ALDE LANG SYNE

Gabe is back in Kentucky.  It wasn't as hard saying good-bye this time.  The hard part of his training is over, the memories of others no longer haunt me.  He will be fine.  He still needs to learn to keep a clean room (hahaha!  So do I, but I don't have Platoon Sgts. checking up on me!)  He left a bunch of stuff in Art's room, where he was bunking in during his stay, and told his little brother that he could keep what ever he found, including any money.  Art found a bottle of Coca Cola and popped it open.  Inside the cap he found a message that read 'YOU HAVE WON A PS2 SYSTEM'.  Well hot dang!  Art was so calm about it, but I was hooting and hollering, and soooo excited!  We NEVER win anything.  Anyhow, yes, Art is going to claim the system and then send it to Gabe since the kids already have a PS2.  (To Art's credit I thought he would want to sell it and keep the cash, but nope, he knew exactly what he was going to do with it... give it to his big brother!)

The news on TV has been so sad lately.  Its silly, I know, but I find myself tearful everytime I watch the news about the aftermath of the tsunamis.  I try to distance myself, I've never been there, I don't know anyone there... but I can't.  I see the scared look in the eyes of the orphans, the pain in the parents who have found their child's body, I see the remains of the once beautiful land, and I'm bawling like a baby.  How does a country recover from something as devastating as that? 

Okay, too sad... quick change of subject.  Did you know that pearl onions cause gas?  I didn't, and I loaded my curry stew up with them.  And they get better with age!  We ate left-overs last night.  I was trying to be discreet in the bathroom this morning while Dickidoo was sleeping, but it just wouldn't stop and after a while I don't know which end was making more noise, my butt or my mouth cos I was laughing so hard!  I sounded like that stupid French horn the kids have been tooting these past few days.  Okay, phew, got that out of my system.  And I promise... no more about farts for the rest of this year!