so I paniced and ran face first into a tree.  I was close-lined and I fell to the ground leaving the 4 wheeler to come to a natural stop, destroying a headlamp and the brushgard.  That was my last off road motorized vehical experinance.  I was 12 years old.

Peace and Love,
Mungo

PS...Wish me luck.  This could be crazygonuts.

Song of the day:  Neutral Milk Hotel - "Oh, Comely"

Gretchen Johanson vom Stockholm, Sweden

Gentlemen of the Blogginz: I have met another love of my life. I'm such a
lucky man to have so many lovely women in my life, huh? This one is
Gretchen Johansson. She's from Stockholm. I met her in Fort Walden Beach
this weekend. I was out there with Kevin Swiadek and Tommy Haycraft. I
talked to her for three hours over some drinks. Unfortunately, the more she
drank, the harder it was for her to "think" in English, therefore, her
speech was far more degraded. But smiling and dancing and touching made up
for a lot of the language barrier.

The Bad News. She was there, at the beachside bar, with her Swedish host
family and they were not about to let her too far out of their sight. I
guess I can understand that. She's only got two more weeks in the USA and
then it's home again to Stockholm. She gave me her phone number to her home
in Sweden (a lot of good that will do me) and I gave her mine in Panama
City. Perhaps she'll call. Likely she won't.

The Good News. Even if I never speak to her again, meeting someone,
talking, and feeling those new sparks again made me feel a whole lot better
about women. I had a pretty poor view there this last week.

I haven't been able to fix my computer, so I have no idea what's going on
with the blog. If someone could e-mail me at work to let me know that this
address actually does work for remote posting, that would be sweet. Thanks
for all your support during this revolutionary campign.

Peace and Love,
Mungo

Weed Terminator

I just sprayed the shit out of some weeds. Tell you what! Should be dead by this time tomorrow. DIE YOU COMMIE WEED BASTARDS!

This has been an uneventful Saturday. I have basically spent the day just relaxing and screwing off on the computer. Beck and Ashlee come home tomorrow. I can't wait to see em.

Ashlee's potty training is going well. Since she has been in UT she has only had one accident. She tells Beck when she needs to go. WOO WOO. Looking back at me 2-3 years ago I would never have thought potty training would be such a big deal to me. Times change.

ST

What to do?

It is Saturday and I can't really think of anything to do. I could mow the grass but it is getting too hot. I could go riding again but if I can do that then I can mow the grass. Malls are boring. I don't want to spend much money. No movies.

Yep, I will sit here on my computer.

Hope you guys are having fun. Mungo needs to get his crap fixed up! Eddie needs to stop humping his computer so it will let him see the bloggie page. 007 needs to...nevermind.

ST

Having difficulties

I am having problems seeing the blog. I have to do the fucked up way to see it. Thanks ST for showing me the light

Ride'n

I just got back from a ride on my quad. WOO WOO! I had a blast since it was the first time in over a month that I have had a chance to get out and go. I fixed Beck's bike and it is up and running again as well.

I can't wait for Mungo and Bubbles to get here so I can show them around the mountains behind our house. Eddie, I can only hope the construction doesn't take over by the time you get here. Unfortuneately, I don't think I will be able to ride from the house for much longer. Houses are popping up all over the desert.

ST

Boom Shaka Laka BOOM!

What up dogs? We need to get this shit rolling yall! Woo WOO!

No bloggin mofrappies.


Yeah, I need something to occupy my time...I am going to go fix the quad.

ST

All alone and tons to do.

Beck and Ashlee are in Utah for a wedding so I am here until Sun with a list of crap to get done.

-fix a couple of little things on the trailer (upgrades mostly)
-change oil on truck
-wash truck
-drop trailer off at dealer to fix reversed hot/cold water
-pick up parts for quads
-fix Beck's smashed quad (my sister got crazy with the cheese whiz)

I am sure there are other things to do that I just forgot to put on the list.

Okay, later fools.

ST

Got it figured out now...

If you email your blog in it will post it to the blogger site but the blog won't be published until someone actually goes to the site and publishes a blog. At least you can get you thoughts out there and it will be published next time anyone blogs online.

Mungo, your first blog via email didn't show up and I tried to edit it to get it to publish (before I knew what I was doing). You should go and edit it so it will show under your name and not mine. Sorry about that.

