This is a bottle of San Benedetto lemon iced tea (“the” = “tea”). Good stuff.I had to smile when I saw this for sale at the local BX. I remember buying 1.5L bottles of the stuff for just a couple dollars when I was deployed to Bosnia in 1997. Like Snapple, it has a distinct … Read more
I’ve been sitting in the “Desert Eagle Lounge” where the WiFi is okay, enjoying more from the blog Cake Wrecks. Check it out if you haven’t already, it’s fun and FUNNY! Anyway, on the big screen TV to my left is SkySports, which airs in Britain (I think) and was showing informercials. I just watched … Read more
There’s a Running Club here. But not what you’re thinking: it’s not a group of us getting together to run, but rather a computer with which you get a login/password. You log your individual running during your deployment. There are incentive t-shirts starting at 200 miles. There are more gifts if you hit 500 and … Read more
Yes it is!!! My family can’t even get DQ in the wintertime in Nebraska!
My next story is NOT about omelettes and my eating habits. I’m waiting for an opportunity to get a picture of an omelette here, but yesterday I had my meals in locations where cameras aren’t allowed, so I’ll make a special trip to the dining facility where cameras ARE allowed in the next couple days. … Read more
Greetings from a happy place! Today has been a good day. I got some 9 hours of sleep yesterday and the weather I help to forecast has finally calmed down from the ridculousness I experienced my first week here. After this blog post I plan to hit the gym for a nice long run on … Read more
Today at “The Bra”, I saw someone typing away on his iPhone. So I stopped and asked, “Excuse me, are you paying for the websurfing?” (You know me, I’m not going to sugar coat my question!) Anyway, this guy (a pilot, actually) showed me how to fine tune the settings on the phone so that … Read more
Like I’d mentioned earlier, there is a base theater here which shows almost-first-run films. They show other stuff too (I saw “Goodfellas” the other day, “Scarface” is running at 2am Saturday morning). As for the first-runs, they’re currently showing “The Wrestler”, “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, “Nights at Rodanthe”, “Miracle at St. Anna”, and “Marley … Read more
It wasn’t until yesterday (5 days into my deployment) that I found signs of life other than us humans. I still haven’t seen any animals, other than a security forces German shepherd. I hear there’s a cat that lives among us at the facility I work at, but I haven’t seen him yet. I was … Read more
Okay, before I start my next story, let me show you my new Crocs! From 2009 01 10 Southwest Asia I guess Crocs is discontinuing their collegiate Crocs, since I could only find Penn State Crocs in their smallest adult sizes online. Oh well. The BX here had navy blue “Beach” Crocs, khaki “Professional” Crocs … Read more