Happy St. Paddy's Day

My "office" for now....

My ID was never found back at Laughlin AFB.. :(  I was forced to wait in the pass and ID line here on base and get a new one.  It took a little over three hours for me to do.  It sucked!  But I guess that was my punishment to being so irresponsible that weekend.  I'm actually happy that I didn't get into any trouble.

I've been living off of pizza and frozen dinners over here now.  I miss Kristen's cooking!

I received a package from Kristen this week.  It's always fun to receive something in the mail with your name on it (except bills, those suck).  It kinda reminded me of getting packages from her back during my deployment.  Haha.  That sucked!

I had four sims this past week.  They were all at 0600 in the morning also..., that sucked.  But the sim is so realistic.  It is a two story tall structure.  It's held off the ground by giant hydraulic arms the actuate to simulate turns, climbs and dives.  It's very realistic!  When you push the throttles up for takeoff the whole sim just lurches back!  It makes you feel the power that the engines are putting out.  Oh, and it has speakers inside to make the sounds of the engines and gear also.  It's very cool.  I have now flown 10 sims.  I only have a total of 25 of these before my sim check ride and then off to the real airplane!

I went to a restaurant here in San Antonio this week which was featured on the Food Networks Diner's Drives and Dive's.  It was a very hippie place, but very interesting also.  It was a burger joint, ice cream parlor, bar, coin laundry, car wash and a children's playground all in one!  Haha.  It was too cool!  It was packed with people.  I went on a Friday afternoon so there was a lot of parents letting their children play on the playground while eating a burger and having a glass of wine or a pint of beer.  It's a great place.  I'd recommend it to anyone in San Antonio.  It's called The Cove.

My friend over here has season tickets to the local hockey team.  She didn't want to go on Friday night so she gave us the tickets.  They were awesome seats!!!  We sat so close!  We saw two and a half fights!  Our team, the Rampage, lost unfortunately, but I had a great time.

It's kinda hard to see..., but right in the center of the pic.., the green dudes... FUNNY!

At the game there were these two dudes that dressed up in green spandex bodysuits.  I mean, the bodysuits covered their entire body.  They would go and harass the oposeing team members when they went to the penalty box.  They were so damn funny!  I couldn't stop laughing.  You could tell that the other team didn't want to look at them but they could barely keep a straight face.

Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day.  My classmates and I went out and had lunch together and drank some green beer.  From there we went to the Riverwalk and walked around.  From there we went to an arena football game.  That was OK..., but not as good as the VooDoo!!! After that we went back to the Riverwalk for dinner and drinks.  It was a long day!

Today I met a buddy from my deployment who was passing through San Antonio.  It's so cool to meet up with people that you deployed with.  I mean, we shared in a cool experience.  It's just cool to see people in regular clothes and with smiles on their faces back in Merica'!  Yeah!

I probably have two more weeks with no Kristen..... It's sad...  We might be spending a week or so together coming up.  It's been tough for us the past year and a half.  Soon enough we'll be in our house in Dover!  I can't wait!  Kristen has been sending me pictures of Dallas to cheer me up.

It's already halfway through Mustache March and I don't have any pics of me on here yet.  Next week I'll need to get some on here....it's gross.

I miss and love you Kristen!