So, as I was leaving the JW Marriott (really don’t see how they can charge $475/night. Thank Raptor Jeebus for my Marriott points), I saw this little guy in front of me.

Just a quick hello. I haven’t posted much recently, but I completed a Seattle to Phoenix to Seattle roadtrip on Thursday, and figured I’d at least tease one of the cool things I did on said trip.

First, I’m jelly that my buddy JT made a freaking movie. And now, Ken Block shows up to the trailer premier at Sundance!

Dear Fucktrumpet in the Volvo on 405 this morning,

When you merge onto the highway, it’s not a very good idea to move into the middle lane and slam on your brakes when someone is traveling at speed, about 1000 feet behind you.

Sincerly,

The driver of the black IS300 that really wanted to pull you out of your car and slap…

Tacoma Dome Tuesday.

I think I’ll lead with this...

Gun problems happen. When they happen on an A-10, you really don’t fuck around. Working at Arm/De-arm (or End of Runway), you get trained on what to do when problems happen. I’ve dealt with numerous hung (pilot tried to drop/fire but it didn’t) bombs/rockets & a couple hung A/TGM-65 Maverick missiles. The only time I…

So, last week, I got deployed to California for the Butte & Valley fires. This past Sunday, my self and a co-worker brought one of our command vehicles out to the base camp in Lake County to act as a temporary Field Office for our people working in the field. We also have other vehicles out at sites providing phone…

Horrible pictures, but a couple Skylines in Tokyo from my trip last month.

Wait. Wrong Jay-Z.

I’m talking about the 2JZGE that lives under the hood of my new (to me) car (Still trying to think of a name for it).

A few days ago, I posted some pics of the fire fighting helicopters parked between us and the fire camp where the firefighters battling the North Star fire are set up. Today, we stopped in and were escorted out to the KMax to check it out up close and personal. My co-worker took quite a few great pics with his DSLR. I…

So, I’ve recently posted that I’m out in Central Washington for the wildfires. The building I’m parked out in front of (we’ve got a command vehicle as well as a modified RV for sleeping, but it’s not big enough for all of us, so myself and the other Comm guy sleep on cots in the command vehicle) had a sewage backup…

So, my travels have now got me about 5 miles away from the North Star Fire here in Central WA. I’m living in a van, down by the heliport. Last night, we decided to go watch the firefighting helicopters come back. We missed the Huey’s and KMax landing (that KMax is sweet, btw), and we saw a Bell 212 come in as we were…

So in the last month, I’ve been home a total of 6 days. Los Angeles to support the Special Olympics, home for 4 days. Then to Saipan for about 2 weeks (I did take a day of leave in Tokyo on the way home though), home for 28 hours. Then to Hawaii for TS Kilo, got home last night. Now I’m at work to try to do my travel…

We had a few minutes of downtime while finishing building our field office here in Saipan. So a co-worker and I started looking at The Googles to see what kind of cool WWII stuff was around here. Well, there were pictures of a Sherman tank, partially submerged in the water. Now, the description of where it was isn’t…

Walking to the car this morning to head into work, and I see this little guy: