Some stuff happened between thus and then, and I admit full culpability. I got busy, I got lazy, I got a little crazy. But let’s not focus on the negative. I was gone, now I’m back. Here’s the recap:
Got back from the Iraqs with all ten fingers and all ten toes. The big green gave us all a month off, which was my cue to tour the Pacific Rim. Here’s the dirty, filthy evidence:
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| Japan, the Phillys, Korea |
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Just after Korea, I took a four-day weekend and a round-trip to Kansas City and turned it into one of the best weekends of my life. The Ancients called good friends “the crown of life,” and I’ve never felt luckier. Thanks, guys.
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| 2010-05-03 |
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So this redhead I know flew in, and me and Katt and Clouds all went up to New Mexico for some drinking and a triathlon and some drinking and some drinking:
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| trying to be the best at exercising |
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Found myself back in Kansas City for Labor Day. For an awesome Labor Day, I mean.
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| 04 Labor Day in KC |
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Blah blah blah, quit my tank gig in El Paso and moved to Augusta for a year of Nerd School.
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| 05 like a Yank in Augusta |
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My Pops flew in for Thanksgiving, so we bummed around the south for a week or so.
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| T-giving |
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Scrapped together a Hawaiian Santa outfit, bombed west with three of my finest compatriots, barcrawled around Atlanta until the break of dawn:
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| 08 santa baby, a fifty four convertible too, light blue |
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I got some family in fayetteville, north cackalacky. Their oldest slapshotted his way through a pretty fantastic Pee Wee hockey tournament in Augusta, and then we went out for pizza.
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| 09 putting the biscut in the basket |
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It’s hard to believe that sums up ten months, but it does. Stay tuned for more updates. Slightly more frequent updates, I mean.