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Trip to Iraq

I had an opportunity to visit Iraq recently. It was very exciting, in a scary and surreal sort of way. Here's a picture of me in Baghdad.

Is this sweet or what?

I really want one!

Anger Management

Ten Thoughts for 2008 (From Neal Boortz)

Number 10. Life is sexually transmitted.

Number 9. Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Number 8. Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

Number 7. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

Number 6. Some people are like a Slinky ... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.

Number 5. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying Of nothing.

Number 4. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Number 3. Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00 and a substantial tax Cut saves you $0.30?

Number 2. In the '60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world Is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

AND THE NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR 2008: 'Life is like a jar of jalapeños. What you do today, might burn your a$$ tomorrow'.

http://boortz.com/index.html

A great season for the Dawgs!

Way to go, Dawgs!

Eleven Things You Won't Learn in School

RULE 1
Life is not fair - get used to it.

RULE 2
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

RULE 3
It's not very likely that you will make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high schooln, and you won't be a vice president with car phone until you earn both.

RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

RULE 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

RULE 6
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault. Don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

RULE 7
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

RULE 8
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

RULE 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

RULE 10
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

RULE 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one someday.

Pictures from my tour in Korea

I had a one year tour in South Korea from 2001-2002. I posted a few pictures I took in Seoul. You can view all of them in the Miscellaneous set here:

http://flickr.com/photos/jeeperdan/

Old Photos from Crete posted on Flickr

I just posted some old photos from my tour in Crete, Greece on Flickr. These were taken during July 1991. There are photos from Iraklion Air Base, Santorini, Elounda, and Malia.

Check them out here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeeperdan/