Blog Posts

Things have been getting increasingly stressful at the Smith house of late. This week we’re getting ready to close on a house we’re buying (closing tomorrow) with the intent of moving in once I return. We …

My Garmin Rino 120 GPS/Radio arrived yesterday. It works. Out-of-the-box it shows the major roads in Kent, OH, but none of the city streets (just state routes). I guess you can order maps on CDs but I haven’t …

I got a memorandum yesterday from a local career counselor sergeant that had some very interesting news in it: _ “This office has received official notification that all current members of the IRR will be …

So, we got my uniforms out of storage last week and so today I finally went through the bins and found my old uniforms. Tried one on, and amazingly enough, it still fits! They do seem to have shrunk a bit in storage, …

This has been a pretty busy week. I had meant to get a bunch of dev work done on AspAlliance.com, but that didn’t happen. We spent wednesday getting a bunch of stuff out of storage, including all of my army gear. …

Basically, the idea is that even a very short-term cache can make a

When I start talking about caching, I imagine that many people immediately stop listening, thinking " my situation requires up-to-the-minute data, so caching isn't an option". Consider the benefits of what I call 'micro …

I spoke to a Captain in Leonardwood yesterday at the Training Support Battalion (TSB) where I “ll be for my stay there. She was able to answer a few of my questions. I’m welcome to bring a laptop to FLW but …

jaybaz_MS writes about Properties? Not my bag baby and makes some

This is my first post to this blog, which I’ve just set up. I’m going to try and maintain it while I go through my deployment, but of course there will be times when I’m not able to access the Internet. …