Life in Korea Archive
Monday, January 25th, 2010
On the way to visit Eric at gunnery last weekend, we made a pit stop at a 7-Eleven, of all things. I wanted the bottle of peach 2 water you see in the back – love that stuff. But when I saw the DMZ water, I had to buy it just for the novelty of [...]
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Whenever soldiers leave…be it to gunnery, basic training, Haiti or the Middle East…rule number one is ‘Make sure your wife can pay the bills while you’re gone’. This isn’t my rule – it’s an pseudo-official Army rule – something that’s drilled into them from the beginning. And it’s an important one…for that I can attest [...]
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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 [...]