Stress

Stress. Just the word itself can cause your pulse to race, your stomache to turn over, your palms to sweat, and mind racing.
Stress is caused by many things. Work, home, bills, kids, a dumb ass senior enlisted guy who needs to retire or move off of the battle field, unless he is going to draw fire away from you.., but I digress.

I relieved my stress todeay by smoking a Blondie cigar I bought online. I bought only five, but I think I will need the whole box. I am also thinking about having a health and welfare inspection to find illegal alcohol so I can have a good drink! I already have busted a few soldiers, but that release is only temporary. I need something permant-like a singars radio, the freq to the FA guys, and a grid on the stressors!

Today is nice. It started as cloudy and the threat of rain, but now the sun is shinning, the birds are chirping, and the helicopters are turning their blades. I love the smell of napalm in the morning...(wrong war).

I am taking it easy today with doing some paperwork this morning, and making a video for the family this afternoon. I filmed part of me typing this so you all should feel so privledged.

Well, let me get back to the video.
PS Thanks Toby for the power point! There is some truth in every joke there!

It has been awhile

I apologize for not posting sooner, but I have been traveling around the country.

Today's post is about language. In the military, you tend to use profanity more than most. We are trying to curtail the use.

Here is some examples:
If we want to say something is really cool, we would say "Chicklets!". If we want to say that is awesome, we say: "That's fired up!" With that, there is the "That is not fired up." If you want to say that you are ready to mess someone's world up, you say "Let's get it on."

I think it would be funny to see Molly saying "Snap!" and "Fired up!"

Gourmet Coffee and Digital Cameras

I might have talked about this stuff before, but I want to talk about it again.

This, by far, has been the most photographed war ever. Everyone has digital cameras, and everyone is sending pictures home, posting them on the web, and having a good time. I like to think of myself as in the top tier of the ameture photo geeks here. Who knows.

Now, let us talk about coffee. I thought I knew my coffee stuff. I thought I was doing things in the right tradition of Juan Valdez. Boy, was I prover wrong today. Let me explain. No, there is no time to explain, let me sum up.

Apparently, there is a coffee called Pete's Coffee. It is supposedly one of the close things to Nervina coming off of coffee bushes. OK, I had a cup today. It put hair on my chest, took enamel off of my teeth, and made my heart skip a few beats, in other words-->it was good.

I then got a class on on the proper way to make coffee and why at home you can never replicate the taste from a coffee shop. Are you ready? Here it is:

At the coffee shops, the grinders grind the beans and put them directly to the water for your drink. Before the grinder, the beans are kept in vacume containers with no air. Apparently, the O2 will start to take the bold taste away, and we at home are stuck with mediocer coffee. They now sell airtight grinders that will keep your beans in a vacume container and only grind what you need. I though I was doing good with my coffee press!

So, I scavanged a bag of Pete's coffee from my boss. I am working on getting a grinder, and I will only grind the absolute minimum required for that great cup of coffee. Now, if I can only stop burning my tounge!

Capitalism

Let’s face it, I am fighting for capitalism. I can accept that. I can accept the fact that all things have a price. Free market forces drive pricesàthe whole supply and demand thing. This even goes for necessities like food, water, and gasoline.

There is one thing that is so important that it should be available to all regardless of race or creed. It is the one essential commodity that brings the whole world together. No, I am not talking about precious metals, nor health care. I am talking about coffee!

There is a new coffee shop here on my little post. The prices are reasonable for such things as a cappuccino or latte. However, there is some price gauging going on. And that, my friends, is irreprehensible. It must be stopped. $1 for a flavor shot!

The coffees are going for the normal $2-$4 per drink, but the flavor shot puts it out of reach in my book. I would rather make my own in my super duper, bullet proof, non-slip grip, built in coffee press, coffee mug.

Ouch, my tongue!

Photos from my rocking new camera

Thanks to the Army, I now own a supped up $800 digital camera. Here's a few pictures of my living space.