Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Realities of Army Life Overseas

Holidays are the hardest.
Not just because of the obvious facts of being far from home, far from loved ones and far from family traditions.
Nope…holidays here are spent a bit differently.
(So fair warning – what follows are a few cold, hard facts. Am I saying it’s all gloom & doom? No. But it is the reality.)
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

How Not to Spend Your First Winter in Korea

Lesson #1: Don’t run out of heating oil!
It’s snowing…still…again…still…again…take your pick.
As I wrote yesterday’s post the snow continued to fall – big white fluffy chunks.
We wound-up getting about 6 – 8 more inches and it’s falling again this morning.

But we also looked up to see a great big FLASHING 03 on our temperature thingy.
We were out [...]

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Impromptu Hiatus

It wasn’t intentional. It wasn’t planned. But I needed a blog break.
Finding something humorous, compelling or downright weird to write about everyday is a lot more taxing than you might think.
Sometimes there’s just nothing humorous or compelling to talk about…weird?…
Ok, well – weird does happen from time to time.
But it’s winter in Korea and I’ve become [...]