Far East Cynic

So you think you are having a bad day?

It could be worse. Courtesy of the Jaded Major, here is a collection of really bad days. What is interesting-I actually was witness to three of these mishaps when they happened, no lie! I’ll bet a lot of you folks who were in Naval Aviation in a previous life can

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Mada isogashii.

Or in German: Noch damit beschäftigt. I got some interesting and good news yesterday. Namely that I will be traveling in the near future-back and forth across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean-all in one month. Whoo Hoo! Let the frequent flyer mileage counters spin. The S.O. and I put the

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Stuttgart 21

Today I had to drive across southern Stuttgart to continue the long and laborious process of getting set up here. Thanks to the miracle of my new GPS-I was able to find a pretty decent route that took me away from the “STAU” (A German word every one learns here-it

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Trying again.

Well, I think I might have fixed the problem induced by IE-9, but it required a good deal of research and experimentation. And who at Microsoft thought putting the tabs needed under the ALT key-is totally beyond me. This past week was filled with mundane process of getting briefing after

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And so it goes…..

Damn Internet Explorer 9! For some reason there is an issue with typing a post in Word Press with my theme and Internet explorer nine-which I upgraded to, because I wanted to be able to pay my electric bills while I was in Romania. I had a nice post all

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Every man needs a goal……

Spent the day house hunting with the S.O. At this point-a root canal is starting to look more than a little attractive. You know its bad when I feel like envying Tiger…………

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Vive le difference’

This is a slightly unhinged rant about BDU’s. For the person who has never spent time around the military BDU stands for: Battled Dress Uniform.  One of the reasons I joined the Navy was that I would never have to wear one. ( Which is not entirely true-I had to

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Not even a week.

That we have been in Germany. But it sure seems longer. Not in a bad way-but in a good way, in that it means that we have been quite busy, and the next week holds in store much of the same. It has also re-affirmed for me that Col Gundel

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The missing question and answer.

I am sitting here in the hotel watching Piers Morgan interview Michael Moore. While, contrary to popular belief, I am not really  a Michael Moore fan-I do think he has some good points to make about the United States’ abysmal inability to provide the requisite necessities for its citizens: a

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