My dad left for texas once again yesterday. They may get an opportunity to come home for leave one last time before they leave for Iraq. Too bad this country will never leave it. Want proof? What country have we been part of combat that we don't currently hold either soldiers, bases or both?

We took tons of pictures, of the fireworks him with my son, with my brothers and of all the fireworks. I've been using picasa to catalog all my pictures. It is definately a killer tool for cataloging pictures. I would reccomend it to anyone and have. Everyone I've told about loves it. Check it out. Picasa I've got it running under wine on my linux box ( Mepis Linux ) everything seems to work, but I have yet to check out the sound. The only thing is make sure you install it into your native wine fake windows directory. If you just run it from a windows drive/partition where it is installed, it runs odd and has wacky errors.

We went to Wyoming and bought fireworks, some 197 dollars and odd change worth of fireworks. We got a bunch of freebies, but all of them are illegal in this state. Although that hardly stopped us from lighting off a bunch of firecrackers and bottle rockets, I still have a ton of the illegals left over. (Large Rockets and Mortars.) I was going to send them with my brothers to camp, but the scouts may not appreciate it.

When we were packing them up I asked my brother if he had hidden any of them and he cracked really fast. I just looked at him in the big brother type way and he went and grabbed a couple roman candles out of his dresser.


Ghaerdon Fain used to have a killer wot site, but it doesn't appear to be up anymore. The new url is to a blog that has none of the previous content, but here it is anyway. Pastor Fain