Howdy all, well got the 24th Anniversary of my 29th Birthday out of the way today…… One of these days I may even turn 30….. but NOT YET!!!
Was a pretty busy day and week, lots of broke stuff requiring my special “pixie dust”… Although I may need some new dust cause I ain’t fixed CRAP lately…. Keep plugging away though….
Anyway back to the point of this post…… what was the point??????? O yea the B’day thing….
Well I was trying to keep this kinda hushhush…. but made the mistake of mentioning it at a motor pool about a week ago,,, thought I was “among friends” there,,, but NO… Next thing I know I am walking in the chow hall,,,, and SGT Davis says “hey I hear your birthday is coming up” Well me being kinda sly like that I think to myself “self maybe you can throw her off the scent if you play along”
So I say,, “why yes I do (just as SWEET as I can say it) but it sure is a good thing y’all dont know WHAT day it is!
Know what she does???? Looks on a piece of paper at her headcount station and says ” 30th of January”…….
Well, I figure if the “cat is out of the bag” I might as well play along…. So that brings us to tonight….. Go to chow and see the cake
GOOD NEWS! I am not the only VICTIM tonight! CPT Ewa Garner too….. You all may not remember CPT Garner, she was in one of the “Mothers Day” pictures on the other blog site in the spring….. Nice lady, one of the Brigades Doctors…. So I find Ewa and wish her a “Happy Birthday” the get my dinner…… As far as the get my dinner part…. I had told Chief Magras that since I was roped into this birthday stuff,,,,, I wanted to be served by the Queen! Believe she would have done it too,,, but she had traveled out to the forward bases today and didn’t get back til I was already eating…… She did run and get me some ice for my tea though…. Of course as she was returning with the previously mentioned cup of ice I kept a real tight hold of my collar…… Not saying she would have poured that cup’o'ice down the back of my shirt……. But “better safe that sorry” (and cold and wet!)
So anyway,,, the call comes out on the bullhorn “Mr Boothe and CPT Garner come to the front please!” So doing this right I go to Ewa’s table and escort her to our shared doom! There we are introduced.
And everybody does the Happy Birthday song
Then someone yells out “How old?” Nosy, nosy……. She is much too old to tell anyone that!
Of course you all see I was telling them I was THREE….. I think, since this is a “family site” that I am real glad her hand was BLURRED at that moment!
Anyway then we had to cut the cake,,,,
What did I get for my birthday,,, well a card and some peach tea (what Magras was getting the ice for) and O a can of SPAM!
Eat your heart out JIM!
Couple of shots end the post, first Ewa and I with CW4 Magras, “DFAC Manager Extraordanaire”
And finally me basking in the “glow” of the undisputed Queen of FOB Hammer…
So you can see a full evening of merrymaking….. Now time for some sleep!
Later
Happy Birthday, Tom!! Glad this new mode of communication has been working even though I do miss the old format. Great pics though and I’m always waiting to see what’s coming down the pipe from you next.
I’ve currently been in the market to replace my old HP 7350 printer and here we go again! You know…….the angst of making those final “gear decisions”. (lol) Thought about a Canon this time around but there’s another HP offering (D7240) that has caught my eye. I’ll keep you posted on that.
Well it’s nice to see the whole shebang came off so well here. The comraderie amongst the men and women you serve with is very evident. Definitely a great thing, eh? It makes a trying situation just a little bit better I’d think.
Be well my friend and I’ll try to shoot something a bit more lengthy off this weekend. I’m at work right now and the paper monster has began to invade my desk. Best hop to it.
All my best,
Andy
Sorry that he had to come here to continue blogging. I tried to set up the categories when he did come, so If you want to ignore my stuff all you have to do is click on his category and only his stuff will show up. That way you can filter out the noise. I know community blogs don’t quite work as well when a reader is only interested in one members posts of the communities.
I hope that this is addressed sufficiently with the Categories that we have added. Also, with the theme that I’m using. Please note that you can turn off some of those sidebar blocks that don’t interest you (For instance. My links, or Boardgames Played) by clicking the little green circle. Or you can drag and drop the sidebar so that the stuff shows in the order you want it too.)
Anyway, regarding him having to come to here, that is totally not my fault though, i’m actually happy, because it makes it easier for my family to only have to come to one page to read about both me and my dad.
However, The Army is the one that decided they needed to block blogger, and myspace, and facebook, etc. As long as “Boothenet” doesn’t end up on the armies block list, he should be able to post here on all future deployments. I’ll try to work on RSS Feeds based on the categories too. That way, you can subscribe to only posts that show up in the “Tom” Category in your aggregator. This will be especially important if any of the other family members start posting here as well.
P.S. I always hated the white letters on Black though. It was so ugly.