Tag: Misawa Days
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richer than he knows
Stopped by the Orderly Room and asked to see the 1st Sergeant because it seemed to me that I might be spending a lot of time talking to him anyway, now that I’ve got a “problem child” to look after, but I didn’t want that to be the only time he saw me. He asked Read.
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maximize the torture
Last night I was party to a minor miracle: I sat down with two other guys and we drafted an initial performance report. Enlisted Performance Reports, or EPRs, have got to be about the biggest pain in the ass the Air Force has it in its power to devise, mostly because every NCO in the Read.
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effete snob
The Air Base Fire Department came to our neighborhood today to set fire to the house across the street. You heard me. It was such a bizarre event – one might even say Bradburian, if one were an effete snob who used words like “effete” – that I just had to watch, even though I Read.
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kanji boy
You should see My Darling B read Japanese! I started learning the characters before we left England and I’m still piss-poor at it, but I’m a slug and haven’t been studying. B, to my shame, taught herself one of the alphabets in a single evening! Went out and bought some cooking gunk the next day. Read.
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Halloween
Happy Halloween! I can’t tell you how much fun I’ve had giving away candy and toy treats tonight. Kids of all ages, but mostly the fun young kids, came to my front door with big sacks hoping to make themselves sick on a huge haul of goodies, and I happily sat on the front stoop Read.
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Lake Towada
It was one of those rare days when all of us are free at the same time – I wasn’t working, B wasn’t coaching, Sean wasn’t wrestling, Tim wasn’t caring for lame pets. When we find we’ve all got more than an hour together, we try to do something – play cards, go for a Read.
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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.
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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.
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family housing
Oh, Glorious Day! We took possession of quarters 292A bright and early this morning. No more living in hotel rooms! Maybe you think you can imagine our relief, but – no offense – I seriously doubt it. Barb, Tim & I lived in what the Air Force calls “temporary lodging,” two rooms on RAF Mildenhall, Read.
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new Dawgs
My first night with Dawg flight went like this: After I traded war stories with the mission supe, he took me on a short tour of the ops floor, then encouraged me to circulate and meet the ops. I met the Chief of HF Systems, who told me the story of how Dawg flight was Read.
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