Okay, email bloggies are working.

ST

Mungo's First E-Mailed Blogioggo

Hello gentleman.  I was late to work today, about 15-20 minutes late.  I woke up 10 minutes before I was supposed to be here.  I didn't care.  I couldn't sleep last night, I was up until 3 a.m. thinking about money and about something else.  Around 2 a.m. I actually got up, went to my computer and added up how much money I should make between now and 01Sep and subtracted all that I should have to pay in bills and then figured out how much I'll have to pay in gas from here to AK, money for food, and cashola I'll have to shell out to get my car fixed up.  I'll be left with a little money, enough keep up on my regular car payments for a few months and enough to live on for a little while once I'm in AlAsKA... but it's not going to be much.  I will have to spend next to NOTHING between now and then.  No more movie nights.  No more going out to eat.  No more money fun.  It will all have to be about the free fun.  Like reading.  Like walking, and riding.Peace and Love

Slow ass old fart...

You suck.

That is all.

Love, Eddie

he he he

14:25

I finished the run in 14 min and 25 sec. I think I will get a marginal on the test. Oh well. I will run again in 3 months.

Maybe if I actually practice running, sit-ups, and push-ups I will do better next time.

ST in hurtin status

Father's Day

I am a father so today is my day. I am not doing anything for my day.

We did pick up a new (to us) TV today. Beck's friend is moving to FL and is selling everything she owns. She sold us a 32 inch Toshiba TV that is only 2 years old for $30! WOO WOO. The only downside it that the lady is a smoker and the TV reeks (good reason not to smoke inside). Hopefully the smell will go away.

ST

Fat, Dumb and Happy...

Three things you could not ask for more of.

I just got off work and am sitting on my ass wide awake without a whole helluvalot to do. I would gladly hang pictures right now. Have you hung that one that I gave to y'all?

I am ready for a good ole fasion BBQ too. We are definately going to have to do that when I get back. Ribs, baked beans, home made Mac & Cheese... all the fixin's.

I had hamburger helper for lunch. Not exactly a BBQ.

Party on my Brethren

Eddie

Party On

We attended a most excellent birthday party today. Okay, so it was for an eight year old. So maybe there were kids EVERYWHERE. Perhaps is wasn't most excellent after all. But let me tell you something about the food! The food was some good s^#&. I ate way too much.

So as far as the food goes...most excellent.

ST stuffed.

Honey Do

Beck wants to hang pictures today. There could be worse things, I guess. Actually, it isn't that bad.

Ashlee, is getting the hang of the potty training thing. It is too funny to see her yanking off her underwear and sitting on the little pot in the middle of the living room! Kids are great.

See ya.

ST

Puking

Something that I have suprisingly not done here.

I have to get ready and go to work soon. That fuckin blows nizuts.

I got a "Good" on my PT test and I am probably the least healthy person of us.

Good to hear that OO and Mungo will be able to spend more time in NV. Have fun all.

Eddie

Trippin On Friday's Smell

Today is Friday...Woo Woooo.

Today didn't start out like a Friday at all. At about 0700 I had to go to get my waist measured for the good ole Air Force. I had been sitting around drinking coffee and had not eaten breakfast. The guy asked (he works with me) if I just want to get the sit-ups and push-ups done now so if I don't do well I can do them again on Mon when we run (good deal). The minute I started doing the sits I knew that I had made a big mistake. The coffee started grumbling. I could only do 33. Then I moved on to the pushies. 29. Right about then I wasn't feeling too hot. Actually, I was sweating bullets, cold as a popsicle, and the world was dancing. Yeah, I ended up doing the puke da puke for about 10 minutes. Hey, at least I made it to the puking room. About 3 hours later I felt better and Friday became good.

That is my story. Now I have to do the run in 13min and 30 sec to get a good. We will see.

ST

Skatalat tat!

Spinner! Cheater! Liar! Average Blog Booster! ---all terrible things to call another person.

15Sep - 2Oct is much better than I thought we'd have. I'm hoping we can spend perhaps 10 days in and around Vegas with Mikey. We'll have 17!

I'm in my boxers, teeshirt and socks. I have to be AT work in 23 minutes.

