Category: daily drivel

  • our nudist

    This weekend was homecoming at Edgren High School, and Sean came back from the homecoming dance with most of his clothes off, as usual. The guy’s turned into quite an exhibitionist. While he was attending LSST in Lincoln, he could hardly get through the first fifteen minutes of a dance without stripping to the waist Read.

  • trip to Hach

    If you go to live in a foreign country, right after you get there you should learn to do a few key things: In the local language, ask for directions to the toilet, which you usually learn right after asking for beer; dial your own telephone number from off-base, which can be surprisingly difficult; and Read.

  • I dream of sandy beaches

    Weather was beautiful for walking today, so we ran up the Pacific coast a ways and strolled the beach for a couple hours. It’s nice, but not as nice as it may at first sound. Although we’ve walked only a few miles of the coast, we haven’t yet found a ten-foot stretch of it that Read.

  • field trip

    To keep from becoming barracks rats, we’re trying to sign up for every trip and tour that’s published. We went on our first trip today, a beach combing trip to Mutsu Bay to look for glass floats. Fishermen in this corner of the world still use them on their nets, and beach combers are crazy Read.

  • an infestation of crows

    Time now for colorful background: Big crows infest the base. Really big. Big enough to ride. B says she used to worry that they’d carry Sean away. That’s not just a funny way to put it; I’ll bet small dogs go missing pretty often around here. Sometimes they come soaring out of a tree, wings Read.

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