Blatheration

So here's the story so far.  My hearing, which was no great asset anyway, due to years of loud noises and diving mishaps, has now been deemed by your military to not be of sufficient quality for another overseas deployment (even though they insist on wearing ear plugs at all time, so you can't hear anyway...) so they have sent Doc Lee back to home station to be evaluated (eventually, of course, since it isa bureaucracy).  They will make a decision (also eventually) and I will either be cleared, implanted, or retired.  Nobody knows how it will go.  Nothing like living in suspense.

On the other hand, Home Is Good.  I highly recommend it to all my friends who have homes.

Interesting family news.  My weird cousin is in jail (again).  It seems that he kilt his roommate and left the body in a closet.  No remorse either.  Maybe it was all those flashing lights in Vegas that set him off.

Thanks to Mauricio and company, Little Miss Sunshine (formerly Mrs. Grumbles) has a new roof.  Installed by professionals for only the cost of beer and pizza.  That, my friends, is why I love my goofy little corner of the Ozarks.  Also, they gave me some of the beer.

Home so soon?

Yep.  Long story, but yours truly is now un-deployed and unemployed.  It seems that I have been around one too many loud noises, so instead of another trip to the land between the rivers, I may just get a hole drilled in my head instead.  A cochlear implant is just the first step of my plan to become a cyborg.  Hopefully, we will be able to rectify the problem with a painfully expensive set of hearing aids instead. 

In other news, Mr. Smith is now a real live genuine Sergeant.  Mr. Smithalso FINALLY passed his PT test and will soon begin recieving more money.  I am gone, but they are now in the care of Carlos the Car Thief, who incidentally was a New York finance type until the World Trade Center came collapsing around him, killing many of his friends.  He immediately went and joined the Army.  I am proud to be affiliated with such people.  

Posting should be more or less regular from now on.  More later.  Have a good weekend.