Last night a guy who is getting kicked out of the Air Force for alcohol abuse was at my house abusing alcohol. He disappeared for a while and came back later talking some crazy shit. He had lost his BDU hat, blouse and a sling for his already dislocated arm. He didn't remember what had happened but he was covered in grass and he know he kicked someone's ass. I called the First Sergeant. I'm very interested in seeing what comes of this.

Peace and Love,
mungo

Song of the day: Mungocult - "Average Posts Per Week"

So there I was...

...just a walkin down the street singin doo waa diddy diddy dum diddy doo.

It's hot here. Work is boring. I am in a bad mood for a reason no one knows.

Hey, Eddie, 6 posts a week is almost 1 a day. That isn't too bad. the average goes down when we are vacations and not blogging everyday. Just my thoughts. I am going to try and get up to 7 a week but I don't want them to be useless posts just to get the numbers up. That would just be dum diddy doo.

ST

Sept 15 to Oct 2 does not = 14 days

I thought that you only had 14 days?

Hey, That is cool with me though. Just figure out what you fools want to do while you are here. I know that I am going to be on a tight budget so I would like to have an idea of what you guys have in mind.

ST

Here's the LoW DoWn

I will be flying out on the 15th of september to Las Vegas. I will be buying my ticket by the end of this week.

I have to be back in the AK by Oct. 2nd

Im on my way.

Double O

Posts per week

So, I was looking at profiles. The average Post per week is as follows...

ST & Mungo - 6

Me - 4

OO & Oldman - 0

I think I see issues with this. We just don't fucking blog enough.

Mungo, I made the drive from AK to FL in 5.5 days. Yes, I was pushing the limits each time and I had a sports car (meaning I drove real fucking fast) but usually I kept it around 80. But you should be able to do around 800 miles a day between 2 people without a problem.

My math comes up with around 4.25 days. take a hundred off that, and y9ou have around 5 days driving. Trust me, the scenery is nice around a lot of areas, but it aint nothing to sit and gaze at for hours on end. Unless you spend 2 days in Vancouver like ST, myself and Greg did because we liked getting drunk there and cute chicks were everywhere. We also got a pretty smokin' deal on a hotel for 3 people.

Damn, that shit brings back some memories. Dudes. We all just need to get together in about 2 years and cruise around with ST's 5th wheel. We all chip in for gas and find camping grounds along the way for about 7-10 days. Staying at each place 1 night and pressing out each morning around 1100. a few hours driving and we are at another campground. That would fuckin ROCK!!

Anywho... I am off to bed.

Later Bro's

Eddie

5 or 6

5 or 6 days in Vegas and you should still have time to have a leisurely drive to AK.

ST

Mike strikes again

You do make a very damn good point, don't you...

When a guy like me can drive 1600 miles in a single sitting, taking 10 days to make that trip seems pretty silly, eh? Eh.

Time to talk to the bubble maker.

Mungo

14 Days?

4 days in Vegas = 10 days driving.

3380 miles to AK / 10 days = 338 miles a day.

338 miles a day / 65 miles per hour = 5.2 hours of driving per day.

5 hours of driving = 19 hours of not driving

19 hours of not driving - 8 hours of sleep = 11 hours of free time


So approximately...

50 hours of driving
110 hours of free time
80 hours of sleeping

Vacation Theory

Eddie, I don't want you to think that I really have a choice in how much time I spend in Vegas. Mike, you either. I don't want anybody thinking that this time means any less to me than it does to y'all. If I had it my way, we'd be spending two or three weeks in Vegas. Shit, if I really had it my way, the four of us would all be living in the same place again. I can't think of anything better than that. But that's not the situation. Double O only has a total of 14 days. How long does it take to drive to AlAskA from Vegas? At least a week, right. He's got two jobs that he can't afford to lose because he can't make it back from vacation. That's the cold hard truth. We have to consider that. The extra time I want to spend with my family is like free time anyway. That has nothing to do with how much time I'll be able to spend in Vegas because Double O is pushing his two weeks back a week. If it wasn't free time for me, Eddie, I agree with you completely. I've spent so much more money on going to see my family than they have on coming to see me. The only reason they ever visited at all is because they always wanted to see AlAskA. Now, AlAskA is a great reason to take a vacation, but I was more of an afterthought. Has a SINGLE member of my family even kicked around the idea of coming to visit me in Panama City? Hell no. That pisses me off too.

