Volleyball tourney Game One

We won our first Game...we are the So Cal's Finest (team name) hope you guys enjoy !!

A bit of a Morale Booster...

Here's a bit of a morale booster...there's nothing wrong with a few pictures of beautiful women to brighten up the day...Hope everyone is having a great day/night...Just to update everyone, life is good. Spending my time doing what i gotta do...nothing too exciting...we start our volleyball tourny tomorrow...cross your fingers that we win...Our company has put together a pretty good rotation and match up against the competition about as well as we can. I will post pictures/videos assuming i can get a camera man...we'll see....

Todays Bit-O-knowledge from the House of Paine:

It's nearly one in the morning and sadly i am not tired at all...maybe it was the late night coffee or the three Coca-Colas i slammed while watching the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Anyways...for some reason I've decided to put on a movie, toss in a chew and hope that todays work out would finally catch up with me and i'd fall asleep...alas...nothing could be further than the truth...i am now on my second movie and no where near a state that would allow me to rest...I am watching A Good Year with Russell Crowe...Good movie to say the least...I have this intense erge (after watching the movie) to get a bottle of wine and sit in a chair over looking the Tuscan landscape...drinking and drinking til im blackout drunk....i dream...oh well...hope all is well...love you all, miss you all...hasta !

Here's to you...an Update from the barracks...

Hope everyone is enjoying Spring Break :) Be safe, get drunk.....

A Sober St. Patricks Day

I'm not sure what a sober St. Patricks day is...more of an oximoron than anything...for some reason im having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that i am not shit-faced drunk right now...oh well...im sure sobriety is a good thing...healthier for body and mind if you will...but anyways...heres an update...life is good...just hangin out in lovely Kosovo...same ol' same ol'...just doing my thing...stock market is lookin up, which is of course a great thing...not really a fan of the idea of the US diving into a full blown depression...besides that life is good, lookin forward to another fun filled week, lots of missions, lots of paperwork...hope all is well, love you all, miss you all...talk to you soon.

A bit of a Rant...

Alright...this is my version of a slight rant...i started this blog as a way for me to update family and friends as how my current deployment is going as well as maybe make a few bucks through tossing a few ads on my site...i have realistic expectations of this blog and understand that im not going to get rich via this blog...i have about 30 visitors a day to this blog, judging from that widget in the lower right these visits are def international...this blog has evolved many times over the years...i had one when i was in iraq...then completely forgot about it while i finished college...towards the end of IOBC at Fort Benning, GA i started preparing for a deployment to Iraq, so i got another blog...as life happens i find myself in Kosovo, not complaining...i haven't been shot at since 2006 (living in so cal thats fairly impressive). But as things in my life changed so did this blog. Do not be mistaken, this blog is by no means an extension of myself able to allow the viewer of my blog the ability to know who i am, what i am like, or "understand" me in really any way. To be completely honest i am randomly posting shit in hopes that i both entertains as well as informs those i love as what life is "like". I use "like" cuz there is absolutely no way (short of using a video camera to film my every movement-which is illegal given my current situation) to truly convey what life is like as a deployed soldier. I cannot convey the meanings of simple things like "first call" or "formations" or what a "Blue Falcon" is...its hard to discribe what dealing with "Jodi" is like...i cannot paint a vivid enough picture with my substandard grammar that is worthy of what life is truly like here in lovely Kosovo. What i CAN do, is hap-hazardly post various things about ...shit....anything...in a frail hope that it sparks enough interest to keep you coming back...fear not, i will find my niche, i will find that path and actually have a focus other than "what life is like" soon enough...


The title of the blog in case your blind is The Road I'm On... yes, its a title of a 3 Doors Down song. I honestly didn't realize 'til one night i decided to google search my site...making find my site via google pretty fucking difficult when the first 80 sum-odd search results are either links to music videos or links to lyrics. One part of "The Road I'm (currently) On" is the news...i find myself sitting infront of my 19 inch t.v. watching the AFN (armed forces network) watching the news update me on what is going not only back home, but around the world. One thing i often do is make loud comments directed at the t.v. about what they are saying...so i figured i could share with you what i think about the various news that is being reported...

John Stuart v. Jim Cramer....fucking amazing...John Stuart lays out what the problem is, and what the hell CNBC financial news SHOULD be doing...if you missed it, check it out online, it is worth the 30 seconds it'll take to find...



Today Fox news reported that there is a fear that the violence in Iraq will increase due to the promise of Obama to pull all combat troops out of Iraq....NO SHIT...lemme break this down for a second...if im a terrorist sitting in my cave or shitty house in Iraq and i hear that all combat troops (the guys that shoot at me when im pulling my shenanagins) are going to leave...im going to grab my AK and a shovel and start shooting and burying IED's like i've never done before...to not only to gain some sort of social status as a "freedom fighter", but also because hey, maybe it will make the Americans leave faster...kind of live a Vietnam ?!?!




I realize that the video has nothing to do with the rant...other than the video is to entertain and the verbage is to inform....hope you enjoyed :) More to follow......

Our Economy....

Well...things are not looking good for the ol' United States economy...our government seems unable to pass a bail out bill due to something like 8000 "pet projects" written in the bill...not sure what they are doing there. And I've got to tell you...watching CNN and FOX news talk about the economy is as informative as watching Blue's Clues and as engaging as listening to Al Gore in a cold auditorium talk about Global Warming...listening to all these so called experts has gotten ridiculous...Fox is so busy bashing Obama they've lost any measure of credability and CNN has these reporters who feel they need to laugh after reporting that 2 million jobs have been lost (probably to keep from crying). Yikes !! I wonder what the American public is suppose to do when they need information?!?! Where do they go where they can trust the facts that are being fed to them? I'm not sure, but i doubt there are many sources of information out there willing to simply lay the truth down and let people decide what to think...

some CRC training...

The French...

Here's a picture of me with some french guys we met in Pristina, Kosovo. They, contrary to what i thought, very nice...it was interesting talking to some French when you have a massive language gap. Never-the-less, we had a good time talking, trading cigarettes, and taking pictures...hope all is well...love ya lots family and friends...

Another Update...

Here's another video update for everyone...hope you enjoy:) Love you all, miss you all, hope all is well...hasta!

Late Night in Kosovo...

Hey everyone...

needless to say its another late night here in lovely Kosovo...i've got myself a shit-ton of paperwork handle...i thought it necessary to post a pic of the beautiful (and furture ex-wife) Sara Shahi from NBC's TV show LIFE. Gotta say, I enjoy that show, but right now i enjoy watching anything...anything besides AFN commercials over and over again...could be worse, guess I need to get outta my room more often.

A lot has gone on since i last posted...economy is now doing great (ha, NOT). Looks like we'll be outta Iraq in 19 months or so....or 50,000 or so of us might still be there, but i guess one could see that as an improvement...or a bad thing depending on what side your looking from. The Dodgers can't seem to sign Manny (not very suprised). The big question is whether or not the Bengals are going to be able to keep T.J. "who's your Daddy"?!?!? Hope so. Palmer needs one hell of a year !

Well...love you all...take care...talk to ya'll soon. Hasta