Army Life Archive

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Monday Morning Music

[back at Thanksgiving] In going back through the blog the other day I noticed that all my music posts weren’t working! [agh!] Those posts were written the express intent of being read WHILE listening to the songs. So I’ve gone back into the hand-full of posts & updated all the code. You know, in case [...]

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

The 50/50 Principle

I’ve been in Korea 460 days of as this moment & in looking at the countdown I’ve got another 476 to go. Closer & closer to the halfway point. Life was such a culture shock those first several months. Everything  felt foreign – even my home. If I had brought more of our furniture – [...]

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Room with a View

One of the things about life in rural South Korea that you can count on is mosquitoes. Especially when your backyard bumps right up against the rice paddies. It makes trying to enjoy our rarity of a backyard near impossible. I had hoped AAFES would ship in those little pop-up gazebos…and they did – at [...]