Tennis

I played tennis with my friend Pete while his two daughters played in the puddles two courts over. Pete taught me the mechanics of good service, proper backhand, and a stronger forehand. We played for one hour and now I feel like I can take on Pete Sameras and ST's neighbor Andre Agassi at the same time.

I was going to hike Crow Pass today and tomorrow, but I can't do that. It's raining like crazy in the mountains and nobody wants to go with me. I might find a bike to ride or something.

July will be my diet month. I've been working on slimming down since I quit smoking and packed on some lbs. W/ ZZ eating everything she sees, it's been doublely hard to eat right.

What are you guys doing for Juli di Fieren.

Peace and Love,
Mungo

Happy 4th Of July!

Have a great weekend and don't forget WHY we have this weekend.

ST

Seward

MyZZ and I are planning a trip to Seward, AK. We're waiting at her mother's house (we broke in like vandals) and wanted to kidnap her but she's gone. No where near here and she's not at Leroy's either, Diane said so. She really wants to go to Seward because she's never been there and we actually are in strong and fortified enough spirits to handle so many long miles and hours in a car with her mother... and on such a beautiful day too! Today is the first sunny day in weeks. We actually had snow falling on the mountains a few days ago. At work, the Amalgum Mute/NOE/CERI are all over and done with too. No more exercises for the rest of summer! I have a killer killer tooth ache! My whole head hurts now. I've got to break down some Exedrin with my saliva and pack the slimey powder into the hole where the filling fell out. Maybe the SeaLife Center!

Peace and Love,
Mungo

Trivial Persuit

The Ted is coming to the AlAskA State Fair this year.

What would you wiggle if you wiggled your minimus? ZZ and I are playing Trivial Persuit. I just learned that your little toe is called a 'minimus.'

A1ANA2 was Lawrence Welk's licence plate. Can anyone explain to me why?

Where's that lappy at?

We're gonna buy a Man on the 15th of July. Wait, a Mac, not a Man.

She's asking me questions non stop. Like I care what tick borne disease is named for a town in Connecticut.

I had a bit of a break down last week, but I'm feeling much better now. What german microbiologist quit a championship bout while teaching Dr. Doolittle to talk to Joey Triviani on TV's sitcom "The Brittish Advance" after the first message was recorded by Tomas Eddison durring the moving of the "Braves" baseball team to Atlanta, putting them on the top sellers list of 1973 and 1974, signifying the astronomical event which lobbied for the broken leg of John Madden in the French provence of Chiquita Banana?

Peace and Love,
Mungo

Thought of the day

"America is well on its way to assholing itself"
--Ted Nugent

My AlAskAn Summer

I'm too tired to do anything. I have no desire today or many other days to do anything at all. I have been on some hikes, but nothing at all in the last few weeks. my foot itches and my head hurts and there are fillings falling out of my teeth. ZZ and I have been working on getting the nursery set up. She had a baby shower with her friends and coworkers yesterday and today we're eating the left over cake and it's cloudy outside. I rode my bike to the book store and wrote eight measly paragraphs in my book and then talked to KidKenny over a 20 oz. Americano and talked about his new CD out soon and everything he's read and I've read in the last year and then I rode my bike to the library and got pissed off and I've stayed pissed off all day and now the internet decides to work for the first time in 8 damn days and neither ZZ or I have called GCI to inquire as to the problem and I feel like I'm always on the verge of

explosive anger

Rattle snakes, dead rabbits, big titties and bloated cows

That about sums up my weekend so far.

Drove up to Richfield on Friday night so Eddie, Beck, Ashlee, Spencer (our nephew) and I could do some ATV riding on Saturday. By 0945 on Saturday we were some riding fools. Our 45 mile round trip through the mountains went smoothly and everyone had a blast.

After that ride Beck took Ashlee and went back to the house while Spencer, Eddie and I decided to take off on another ride (a longer one). Besides the beautiful scenery the ride was pretty uneventful...with a few exeptions.

Riding along a narrow trail you often come upon ATVers going the other direction. Well, on one of these occasions we came upon 3 guys on ATVs with their wives riding double with them. They were all nice enough to pull over and let us go by. Part of going riding is to get out and see nature and on this occasion the woman on the first ATV was all natural from the waist up. Yep, topless and riding quads. To add to the whole thing...these weren't small either....as Eddie said, "Those were ginormous!" They were too.

Later on that ride I was in the lead and hauling down the trail. I happened to get a ways ahead and just about ran over a greenish colored rattle snake. This thing was about 3 feet long and PISSED off that it almost got run over. I radioed to the guys to tell them about it but by the time they got there the snake had made a run for it. Damn the luck. It was a good looking snake too.

