November 2008

Under the Weather and Out of the Loop

It’s been a pretty long and tiring weekend here at the Miles casa. I ended up going to the emergency room late Friday night with a kidney stone which I finally passed earlier this afternoon. It’s amazing how much pain something so mall can bring you. Getting the damned thing out was almost anti-climactic after…Read more

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hopefully all of you folks out there are having a great Thanksgiving, even those of you who don’t celebrate. This year is sort of a first for me on Thanksgiving and it’s not a good thing. Those of you that know me from my old site know that I run several restaurants so Holidays are…Read more

Wednesday Hero: Lance Corporal Samuel Joyce

Lance Cpl. Samuel Joyce, from Boston, accepts a bagfull of toys during the Toys For Tots 5k Run at Fleet Activities Yokosuka. Runners donated new toys to the local Marine’s Toys for Tots program. These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to…Read more

Out With The Tweets

So I’ve dumped all the action streams stuff and gone back to just displaying the posts. It was one thing having them at Shadowscope where I post several times a day but it’s an entirely different beast when I post here a couple of times a week and have 5,000,000 tweets showing up in between.

Have a Very Metal Holiday!

Came across this by way of Trench, the other dude with the awesome hair. Thanks dude. Damn, Dio really sounds old.

Wednesday Hero: General Ann Dunwoody

I know I am a day late in getting this up but better late than never… Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody 55 years old from Fort Belvoir, Virginia  Call it breaking the brass ceiling. Ann E. Dunwoody, after 33 years in the Army, ascended Friday to a peak never before reached by a woman in the…Read more

Some Days This is Exactly What I Feel Like….

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Wednesday Hero: Spc. Kenneth W. Haines

Spc. Kenneth W. Haines 25 years old from Fulton, New York 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division December 3, 2006 Spc. Kenneth Haines joined the United States Army in September 2000 as a fire support specialist and had been assigned to his unit for just over three years. He deployed to…Read more

The Aquarium

I haven’t done much in the way of blogging in the last several days. Worked a ton of hours this past week but I have also been pretty sick. Some kind of bug has been going around, both girls were out sick at the end of the week and I guess I got the bug…Read more

Wednesday Hero: Gussie M. Jones

Cpt. Gussie M. Jones 41 years old from Raleigh, Arkansas 31st Combat Support Hospital March 07, 2004  Cpt. Gussie Jones was born in Arkansas and was one of eight children. She began her Army career by enlisting in 1988 as a personnel clerk and climbed to the rank of a sergeant. In 1986, Jones earned…Read more