A Merry Season To All!

I have been pleasantly surprised with today being as much fun as it was!

Even though I am far away from family and friends, I was able to have some fun with my fellow coworkers with some unexpected gifts, and then enjoy a meal with them as well. It was a nice piece of home. Then I was able to Skype with everyone back home, and even got to sit in on my wifes xmas present opening. It made me miss being back that much more, but I felt so lucky to be able to share it with everyone none the less!

My wife pointed out something very important though; thank goodness for the internet, eh!? If this had been 20 years ago my xmas experience here would be much different!

Anyways, I wish everyone a very merry holiday season!

Ukelele's Are Great!

Last week I got a ukelele in the mail. Ever since, I have been playing a few hours a day, and I must say this little instrument is great! I've been having a great time playing it, and find myself wondering why I didn't play it before. It's perfect for being deployed because it is small and easy to store! I'm finding that it is easier for me to play than the acoustic guitar. Unfortunately strumming has always proved to be difficult for me, and this is no exception. I'm practicing alot though, so with any luck I will continue to improve! This is definitely my new favorite instrument though!

Doctor Who...ville?

As I started to fall asleep the other night, a thought crept into my head.

Every person in Whoville's last name is "Who", right?

And, presumably a town of that size would need atleast one person trained in medicine to take care of health issues.

So by that logic, does that mean that they have their very own "Doctor Who"?

Let that wrinkle your brain!

Witches & their Broomsticks...

So, there I was talking to my British friend Anna today as she was sweeping out her office. She stops sweeping for a minute and asks me if I knew why witches had brooms. Several things came to mind, but as I wasn't sure if this was a joke or not I just shook my head no.

After a minute, Anna says that this isn't a joke, and that she heard this from her supervisor. So she starts tell me that the reason witches have brooms is because they used to apply ointments and what not to the knobby end, and then stick 'em up their bum's. She pauses. I just look at her waiting for her to laugh, until I realize that she's serious.

Then, I laughed....alot.

I started wondering though why witches did have brooms. Surprisingly, Anna wasn't completely crazy. Here are the best theories I could find...

1. Witches disguised their wands as broomsticks to avoid suspicion.

This seems feasable.

2. Witches would use broomsticks to temporarily trap the spirits of people.

Weird, but fits with the classic Medievil sterotype of evil witches.

3. "Some people speculate that in the Middle Ages women publicly accused of being witches (or at least women with knowledge of herbology did "ride" brooms. They applied a layer of paste made out of trance inducing plants (such as belladonna) to the broomstick and "rode" it, as a way of applying the hallucinogenic herb to the thin skin of the labia where it might be quickly absorbed into the blood stream. However, due to the witchhunts and the general beliefs of the time, little to no reliable information exists to corroborate this belief."

Huh. Who would have thought?

Finally something to Blog about!

Well, as you all know, I am not the best at keeping this up to date. There hasn't been too much pressure up till now though anyways since Patty always does such a great job updating hers! But, since now we will be separated for a while, I figured this is a good chance to try and do a weekly thing where I can let everyone know what I've been up to and post some good pictures of the places that I've been!

To start off, I'm just going to put up some of the pictures that I've taken since leaving Misawa. These are not going to be as good as Patty's unfortunately, but I couldn't hope to approach her level of talent or dedication to her art, so I won't overly try! I also started a Picasa album where I am going to put all of my pictures. Please feel free to check out the page as I will probably not put all of my pictures on the blog!

You can find the link to my Picasa Photo album here!

My Adventures

Jet lag

This year I have been doing quite a bit of traveling. I have accrued over 100,000 miles traveling for business alone! Needless to say, I'm quite sick of traveling. More to the point, I'm sick of jet lag. It's been hitting me pretty hard the last couple of trips, and this one might be the worse yet. So far, I've really only been able to sleep about 3 hours a night. Not a huge fan of that. If it doesn't change soon (which I really hope it does) I guess I will have to try and figure out something to help me sleep more at night. I really dislike sleeping pills or other drugs intended to make you sleep, but I'm sure I can find some sort of natural remedy. Like I said though, with any luck, I'll snap out of it in a few days and then I can start sleeping a whole night again! Here's to hoping!

Busy Busy

Well, it has been quite a while since I have written anything, but I have a good excuse. I've been working quite hard at knocking out as many classes as I can for my bachelors! My degree audit has finally been completed, and I only need about 10 more classes to finish my degree. Needless to say I am pretty excited. With that being said, I'm taking a few classes and also taking CLEPs to get some of those lower level credits out of the way. So, I have literally been consumed by school. It is quite exhausting but it will defnitely be worth it in the end. Given that I think I am the only one that looks at my blog, I don't feel any great need to constantly update this, but I will do my best to get on top of it better!