Peace and Love,
Mungo

Song of the day: Josh Jopplin Group - "I've Changed"

Here we go... again

Dudes, let me tell you this... I am glad that I am not going on leave to the US. This is why... If I had been told that I would only be able to hang with the bro's for 4 fucking days when I flew half-way around the world, I would have been pissed off till no end. I would have said Fuck y'all, I ain't doin it. 4 Days?? come on. How often do we actually see eachother? I understand family time. Trust me I do.

But I have come to this realization, they can come and see me.

I am regressing back to the childhood on this one. My mom always had to be the one to travel lengthy distances for us to see family. There were no other relatives with little kids at this time, so it would have been easier for them to come see us.

I am now in a position where I have a wee one and people want to see her. Good for them, come see her then. That is the only reason that most people want to visit anyway. Yes, they enjoy spending time with me, but the get to see Lorelei and that is the big factor.

Fuck that shit. For family, you want to see me, make the fucking effort. I am not the one that needs to put out the cash to come see you. For my bro's? In a heartbeat if it meant it was going to be a long while before I see you again. Family doesn't change, they will always be family and they will always be there for you if you are a good family. I am the same way with the fam. Friends are chosen. You can stop being friends without ever telling them that you are not there for them anymore.

Enough on that rant because I am not coming to the US for my mid-tour anyway. I am going to some place where I have always wanted to go. Granted it is not Moscow, but Khaborovsk will do. It is seeing the "real" Russia.

Remember this though... When have you ever had a bad time hanging with the bro's? I can't think of one time. I would pass up sightseeing in a heartbeat to hang with my bro's as much as could. Fuck sightseeing, I would rather see my bro's.

So anyway, I have had 2 interesting days in a row.

Yesterday was the first time I have ever taken the radios from a student. This absolutely crushe the confidence level. He was not doing bad overall. It was just too much for him at one point and he froze up. It happens. Most of the other controllers in the squadron probably would have fucked it up too.

Then, today, I SNPed (Student Non Progression) the same person. This is the first time I have ever done that as well. This was a safety of flight issue. No way around that one, you fuck that up, you get hooked.

Another trainee, yesterday, would have been my first hook, but passed it by a technicality. He had a break in training and basically started over. What is fucked up about this is that the fuy has been controlling since '95. That is longer than I have been in the AF!!! This guy sucks ass at controlling. Am I the best controller ever? No. But I am up there on the scale. This guy should be way beyond my level but it was like having a brand new WD on scope. Man, I hate incompetance.

Anyway, I think I am done for now.

Eddie

Days of Wonder... bread

I just talked to Julie. Double O is working at his second job. He's a waiter now. I can't garuntee that he'll be in full agreement to this, but when I talked to him last week he felt good about pushing it back a week so I could see my family. How does 14Sep sound? Sounds pretty good to me. We'll have a total of two weeks, and hopefully we'll have more than four days to spend in Vegas. Double O has it in his head that driving to Baja California, Yosemite, Hoover Dam, and Niagra Falls are do-able in two weeks. I told him he needs to consult a map and common sense! He was joking about Niagra Falls.

I want to drive 100 miles away from home and lose all my keys
I want to return rental movies fast forwarded to the end and pay the late fees

Peace and Love,
Mungo

Song of the day: Mungocult - "High as Low"

Days of Wonder

4 days of wonder here in Vegas? That's all? 4 little days? 96 hours? 5760 minutes? 345600 seconds?

007 should try to figure out what he wants to do since he has never been here before and four days is barely enough time to see the sights here in town much less go camping or something. Also, I need a sort of a budget. How much moola is everyone going to have to gamble away or do whatever with? I just want to have an idea.

If at all possible let's try and get this firmed up soon. I am sure that this is not likely but a guy can hope, right? I have a whole month of plans hinging on what you guys decide to do. If I don't get leave in soon then I may not be able to get it if someone else puts in for the time that you decide to come out.

I am going now...I am just going to get myself irritated.

ST

Raw In Its Juice by Mungocult

Hello my Blogginz Brothers! Life is busy here in Floory Da. Yes, sirs, tis be true. So here be me and it is finally time to update chall on the haps of the last.

