Akimashte! First beer and babes of 2006
In Japan after the first of the year, it is customary to express New Years greetings to family friends the first time you meet them in the new year. ????????????????????????????????(Congratulations on...
View ArticleJohn Murtha
Lex pointed me to this latest item about John Murtha. : Appearing at a town meeting in Arlington, Virginia, with fellow Democratic Rep. James Moran, Murtha said, “A year ago, I said we can’t win this...
View ArticleNews update
From the Japan Times online: The United States agreed to transfer the suspect, William O. Reese, 21,after the Kanagawa Prefectural Police obtained a warrant for his arrest. According to police sources,...
View ArticleSend it to the White House speech writers!
Came across this Letter to the Editor in Stars and Stripes today. Probably as good a summary about Iraq that I can find, and far better than what has been with the talking heads ( or some blogs…)...
View ArticleTell me again Islam is a religion of peace….
Yea Riiighttt!!!! Madame Chiang shows us that just the opposite is true, even among an environment of “believers”: …it seems that each Hajj season there is something that will go drastically wrong and...
View ArticlePolitical correctness run amok…….
This would be funny if it were not true. What I especially love about it is that the women get to drive the train here instead of common sense and “the reasonable man” theory. Read here for the full...
View ArticleI have to post this……
I came across this when I booted up my computer this evening. The shallow and unremitting reader will tell me that Michael Yon prints this thing all the time and I should be reading that. Well I have a...
View ArticleA suckful few days……..
Is suckful even a word? I read it in blog which described 2005 as a suckful kind of year. I agree , but for me 2006 is starting off on a “suckful” note. The S.O. was sick Saturday. As in sick as a dog...
View ArticleThere is a line in the movie…..
Yes there is a line in every great movie that would apply to today: “Sometimes you can just smell a shitty day coming down the pike”-The Paper, Michael Keaton. “Well let me tell you guys, its a cold...
View ArticleAnd the hits just keep on coming!
Short post because I am tired and pissed off. After I left work yesterday at 8 PM!!!! ( Sorry, overtime is not in my agenda anymore…..), brain fried after looking over transport data and also the...
View ArticleMadame Chiang was right!
As predicted, by Madame Chiang for something like the 15th year in a row the Hajj has had a tragedy. Muslims are consistent…………which in this case is not necessarily a good thing. Subscribe in a reader
View ArticleMighty Casey
Oh, somewhere adjacent to the fragrant harbor the neon lights are shining bright. The bands are playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light.And, somewhere men are laughing,and perky little women...
View ArticleNurse me back to health…plus late beer and babes!
It’s a good thing I had to come straight here. I am now officially sick with some sort of a coughing, sore throat, shiver in the bed kind of cold. Staying in, huddled under the covers and conserving...
View ArticleSick,sick,sick
Caved in and went to the doctor today. I have bronchitis. So I take the drugs and hope I will get better soon. Caved in and went to a doctor………..Now I just go to work then come back and huddle in my...
View ArticleStill here.
Still sick. Nothing useful to post as my energy is split pretty evenly between going and getting my work done then crawling back into a fetal position on the bed. If not better tomorrow I am going back...
View ArticleWho stole me?
Looking at my picture on the blog, I was shocked to see that my aggressive, sleek Atomu picture had morphed into something hideous. Being on the road, its not in my laptop. So I hope you enjoy the new...
View ArticleI’m back!!!!!!!
Still not feeling great, lots of issues at work needing my attention and its cold here!. But still there is no place like home! This has been with out a doubt, one of the worst business trips I’ve ever...
View ArticleDumbing Down
WARNING notice! This post may be uninteresting if you have not had naval experience……. I was having a conversation in my frustration (and between hacking up a lung) with a friend who is an experienced...
View ArticleHow Ariel Sharon touched my life……
I find it oddly macabre to be watching the news magazines lately. All 3 of the “biggies” had the same cover headline. “After he is gone….” . I think that’s a little morbid if you ask me. However...
View ArticleX-day!
Every nation needs its scandals. Japan, where scandal is a way of life, has decided that it needs a bigger and better version of an American Enron scandal. Enter Livedoor.com. Livedoor started as an...
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