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Ya know, we really should get together, bein' as how we're dam' near neighbors. (Just platonical, of course. )
When are you going to be in Tampa next?
Not a chance - I tried to get him to take me up to Tampa to see that Victory ship when I am down there at the end of the month since it is not like I get to FL everyday...nope. *sigh*
He did want to go up in Novemeber when it goes on cruise again...I may have talked him into waiting until January or March when I can come back down and going together. But the way you two have been talking, if you guys want to go on the cruise together-don't let me stop you. ;)
"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."-Sholem Asch
"I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."-Earl Warren
"I didn't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."-Nancy Reagan, when asked a political question at a "Just Say No" rally
"He no play-a da game, he no make-a da rules."-Earl Butz, on the Pope's attitude toward birth control
Well, maybe I can talk Lt. Bluesman into an RON in Ft. Myers sometime soon. TH, if we came on over, would you want to show us your town?
Shyt yeah! Not much to see really. I guess the Edison/Ford thing...though I've been here for 7 years and havent bothered. Mostly we go to various establishments to consume alcoholic beverages, laugh, joke, tell stories, and end up in the parking lot...with the girls flashing passers-by
Well, all but the last part usually
And yes, I will be waiting for my THL before I take the Victory ship cruise.
Guys, make all the PW comments you want, frankly I don't give a flying fcuk.
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
Currently I'm reading Jarhead by Anthony Swofford. Next I'm going to proably pick up John McCain's memoir Faith of My Fathers and eventually I'm going to get One Bullet Away by Nathanial Fick.
I'm currently reading Prey, by Michael Crichton. Those of you who are into science fiction and/or engineering/computer science will probably like this book.
Is it any good? I'm just gonna wait for the movie.
Currently, I'm reading a book called:
Trail of Feathers: In Search Of The Birdmen Of Peru
by Tahir Shah
I'm only about 100 pages in but all he does is complain about how much he hates the military and the Marines in particular. Some of his complaints do sound valid but overall I think the author has an very poor attitude.
Still reading Mail Call, still have a long list of books to read behind it. But I want to add Enemies Foriegn & Domestic, and Unintended Consequences to the stack.
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