Okeeday. Timo and Mungo (that is I, Erik) went to AlAskA, right? Remember that? Sure sure. Here's the recap the one and only blog I posted: We were delayed in Atlanta which kept us from making our connection in SLC to Anchorage. Bummer, yes yes. A 10-hour bummer of a layover. So, instead of making it to Anchorage at 1423, we didn't make it in until after midnight. So sux. But we made it. Double Osph had to work the next morning at 0630 so instead of him going to bed, we hit up VI and did a Jones run with Tony Bermudez. Sweetness, sirs. By the time that was all done over with and through it was time for Bubbles to head off to NAC. So. What to do? That was the question Timo and I asked ourselves. It was about 0600 and we had been traveling since 0400 the day before. We weren't tired at all. So we hiked to the top of Flat Top. Timo didn't bring his camera because it was megacloudy and I didn't bring my camera because I wanted to bring my video camera. So I vigo-documented the hike to the top. It was the most beautiful I had ever seen the mountain. We ended up breaking through a cloud layer and were were sandwiched inbetween the one we climbed through and another at about 3K. Sweet. We hung out at the top, sitting on the the edges of the back side and looked over the precipice and did the vigo. (Lady Astro does the Vigo.) We climbed back down and mashed around town, hitting up REI and the Sportsmen's Warehouse to pick up supplies for the next three days we were planning in the woods. Double Osph got off work at 1430 and we were off into the wilds. We camped the first night near Sterling. We had smores and I taped Double O making a mess of them... in typical Double style. It was sweet. The next day we went to Rainbow Lake and got some really cool pictures and had a snowball fight. The trail we were going to hike the next two days was the Upper Russian Lakes Trail, but both the bridges were out on the trail and we didn't feel like fording a fast flooded river. So we went to Dairy Queen instead. And then we went to resurrection Pass and hiked 4 miles into the water fall. I video taped and Timo took pictures. We were going to camp at Russian River, but the whole place was closed because of construction. Somehow flooding waters undercut a bank and caused a landslide, so they were trying to fix it. So we went back up towards Portage and the further we got in the worse the weather got and we finally just went back to anchorage. Too much wind and rain and cold air for camping. We hung out at Double O's that night and the next morning we went to Dark Globe for a mountain climbin' day, but the the fwiggin' weather was pretty crappy again and we only got half way up before we decided to go back down. We were out of shelter and the wind was FIERCE! So we wussed out before we got killed. We ended up spending the first weekend bumming around town and relaxing. One day, Timo and I went to Earthquake Park and went walking along the coastal trail for a bit. When we got back to the rental car, it had been broken into and my video camera was gone, Timo's day pack was gone, and Double O's 45 was missing out of the glove box. (He forgot to take it out and Timo and I didn't even know it was there.) We filed a police report and got insurance stuff taken care of, and got a new car. The next week Double O had Mon-Fri off. I don't remember what we did on Monday, but I know that Tuesday afternoon, around 6 p.m. we started hiking Crow Pass (Girdwood to Eagle River). By Thursday at 4 p.m. we were off the trail. 46 hours! Amazing. It was a great hike, lots of awesome views, glaciers, and porky pines. Terrificoso. And that's all we really did up there. We spent the last few days hanging out in Anchorage and Girdwood and Beluga Point.

Hillary and I are over forever and I am finally happy again. It took a lot for me to step back from that situation and realize how stupid and pointless it would be for me to hang on there. I finally feel good about me again.

Double O and I will be in Las Vegas this September. He's buying a one-way ticket and we'll be driving up to Anchorage together. The trip will probably be pushed back a week or so because I want to spend as much time as possible with my family before I move back to AlAskA. So maybe September 14th or so. We'll get that worked out as soon as possible, Mike, so you know and can plan. I don't think we're going to be able to spend maybe more than 4 days in Vegas because of how much time off Double O has. We have to expect some delays on a trip that long in a car and we don't want him getting fired or anything.

So, back in Florida, I'm starting the moving process now. I'm getting rid of a lot of crap that I don't need so that TMO won't show up at my parent's house with a TON of useless stuff. The only things I'm moving to AlAskA with is what I can fit into my car. TMO will move it to AK, but I'd have to pay the difference between Osage and Anchorage. I can't afford that! And I don't need anything. Basically I'm moving to AlAskA with a few boxes of books, some plastic bags with clothes, and a few books of CD's. Double O and Julie have agreed to let me stay with them until I can get on my feet, so I'm very greatful for that. We'll see what happens.

