I'm Getting the Boot

Well, I have received my orders for my permanent duty station after 2 weeks of waiting for them to show up. I know everyone wanted us to be back in Washington at Fort Lewis, but it appears that God had a different plan. I'm currently in the airport in Atlanta headed for Fort Polk Louisiana. I don't have much more information than that at this point. At least nothing that I will write in case things change in the next few days. It will be a far move to make and with Michael just being born it will be a challenging juggle of time. We are sad to be moving so far away, and Haley is sooo looking forward to the snakes there but we still know this is what we are supposed to do so we rest in that comfort. They have had phones there for the past few years, and just a few months ago they stretched the wire from Texas and connected them to the internets. So we will be easy to get in contact with. Also for those of you that have video chat we are practically next door. More updates on what exactly I will be doing, and where I will be going... cough... sand box... cough... will most definitely be added here.

Some People's Kids

I thought this was just hillarious. I mean first off you have to be stupid to smoke the stuff in the first place. But if nothing proves that you get dumber off pot this takes the brownie. This bone head that worked at McDonalds (already a check against him) decided he not only needed to hide his pot, but his lighter and pipe as well. he looked around for a good spot and thought "hmm, why not in this happy meal box". Alright I guess, but he then gave the happy meal to a kid who got more of a toy in the meal than his parents probably bargained for.

Here is the link to the story

McDonald's Employee Hides Pot Stash In Happy Meal

Eye on Enternainment

Well I saw Spiderman 3 yesterday and I must say it was pretty good. It was long, but that was to be expected. The movie was fight scene after fight scene with some slow parts in the middle that could have probably been done away with to cut down on the 2 hour 20 minute run time. The CG (computer graphics) were very well done. Venom's suite has some cool effects, as does Spiderman's and the camera angles on the action are very well thought out. All in all though I wasn't disappointed, and not to spoil the movie for you... Spiderman does in fact live through the whole movie.

On a scale of 1 to Awesome... It was "super great"

A Little of This, A Little of That... Yeah, I'm a Painter

Well as most of you should know by now my time at home has come and gone. It was easy to jump on a plane and go home, but not so easy to slump down the jet-way back. Such is life I guess. I'm still injured and awaiting the doctors decision. I have a bone scan at the end of the week and then another appointment with the back doctor the next week. So I won't know too much until then.

Well my Dad has requested some movie reviews so that he knows what is worth watching in the Theatre (haha I spelled it the English way) and what is not. So without further ad... waiting... Fanfare please

The Good Shepherd (on DVD) - Way too long. I could have told the story in a short blog post. Cool story, very not true to life as far as the CIA and Skull and Bones Society.

Night at The Museum - Funny, Cheesy (in a funny way), Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson (though not in the credits for some reason), Robin Williams and living museum exhibits. Need I say more? I will... I liked it and would probably watch it again if I had the chance.

The Invisible - I liked it okay, but the plot seemed not too thought out, way too predictable and some of the cool stuff in the previews was left out of the movie. OK for DVD watching

Disturbia - This movie was way better than the previews led on. It isn't a horror film like they make it seem and though cheesy at parts it was pretty good.

Thr3e (DVD) - Dumb

Vacancy - Good possibly as a rental if you had seen all the other movies in the store, but the story is way too familiar and was way over dramatized and exaggerated.

Fracture - I liked this a lot, Good plot twists, cool marble gadget thingy (you have to watch to see). If you like Anthony Hopkins you will like this movie.

Next - This movie I would watch again. I love the "Cage" and I love time travel type movies. Even though I kinda had it figured out before the end it was still fun to watch and fun to try and follow all the time hopping. Also it is funny at times with the ever so famous "Cage" one liners.

Meet The Robinson's (In 3D) - The only way to watch this movie is in 3D. Don't waste the thrill on anything else. I actually tried to dodge the meet ball from the meet ball cannon. It was funny and also had a good story. This movie I would also see again, but only in 3D!

So there you have it Dad and whoever else is interested. And no I did not just watch all these movies in one day or even one weekend. But I hope that they help you save time out there in the real world where you have more than a mile radius to make interesting.

Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

So, a little explanation about this here video. My sister showed me this video of Matt (her husband) and their friends on vacation. The were supposed to be taking a picture with the camera on timer, but Matt being the technological genious that he is put it on video instead. But in his later discovered mistake was found this "gem" of a video.

Watch John (the guy in the back) and be prepared to be freaked out the more that you play the video over and over. No, he is not photo shopped or edited into the video. The proof is in the fact that his sweatshirt string is still swinging. But... man... its freaky how he holds that same face.



"I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree."

Beauty and the Geek

Lately I haven't gotten too geeky on anyone here and have kept things pretty down to earth. Truth is I have no idea who or what my actual audience demographic really is. In short I'm a Mac geek. For many years I was what you might call a "hater" of macs, but these days with the amazing products that Microsquish, Microcrash... etc, has put out I took a leap into the Apple camp and found that I love it. I think those that I have convinced to try it out (including my wife) have been very delighted to use a computer that doesn't crash at least 2 times per day and just "works" as I have heard over and over. Speaking of, my Mom just joined the Apple crowd today. All that said, I loved this cartoon.

"My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now"

Trains, Planes and Automobiles

Minus the Trains I guess. My trip home hasn't been one of the most direct routes I could have taken. After leaving base I arrived at my brothers house in the Seattle area almost 26 hours later. The next day we traveled to Moses Lake for a family wedding and now (being Sunday) are heading back to Seattle to visit some friends and go to our home church. Then we will make the decent south back to Aumsville. It will be nice to settle in one place for awhile and get the longest trip from Ft Benning to Ft bedroom finally done.

"Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!"