OK, There I was, there I was . . . . at the dessert line at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, waiting on my oatmeal raisin cookies (you never know when you will get another chance for oatmeal raisin) when I overheard someone talking about the HUSKERS, who play VA Tech sometime today. I ask him where he is from and he says Omaha, looks at me and almost drops his tray. Turns out, he is from Omaha, but runs a bar in Plattsmouth, NE that is in a building my dad owns. Wow, he told me he had just signed the lease a few days ago, while he was talking to my dad they started to talk Army shop and one thing led to another they figured out we would both be in Kuwait at the same time. He swore to my dad he would look around for me and as fate would have it, we ran into each other at the dessert line. That is how small the world is. Two days ago, this guy was talking to my pop, now he is talking to me in Kuwait.
We are in Kuwait, and are doing our last training live fire tomorrow, today was a series of tactical Situational Training Exercises using vehicles, radios and weapons. Every kids dream. A couple of more days of Kuwait, then off to Iraq.
I went for a 30 minute run yesterday, felt GREAT. My next run should be somewhere in Iraq, not sure where though.
Fantasy Football update . . . After a shaky first week that saw the anchor man, Tom Brady, go down for the season, Team Fritz made a week three comeback and moved ahead of Team Wade. Not by much, but ahead none the less. I made my last trade, gave up Randy Moss (who I think has given up the season without Tom Brady chucking him the ball) for Terrell Owens. Wade has also used up all of his trades, so it is down to team we got. I don't think either one of us will finish in the money this year, so it is pride on the line. Team Bowder, well, it is not his fault, turns out he didn't know what he was doing when he picked his team.
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I live in Plattsmouth & I get a google alert so I know when something comes up about Plattsmouth. That's how I got to your Blog. I just wanted to say thank you for protecting my freedoms. May God protect you as you protect us.
Roxanne
Talk about a small world. I'm eating lunch with some new colleagues and we get to talking about IAj, Omaha, etc. Then Chris Jezek (the acct manager for Sprint) asks me where I went to high school. Sure enough, he went to Papio too. He ran cross country and track. Clas of 82. Not sure if you remember him, but I thought, damn...he knows Fritz and maybe Melissa.
I have a few books and can send more oatmeal rasin cookies if you want. Need your address. Please email me.
I will say that Wade is a little sulky about the Fantasy year. May the better team win!
luv,
j
Team Bowder may not be doing as poorly as suggested. All of Team Bowder quarterbacks had a good day on Sunday with Farve jetting the way with 6 touchdown passes and 270+ yards AND Team Bowder has three trades remaining....hmmm Hope you did not pick up Rodgers in one of your trades - separated shoulder?
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