The title of this blog is the name of my new CD. I've recorded a bunch of crappy songs over the last year, mostly those that I have written myself. I'm calling it Raw In Its Juice. The track listing is as follows:

1. Raw Sea Mud Comes To Life At Dawn
2. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel cover)
3. Ode To Modesty
4. In Your Mind (Built to Spill cover)
5. Our Names
6. High as Low
7. Pacing the Landslide
8. My New Song When It's 35.5 Degrees Fahrenheit
9. Brother's Turtleneck Fiasco
10. Leopold's Letter
11. The Mancala Song
12. Everybody Everybody

It's nothing less than perfect.

Peace and Love,
Mungo

Song of the Day: Laura Veirs - "Icebound Stream"

Happy Days...

I went to the post office last night. Get this for irony of ironies... There was a Fathers day card and a child support bill. Man it seems like I get that fucking bill like 12 times a month.

Anyway, I have noticed that Lorelei writes a lot like her mother. It was cool to get a card though.

I am upset at the lack of bloggin's lately. I am not the greatest at it, but shit, are we having that much difficulty to spout a few lines every so often?

Dueces

Eddie

Tomorrow

Tomorrow will be my first free day to do anything. I haven't spent even 4 hours at my apartment since I got back last Monday. Sunday (tomorrow) will be the day. I'm off now to help somebody move. Ya, I know I know, it's 11:05 p.m.... who moves this late in the day? Aaron Wood does. He just PCS'd and he's moving. The house is 2 hours from here. Sheesh.

Mungo

Well Shit

If more than me and ST would post it would probably fucking help to get conversations started to add on to.

MUNGO... tell us some details. You have had a few days to recover now.

OLDMAN... get your ass on the horse and post some shit.

Later

No posting bastards.

Where are all the home boyz at?

Well, I am going camping until Sunday. See you foolios later.

ST

Ready to go...

Got the truck back with the new gears, got the quads back and I accomplished quite a bit fixing up the trailer.

I put some vent covers on from out old trailer so that we can leave the vents open in all weather. I fixed a door that wouldn't stay closed as well as a few other little things.

We are about to head to the airport to pick up Sara. I think I will see if she wants to go for a night ride on the quads. Maybe, maybe not.

Mungo, where you at brother? Come on down and tell your story!

ST

Gotta love it...

I am sitting here in MOPP 2 waiting for the base to go alarm green so I can go to work. It is black now, thus... me not leaving my room.

Mungo, welcome back to your living hell of FL. just remember, you only have a few months left. Have you definately determined what you are going to do when you get out? Are you still set on going to AK or have you changed your mind?

ST, I have the itch to go camping. I also have an itch that I can not scratch right now because it is under the chem gear. he he he... I am so ready to get home, see my kid, hang with the bro and be back in the land of the free.

I have 19 months and 3 days left until I am outta this BIATCH. But who's counting.

Eddie

So Much Re on the Port

Too much to report now. I'm back in Florida. I'll blog the hell out of all of you after I catch up on your blogginz, finish the unpacking, do the laundry doin's, and after the nap times have been zonkered.

Peace and Love,
Mungo

Sunday night...

...and I already have the Monday blues. Man, that sucks.

At least I have stuff to look forward to. Tomorrow I take the truck in after work to get the gears replaced so it will tow better. Mr. F250 will be in the shop for about 2-3 days. After dropping off the truck Beck and I are going to go and see Harry Potter. Tue is my overnight so nothing much there. On Wed my sister gets in to town for a 5 day visit. Thu I work, pick up the ATV's from the shop and that night Sara wants to go down to the strip and see the sights that she hasn't really been able to see on her previous trips. On Fri we are all heading up to Mt Charleston to camp until Sun.

Mt Charleston is only 45 min away from Vegas and is usually about 30° cooler (8000 ft). There is a lot of hiking and stuff to do up there so it will be fun. Can you believe that Sara has never been camping? Okay, so we are using our trailer, but that is still camping in my book!

