Canned Air

Only in modern times are humans mesmerized by “Canned Air”. What is canned air? Is it air? No, so why call it that. Why not call it what it is: Tetrafluoroethane I guess it is hard to think of a marketing campaign for it, so they came up with canned air. What do you use it for? Do you breathe it? Only of you want to knock your IQ down by 50 points! Out here in the desert, there are many uses for “Canned air” formerly known as tetrafluoroethane:

1) Clean the dust out of the computer keyboard: the standard use for this stuff

2) Freeze warts off: yes this actually works, I will not post here how to do it; It does cause frost bite!

3) Fill balloons instead of blowing them up: hey, work smarter, not harder!

4) Dust off the desk: Americans are a lazy bunch of people

5) Clean your weapon: only for dust, not for carbon

6) Scare people when walking up behind them and spraying their head

7) Cleans your desert suede boots: this is my favorite, and it works better than a brush!

8) To see how cold you can make the can: Americans love to waste stuff, even air!


Well, there is the latest news from the front. I will be traveling to Kuwait over the next few days to start ordering planes to get my unit home. Yes, I am on the downward slope of this deployment and now we are adding grease to the slope!