Archive for the 'Family & Friends' Category

I’ve Named My Dining Room Table “Jericho”

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
     Little DJ may nearly be what my friends call a "Sucker Baby."  He’s pretty easy to care for.  He sleeps 6-7 hours per night most of the time.  The only drawback is that he gets fussy from 7-11 PM, so it’s tough for us to get to sleep on time during the week.  Luckily he lets [...]

Departure and Arrival

Thursday, November 1st, 2007
     The primary thing that made today a lousy one:  I had just finished my sortie and was getting ready to deal with other happenstances when I got paged to go to the Ops Desk.  Corey, the Samurai’s Aviation Resource Management Journeyman extraordinaire handed me the phone and said "It’s your Mom."  [...]

Flight of the Stork

Friday, October 12th, 2007
     Perhaps I should say "Landing of the Stork."  Christina and I just welcomed a healthy baby boy into the family.       Mother and son are doing splendidly! Christina spent 2 hours, 19 minutes in labor.  This was our first kid, and since I figured she was going to be in labor for a good [...]

Life’s Been Good

Monday, March 19th, 2007
     This evening was one of those rare ones.  It was a long but decently productive day at a day of work after a long week of a lot of work.  I was a little tired, but not too tired.  It was nearly 9 PM and dark.  The traffic lights on the base [...]

Ski Okunakayama (or as I Say, “Not Appi”)

Saturday, January 13th, 2007
    Christina and I took the day off and went skiing again.  Christina is going to try to become a skiing instructor, and the instructor course starts soon, so she wanted to get in a day of good practice with her favorite student, me!    Okunakayama was a little closer than Appi resort, and it had [...]

Ski Appi

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Married Life 101

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Gone to the Chapel

Monday, October 2nd, 2006
    Christina and I celebrated our ceremonial wedding yesterday with a mass/service at her parish church.  The officiating priest was a retired Bundeswehr chaplain who lived in the States from 1986-1991.  He performed most of the excellent ceremony in English, for the benefit of the five out of about a hundred people (one of them [...]

Happy Birthday!

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
    You know who you are!     I hope you had a great day!