Oh, and sometime during her stay we will have to find some time to ride the ATV's. Early morning or late night are the only times that you can ride right now because of the heat. Your head will just cook in a padded helmet in 110° temps.

Okay, busy ass week. I should go get some sleep but I am not even close to tired. CRAP!

ST out

Do I see a weeping ST

You are not alone my brother... we are still here.

I just got back from being recalled. The Exercise kicked off this morning. Fun, fun. I now have about 10 hours till my shift and I am not even tired anymore and will get jack shit for sleep.

Last night was another night of pool shooting and beer drinking. Pretty fun night. We just sat around, played some pool and talked with the juicies there. No worries, no juices were bought. The Ma's didn't even bother us for the most part. That is when you know you are in a bar too often. They start leaving you alone.

Later All

Eddie

So Alone

I feel so alone here on the blogger.

Today is just another hot day. I mean really hot. The official temp is supposed to be 107° but it is usually about 5-10° hotter near the roads. Crazy.

I hope everyone is doing well. Mungo, I hope the rest of your trip got better!

Talk to you later mo'frappies.

ST sizzlin

Ronald Reagan

Today saw the passing of a great man. He will not be forgotten.

110° Fahrenheit

Right about now Vegas can lick my sac. Yesterday, while picking up our trailer from the dealer I thought that I was going to die...it was probably 120° on the asphalt. Oh well, so goes life in hell...or at least the same temp.

The trailer is home and we just love it. This morning we went and got everything out of the old trailer so we could put it in the new one. The old trailer was then dropped off at the dealer.

On a side note. On the way home from the dealer with the Rage'n the freeway just came to a stop. About a ½ mile ahead a life flight heliochopter landed right on the freeway. We were stuck for about 10 min until it took off again and flew right over us. When they started letting people back through we saw a dead body on the road covered in a sheet with only the feet sticking out. It is just eerie to see that, you know?

Okay, I am going to go and take a shower now...I stink. COLD shower....mmmmmm, nice.

ST stinkin up the joint.

OH GOOD LORD, MAN!!

So what are you getting next year?

This is getting worse than me with cars when I was in AK. Do you have a link to see what the trailer is or do I just sit here and look at all 5th wheels until I find the one with those specs?

Russians are good... Think of what you say after a fortune cookie too add to that. Besides that, I don't give a fuck what anyone else says as long as my bro's have got my back. If it doesn't work out, so be it. I won't know until I give it a shot. I love the chick, I love being with her and I want her with me. Can't live life without a sense of adventure. If you do, you will sell yourself short of opportunities missed.

I want to see the trailer.

We aren't thinking about a new trailer...

...we bought one. Damn, dude, I just can't stop the madness! We liked our Tahoe but this one is much better. It will allow us to put the quads inside the trailer, it has a built in generator, 36 gallon fuel tank with pump station for filling up the quads, tons of storage, 106 gallon fresh water tank and many other things. It doesn't have a slide out but it doesn't feel like it needs one. I can't touch the ceilings without jumping. The best thing is that it's a fifth wheel (it connects inside the truck bed like an 18 wheeler) so it will tow MUCH better. The new one is 30 feet long but only about 26 feet will be behind the truck. The old one was 33 feet, all behind the truck!

We pick it up tomorrow afternoon! WOO WOO!

ST

Remind me to never go to Korea!

I will end up with a Russian chick! Good grief guys. I am not about to judge anyone about anything. I am behind you guys with whatever decicions you make but it is just a little shocking.

Being over here and not over there; I have a different view. All you here about the Russian women over there is that they just want to find a GI to bring them to the states. You have heard it all so I won't go into it. Like I said, I am not there and can't/won't judge since all I have are stories and lore.

I honestly hope it works out for both of you. Oldfuck, it sucks to hear that your marriage is on the way out. I know that you guys have tried for quite awhile and maybe this is the way things were meant to be. Sorry about the split, though.

Damn Russians are invading....run for the hills!

ST running like hell.

Well, Well Well...

Good to see the Oldshit back on the blog.

ST, So are you actually looking at getting a new one? I don't know what I would do without having to fix the silverware drawer every 3 minutes while we are camping. That other one looks nice, but are you actually considering getting another one? I think the one you have right now is good enough, but hey, I wouldn't mind a queen size bed either.

