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7th Cavalry (Garryowen)

Well since the election I haven't heard anything from the folks who were headed north. 

Canadian-ness Test

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Back when I had more oppurtunity to bounce around from bar to bar, I often ran across someone from the opposite sex who would ask for a back massage.  Never having any type of formal training it never occured to me that initially it may have been a "come on" or an attempt to help me break the ice, so to speak with someone who had an interest in me.  I'll admit I was pretty young and inexperienced in those days.  My only real massage "training" was whatever I had happened to see in a movie.  Some sexy scene where whats going on seems to be giving pleasure.  I thought I'd found my niche.  The first couple of times I tried to give a back massage, it didn't fit my preconcieved notions of what was going to happen.  i.e.

Sub-Catagory: Massage

File - Lessons Learned...*don't try to grab her shoulders to massage her unless she asks*... 

File - Lessons Learned... *even if you do massage her shoulders, she will not throw herself at you.*

File - Lessons Learned... *"Moaning" does not happen like in the movies, especially in public, but can come close in private if your doing something right.*

Action item: >purge preconceived ideas seen in movies - not the real thing.

Action item:>purge other preconceptions pertinant to this sub-catagory seen in porn.

I've since learned to do much better.  One place in particular, I couldn't just enter and sit to have a beer without my now long time friend stopping whatever conversation she was in, coming over and sitting next to me.  Then it was "you know why I'm here, I've assumed the position."  I could play her back like a piano she would tell me.  Often raving to her friends how well I did, not being touchy feely and always being gentleman and respectful.  It was amusing how many times as I was giving a massage some guy would come over, say I was doing it wrong and push my hands aside to demonstrate his massage skills.  Within a minute or two every single time the lady I was giving the massage to would sometimes kindly, but most of the time a bit more forcefully tell my would be replacement to stop what he was doing and leave her alone.  She would turn to me and plead for me to finish what I was doing because the other jerk had just hurt her back.  What was normally five to ten minutes was now fifteen to twenty minutes as I soothed away the pain.  There are more than a few husbands and boyfriends out there who probably would not think to kindly of me if they knew, but would have to grudgingly admit there was a night their partner came home from girls night out with shall we say a lot of energy. 

I've had some practice now but I was wondering should I have spent a little time getting some formal training, read a book or can I get away with watching the videos on Youtube and Metacafe?

The last two weeks at home were pretty good by my standards.  Spent the first week helping family make their appointments or take them shopping.  Then the second week spent working on my guest house.  Finished putting up the drywall in both the walk-in closet and bathroom.  Spraying texture on the walls and then knocking it down to give it a special look.  Came out real well.  The guest house project is really coming along nicely, so we've decided to put in a deck.  Bought a load of treated lumber for the deck on the local black market and at a significant discount.  If the weather continues to be good for at least the next month, the guest house will be ready before the Christmas/New Year holidays. Checked my cell phone and had a missed call from the office.  Seems I have 10 hours of vacation time I have to take or I will lose it.  I was told to take an extra day off.  As I was saying, its been a good two weeks off.

What can I do with an extra day off.  I haven't played a round of golf for the last seven months, so I rewarded myself and went to play a round of 18 holes.  The weather couldn't have been better.......should have been my first clue.  Almost every morning and evening I would ask my wife what was the plan for the day or the next.  The one freaking day that I decide to go play golf before reporting to work the next day...... I  might as well have slept until after lunch every day and watched TV the rest of the time.  All that grief over three and a half measly hours.

A lot of these you may have already seen on tv news broadcasts.

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It wasn't long ago that I stopped working in the office in Galveston and then got sent back out to the field.  With the devastation that Hurricane Ike laid on the city, I was reminiscing about the good times and friends I made there.  A handful of friends and one night stands more memorable that others.  My group will eventually return the city and re-establish the bases we were working out of, but it will not be the same.  Eventually the restraunts and bars that I frequented and made a lot of friends may re-open, but many won't.  Some friends will still be there because they were born and raised there.  Their self identities like their family histories are closely tied to the island.  Being a BOI was a badge they used to separate and identify themselves from the posers who had the big summer or weekend homes and fancy cars.  Like New Orleans and Katrina where many friends that I knew are now gone and one of my best friends I'll never see again.......

Then it occurred to me that I had been working and living in New Orleans for about a year, on a special project, that when completed I was sent to the field to implement and train a new batch of guys.  It wasn't that many months later that Katrina laid waste to the city.  Hmmmmmmmm?  Coincidence....absolutely!  The fact that my work is primarily in cities virtually bordering the Gulf of Mexico just means that I work in cities that have a great big hurricane target painted on them.  Sooner or later a hurricane will hit it and there will be massive damage and people uprooted

I'm slated to join another big project early next year, (should have already been there)  so I may have some more oppurtunities to partake and enjoy the local grownup entertainment.......maybe a story or two to tell if its not just a repeat of a an experience I've already had.    I'll be living and working in an area that hasn't been hit by a big deadly storm in a long time.  Some people around that area I've heard say that they're due for one.  All I know is if another storm hits an area after I have enjoyed the heck out of it.  I may have to go work somewhere else. 

I was just wondering who are the persons who show up only as RSS from Great Britian and Canada in footprints.  Does anyone know how to track them back?

I had many interesting experiences in the almost a year that I spent in Galveston.  I'll have to think about them some.  Though I'm not concerned about who may read them, but I think in third party fiction(?) would be the most comfortable for me.  Especially since I will be moving on to a new phase in my work soon.  New experiences? maybe.

Working in the office in Galveston.  No replacement yet named for the guy I'm sitting in for.  Could be here for several hitches.  Private apartment and all!