Holy shit! 2007?!? I guess i have been gone for awhile. I am currently living in Sasebo, Japan. Sleepy little Japanese town. How's everybody doing???

Okay so I have been away for some time now. I guess I need to update. I will. Tomorrow. Too tired now.

H

The world must hate me this weekend. Ask me where I am writing this blog from. Go ahead...

I am waiting...

No, you are wrong. I am not in prison nor an insane assylum, although I might be after this weekend. I am in the business center of an Amerisuites in Raleigh/Durham. But H, you dont live in Raleigh. And you would be correct.

So where to begin? I left Thursday from Pensacola in the hopes of getting to Norfolk. My mom lives there so I was hoping to see her for a few hours before I continued to DC the next day. On the way to Norfolk, we were asked to follow a Cesna that was having radio problems and the controllers were having difficulties tracking it. We found it and chased it for about 20 miles before he out ran me. I am in a helo after all. So we finally make it to Norfolk but its hella late and I see my mom for like an hour before she has to get to bed. I was able to show her the places in Roma we are looking at staying (Ed. Note. I am taking my mom and Jessica and her parents to Roma for my mother's 50th birthday next March and we are renting an apartment in Campo De Fiori. If any if you have any tips, please share). So we left the next day after an abbreviated schedule. We were leaking WAY too much transmission fluid so I cancelled two of the flights. We made it to DC fairly early and without incident.

In DC, I stay with my friend Tommy and his beautiful, pregnant wife Michelle. They live in Alexandria, which was a short drive from Andrews. Oh, those Air Force fuckers gave me a car. God love those dudes. No way the Navy gives me a car. Anyways. we head to Old Town Alexandria and eat some delish Thai food. Since we have no Thai in P'cola (other than Siam Thai), I was stoked to get some good noodles. My friend Bill and his gf meet us there and then we left and meet up with some other old friends at an Irish place close by. A few Irish Car Bombs later (my fav) and pints of whatever they handed me and I was fucked up. Got home and took some preventive measures by downing two Aleves and some aqua.

The next day was a short one because I woke up with a hangover and it was like noon so no sightseeing for me. I wanted to jump the metro and head down to the sites but alas, I could not because we were meeting some peeps at 1800 to watch the DC United take on Chicago Fire. The game was pretty entertaning. 3-1 DC United. From there, we rolled to Dupont and went into Buffalo Billiards. Oh, did I mention that I am rocking my SG shirt the whole night? I got a few looks/smiles from people that I think knew what the shirt was. Anyways, played darts and tried to set my boy Brandon up but I just couldnt seal it for him. He is kind of shy and I am overly loudmouth. So much in fact that I called a girl a JAP (Jewish American Princess) and like the idiot that I am didnt realize it was a bad term. I thoughtt it was a common one. But no. Its not. Its like dropping the N word. Oppps.

We left DC on Sunday and headed for Raleigh. As we come in to land, my student decides to keep his speed up so we can get off the runway. But he doesnt slow up enough and I have to take the controls after he tried some crazy ass manuever to slow us down. It did not work and we almost smacked into the ground. So I took the controls mid air and stopped us from kissing concrete. But in the process of doing that, I overtorqued the helo. I know this might not mean anything to you but its bad. Better than crashing but bad none the less. So here I sit, at the Amerasuites.

We did go out to Hibernia's last night. Almost got stabbed by a bum, but thats a different blog...

I should be home tomorrow. I hope. This was a long one. Sorry.

I am still madly in love with a few of you out there....you know who you are.

This week has been in-fucking-sane.

But I dont want to use this format to bitch and moan but rather to share and maybe laugh some. Although I may resort back to bitching and moaning. Anyways, I have been flying like crazy at work. I flew all through the weekend. The weather has been slowing us down a bit down here in Pensacola. If you are not familiar with this area, summer thunder storms are extremely popular. My grass might like the rain, my boss does not.

I was asked last week but two of my students if i would go with them on a cross country trip. I was pretty stoked since I just started flying at the squadron about a month and a half ago. Its a pretty big deal if you get asked vice having to force to poor, unsupecting flight students to go somewhere with you. They want to head up to DC, so I am down. We are leaving on Thursday and flying to VA Beach. My mom lives there so I will be able to see her. But sad that my kick ass 10 year old niece will be with her mom in Puerto Rico. I still owe her a bday gift and wanted to give it to her. I guess I can leave it. Then off to DC Friday and return to Pensacola Sunday. So another busy weekend. But I cant complain because I get to go flying...