It is too fuckin' early here. It is just now creeping up on 0630... I am not usually up until 2 hours from now. I hate early morning missions, especially when I am instructing and not controlling.

Wipin' the sleep from my eyes,

Eddie

Spillin it

I know I haven't blogged in a while. One sec...Okay I'm back...had to cook a single noodle and whip myself with it...Had to stop though as I was enjoying it too much. That's another story altogether though! :) Anyhoos...I'm back with a vengeance! It's been going on for a while, but my 14 year marriage is coming to an end in less than a month. The paperwork is almost finalized. I know initially you all may think "What an ass to leave his wife while he's in Korea", but as ST knows how things were in Alaska when Michaela and I seperated for about 7 months...things just have never worked out when we tried again. You can judge if you like...just careful who or what you judge lest you be judged.

So, I'm taking leave on the 28th to go back and get out of base housing, then returning to Korea on the 9th of July. Here's the kicker...I have leave in to go to Russia on 8 August. Yes, you heard correctly...RUSSIA. There's a tall blonde there named Anastasia who is going to sponsor my visit to Russia and even let me stay at her home...hmmmm...sounds like a fun adventure to me. We became quite close over the period of MANY months. As all of you know...I'm the OldMan; OldFart; OldShit etc...I've been around the block and am not blind to games and bullshit. This girl has me spinning...no doubt about it. Anyway, thought I'd give something to talk about and keep the blog going strong. Shoot away fellas...I can take the feedback/opinions/what the Fuck ever you have to say. Bring it :)

That's all for now...yeah the OldMan is still alive and Kickin!

That Time Of Year

For the past three years we have done the same thing right around this time....

When will it ever stop?

ST out

Boring Day

I instructed the idiot today. The first one went OK, at best. The second one, the comm was rancid. It was like a shit pool pouring out of his mouth. Then the SD knocked a call that he made... I looked at the SD and said "I told him to say that." The SD backstepped a few, and tried to think of a better way to say what was quickly. He lost. I won. It was funny though, not a real argument, just a disagreement on some minor comm.

Hild's favorite phrase is "That is how I learned it at the schoolhouse." Do you have dumbasses for instructors down there or are they that tasked where they can not pay attention during the mission?

Anywho... Went out and nursed a beer for about 1.5 hours (might as well have had a nipple on it) at a bar while shooting pool, then basically went home. We stopped by 2 or 3 other clubs but walked out after about 30 seconds.

What a boring fargin night.

Eddie

IDIOTS!!!

I am instructing an idiot tommorow. I say this because, well, apparently he is one. Lt Hild... for Mungo, since he hates the guy. I guess this guy does not know his ass from a hole in the ground. He does not even know the difference between "Picture" and "Bogey dope." Nor does he know what a threat range is. What the fuck are y'all teaching down at that school anyway?

Our DOW chief is calling to Tyndall to find out "What the fuck?"

Should be interesting, to say the least. It is so bad that they said the only ones that could instruct him was MSgt Scheck (a patch) and me. This kinda boosted the ego that didn't really need the boosting. But hey, what can I say? I am fucking good.

I still miss my chick. Which reminds me... Bubbles... do you have a comment you would like to let me in on?

September should be interesting to say the least. At the very least, I will get to see a different country that I probably would not have. At the best, everything goes good and we continue on.

I talked to the ST rugrat this morning. She said "Hi Eddie!! Love you" At least that is what I think she said, it was slightly garbled. Cute Kid.

Speaking of cute kids... Lorelei is doing good. I haven't really talked to her lately because it is a bitch and a half to get a hold of Miranda. When I did get a hold of her Lorelei was already asleep. She said she is doing well though. Her speach is getting better and makes real sentences that make sense. I miss her sooooooooo much too. I miss her more than Elena. I don't think that is neither bad nor suprising though. I get her for the whole month of December and part of January when I get back. This also means that I will only have to pay half of the child support. That is definately a bonus, especially since it is B-Day time, X-Mas, and moving in time with my no furniture having ass.

ST if you see some great deals on stuff let me know. I can transfer the cash. But more than likely there will be nothing spectacular that I won't be able to find somewhere else.

I am wide awake and it is just past midnight here. This sucks.

Later peeps.. off to fuck off on the internet.

Eddie