On the way back down the mountain in the darkness of a moonless night we were cruising some dirt roads and talking over the radio about the crazy ass rabbits that seemed determined to die. I was in the lead again so of course I was the one scaring them out of the bushes. There were at least 5-6 close misses and when I say close I mean 2-5 feet at 30 miles an hour. Some of these things were the size of small dogs! Well, one little bunny didn't make it...actually, it darted out from the side and right under my tire before I could do anything. Spencer was behind me and stopped just before hitting it as well. When I turned around and went back it was laying there going bezerk (I figure a broken back). Well, the only humane thing to do...I used a 15 pound rock so it was over fast. I felt horrible but what else can you do? You sure can't let it lay there in pain.

Dead cow...no I didn't hit a damn cow with my four wheeler (I could have though). On the drive home this morning I saw a dead cow in the median of the highway. This thing was so bloated and stiff that it was the size of my Honda Accord! All my driving miles and I have never seen that. It was funny looking since it was almost comletely round with the legs sticking straight out.

Many places on the Paiute trail you have to actually open gates, go through, then close the gates. The trail actually goes through cattle ranches in certain places. Well, while riding along we came accross a huge herd of cows (not uncommon at all). The funny thing about this was they thought we were there to herd them! So as we would get within 5-6 feet they would take off walking down the trail. I am talking about 40-50 cattle! Finally, after about a 1/4 mile they decided to get off the trail and let us get on with our ride.

Fun weekend over all. I am home now and just relaxing.

ST

Bored

Mungo, good on ya for meeting up with Bubbles and having some fun.

I am sitting here in Des Moines airport bored to fucking tears. There is nothing to do except sit here and play on the internet and pay the $6.95 for using their friggin server.

Iowa sucked ass overall. Work was extremely boring. We sat in the box the whole time and I controlled one friggin mission!! what kind of bullshit is that? The rest of the time I was sitting around listening to a radio that worked sometimes and other times it didn't.

I did, however, manage to get 3 chicks phone #'s. What will I do with them, you may ask? Jack shit. Just that I accomplished it was the fun part.

Later peeps.

Eddie

Turd on the highway...

Yep, that is what I feel like. I feel like a turd on the highway that has been run over too many times. I caught the cold that Ashlee had for the past two days. Now I just wish my head would explode and get it over with.

Ouch.

ST

Back in the day

Still practicing but I think I am getting a little better. Check out Chris and Amy's photos at wachel.net. I didn't take Amy and Chris' pictures but the woman who did didn't do what she promised so I messed with them a little. Taking out people and objects, adding some glow and just playing around.

ST out

Reunion?

I went hiking with Double O yesterday. Spent about 12 hours with him.

You know, at some points it was a bit awkward, but mostly, it felt like no time had passed and there had been no hard feelings at all. I'm reluctant to go into everything we did because I just tried to blog about the trip on Myspace, but my computer froze up and I lost 45 minutes of typing. It was one of those ultra long Mungo posts, so you can imagine how pissed off I was when it disappeared into the ethers. Anyway, we'll see if anything comes of the brief reunion. I plan on sitting back for a while and consider some of the things we talked about.

ST, sorry to hear about that job. I know you must have been excited for it because I was excited for you. Pretty cold to only catch wind of the news by e-mail. Cold cold.

Eddie. The Big K again, huh? Mayhap you'll run into my other sister, Meghan. I DO have a second sister, you know. She'll be stationed in Japan at the end of the year, but she'll be head over to the Big K often enough. She'll be AWACS, not 1C5, but occationally the two worlds meet. Who knows.

I'm so pissed off about that blog I lost. I'm getting angrier and angrier the more I sit here and type and get nervous that it's aobut to happen to me again. So off I go!

Peace and Love,
Mungo

PS, the only thing keeping me happy right now is that I know when ZZ gets home from work in an hour or so, we're going to eat some fatty chilli cheese hot dogs and go straight to bed. Hebrew National dogs, Hormel chilli with beans... yea. We're going to set the sheets on fire... and not in the dirty way!

No Luck

Well, the job that I was hoping for fell through. They apparently hired someone else even after basically telling me that I had the job. Like they say...if it ain't in writing then forget it.

Oh yeah, did I happen to mention I was informed of this via email? Not even a phone call.

So goes life.

ST

The Big K...

Yup, I am going back to the Big K in February. At least that delays going to Iraq for a while again.

So Now I have to figure out what I am going to do with my condo and truck. I may sell the truck or I may not. No decision as of yet on that. ST gets to have a Saturn ION Redline for a year. Who knows, he may end up getting a Dodge Ram too.

Hmm... guess that means I will not be dating anyone seriously for a long time again. Not that I really have in a while anyway.

I am actually excited to go though. Didn't think I would get orders after only being on station for 17 months and PCSing at 24.

Thats all for now.