The Midnight Hour

29-June
It has been flooding here lately. I really wish it would stop raining sometime soon. It really bums me out. Took a long lunch break today to pick up the car. Shop says it may need to come back soon, but looks fine now. At least it wasn’t a lot […]

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I saw on the news that some kind of bomb went off in Iraq, I hope your ok. All the bad things on the news sure make Iraq seem like a scary place. Are you ever scared? I asked someone and they said you can get packages in the mail if I send […]

I think it’s time to repost this one. I recently let the proverbial cat out of the bag concerning the “Letters from Pat” prank. Before departing California I told my friend and co-worker that Pat was a creation of mine and another Marine, and that Pat never really existed. My co-worker was […]

Someone parked about 18 inches into my parking space at work last week, taking up 3/4 of their space and 1/4 of mine. Not one to decline a challenge, I squinted my eyes, adjusted my sideview mirror, and after three tries I had both fit into the confines of my space and given the […]

…brick shithouse?  Looks like cow turds, made into bricks, forming a house. I’ve
always wondered what it meant to be built like one. Took this picture in Iraq and thought I’d share.

A penetrating darkness covered the countryside while a lonely half-moon hung low in the sky shedding just enough illumination for me to barely discern the HMMWV in front of us. To our front and rear were vehicles carrying Navy Seals, some of the best door-kickers in Al-Anbar province. In the wee hours of […]

This week TTL Dweezle chose me as the subject of his Friday 22-question interview on his blog Tied the Leader.
Tied the Leader’s mission statement is as follows:
This blog is an interactive front page for a broader online community of gamers committed to honorable conduct and fair play. Our goal is share with our allies and […]

With the release of the Sony Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii, the next generation of gaming consoles is in full swing. Microsoft joined early with their release of the Xbox 360 in November of last year. Learning from their mistakes with the original Xbox, which lost the sheer numbers sold category to the […]

This weekend saw the launch of two new gaming systems into the consumer market: the Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii. Both systems, but especially the PS3, met incredibly high demand, forcing hardcore gamers to camp like Boy Scouts outside electronics retailers in order to be first in line to secure a purchase. […]

I recently finished reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. My interest in the book was spurred by the movie, which I have watched both before and after reading the book. I think that both mediums are excellent works of fiction. I first heard of the movie in Iraq when one of […]