So Jessica will finally be moving here for good. I am excited to finally be able to spend time together and live in the same house but I have (as I am sure she has) grown acustom to living independent lives with out each other. Its like we are practically single again and we will have to work hard to reacquiant ourselves. She is home in Hawaii for her HS reunion and will finaly move here from JAX. So I guess I will keep you posted on our progress. We decided to see a counselor to help us out. Nothing is wrong. Its more of a assist visit. Preventive maintinance (completely mispelled that word. Sorry) if you will.

So que mas? Creo que eso eso todo.

I read all your blogs and all you guys rock. Serioulsy. I may not comment much, but I read them so keep rocking them out. Speaking of rocking out, GH2 is still awesome!

By the way, anybody local know a good tat artist? I want to get my Buddha in the Lotus position surrounded by lotus flowers on my arm and seeking a place. I heard Hula Moon is good. Any info would help.

I will be away for the weekend starting Thusday but I will come back with some stories on Sunday/Monday morning.

By the way, I am madly in love with a few of you. You know who you are...

So...

Its been a hella long week but not really. I am always a big fan of holiday shortened weeks. You begin on Tuesday and before you know it, voila! Its Firday.

Last weekend in JAX was a blast. Friday night was a chill night. We ended up going to dinner with my best friend and his wife. We then got drunk at his house and played...GUITAR HERO!!! I had never played it before and it seemed odd to have 6 people standing around watching another person strum away on a plastic, fake guitar but its a super amuzing game. So amuzing in fact that I bought one the next day and we rocked out Sunday. Dual guitars...awesome! Now if only I could play a real one...

On saturday, my former boss hosted a Poor White Trash Party at his house in JAX Beach. He even bought an above ground pool to make it more realistic,,,I know what you are thinking though. I am not white. Well they do have brown trash. We just dont have pools in the back. Needless to say, there was tons of debauchary that night.

On Sunday, went to the house party hosted by my boy Eli. Saw tons of people I hadnt seen it awhile. Sometimes that can be akward. But whatever. That was last weekend though.

The week, like I wrote earlier, flew by. I actually ended up flying to JAX on Wednesday for a memorial on Thursday for the crew of Dusty 612. They crashed in the Nevada desert and all five aircrew lost their lives on May 7th. If you get a chance, please send some love to their loved ones. Sorry to have to talk about sad stuff but thats life sometimes.

On Friday, I went to the parade downtown Pcola. It was aight. Lots of people and an ass ton of beads. We meet up with some friends and ate at Global Grill. The food there is good, for the most part. I need to make it to FH and visit scorpiohoe. I told her I would make up for all her bad tippers lately...

Other than that, its been a slow weekend. And its already over!

By the way, I hate drivers in this town. I hope they all crash into the water.

Will write more later this week...

Hope you all have a kick ass Monday.

I am off to Jacksonville for Memorial Day weekend. A few parties to attend and then back here to lovely Pensacola.

I know this isnt the Pulitzer, life altering blog I intended to write but I just wanted to say wassup before I disappeared for the weekend. Not that I would be missed...

I hope you all have a great weekend, filled with laughter and good times. Summer is upon us and its time to throw down.

I will be sure to come back and retell some good stories. Be sure you do the same.

Off to bed. I awake in 5 hours...

This is really long overdue. LONG overdue. I have never written a blog, on this website or otherwise. I am not sure why. I guess part of it is not wanting to share too much about myself. I thought I would have started this on my birthday but that came and went and nada. I then left for Las Vegas for five days so I just keep pushing it back. And viola, now its 0034 and I am so tired my vision is blurry. I didn't sleep very well last night, I think it's the time change between LAS and PNS. I know its only 2 hours but when I normally go to sleep at 0100 and I stayed up until 4-5 in the morning out there, you can see my problem. I hate mornings. So I only slept about 4.5 hours. I am blabbing now huh? Oh well. This will definitely not be a Pulizter Prize blog. Just me. I need to get some sleep. Waking up and painting a room in the house. I just want to finish. I will do better next time, I promise. I hope that the product improves as the time goes on. (I have been wanting to have a signature sign-off but cant think of one so I will hold off!)

Thanks for your time.

H