I changed the layout of the Blog! Do ya like it? Just seven more days in Japan! Bye

¶ 11/30/2005 08:05:00 PM //

Today I attended the greatest feast there ever was, or will be I am guessing. I ate for one hour straight, no stopping or talking just plate after plate of thanksgiving trimmings and the like. It hurt to sit up straight, it hurt to walk, a deep breath could have made me lose it all. I washed it all down with the drink of astronauts Tang! -what a combo- turkey and tang. The base here in Misawa hosted a GIANT Thanksgiving buffet at the Enlisted club. It was $10 for all you can eat. It was very nice. I am so fat and bloated now.

¶ 11/24/2005 08:41:00 PM //

Have a look at the new picture on the main page. http://www.themoss.net The picture is of some exhaust pipes coming out of a new hangar designed for paint and thing of that sort that need massive ventilation.

¶ 11/21/2005 04:19:00 PM //

I know that I have only been here for one month so far, but I am more than ready to go home and see my family. I miss them so very much. I guess that I got spoiled on shore duty, I got to see them everyday. I think that they miss me too. Time here has started to go a little faster, there is more work to be done and I am qualified to do it again. One of the hardest thing about coming here was not being able to do the work that I used to be so good at doing. There are things that I don't remember but It has gotten a lot better. The squadron has started making preparations to come home: relocation of Aircraft, and personnel etc. Everyone wants to go home. I was really looking forward to going to Japan. I wanted to take pictures of the places I had been before and that held memories for Stella and I, but with the liberty policy that is in place that is very near impossible. Today is my scheduled day off and then I will have Thanksgiving off (the 23rd for you in the states, we are a day ahead here). That will be that last time I will have to myself before I go home. When I call home and hear the kids in the background I can tell that they have grown up so much in the little time that I have been gone. Penelope talks and sings and dances all of the time. Nikolaki has been going to school for a while now and tells me all the stuff he has been learning. He has enjoyed making tents in the living room and hiding in them. Just today the movie "Titanic" was playing on TV and when he saw the ship start to sink he got very interested. Then he told Stella he wanted to see it again. Now he is watching the whole movie from the beginning. I think that it is so funny that he likes that movie. Before I left he wanted to watch "Under the Tuscan Sun". He is so cute. Stella misses having adult conversation, we talk every day but because of the time difference and my work schedule it is hard to talk for longer than just a few minutes. I miss the time we spent sitting in front of the fire place talking after we put the children to bed. I guess the point of all this rambling is that I am leaving here in Fifteen days and then every thing will be normal, again.

¶ 11/21/2005 03:52:00 PM //

I woke up to a strange sensation this morning It felt like I was going to fall out of bed. I awoke to the entire contents of my room ratteling, my bed was swaying... it all lasted about 30 - 40 seconds. Nothing bad happened but it was not how I wanted to start my day off.

¶ 11/15/2005 09:06:00 AM //

This is the tattoo that I got yesterday. It is a Japanese cherry tree or Sakura. The Kanji reads "family". I thought that this was fitting because it was here in Japan that Stella and I got married and started our family. I really like it (the idea and the tattoo) a lot. The tattoo artist's name is Koumi, He did a great job. The artist that drew the original tree is Shellie, from Madison, WI. Enjoy! The shape of the tree comes from this haiku The trunk of the tree is faded at the bottom in a traditional Japanese art style. This tattoo fits in nicely with the sun that I already had. It is now giving its life giving rays to the tree that is symbolic of the beginning of our family. Maybe next I will get one of the kids playing under the tree or something like that. I don't know. I might just have to start working on an idea for that concept. 

¶ 11/12/2005 07:13:00 PM //

家族

¶ 11/10/2005 09:09:00 PM //

Here is a short list of the top countries where visitors live that have been to my web site during the month of October. If you are reading this and you live in a country that is not listed here, please post a comment to this post and tell me where you are viewing this from. Thank You! The countries are listed by most to least based on the number of visitors coming from that country. United States Canada Australia European Union Japan Great Britain Greece Mexico South Korea China Germany Kuwait Spain France Italy South Africa Hong Kong Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Taiwan Singapore Bahrain Nicaragua Brazil

¶ 11/03/2005 07:02:00 PM //