Blogs from Saint Robert, Missouri, United States, North America

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. So today I learned that karma is a bitch...a bitch with feathers, a loud voice and a massive sense of humor. Apparently, my early-riser in Rockland has a MUCH shittier cousin in the Springfield area that he sent specifically to torment me. His dulcet voice woke me from a sound - and admittedly far better sleep than I'd been expecting in a $46 bed - at 5 minutes to 4am today. There was no sun - hell, there wasn't even the faintest HINT of a sun. It was pitch black outside, yet this overachiever felt a need to sing his praises to the coming dawn. Again, I digress. By 5:45 I'd used up all the stamina I had to stay in bed...a decision helped along by Kennedy in the next ... read more

SOUPY, SOUPY, SOUPY…….. Without a single bean. Porky, porky, porky, Without a streak of lean. The overnight pass I got with my family after graduation from basic training turned out to have dire consequences. I did not return to the company in time to pack my own duffel bag for the change of station to Fort Leonard Wood, MO where Thobe and I were to report to the Engineer School for training as heavy equipment operators. Thobe packed my stuff into the duffel bag for me, but he had to break the lock on my wall locker to do so. Consequently my duffel bag could not be secured. It was looted somewhere during transit and my field jacket was stolen. We boarded a United Airlines DC-3 at the airport in Monterey and took a short hop ... read more