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Will there be Mardi Gras in 2006?
Oct. 28th, 2005 02:15 amThere better be. If there isn’t, the terrorists will have won.
Oct. 28th, 2005
Still blah
Oct. 28th, 2005 02:17 amMostly recovered from my cold. Almost completely settled in here at Speicher. Another day closer to going home. I’m _still_ in a bad mood though, so here’s some more pet peeves:
1. People who stand in the door and/or in the middle of the hallway jabbering to each other, then give you dirty looks when you ask them to move out of the way so you can get past.
2. People who amble aimlessly through the chow hall, carefully considering every selection as if it were a delicacy that they’d never seen before. You already know what’s going to be at the )(#^ing salad bar, they have the same damn things _every_day_, get your food and sit down.
3. People who walk sloooooowly, and do so right in the middle of the path. Some of us have places to go, if you don’t, move to the side.
4. In airports and shopping malls: Able-bodied people, no luggage in sight, who just _stand_ on the escalators rather than climbing up them like God and Edison intended. Lazy bastards.
5. The fact that the National Training Center is STILL fixated on fighting the Soviet Menace. The force-on-force scenario has barely changed since ‘97, and the “Mission Readiness Exercise” is PATHETIC compared to the training at JRTC.
6. Whoever had the bright idea of putting “fragile” labels on the shipping crates for SAPI plates. NOT FUNNY.
7. Log Cabin Republicans. What could be more pathetic than a gay person who devotes themselves to a political party that wins elections by demonizing them? I guess a Black Confederate might be worse, but not by much.
8. Officers who replace the dummy cord… sorry, I mean _lanyard_, for their pistol with braided 550 cord (or other decorative substitute), without making sure that said cord is actually long enough to permit them to extend and fire that pistol.
9. The fact that Happy Pills… I mean, anti-depressants lower my pain tolerance*. They lower my cold tolerance too, though I’ll be damned if I let the Heathen Southerners here who’ve been bitching about how “cold” it gets at night know that. 50 degrees is _not_ cold. Wimps.
10. People who snort, sniffle, and gurgle instead of just BLOWING THEIR DAMNED NOSES!!!
On the bright side, the weather is now cool enough for chocolate to stay solid. Hint, hint…
* "Gee that'll put a crimp in your social life!" Ha ha. Very funny, the _first_ 8 times someone made that quip. :-P
1. People who stand in the door and/or in the middle of the hallway jabbering to each other, then give you dirty looks when you ask them to move out of the way so you can get past.
2. People who amble aimlessly through the chow hall, carefully considering every selection as if it were a delicacy that they’d never seen before. You already know what’s going to be at the )(#^ing salad bar, they have the same damn things _every_day_, get your food and sit down.
3. People who walk sloooooowly, and do so right in the middle of the path. Some of us have places to go, if you don’t, move to the side.
4. In airports and shopping malls: Able-bodied people, no luggage in sight, who just _stand_ on the escalators rather than climbing up them like God and Edison intended. Lazy bastards.
5. The fact that the National Training Center is STILL fixated on fighting the Soviet Menace. The force-on-force scenario has barely changed since ‘97, and the “Mission Readiness Exercise” is PATHETIC compared to the training at JRTC.
6. Whoever had the bright idea of putting “fragile” labels on the shipping crates for SAPI plates. NOT FUNNY.
7. Log Cabin Republicans. What could be more pathetic than a gay person who devotes themselves to a political party that wins elections by demonizing them? I guess a Black Confederate might be worse, but not by much.
8. Officers who replace the dummy cord… sorry, I mean _lanyard_, for their pistol with braided 550 cord (or other decorative substitute), without making sure that said cord is actually long enough to permit them to extend and fire that pistol.
9. The fact that Happy Pills… I mean, anti-depressants lower my pain tolerance*. They lower my cold tolerance too, though I’ll be damned if I let the Heathen Southerners here who’ve been bitching about how “cold” it gets at night know that. 50 degrees is _not_ cold. Wimps.
10. People who snort, sniffle, and gurgle instead of just BLOWING THEIR DAMNED NOSES!!!
On the bright side, the weather is now cool enough for chocolate to stay solid. Hint, hint…
* "Gee that'll put a crimp in your social life!" Ha ha. Very funny, the _first_ 8 times someone made that quip. :-P