The Euonymous (yellow and green shrub) are gone, donated to a neighbor. I've gotten the stump and most of the large roots from the dogwood that Ivan blew over. I've also taken down the Bartlett Pear that was growing beside the dogwood in the rear. The white lines are from the Landscape Designer, she recommended plants and a bed design to maximize curb appeal. The circles will be hawthorns, the crossed lines will be a grass, probably Pampas. The window boxes are just sitting there to get out of the way, they have 6 Dandelions each, and some other bulbs that I salvaged from the stump area.

Today's work. It doesn't seem like much just looking at it, but moving those boxwoods and the Azelea was tough, it was surprising how heavy they were.

More pre landscaping

Pre-Landscaping, notice the area's under the windows, and the side of the house

Google Adsense nonsense.

I've not made any money off of google's ads posted on the right, but I like to see what they put links to based on the content of my blog. Yesterday it was about going to hell, and today, it is about finding Air Force buddies.

Low carb cereal

Breakfast of champions. 12 Carbs total.
Hi-Lo soy cereal 5 carbs
Silk Soy Milk 4 carbs
dry raspberries ~3 carbs

New orchids I picked up at Publix. Cant beat 9.99 for a beautiful house plant that likes it when you forget to water it. In case you are wondering, I brought it outside to photograph, because it was too dark inside, and those are my running shoes in the background, I just got finished a 1.5 mile run, pretty slowly.

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So my cuz, Dallas wants me to generate a list of things needing doing, and already done did. [Forgive the redneckisms, I just got finished watching the space western Firefly, which is my plum favorite show right now next to Over There.] Here goes.

7 things I plan to do before I die:

• Finish my Bachelors (Spring 06)
• Get commissioned in the USAF, as a pilot
• Finish training for my Private Pilot's License
• Get an Engineering degree, in addition to my current one.
  
• Pee on every state in the Union. [WA, TX, IL, AL and MS done.]
  
• Make at least Lieutenant Colonel in the USAF before I have to retire.
• Learn to calm down and relax more.
  

7 things I can do:

• Takeoff, Fly and Land a single engine airplane.
• Fire, Disassemble, and Reassemble an M16 rifle, and M9 Baretta pistol.
• Have an intuitive understanding of how most things work.
• Cook gourmet food; well.
• Make Ethernet cables, without looking at color charts.
• Make ST and SC Fiber Optic cables.
• Find humor in mundane or banal things.
  

7 things I cannot do:

• I can't drive 55.
• Hold my tongue when I should.
• Accept the status quo, if there are better ways of doing things.
• Hide my talents with humility.
• Legally takeoff, fly, and land a single engine airplane.
• Run a 6 minute mile.
• Tolerate stupidity [not mistaken for ignorance, which is curable]
  

7 things that attract me to the opposite sex:

• Looks
• Intelligence
• Wittiness
• Age
• Sophistication
  
• Charity
• Grace
  

7 things I say most often:

• bad words
  
• Roger that.
• Freedom-[food]. (a running joke I have with my friend Gabe)
  
• That sucks.
• That's gay.
• WTF
  
• Shut up and go to sleep.
  

7 celebrity crushes:

• Salma Hyak
• Jennifer Garner
  
• Kelly Preston (Old but Hot)
• Diane Lane (ObH)
• Monica Belluci (ObH)
• Angelina Jolie (since Hackers)
  
• Scarlett Johansson

7 people I want to do this:

• Brandi
• Gabe
• Chris
• Wendy
• ...
• ...
• ...

End of Cycle - Heat Stroke induced thoughts.

I've just finished a 3 day cycle of Augmentee duty, where I check ID's and allow people on base, or refuse entrance. I've had to wake at 0400 to be there by 0500, arm up at 0530, and be on post by 0600. I then work a gate with one other person until relieved, usually around 1800, 13 hours later. Sometimes the work is slow, and we can take turns on break, an hour at a time, but on some gates, and at particular times, it is so busy that we need extra help from the patrols to keep the traffic flowing.

I worked September 1st,& 5-7th. thru the 6th, I've been at gates on Maxwell, and there have been quite a few evacuees from the Mississippi area. They are all affiliated in one way or another to the military, and many of them here with just what they could fit in their cars. They've turned an entire hangar into Kennels for the evacuee's pets. Many active duty permanent party families are "Adopting" and evacuee family, so that they don't have to sleep in the gym.

I was pretty flippant about the hurricane before it hit, thinking that it would be another Ivan at worst, but more likely a George, which did minor damage in 1999 to the Biloxi area. After seeing the damage caused by the hurricane in Biloxi and New Orleans, I count myself really lucky that it didn't turn towards us. We wouldn't have been hit by the surge, but the winds would have really messed things up.