Friday, September 19, 2008
Take That Jack Johnson
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Aftermath Of Ike
It started raining Saturday night. I went out to the garage and the big box was sitting against the truck. I scratched my head trying to figure out who had moved it and it took me a minute to realize that it was floating on a puddle of water. I opened the garage door and the water flowed out and joined the torrent pouring down the street. The wind was shaking the truck all the way to work. It was a cool day actually. I liked being secured away in my truck and I was glad I have an indoor job now.
The news said the Missouri River rose thirteen feet. It was a biblical rain. Almost.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Geni Again
As you might notice, Geni has been making me more introspective than usual. Tracking ancestors is a sobering and slightly depressing pursuit. If you're one of those people that would rather not contemplate your own mortality Geni is not for you.
The documents in my flat rate envelope were small in size but were big parts of my grandparents lives. They were the birth certificates, the marriage license, report cards, news paper clippings and finally the death certificates. My favorite was my Grandfather's military records. I've always had a great deal of pride that he served in Europe during WW II.
As excited as I was to have all of this juicy information to record for history's sake, I started getting a little sad when I realized that once my brothers, my cousin Carrie and I are gone there won't be anyone to remember my Grandparents. And of course thinking that thought leads to the inevitable, "I don't even have kids, I'll really be gone fast." Even celebrities don't stay around forever, just look at Walter Connolly? He was a pretty big name back in the 30's.
Oh well. Here one day, gone the next.
Tracking The Celebs
I also saw Sean Michaels (the wrestler?) last week. I didn't know it was him, I don't know who he is either, but he looked like a celebrity. Once again I found out later from one of the TSOs who couldn't stop drooling.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Places I've Been (Up To 2000)
- Ft Sill, Oklahoma with HFA - April 1993 to Oct 1993
- Pueblo, Colorado with HFA still - November 1993 to Feburary 1994
- Ft Ord, California (Oceanside) from March 1994 to April 1994. I met Dan here again after kind of knowing him in Tech School.
- Ft Sill, Oklahoma again from April 94 until November 94
- During the down time I was working at Pizza Hut in Zanesville
- Jefferson Proving Grounds, Indiana for a company called PRC - April 1995 to May 1995
- Camp Simms, Maryland (southeast D.C) back with HFA thanks to Don Mears - July 1995 to August 1995
- Ft Devins, Massachusettes from August 1995 to October 95. That was an interesting time and still kind of a favorite of mine. I first met Andrea there.
- Ft Meade, Maryland from October 95 until February 1997, a long one. We had a huge blizzard in Feburary 96. Also my last job with HFA.
- Ft Wingate in Gallup, New Mexico for CMS - April 1997 to September 97. This is the job I got my Vmax on.
- Ft Ord again, this time with the IT Corporation (my employer for the next ten years). This was from September 1997 until December 1997.
- China Lake NAS in California - December 1997
- Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. My first of many visits there over the years. January 1998 until April 1998. I went back and forth between Ft Ord and here for awhile.
- Wake Island, Hawaii - June 1998 until August 1999. I could write several entries on this island by itself.
- Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant in Ravenna, Ohio. My one and only job in my home state, although I did return there briefly before quitting Shaw earlier this year.
- Edgewood, Maryland - November 1999 to January 2000.
That's pretty much where my list leaves off. I'm going to try to go back and fill in seven more years of information. It'll be hard, especially those one or two week (or sometimes one or two days) jobs.