dave_h

I am back in the town where my parents live.

Mountains and trees and stuff.

I'm ready to go back to being poor and bored. 3 weeks of vacation is too much.

so I was reading this in the NY Times just now....

and the thought occurs to me:

I never realized that you don't put an "an" before "European."


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Sac tonight. SF tommorrow.

I like Portland.

I might move to Baltimore when I get out.

I am excited about San Francisco next week.

My girlfriend is the cutest thing ever.

Coffee is always amazing.

I don't know if anybody reads this anymore.

but I hope you guys are watching this situation in Basra and Sadr city right now.

It is the most interesting and important thing that has happened in the war in a very very long time.

The ramifications of how it plays out will be huge.

I totally wish I was there right now. History.

If you...
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Thursday afternoon:

Portland, Or: I see my girlfriend for the first time on 9 1/2 months.

Monday Apr 7th: I am home in Sac for the first time in a year and four months.

Tuesday Apr 8th: SF, also for the first time in a year and four months, just in time for mark the four-year anniversary of moving away from there.

The next three...
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I have a Time Capsule.

Its very pretty.

I can't believe I still have 14 months of this left.

I want to go to Afghanistan.

To make the time go by faster.

One thing that I've come to realize over the last few days is that Marines are not supposed to be sitting around on their asses in garrison. We are supposed to be over where stuff is happening.

In a combat zone...
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there's nothing going on this week. just waiting. all my personal stuff was taken away today. for the next 5 days I'm living with what I'm taking to Iraq.

After Wednesday I won't even have a car. holy shit that'll suck.

We leave town on Saturday.

man oh man.

I have not much things to say.

That sentence sounds wrong.

I care this much: .

I haven't had much to say.
I've just been getting used to my new place. This is a decent city. Nothing special, but it'll do. I'm not gonna be here much anyways.

I go to Iraq in a couple of months. I'm already looking forward to coming back.

SGSF, I'll be seeing you next march. PDX: I'll be there in a month.

I am now a east coast kid.

In California it doesn't rain when its hot. weird.

I'm about done with Texas.